Stephanie Chuang

The recreational use of marijuana is now legal in California after voters on Tuesday approved Proposition 64.

Good Samaritans jumped into action Tuesday in San Francisco to help save a man from a potential stabbing death.

Two lawsuits have been filed against Stanford Health Care alleging the hospital promoted a toxic environment that prevented workers from reporting sexual abuse of sedated patients, even when the crimes happened right before their eyes.

A 33-year-old San Francisco man is recovering from life-threatening injuries he suffered early Monday morning after someone shot him in the head several times with a paintball gun at point-blank range.

In a new push to clear the streets of San Francisco of homeless encampments, the city turned its focus on the Mission neighborhood, where dozens of tents recently popped up.

A San Francisco Sheriff’s deputy is under investigation in connection with an incident where someone allegedly tried to smuggle a cellphone hidden in a burrito to a murder suspect in jail.

People forced from their homes when a devastating five-alarm fire ripped through their apartments in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights this weekend were able to return for the first time Monday.

Two people were shot early Thursday in San Francisco’s Mission District, and both were taken to the hospital, police said.

Police and firefighters raced to a two-alarm commercial structure fire in Mountain View that damaged buildings at a business park.

Hate-filled messages have popped up across the University of California, Berkeley, leaving students and law enforcement authorities in a tizzy.

Mountain View leaders agreed to a compromise Tuesday in the face of a request by Google to fell more than 150 redwood trees to make room for its new futuristic campus.

The Mountain View City Council on Tuesday will explore whether Google should be allowed to cut down over 100 trees to make room for its new ultra-modern campus.

From five traffic officers to 25 on the streets: any drivers breaking the law in Milpitas Wednesday morning had a greater chance of getting caught, thanks to a Santa Clara County-wide traffic enforcement initiative.

The deadly attacks happened more than 5,500 miles away. But on Tuesday, the world reacted to the terrorist-inspired explosions at the airport and subway in Brussels where 31 were killed and 212 injured, including police, transit agencies and airports from New York to San Francisco.

The roof on the garden center of a Kmart in Santa Rosa fell Thursday morning, during heavy rains blanketing the North Bay.

A 23-year-old security guard with five months on the job, who happened to see a woman drive into the Antioch City Marina, helped pull her to safety and then watch her get arrested for a misdemeanor DUI.

After being put on notice for several days, the homeless people living along Division Street in San Francisco were being cleared out on Monday in a relatively calm sweep.

The homeless people who have set up camp on Showplace Square in San Francisco had until Sunday to pack up and find somewhere else to go. If they don’t, they risk facing police, or having their camps taken down by force.

Will they stay or will they go? That is the question that will be answered in about six hours, after the city of San Francisco ordered countless homeless people to clear out of their encampment, calling the area a public nuisance with too much garbage, feces, needles and urine.

Inspectors performed in Berkeley since the deadly balcony collapse in Berkeley last summer revealed more than 400 buildings with balconies, stairways, decks and landings, need repairs, according to a city report released Wednesday afternoon.