After six years of litigation, Lyft has agreed to pay $272.5 million to settle claims that it misclassified California drivers as independent contractors and denied them employee protections.
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Cafe owner Manny Yekutiel, whose political ambitions in San Francisco date back years now, has again been accused of aggressive groping and is facing a mass retreat among his endorsers for District 8 Supervisor.
A woman involved in a pursuit with officers from the South San Francisco Department died after she climbed over a guardrail and fell from an overpass in San Bruno, landing on the freeway below.
PG&E had another major problem on its hands Thursday, 24 hours after it was dealing with an unplanned power outage that impacted the entire Ferry Building.
Hundreds of nurses and others protested Palantir's work with ICE in SF on Wednesday; Scott Wiener and Connie Chan will be debating this evening; and Tennessee just botched an execution, leading the governor to halt all executions.
The body of a 46-year-old woman who went missing while swimming near the Antioch Marina last week has been found; two people died in a seven-car pileup in East Palo Alto; passengers on that almost-hijacked FlyDubai flight to Israel describe a harrowing scene.
Following recent incidents of students using racial slurs and other anti-Black language at local schools, community leaders are calling for SFUSD officials to take immediate action.
A new tiny-house village in the city of Richmond held its grand opening Saturday, providing brightly colored homes and wraparound services for a dozen young people ages 18 to 24 experiencing homelessness.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation in San Francisco has issued an update on a man who remains wanted on charges of possession of child pornography, who failed to appear in court in 2023 after charges were filed because, his brother says, he drowned while fishing in Suisun Bay.
Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, appeared in court Wednesday to face newly filed charges of murder in connection with the shooting death of their son-in-law in a Dublin parking lot Saturday.
Newsom signed a large package of bills aimed at immigration enforcement in California, including a ban on shock gloves, a 25% tax on private detention centers, and a new way for Californians to sue federal agents.
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