Mon Jun 7, 2010 4:07 PM EDT
U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said Monday that the federal government will provide $19 million in emergency grants to help thousands of workers who lost their jobs when California's only auto plant closed.
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Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:47 PM EDT
Open government in the heart of Silicon Valley is starting to mean turn off, tune out, power down.
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Fri Mar 5, 2010 3:18 AM EST
San Francisco wears its environmental consciousness like a green badge of honor. A city department even gives away processed sewage sludge for use in community, backyard and school gardens.
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Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:00 PM EST
Every day, when the main library opens, John Banks is waiting to get inside. He finds a spot and stays until closing time. Then his wheelchair takes him back to the bus terminal where he spends his nights.
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Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:05 PM EST
For the past month, someone in this Northern California town has been shooting a gun at cars and buildings.
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Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:00 AM EST
Capt. Sully had 15 minutes. Like most one-name, world-famous celebrities, he also had a press rep monitoring every second. There were other interviews, after all, many others, before the morning was out.
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Sat Jan 9, 2010 12:43 PM EST
Stockton hardly looks like the most miserable city in the country.
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Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:49 PM EST
The median price of a home in California is up from a year ago, sales are rising, and foreclosure resales are declining — all signs that the housing market may be undergoing a sustained recovery, a tracking firm said Thursday.
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Thu Nov 5, 2009 11:22 AM EST
San Francisco Bay area households spend up to two-thirds of their income on transportation and housing costs, a severe burden that leaves workers with insufficient resources for other basic needs, according to a recently-released study.
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Sun Nov 1, 2009 1:00 PM EST
This city's most popular neighborhoods are night owls, streets that come alive when the restaurants and pubs set the mood and light their candles. But try parking in these hot spots: no fun.
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Thu Sep 3, 2009 5:01 PM EDT
At least three other registered sex offenders live within a block or two of the Northern California home where Phillip Garrido allegedly imprisoned Jaycee Lee Dugard for nearly two decades.
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Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:05 AM EDT
In the 18 years that Jaycee Lee Dugard allegedly spent captive in Phillip Garrido's backyard, shielded from the world by trees, tarps, tents and tool sheds, she no doubt had a chance or two to tell someone the truth.
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Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:00 AM EDT
Near a San Francisco freeway choked with commuters, Jason Mark shows off rows of strawberries, cucumbers and loquat trees.
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Wed Jul 8, 2009 5:32 PM EDT
The U.S. expects to send $1.5 billion in stimulus money Thursday to hundreds of communities around the country to prevent homelessness, including $1 million for Fresno to dismantle tent cities and move residents into privately owned apartments.
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Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:27 AM EDT
Seven lumbering elephants — four of them newcomers — are the star attractions in the San Diego Zoo's biggest, most costly expansion in its 90-plus years.
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Mon Jun 8, 2009 4:31 PM EDT
It's some of the most prized waterfront land in the country, a large piece of rich and beautiful property sitting right on San Francisco Bay, and the owner has proposed selling it to raise needed cash. But many of the current residents don't want to leave, and uprooting them would be costly.
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Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:05 PM EDT
His Holiness the Dalai Lama was trying very hard on Sunday to make the homeless guests at Martin's soup kitchen relax.
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Thu Apr 9, 2009 4:29 AM EDT
Both sides of the gay marriage ban approved by California voters are debating how Iowa and Vermont's recent moves to allow same-sex unions will affect their state's running legal battle.
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Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:50 PM EST
It's safe to say Stephen Fowler probably wishes he never appeared on "Wife Swap."
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Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:40 PM EST
In an era when America traveled by train, one of the best jobs an African-American man could land was working as a Pullman porter. It also was one of the worst.
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Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:56 PM EST
In the first major census of people living on the streets since the recession, thousands of volunteers across the country are fanning out in the thick of night this week to count the most desperate members of their communities.
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:55 PM EST
As foreclosures and layoffs force families out of their homes, school districts across the nation are struggling to deal with a dramatic influx of homeless children.
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Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:58 PM EDT
In no-contest California, where polls show Barack Obama leading by miles, what's a campaign volunteer to do?
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Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:23 AM EDT
It was only fitting that "Milk," the film about Harvey Milk's life and death, premiere Tuesday night in the Castro.
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Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:46 PM EDT
In this live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores and an annual fair celebrates sadomasochism, prostitutes could soon walk the streets without fear of arrest.
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