October 28, 2015
The U.S. Geological Survey reports that in the last two weeks more than 400 small earthquakes have hit a city east of San Francisco. KNTV reported that the city of San Ramon appears to have broken an earthquake record with …
October 26, 2015
Travelers worldwide may love using Airbnb to book vacation stays, but the company that revolutionized home-sharing faces a hostile ballot measure in the city where it was founded. Proposition F on the Nov. 3 San Francisco ballot would limit short-term …
October 21, 2015
A series of small earthquakes that have struck east of San Francisco since last week continue to rattle the region. KGO-TV reported Tuesday that the largest one so far, a magnitude-3.5 temblor struck around 4:20 p.m. Monday, according to the …
June 11, 2015
San Francisco supervisors tabled further attempts to regulate home-shares this week, despite calls from some members to vote on a plan to limit short-term vacation rentals to 60 days a year. The vote by the Board of Supervisors to move …
June 9, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a National Rifle Association challenge to a San Francisco law that requires people who store handguns at home to either put them in a lockbox or disable them with a trigger lock. Over two …
February 9, 2015
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 3.1 earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area. The USGS says the small quake hit at 3:44 a.m. Friday and was centered about a mile east-southeast of Emerald Lake Hills, California, 30 miles …
February 2, 2015
A U.S. judge appeared skeptical on Jan. 30 about Uber’s bid for a quick pretrial ruling that its drivers are contractors and not employees, a critical question facing Silicon Valley’s sharing economy. App-based ride service Uber, and smaller rival Lyft, …
December 9, 2014
A driver for Uber Technologies Inc. whose car struck and killed a six-year-old girl crossing a San Francisco street last New Year’s eve was charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, a spokesman for the city’s district attorney said. The arrest of …
September 26, 2014
Lyft Inc., Uber Technologies Inc. and Sidecar Technologies Inc. were warned by San Francisco’s district attorney they would face legal action if the rideshare services don’t change their operations. According to a copy of the letter provided by Sidecar, the …
August 7, 2014
Crystal & Co. has appointed four executives in the firm’s San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. Shawn Ram has joined as executive managing director and western region head leading California operations in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He also has …