The final opportunity to see the U.S. Navy Blue Angels in action on the West Coast this year begins Friday in the skies over San Francisco Bay. Listen to this article: Following this weekend's San Francisco Fleet Week Airshow, the military jet demonstration team will head east for their...
Parole Denied Again in Chowchilla School Bus Hijacking
SACRAMENTO — California officials again rejected parole Tuesday for the last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of children for $5 million ransom more than four decades ago. State parole officials decided that Frederick Woods, 67, can try again in five years. It's the 17th time...
Juul Stops Funding San Francisco Vaping Measure
SAN FRANCISCO — Juul Labs Inc. announced Monday that it will stop supporting a ballot measure to overturn an anti-vaping law in San Francisco, effectively killing the campaign. The nation’s largest maker of e-cigarettes said it will end its support for Proposition C after donating nearly $19 million. It was...
EPA: California Homelessness Causing Poor Water Quality
California is failing to protect its waters from pollution, partly because of a worsening problem with homelessness in large cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler outlined a series of alleged deficiencies in California's compliance with federal clean...
Controlled Outages May Be on the Way as PG&E Settles Cases
SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric may cut power to try to head off wildfires as fall arrives in California and brings with it the most dangerous fire conditions that over the past two years have produced the deadliest and most destructive blazes in state history. The San Francisco...
San Francisco's Cable Cars Running Again After Rehab Work
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco's famed cable cars are running again after a 12-day service halt to rehabilitate the gearboxes that help run the 19th century public transportation system. The wooden cars are slowly climbing San Francisco's hills Monday, with operators ringing their brass bells. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation...
Walters: Is There a California Tipping Point to the Abyss?
Circa of America got its start more than a half-century ago, during San Francisco’s Hippie heyday, when Ronaldo Cianciarulo began making and selling leather belts out of his van in the city’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. During several changes of ownership and names, it continued to make belts in a factory in...
Court Calls US 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques' Torture
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal court in San Francisco took the unusual step of using the word "torture" to describe the treatment of a Palestinian man while he was in CIA custody following the Sept. 11 attacks. The Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco used the word in...
49ers Return Home After Successful Road Trip to Start Season
SANTA CLARA — San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan believed the improvements the team made leading into his third season would make the 49ers a contender. The early results have been extremely positive, with San Francisco opening the season with back-to-back road wins for the first time since 1989, capped by...
San Francisco's Iconic Cable Cars to Shut Down for Repairs
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco's iconic cable cars will stop running for 10 days starting Friday while they undergo the final repairs in a three-year restoration project of the gearboxes that propel the world-famous system up the city's notoriously steep hills. Shuttle buses will run along the three cable car...