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A candidate for San Francisco supervisor was accused of sexual assault, leading some Democrats to pull their endorsements while others wait for more evidence.

Beyond problems with public transit and gridlock traffic, the city failed to provide enough restrooms for the flood of people who came to see the special fireworks show.

Stanford University archaeologist Laura Jones wasn’t looking for flower farms — at least not at first. She was researching the school’s early land-leasing practices when a retiring colleague gave her some maps of Stanford from the 1950s. As Jones looked closer, she noticed familiar areas — where Stanford Shopping Center, the school’s research park and graduate student...

According to state law, campus police can own military weapons as long as they report it to the public.

Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.   What Skid Row Taught Acclaimed Violinist Vijay Gupta About Music When violinist Vijay Gupta joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic at just 19 years old, he was the youngest to ever take a chair in a major orchestra in the U.S. But despite that shining achievement, he was desperately unhappy....

Acclaimed violinist Vijay Gupta still sees his late father everywhere. He’d appear unexpectedly, like when a concert hall conductor pointed to his chest to coax more heart out of a musician, something that Gupta’s dad would do when coaching the young Vijay. “And it was like, there’s dad,” Gupta said. “And he’d already been gone for a couple years, and yet...

A proposed tax bill could raise premiums on privately insured Californians, and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. takes aim at medical journals.

Everything you need to bring, plus the little luxuries — so you’ll never forget something at home again.

San Francisco Bay is notorious in the shipping world for its tricky waters. That’s why bar pilots — specially trained mariners — board every ship entering or exiting the bay and guide it to safety.

The strongest push for implementation may come from insurance companies themselves. 

The website assigns digital instruments to Muni’s real-time vehicle data, allowing listeners to experience San Francisco’s public transit system as a sonic whole.