Golden Gate Officials Angry With Filmmaker
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The film project was proposed as a documentary intended to "capture the grandeur" of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Democratic rival to California's governor admits aides nabbed a controversial audio file. But his camp calls it fair game.
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California's attorney general is going after one of the mainstays of life in a way that is so confused, so terrifying an abuse of state power, that it begs for redress.
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Officials are confounded about the best way to respond to the growing nuisance, according to city officials.
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Authorities have fired an official in central China after city inspectors reportedly beat to death a man who filmed their confrontation with villagers, China's Xinhua news agency reported Friday.
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A filmmaker is shot and stabbed to death in broad daylight on the edge of a city park. Streets fill with tens of thousands of angry protesters.
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The director and producers of  a documentary about Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where convicted  war criminals are among the 2.5 million venerated souls, have  received multiple death threats from right-wing groups that  want to prevent the movie's local release.
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City councilmembers who were criticized for telling Marine recruiters they don't belong in Berkeley are moderating their position.
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Mayor Gavin Newsom stepped up the pressure on hotel owners in the San Francisco hotel labor dispute Sunday, issuing a formal letter asking the two sides to adopt a 90-day cooling-off period that would bring workers back to their jobs while negotiations
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Citing security concerns, organizers of the Rotterdam Film Festival called off Sunday's screening of a short film by murdered Dutch moviemaker Theo van Gogh that has outraged some Muslims.
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By Marc Benjamin, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Sep. 19--A meeting that was supposed to dispel rumors about how water can be found for a neighborhood north of Clovis fueled a fight, causing one man to be removed by police Monday night.
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One of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian countrymen is reportedly angry with him for breaking the spirit of Austrian law as an American governor.
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A local government in eastern China has drawn criticism for ordering officials to inflate the number of people at the opening ceremony of an agricultural fair and for demanding attendees clap.
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Activists in Arnold Schwartzenegger's country of birth demonstrated outside the U.S. Embassy in Vienna on Wednesday to protest the California governor's decision to allow the state's first execution in three years.
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For months, homeland security officials have privately debated how to blunt criticism of their planned aviation screening system that passengers and airlines complained was overly intrusive.-The Washington Post
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London Mayor Ken Livingstone faced mounting pressure to apologize for allegedly comparing a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard.
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Mayor Kevin Jackson and Rio Rancho City Council members have nothing to be proud of regarding the firing of City Manager Jim Palenick.   It has turned out to be a classic example of cowardly, irresponsible governance by council members and the mayor.