Doctors say the $100 million the governor took from Mcare to balance the state budget is needed to cover outstanding liability claims.

Researchers say patient demand for the test and lag time between revisions to screening recommendations and implementation may be reasons for overuse.

An Oakland man who was sentenced to death in 1993 for the point-blank shootings of a man and a woman over a drug deal has died in a hospital, prison officials said Friday. Cedric Harrison was convicted of murdering Betty

California can require grape growers to pay fees for statewide ads that promote their product as a healthy alternative to ice cream and French fries, despite some growers' objections to messages that imply all grapes are equal, a federal appeals

Calling all Muni riders who have: a. been a victim of crime; b. seen a crime aboard a bus, streetcar or cable car; c. observed - or not observed - city police boarding Muni; or d. are just looking for

The San Francisco police evidence lab failed to process DNA samples from the 2007 slaying of a transgender prostitute for two years, leaving the suspect free allegedly to rape and brutalize at least three other transgender women before being arrested,

The chief federal appeals court judge in San Francisco bluntly ordered the Obama administration Thursday to stop resisting his finding that the wife of a lesbian court employee was entitled to government insurance coverage. The federal agency that oversees...

Opponents of an East Bay water utility's effort to enlarge a key reservoir in the Sierra Nevada foothills threw a legal roadblock into the project's way Thursday, suing the agency to overturn a preliminary environmental impact report on the expansion.

Mayor Gavin Newsom said Thursday no city program is assured protection, and no money-making idea is off limits, as city officials begin crafting a budget for next year that already is starting $522 million in the red. "Everything has to

Lehman Bros. agreed Thursday to pay $3.7 million to clean up Oakland Naval Hospital, formerly called Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, in the Oakland hills, a site that had been set for development before the housing market crashed. Oakland City Attorney

A novel anti-crime surveillance program that will record the license plate number of every car entering and leaving Tiburon should be up and running within six months, officials said Thursday. The Town Council voted 4-0 late Wednesday - with Vice

Forty protesters who barricaded themselves inside Wheeler Hall for 11 hours Friday didn't win back the 38 custodial jobs they demanded, nor did they persuade the UC regents to rescind their decision to increase tuition by 32 percent next fall.

A pro-Santa Clara stadium group stocked with former civic leaders has fired the first salvo in the ballot-box battle over moving the San Francisco 49ers to Silicon Valley - sending out a mailer this week even though an election date

Legislators and other elected officials in the capital will see their salaries slashed by 18 percent next month under an opinion issued Thursday by state Attorney General Jerry Brown, who decided that officials' pay can be cut in the middle

Somewhere in the bureaucratic haze of Oakland city government, in a spacious office with views of Frank Ogawa Plaza, there is a holiday grinch who has actually succeeded in swiping a slice of Christmas spirit from city residents. Now I

The number of low-income households cut off by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. after they fell behind on their utility bills jumped 75 percent this year, according to a state report released Thursday. For the 12 months that ended in

The recession hasn't stopped San Francisco's city planners from thinking big. The Planning Department released an ambitious set of proposals Thursday to turn the blocks around the Transbay Terminal into a commercial and transportation centerpiece of the...

Hunched over his shopping cart filled with cans and bottles as he smoked a cigarette Thursday morning, 55-year-old Ken Davis looked quizzically at the dozens of city workers and volunteers erecting tents in a parking lot near Sharon Meadow in

YouthWorks!, Inc.® (YW)--a multi-denominational family of ministries that plans and implements life-changing, Christ-centered missions trips and ministry experiences--has agreed in principle with Christian communications and publishing company Zondervan to acquire Youth Specialties--the international leader in training and equipping youth pastors

The dramatic live production, VIANNEY, ( http://vianneydrama.com/ ) performed by actor Leonardo Defilippis of Saint Luke Productions ( http://stlukeproductions.com/ ) was a main event at the annual Fall Assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on November 16th in