A collaborative of Bay Area hospitals estimates it saved nearly 200 lives over a 21-month period by reducing hospital-acquired infections, according to a recently released report.
Bay Area Rapid Transit trains will operate longer hours Saturday to provide service to attendees of the KFOG Kaboom celebration and the San Francisco Giants game.
It's a new kind of virus for Sun Microsystems.
At the company's JavaOne conference this week in San Francisco, more than 50 people came down with what officials believe is norovirus, a type of medical virus easily spread by touching dirty surfaces.
OAKLAND - A fire of suspicious origin did considerable damage to an art classroom portable building at Sobrante Park Elementary School in Oakland Thursday night.
The city and county of San Francisco has rejected a negligence and defamation claim filed by two San Jose brothers injured in the Christmas Day tiger attack.