Jane Meredith Adams

Stationed outside an oil-contaminated beach in a three-wheeled San Francisco Department of Parking and Traffic vehicle last week, parking enforcement Officer Denise Buitrago thumbed through a cooking magazine and considered,...

The California Supreme Court on Thursday voided about 4,000 marriage licenses issued earlier this year to same-sex couples in San Francisco, saying city and county officials stepped outside of legal...

When he was a teenager, John Walker left the bucolic hills of affluent Marin County in California for the mosques and religious schooling offered in Yemen. He was intent on...

"Our customers are walking out," education consultant Mary Dobson said at the Sixth Annual National Dropout Prevention Conference, summing up the growing sense that teachers and school administrators must bear...

In the second-largest sex discrimination settlement in U.S. history, California's biggest supermarket chain has agreed to spend $107.25 million to change its personnel practices, institute affirmative action goals and settle...

Margaret Daley crossed the street last week in a heavy rainstorm the likes of which California has not seen in seven years-water, water everywhere. Malibu was flooding. The Sierra Nevada...

Back in the mid-1980s, when the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Commission named San Francisco its host city, everyone was thinking big. The commission, which was created by Congress, expected to...