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Californians are divided over whether they want incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to seek a fifth term in 2018 after her current term ends, according to a new Field Poll.

San Francisco’s 911 call center has been burdened with a “painful” problem. A surge in butt dials over the past three years (28% increase between 2011 and 2014) has been cutting into valuable time for operators who are forced to work longer hours as they seek to determine whether each butt, or pocket, dial is a true emergency.

San Francisco is enjoying the benefits of a new tech boom, but black residents are left behind–or leaving.
That’s the story told by new data on incomes, which show that white, Asian and Latino residents saw increases in 2014, but blacks saw their incomes fall by nearly 5 percent,

Africanized honeybees, otherwise known as killer bees, have made their way to the Bay Area for the first time.

Last weekend, a “Stomp Trump” rally took place in San Francisco’s Mission District where a large group of left-wing and Latino residents encouraged their children to take violent swings at a Donald Trump piñata as the crowd cheered on.

Officials in Santa Clara, California consider a ban on selling alcohol after halftime at the San Francisco 49ers’ Levi’s Stadium after a violent beating of a visiting fan, reports say.

A technical glitch during New Year’s Eve turned out to be an information treasure trove for Uber. Last New Year’s Eve in NYC, the surge pricing algorithms failed and didn’t allow Uber to incentivize more drivers to get on the road with higher pay, just as partygoers rushed to call drivers; only 1 in 4 of users who wanted a driver actually got one.

On September 15, the Arizona Republic contended that attempts to connect San Francisco’s sanctuary city policies with the murder of Kathryn Steinle–which happened after illegal alien Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez was given sanctuary–are part a “myth.”

Jeh Johnson laid into sanctuary city policies that actively hinder the efforts of immigration officials to enforce U.S. law in the wake of the July shooting death of Kate Steinle in San Francisco.

A San Francisco-based hipster bicyclist who used a u-lock to attack a Zipcar during last month’s Critical Mass ride has been caught and charged. Ironically his t-shirt, which said “Non-violence is our strength,” was the key to his identification and capture.

Hipsters who cannot afford high San Francisco rent have a new option: $1,800 per month for a spot on a bunk bed with a stranger in a home with 30 other people in what is being called “co-creative” housing.

A scorching summer heat wave resulted in the early closure of all eight schools in the Bay Area’s Campbell Union High School District on Wednesday and Thursday.

Police in southeast San Francisco are investigating a string of anti-Chinese spray-painted taggings, which were discovered this past weekend, as both acts of vandalism and hate crimes.

The first San Francisco elementary school to make bathrooms gender neutral has proudly removed the circles, triangles, and stick figure signs from the kindergarten and first-grade bathrooms that delineate the differences between the sexes.

The family of slain San Francisco resident Kate Steinle announced plans Tuesday to pursue legal action against San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and two government agencies for the murder, allegedly by an illegal alien, that drew the attention of the nation and spurred the introduction of “Kate’s Law.”

A small handful of counties have moved to begin cooperating with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) to hand over illegal aliens, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Their decisions come in the wake of Kathryn Steinle’s shooting death, allegedly at the hands of illegal alien and convicted felon, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez of Mexico.

A newly-released report suggests that California drivers are the most stressed out commuters in America–second only to Washington, D.C. in terms of the numbers of hours lost driving in the car.

San Francisco’s streets are being transformed into one big toilet bowl and the city’s officials are responding by increasing the number of “poop patrols.” “It’s getting worse, and people are tolerating it,” Joe D’Alessandro, who heads San Francisco Travel, told the

Uber’s low-cost service, UberX, reduces drunk driving deaths all over California and may be responsible for a drop in DUIs on NYE.

San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi’s driver license has been suspended for failing to report a traffic accident that he was involved in last October.

A rash of robberies has hit San Francisco and Oakland television news crews and still photographers in recent years, endangering the crews and shearing them of their equipment.

San Francisco’s public urination problem spurted forth on Monday when a decaying, 3-story lamppost corroded by pee toppled over onto a car.

San Francisco’s newly-painted pee-repelling walls appear to be delivering on their promise. “We’ve had dozens of calls from other property owners and city agencies who want to put the coating on their properties,” an official said.

A planned “Ginger Pride Day” event at San Francisco’s Dolores Park has been cancelled by the Events And Facilities Specialist at SF Recreation & Parks due to an overwhelming response from redheads looking to attend the first-ever festival in the region.

Unions in Los Angeles are again seeking to exempt their workers from the $15 minimum wage hike for which they pushed earlier this year.

In an attempt to curb the city’s public urination problem, San Francisco has painted nine of its most pissing-prone walls with pee-repellant paint. When someone urinates on these specially-painted walls, the pee sprays right back onto their shoes and pants, soaking them.

Vice President Joe Biden paid a visit to a Bay Area-based medical equipment company to discuss health care on Thursday, wrapping up a visit this week to the West Coast.

Some of the best and brightest young minds in tech have descended upon San Francisco for the second annual Reboot Conference heading into some of the most intense eighteen months the country has ever seen.

Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi laid into Mayor Ed Lee on Thursday in response to Lee’s July 14 letter regarding the details of San Francisco’s sanctuary city policies, which have come under intense scrutiny in light of the July 1 murder of Kathryn Steinle by an illegal alien.

Pelosi’s support for San Francisco as a sanctuary city comes as its policies are under fire for leading to Kathryn Steinle’s murder by an illegal immigrant with a long rap sheet who had been deported at least five times. Asked about the case and Republican calls for mandatory minimum sentences for illegal immigrants who reenter the U.S. after a prior deportation, Pelosi said she has not supported minimum sentences.

A little bit of common sense and discretion might have prevented the killing this month in San Francisco of Kathryn Steinle — a victim not only of random gunfire but of the mindless handling of the city’s immigration policy.

Under the liberal policies of sanctuary cities – those city officials do not have to turn over illegal immigrants to ICE, which was the case with Lopez-Sanchez because ICE officials had requested that San Francisco police let ICE know when Lopez-Sanchez were to be released so that ICE would be able to take him into federal custody, but San Francisco refused to notify the federal officials.

San Francisco’s first black mayor, Willie Brown, slammed San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi Friday for “doubling down” on his department’s extreme version of sanctuary city policies–policies that released a five-time deported, seven-time convicted felon just two months before the he shot and killed 32-year-old Kate Steinle, according to the suspect’s own jailhouse confession.

Kathryn “Kate” Steinle was a 32-year-old woman in the prime of her young life, beloved by family and friends she had moved to San Francisco not long before she was shot and killed at Pier 14 while walking with her father.

Friday at a press conference  about the sanctuary city procedures some say are responsible in the shooting death of Kathryn Steinle allegedly by five-time deportee and convicted felon Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, San Francisco Co. Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi laid the blame

San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi held a press conference Friday morning under the premise of setting the “record straight” on the details of local government policies and the series of events in the case of accused killer Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez.