State Senator Jerry Hill says under the proposed legislation, all-volunteer fire departments wouldn't have to pay sales tax on fundraising.
Forward focus on public safety, human services, parks and affordable housing among discussed priorities.
Identical bills focused on wetlands, habitat, water quality and erosion were introduced in both houses of Congress.
Italian authorities asked local authorities to investigate two volumes stolen from the Italian Historical National Library of Agriculture.
The commission of 21 members works to plan, finance and coordinate transportation in the nine-county Bay Area.
City Manager Robert Bell will retire at the end of June.
"California has some of the strictest DUI laws in the nation, but we need tough boating laws as well,” said Assemblymember Marc Levine.
This morning’s events in Redwood City serve to remind us that as more and more adults and children carry guns we all pay the price.
Proposed goals include putting an end homelessness, improving foster care outcomes, and increasing childhood literacy.
“We have every confidence the higher courts will overturn this decision," one Bay Area group says.
As homes and rents rise ever higher this influx of non-residents into the pool of potential buyers will only further raise rents and prices.
The president will visit the Peninsula on Friday for the conference and a business roundtable.
The former San Francisco mayor says he's creating a committee to run for California Governor in 2018.
The zero sum game applied to water means that the more workers and residents in any particular area the less water per individual available.
The president is scheduled to attend a fundraiser at a San Francisco residence on Feb. 13.
Two state legislators promised to introduce mandatory vaccines as Feinstein and Boxer urge the state to kill the personal belief exemption.
One NorCal animal rights law organization called foie gras “a product of extreme animal cruelty.”
What happened to a living wage? Isn’t it time to at least double the minimum wage?
Gov. Jerry Brown and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro announced the project from the roof of Marlton Manor.
County officials said they were glad Service Employees International Union (SEIU) accepted their last, best and final offer.
Psychology and Behavioral Economics Professor Dan Ariely: "We’re not good at weighing the various factors that influence complex situations.
Social workers want cuts made during the 2008 recession be restored in Gov. Brown's budget.
When it comes to its most vulnerable citizens, Redwood City, employs prehistoric technologies and delay, delay, delay.
The former district attorney of San Francisco says she'll be making a run for the U.S. Senate.
Let them eat hamburgers.
Boxer has held public office since she was elected to the Marin County Board of Supervisors in 1976, where she was the board’s first woman.
Redwood City continues it's aggressive push to remove affordable housing.
Carole Groom, who is from District 2, was elected to a second term as president on Tuesday.
Should the City of Redwood City be allowed to destroy a perfectly good affordable floating home?
Here are 15 of the new laws that are going into effect this year.
Our state loves "measures," having voted on 360 since 1912. This update makes process more "voter friendly."
Hundreds of new laws are set to take effect in California this week. Here is a collection authored by our local state senator, Jerry Hill.
Gov. Brown appointed Michael Picker to lead the embattled panel, which has recently dealt with allegations of corruption.
The changes go into effect Sunday.
Senator Jerry Hill says he's concerned about the risks associated with using recycled tires to create artificial turf.
"When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organised interests, they generally lose."
How do you think government should prioritize and allocate funding to different community benefits?
Other bills cover the use of antibiotics in livestock, PGE and travel by public officials.
The plan for the Inner Harbor is to release a draft EIR & plan in the first quarter of 2015 and then in spring of 2015 the final EIR.
Varying sign-up deadlines are in December and February.