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Prices in San Francisco and Los Angeles, which had been increasing, both fell in August from July. Home prices are falling faster in the nation's largest cities, and a record number of foreclosures are expected to push prices down further through next year.

Traffic entering San Francisco through the upper deck of the Bay Bridge came to a standstill Thursday morning during a standoff between law enforcement and a gun-wielding man in a car, authorities said.

We’ve been covering the progress of the proposal to ban the inclusion of toys in unhealthy fast food meals.

The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there.

Residents returned Sunday to the ruined hillsides of their suburban San Francisco neighborhood, three days after a natural gas pipeline exploded into a deadly fireball.

As search crews find the remains of more victims in the suburban San Francisco blast that killed at least four and injured dozens, authorities say the gas pipeline that caused the inferno was ranked as high risk.

A huge explosion apparently fueled by a ruptured gas line tore through a San Francisco suburb Thursday night, destroying about 20 homes and critically injuring a number of people.

San Francisco, California, likely will become the first U.S. city to require cell phone companies to disclose how much radiation their gadgets emit.

The San Francisco Police Commission voted 4-3 late Wednesday against drafting a policy to allow officers to use Tasers, after hearing from several researchers and advocates who warned the panel about the lethal risk ...

A gunman wearing a hooded sweatshirt and flanked by two companions walked into a San Francisco Bay area church and stalked the aisles before opening fire during a Sunday service, wounding two teenagers, police said.