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San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced on Tuesday that she’s backing a comprehensive health care plan for homeless people suffering from mental illness that will be placed on the March 2020 ballot.

San Francisco Supervisors Hillary Ronen and Matt Haney announced on Tuesday several compromises to an extensive overhaul of the city’s mental health treatment they have proposed to enact through an upcoming ballot measure.

The Catholic Diocese of San Jose wants to build a new high school on an open plot of land just outside Morgan Hill city limits, but several times the plan has been shut down by a state-mandated agency intended to prevent urban sprawl. Despite the roadblocks, the diocese may now have a prayer in the fight that has been flaring...

Jason Mraz has joined the fight against a controversial housing project in Oceanside.

San Francisco Fire Department crews have brought a two-alarm fire at the Golden Gate Park Golf Course Clubhouse early Monday morning under control, fire officials said.

A 64-year-old woman died, and a firefighter suffered a non-life threatening injury after a fire broke out in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset neighborhood Saturday night, according to the fire department.

A union representing Oakland city service workers said a strike that has lasted for seven days will be suspended.

A strike by thousands of Oakland city workers will enter its second week, and on Monday, a state mediator is going to try to help the two sides come to an agreement.

Union leaders representing more than 3,000 Oakland city employees said Monday that they the workers will go on strike on Tuesday to protest what they allege are the city’s unfair labor practices.

Voters in Sonoma County approved two of three measures in Tuesday’s election, according to unofficial final results.

Voters in Burlingame Tuesday approved a new sales tax to raise funds for infrastructure improvement and other services in the city, according to unofficial election results.

At least seven people were displaced Monday night after a fire broke out at a home in San Francisco’s Merced Heights neighborhood, according to fire officials.

Executives from nearly three dozen leading Silicon Valley companies on Tuesday asked Brisbane officials to help tackle the Bay Area’s critical housing shortage by approving the hotly debated Baylands project, which aims to add 4,400 units to the region’s housing inventory.

The tight-knit community of Brisbane has held onto its small town charm, despite years of housing and annexation suggestions by city leaders and developers.

Workers are scheduled to prepare to begin the cleanup of an open-air heroin market that has thrived for decades along a set of train tracks a few miles outside the heart of Philadelphia.

Campbell residents voted Tuesday to continue a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries and to impose a tax on marijuana-related businesses at an initial rate of 7 percent, according to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters.

A day after its employees voted in favor of a strike, the city of Sunnyvale filed an injunction to prevent the disruption of city services related to public health and safety, city officials said.

Rent control advocates failed to win over Concord’s City Council last year, but a proposed ordinance designed to keep rent hikes below 10 percent is picking up traction in the suburban city of about 125,000 people.

An Oakland city councilmember has proposed that city officials turn over the free professional sports tickets they receive and have the city sell the tickets to pay for public services, her office said Thursday.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo is making police department staffing a priority in the coming year. During his State of the City address Saturday, he reviewed steps he has taken on his two biggest goals: improving public safety, and broadening opportunity.