Los Angeles took over as California's top city after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fires. What lessons can L.A. learn from this latest disaster?

SAN FRANCISCO — Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has been indicted on federal bribery charges stemming from an FBI investigation into an alleged payment scheme with a Bay Area trash hauler.

The Year of the Snake is upon us as communities across the Bay Area celebrate Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year and Tet. Here’s just a sampling of ways to join in the celebrations.

The struggling Bay Area school system has made it its mission to embrace and educate these new arrivals now threatened by Donald Trump’s election.

Former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, who represented the East Bay in Congress for over two decades, announced plans to run for mayor of Oakland in a special election.

At Friday’s news conference in San Francisco, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Robbins described how the charges lay out “a corrupt scheme in which the defendants used bribes, wire fraud, mail fraud and other illegal practices to manipulate and corruptly influence the levers of local government.”

The Milken Institute’s annual report gauges the best cities based on metrics including job and wage growth, affordability and other economic factors.

Investor hands historic Leamington Hotel property to CIT Bank after failing to pay off loan of more than $36 million.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO ... and the U.S. Postal Service also raided three other locations in Oakland: the offices of California Waste Solutions on the Embarcadero, the View Crest Court home of ...

“The tech share of employment in California has fallen quite rapidly ... And yet the median cost of a single-family home in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward area was an eye-popping $1.3 million ...

Yet another upscale retailer, Michael Kors, has pulled out of the beleaguered San Francisco Centre mall downtown.

Tule Bernal, 48, had been searching for an electric scooter stolen earlier that day from his 14-year-old son, police told The Mercury News. When Tule Bernal encountered the three teens accused of taking the scooter, one of them shot him in the chest, the publication said.