Health officials urge residents six months and older to get a flu shot to prevent against the virus.
Eight residents between the ages of 41 and 65 have died of complications related to the flu.
With increasing reports of H1N1 flu deaths, here are the symptoms of influenza from the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The proposal by Assemblymember Kevin Mullin seeks to ban nontherapeutic Uses of antibiotics that lead to the increased prevalence of antibiotic-resistant super bacteria.
In 2012, state elected officials received more than $200,000 in gifts and travel payments, and solicited or received $6.7 million in behested payments.
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The increase is expected to average an extra 19 cents per ride.
The Bay Area is on pace to break the record for the number of winter Spare the Air alerts in a single season.
E-file and Free File can speed refunds, IRS says.
The temporary increase is supposed to generate new revenue to make up for big losses in 2008 and 2011.
This will be the third Spare the Air day this week.
The man says he is a former employee of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, the agency that calls the Spare-the-Air Alerts.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed nearly 1,000 bills into law in 2013; here's a selection of some of the more notable measures that will soon go into effect.
Air quality officials say they issue an average of more than 200 citations on every day there is an alert.
Without extensions from Congress, several important tax breaks may end.
Saturday's ban is the 21st of the season.
Why so many "Winter Spare the Air" alerts this year?
More than two million Americans contract antibiotic-resistant infections each year.
Government shutdown put the IRS nearly three weeks behind its tight timetable for being ready to start the 2014 filing season.
Work will continue at the plant six days a week, but the swing shift is being discontinued.
You have just a few weeks left to make some final tax moves for the 2013 tax year.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued Friday's Winter Spare the Air alert — the 10th this season— because of an ongoing cold, stagnant weather pattern blanketing the region.
He says Napa not a reliable spot for air monitoring device. Is there one in your town? Check out our map to learn more about what pollutants are being measured and where.
Cold weather traps wood smoke close to the ground, raising air pollution to unhealthy levels.
Marin County's District 4 Supervisor Steve Kinsey has championed public access and coastal protection.
SFO has eight miles of shoreline around the airport and has already begun planning for sea level rise.
A new federal rule expands the time allowed for accidental eagle deaths due to encounters with wind turbines.
At Monday's conference, representatives from federal, state and local agencies will address the future of the county and how high tides could impact some of the region's infrastructure.
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This business owes more than $400K.
The contest is open to all constituents of the 13th Senate District and allows residents to submit their ideas for improving the quality of life in San Mateo County and Santa Clara County or the state of California.
A Winter Spare the Air Alert is not in effect on Thanksgiving Day but because high pollution levels have persisted in the region wood burning is strongly discouraged.
The president will attend two fundraisers and give a policy speech in San Francisco, before heading to Los Angeles.