That made his shooting death early Tuesday outside a bar at Broadway and Kearny Street that much more disconcerting, said employees at nearby businesses.

What do eight dancing teenage girls out of San Francisco's African American Cultural Center have to do with a pair of Inuit women from the Arctic who throat-sing directly into each other's mouths? Answer: Both ...

Miriam Nafte got her master's in skeletal biology and went on to teach a university course called 'The Anthropology of Death.' She has helped police identify human remains and even wrote a book titled 'Flesh ...

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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has approved a resolution endorsing the funding plan for the redevelopment of Candlestick Point and Hunters Point Shipyard as authorized by city voters earlier this year.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom sulks when alleged to lack leadership on public safety.

However, it did grow on me after a few days. Cool people, great food, chilled out bars and a stunning location.

PHILADELPHIA a ' As the setting sun filtered through red and yellow leaves, West Laurel Hill Cemetery's Nevin Mann stuck a shovel in the ground.

Shoppers are crowding into Bay Area stores for the traditional start of the holiday shopping season.

California Lottery officials are still searching for the winner of an unclaimed Fantasy 5 ticket sold in San Francisco in October that is worth $115,642. The ticket was sold at the San Francisco Gifts and News ...

Despite plummeting gas prices and unusual last-minute holiday deals on airplane tickets, more people are expected to stick close to home this Thanksgiving.

San Francisco firefighters have controlled a fire at a two-story structure in Glen Park, according to a fire dispatcher.

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, 1992 to be exact. Gus Van Sant, the filmmaker who had just thrilled the world with his young-hustlers-in-love classic My Own Private Idaho , was picked ...

The suit says the two now-retired employees, Alexander Deanda and Gerald Lyons, took bribes for years to give city business to Sheldon Morris and his Novato plumbing company, Underground Express.

Today's official start of the holiday shopping season has shown no signs of a slumping economy in the Bay Area.

A concert and a twilight march are planned for today in San Francisco to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the deaths of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, who were assassinated by another ...

Although San Francisco isn't California's largest city, it has a sophisticated ambience that sets it distinctly apart, and a big part of that atmosphere is its cadre of old-money families, many with roots in ...

Gus Van Sant directs this deeply moving biopic about slain San Francisco politician Harvey Milk.

Volunteers at Bay Area soup kitchens this Thanksgiving Day say the economic downturn brought plenty of new faces to their doors.

But clearing the necessary political and public opinion hurdles is another matter altogether.