In the pricey Bay Area, some folks are choosing unconventional and cheaper approaches to housing, including one that provides people with a modest sleeping pod for $1,200 per month.

At City College of San Francisco, a dozen or so students have formed a community, living off the grid in solar-powered camper vans at the edge of campus, building and maintaining their tiny homes together. Faced with some of the highest rent in the world, some say it’s a financial decision to emerge from school with a small savings, rather...

A top San Francisco public official and go-to bureaucrat to mayors over two decades was charged with public corruption Tuesday, upending City Hall as elected leaders scrambled to reassure the public that bribery and kickbacks would not be tolerated. The complaint unsealed against San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru and longtime restaurateur Nick Bovis focuses on an aborted attempt…

Daily Driver butter makers show how they prepare the butter that goes to their bagels and other goods. As seen on California Live on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020.

Rebecca Juro remembers keeping her secret as far back as age 5. She felt different compared to other little boys in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood and, without anyone saying it, she understood being different was bad. “I knew my parents would not be excited to hear their son wanted to wear a dress,” she said.

As a designer and maker of boat interiors, Liz Diaz has an eye for what makes up the necessities of a tiny living space. So, it wasn’t that much of a stretch when she designed a tiny 45-square-foot home she envisions as a potential dwelling for the homeless.

A center for people experiencing methamphetamine-induced psychosis will open in San Francisco to help them get sober in a safe place, the latest effort to address the city’s rising drug overdoses and rampant street drug use.

Ever wonder how cats get rescued when stuck in tight spots? Who responds when a mountain lion is seen in a crawl space under a house? Or when a monitor lizard is on the roof of a house? Ride along with the Los Angeles Animal Rescue SMART Team, a group of highly trained individuals who specialize in rescuing animals from...

A highway patrol officer who became an internet sensation after he helped rescue a month-old fawn from a Northern California wildfire said Monday he didn’t expect the photos to go viral. On Saturday morning, California Highway Patrol Sgt. David Fawson of San Francisco helped Cal Fire officers rescue a fawn from fast-growing wildfire in Redding, about 230 miles (370 kilometers)...

Kibbles for Fido? Nope. These days he’s getting diced chicken with sweet potatoes and spinach. U.S. pet owners are increasingly feeding fresh food to their dogs and cats. Some order pre-proportioned meals of meat and vegetables or frozen raw meat online. Others find them in refrigerators at big retailers like Walmart. Later this spring, Petco and its partner, California-based JustFoodForDogs,...

Clear the Shelters, the third annual pet adoption drive sponsored by the NBC- and Telemundo-owned television stations, culminated Saturday with more than 900 shelters participating in 76 communities across the country. More than 60,000 animals have found homes since this year’s event was launched in the last month. More than 20,000 adoptions were made on Saturday alone. To encourage families...

People magazine’s pet vet Dr. Evan Antin provides tips for adopting shelter animals ahead of the fourth annual Clear the Shelters event on Aug. 18.

Gunfire sent 49ers fans scrambling out of a packed Super Bowl watch party at a popular San Francisco sports bar at the end of the game Sunday night.

Fives facts you should know about the San Francisco 49ers going into Super Bowl LIV on Feb. 2, 2020.

The U.S. Department of State is making plans to move personnel stationed in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus, to the U.S. in a one-time flight to San Francisco, a department spokesperson said in a statement. The department anticipates that there will be limited capacity to allow some passport-carrying U.S. citizens to travel on the flight.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited San Francisco Sunday before heading back to the nation’s capital with what she said is the backing of a vast majority of Americans who are demanding a full and fair impeachment trial in the senate.

More than half of UCSD’s buildings are a “serious” or “severe risk to life,” according to an internal seismic safety survey obtained by NBC 7 Investigates.

African-Americans in San Diego are approximately five times more likely to get prosecuted for minor drug offenses than Whites and Hispanics, according to data obtained by NBC 7 Investigates through a public records request.

Let’s face it, in the new 754-unit NEMA luxury apartment building on San Francisco’s mid-market street — there will be a lot of showering, sink running and — well — toilet flushing. But Aaron Tartakovsky and his company, Epic CleanTec, are aiming to give all that water — and even human waste — a second act.  The company is conducting a…

More people are being injured while riding electric scooters, according to a new study.