
Photo by @thedailyclog By WENDY STEWART Beat Staff Writer BERKELEY — Protesting students at several University of California campuses clashed with police for a third-straight day Friday, angered by a UC Regents vote to raise tuition at all nine institutions by 32 percent. ...

Stanford University // Palo Alto, Calif. From the California Beat photography collection, Bay Area Snapshots is an occassional glimpse at daily life in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Timothy Hopkins 1859 – January 1, 1936 Philanthropist Had it not been for the famous family who adopted him, chances are Timothy Hopkins might never have become anyone important in California. ...

By WENDY STEWART Beat Staff Writer Marked by two high-profile resignations in as many days of key Mayoral staffers in the Gavin Newsom administration, increased speculation Tuesday swirled at San Francisco City Hall that there was continuing turmoil among the Mayor and his aides...

Point Bonita Lighthouse // Marin Headlands, Marin County From the California Beat photography collection, Bay Area Snapshots is an occassional glimpse at daily life in the San Francisco Bay Area.

China Beach // China Camp State Park, Marin County From the California Beat photography collection, Bay Area Snapshots is an occassional glimpse at daily life in the San Francisco Bay Area.

BEAT STAFF REPORT It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Union Square. The tree is up, the Holiday Ice Rink opens to skaters Wednesday. Some shots from this week when workers were busy getting the thing up and running in time for opening day.

BEAT STAFF REPORT San Francisco’s elusive Mayor is back — in his digital form. He sent out this tweet on his Twitter account at around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday after a nearly 13-day hiatus from the website. Th...

By WENDY STEWART Beat Staff Writer A Hayward man in his 50s hauling a container of Asian pears across the upper deck of the Bay Bridge during the early morning hours Monday became the first fatality stemming from the troublesome bypass curve installed over the Labor Day weekend...

Sacramento // Fillmore, San Francisco From the California Beat photography collection, Bay Area Snapshots is an occassional glimpse at daily life in the San Francisco Bay Area.

By STEVEN LUO Beat Political Director The Associated Press has estimated that voters in the 10th Congressional District have elected Democratic state Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi...

By STEVEN LUO Beat Political Director If there is an anti-tax mood in the electorate, it sure didn’t show in Tuesday’s elections in the Bay Area. Of...

By WENDY STEWART Beat Staff Writer What’s a canceled television series supposed to do when the host network decides not to ask for new episodes? Kill off the cast and blow up the props. It’s already being done for NBC’s Trauma — the ratings-starved medical drama set in San Francisco. Monday...

By STEVEN LUO Beat Political Director And then there were none. First, state Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi traded in his gubernatorial campaign to jump into the race for Ellen Tauscher’s House seat (a race he now looks likely to win when voters go to the polls on Tuesday). ...










