Joe Kukura

What a difference a year makes, as the state's Legislative Analyst Office said early last December that California had a $68 billion budget deficit, but now that deficit is down to just $2 billion.

Someone connected to the cleaning crew at the legacy queer bar SF Eagle allegedly broke in and stole $30,000 in cash and checks early Monday morning, and one arrest has been made while another suspect is still at large.

More than two weeks after Election Day, the City of Berkeley has finally tabulated the votes and determined that its new mayor will be former League of Women Voters chapter president Adena Ishii, the city's first Asian American mayor.

Pamela Price has been recalled, but the Alameda County District Attorney is still facing another allegation that she dangled lenient sentencing in exchange for a financial contribution to fight the recall campaign against her.

Eight minors from across the Bay Area, one of them only 12 years old, have been arrested and charged for 23 separate Walgreens robberies in which their estimated alleged stolen loot totaled $84,000 worth.

Adah Bakalinsky, author of the 1984 book of Stairway Walks in San Francisco that's now been through ten different print editions, has died.

Cars were headlights-deep in floodwater in Santa Rosa on Thursday, leaving people stranded at a hotel, while a medical center had to be evacuated amidst historical volumes of rainfall.

If you need more evidence that the billionaires are not being taxed enough, SF cryptocurrency mogul Justin Sun just paid $6.2 million for an art piece that is merely a banana duct taped to a wall, and says he is going to eat the banana live on the internet.

A multi-billion lawsuit investors brought against Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica data breach can proceed, as the Supreme Court just shot down Facebook's appeal in a one-sentence ruling.

The first ever electric hydrofoil watercraft in the US is coming to Lake Tahoe, promising to be the fastest craft on the water with "hydrofoil wings” that appear to make it fly.