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The San Francisco cable cars are an iconic piece of the city’s history. But now SFMTA officials said they need a lot of work.

Cable Cars are an iconic piece of San Francisco history but they need a lot of work. SFMTA officials said the renovations could run upwards of $625 million. Christie Smith reports.

The three suspects in Italy’s cable car disaster have left prison after a judge indicated that for now, most of the blame fell on the service technician who intentionally disabled the car’s brake because it kept locking spontaneously.

Police in northern Italy have made three arrests in a cable car disaster that killed 14 people

A cable car taking visitors to a mountaintop view of some of northern Italy’s most picturesque lakes has plummeted to the ground, killing at least 14 people

Tom Sweeney, San Francisco’s famous Beefeater-cloaked doorman who greeted visitors at the threshold of Union Square’s Sir Francis Drake Hotel for over four decades, said he is hanging up his red coat, and closing the door on his long career.

Bolivians have new uncertainty to grapple with now that opposition Sen. Jeanine Añez declared herself interim president of the crisis-torn Andean country just hours after Evo Morales flew off to self-exile in Mexico. Questions remained about who might rally around Añez, while Morales’ supporters angrily accused her of trying to seize power in her declaration Tuesday, raising the prospect of...

Five people were hospitalized following a collision involving a cable car Monday afternoon in San Francisco’s Nob Hill neighborhood, fire officials said.

The Skyliner air gondolas opened to visitors last week. The cable cars whisk visitors from hotels to theme parks three stories above the ground while going 11 mph (18 kph). No more than 10 people are allowed in each cable car.

One of San Francisco’s iconic cable cars was dedicated on Tuesday to an operator who was killed after being hit by a drunk motorcyclist while working in 2015.

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.

It’s pretty-much impossible to cram all of John Law’s feats of the last 40 years into a single paragraph. Much like trying to stuff mementoes of all that stuff into a single gallery exhibition. Which is what makes a visit to his current exhibition in Oakland’s Pro Arts Gallery a feat in itself.

After 77 years in storage collecting dust and rumors about its fitness, San Francisco’s oldest cable car is heading back to the streets following restoration by a band of devoted Muni workers.

A San Francisco cable car that was sold off in the 1950s and eventually dropped off the historical radar — has turned up for sale in an ad on Facebook in the Sacramento area.

Leonard Oats wowed the crowd with a bell-ringing rendition of Michael Jackson’s song “Bad” and took home a giant trophy, a stack of cash, lots of Ghirardelli chocolate and a fair amount of bragging rights for his effort Thursday afternoon.

San Francisco was set to celebrate the 85th birthday of baseball great Willie Mays on Friday by dedicating a cable car to him.

The San Francisco District Attorney is considering amending charges against a 22-year-old motorcyclist first arrested on DUI charges after a cable car operator died two days ago.