San Francisco Chronicle

Berkeley is taking a double-barreled approach to its looming debt crisis: a pair of ambitious proposals aimed at curbing the estimated $1.2 billion in future infrastructure and pension costs.

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(05-21) 07:18 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A driver was beaten in the Dodger Stadium parking lot after a weekend game and four people were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, police said Monday.

Andy Caffrey, a Garberville resident running for Congress, stood before the media outside a former medical marijuana dispensary in Fairfax the other day and sparked up a - medicinal - joint.

The planned final voyage of the battleship Iowa, from the Port of Richmond through San Francisco Bay to the Port of Los Angeles, was postponed Sunday due to rough weather at sea.

A Prius driver who was using his cell phone to record footage of a pack of motorcyclists veered into them Sunday morning, prompting some of the bikers to beat him up on a San Mateo County freeway, the California Highway...

Eight starts into Tim Lincecum's season, just about every aspect of his game had been analyzed. It took the ninth - a 6-2 loss to the A's on Sunday - for his concentration to come into question.

A day after Manny Ramirez didn't hit very well, he didn't play at all. Ramirez followed Saturday's 0-for-4, three-strikeout debut for Triple-A Sacramento by sitting out Sunday's game with a sore left wrist.

(05-20) 13:26 PDT Oakland, Calif. (AP) -- Officials say Oakland police plan on searching a commercial building where firefighters responding to a blaze found at least 100 marijuana plants.

(05-20) 17:06 PDT TOKYO, CA (AP) -- Millions of Asians watched as a rare "ring of fire" eclipse crossed their skies early Monday _ Japan's first in more than 170 years.