SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- As we've been telling you, San Francisco continues to navigate a difficult recovery downtown. Though crime is down, the tents are pretty much gone and some companies are now requiring employees to come back in person five days a week, the area has yet to bounce back.

From Oakland’s Javi’s Cooking to San Jose’s Casa Guzmania, here are nine stellar spots to find incredible empanadas, pupusas and hand pies.

Temperatures in parts of the Bay Area were expected to drop into the upper 20s to the middle 30s for the second morning in a row Tuesday, triggering a Freeze Warning and Frost Advisory.

SAN FRANCISCO — Two new stamp sets celebrating iconic children's media will be released in 2025. “Goodnight Moon” and “SpongeBob SquarePants” sets are among many others available for purchase from the United States Postal Service.

The development comes just a day after FBI agents raided the home of another East Bay politician who, along with Thao, was among several officials who visited Vietnam as part of a trade delegation

At Friday’s news conference in San Francisco, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Robbins described how the charges lay out “a corrupt scheme in which the defendants used bribes, wire fraud, mail fraud and other illegal practices to manipulate and corruptly influence the levers of local government.”

The pane of "Goodnight Moon" stamps will feature eight images from the 1947 bedtime story, which was illustrated by Clement Hurd and written by Margaret Wise Brown. USPS art director Derry Noyes designed the stamps. The USPS said that the designs are preliminary and could change. It also shared that additional stamps will be announced this year.

America’s flinty, unpretentious 30th president was shaped by an austere upbringing in a Vermont hamlet out of time.

SAN FRANCISCO - Newly inaugurated San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie appointed a new fire chief on Friday, the department announced. Battalion chief Dean Crispen will replace Sandra Tong, who was appointed by former mayor London Breed in September.

Two Southern California residents suspected of burglarizing a U.S. Postal Service vehicle in South San Francisco vehicle were arrested, police announced Wednesday. The USPS vehicle was delivering mail on Alta Mesa Drive when it was burglarized last week,

Sister Dana sez, “I know many of us democracy-loving citizens are extremely anxious about the upcoming Presidential Inauguration aka ‘In-Aggravation’—including the cruel and vindictive Administration to come.

From the continued threats against the Voting Rights Act to new restrictions on mail ballots and voter registration, courts will have a lot of opportunities to shape democracy this year.