The city and its unionized police officers are as far from reaching an agreement as they were when negotiations began last summer.

A slice of horse racing history headed into its final stretch on Sunday, the last day of the regular thoroughbred season at Bay Meadows.

With a mighty heave, Patrick Wills launched his shot put through the air and soaked in the cheers from delighted spectators.

Although drivers would save about $30 during the summer if a “gas tax holiday” is passed by federal legislators, Bay Area transportation projects would lose $122.5 million worth of funding and progress on San Francisco’s subway to Chinatown would be delayed.

Erika Jimenez has lived on $803 a month for four years, but with rising food and gas prices, she is at a loss for how to survive.

The parents of a fourth-grader are suing multiple county agencies, claiming that sheriff’s deputies interrogated and traumatized their son after school officials accused him of making violent threats days after the Virginia Tech massacre.

Nine San Mateo County youths who have grown too old for the foster-care system will now have a home and a way to become self-sufficient adults.

The swelling costs of prescription drugs could be soothed by a hefty discount for tens of thousands of uninsured and underinsured San Mateo County residents.

The case against a man accused of kicking his girlfriend’s dog to death has bite behind the bark, prosecutors say.

An elderly hotel clerk nearly stomped to death in March has been discharged from the hospital as his two suspected attackers pleaded not guilty to the bloody assault Wednesday.