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Warning! Bridge closed ahead

Crews are scheduled to fix a crack in the San Mateo Bridge which would close the roadway for two weekends…

12 years ago

Healthy SF needs a checkup

Supervisor David Campos wants to take another look at surcharges and employee accounts for The City's universal health program.

12 years ago

Purple Onion gets set for last laugh

After 60 years, the North Beach comedy club that hosted Richard Pryor, Woody Allen and Robin Williams is being forced…

12 years ago

Poor, urban kids struggle in school

A new study is among the first to look at how living in urban centers of California affects academic performance.

12 years ago

Whack a golf ball across the Bay

A new Bay Area-themed 18-hole mini golf course in Alameda lets you hit your ball over the Golden Gate Bridge.

12 years ago

SF museum workers vote to strike

SEIU Local 1021 members at the Legion of Honor and de Young Museum authorized a strike after nearly a year…

12 years ago

Marin tap water full of algae

Marin residents complaining their drinking water tastes funny are actually onto something.

12 years ago

Fresh push for a higher minimum wage

For all the progress we've made in the last half-century, today’s minimum wage buys less than it did back in…

12 years ago

Bay Area rents rocket to record levels

Your wallet knows, your bank account knows, and now you know: Bay Area rents are higher than ever.

12 years ago

The City takes aim at bottled water

To reduce plastic waste, a proposed law would require special bottle-filling water taps in new or renovated buildings.

12 years ago

There goes Fremont banning books again

For the fourth year running, Fremont schools are censoring important literary works from high school classrooms.

12 years ago

Bay Area photog nets police settlement

Maybe another expensive payout for jacking up working journalists will teach local police not to infringe on the freedom of…

12 years ago

Candlestick Point circling the drain

Time is running out for a deep-pocketed savior to swoop in and save Candlestick Point State Recreation Area.

12 years ago

SFMTA to fill budget gap with more tickets

More enforcement agents will be working City streets to help generate an extra $6.5 million in revenue over the next…

12 years ago

Rural meth crisis lurks close to home

A new book is bringing attention to meth in rural America — and the problem may be closer than you…

12 years ago

Ansel Adams’ message in a bottle

Little did he know it, but the world's greatest photographer has given a special gift to UC Berkeley freshmen.

12 years ago

Street food gets its own SoMa pod

Kona Gurion surveyed the crowd at SoMa StrEat Food and plunked down at a table: "This place is rockin'."

12 years ago

Salivating over Salumeria

The people who brought us Flour + Water debuted their latest creation Thursday: Salumeria.

12 years ago

Dangerous smog chokes national parks

Smog is so bad in some of California’s national parks that visitor centers must warn would-be hikers.

12 years ago

Radioactive tuna found off California coast

Cesium-134 and 137 isotopes from Japan's Fukushima disaster have been detected in bluefish tuna caught near San DIego.

12 years ago

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