San Francisco Police are finding success in thwarting would-be retail thieves through the use of a new tactic.

If your Christmas cards arrive late this year, it may be the fault of mail thieves who are targeting postal boxes and even letter carriers in the Bay Area.  

All this and more Bay Area stories on the KCBS All Local, hosted by Margie Shafer. 

Merchants in San Francisco are asking the city to pay up for all that lost business during APEC.

For more, KCBS Radio's Margie Shafer spoke with KCBS Insider Phil Matier.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from Bakersfield says he is resigning his seat at the end of the year, becoming the latest in a line of California politicians on both sides of the aisle to walk away from their positions. KCBS Radio news anchors Bret Burkhart and Patti Reising spoke to KCBS insider Phil Matier about what's going on.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is resigning from Congress and will leave at the end of this year. He announced it in the Wall Street Journal today, a highly anticipated decision that comes just two months after his unprecedented ouster from the speakership. 

KCBS Radio political reporter Doug Sovern and KCBS Radio news anchors Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart discuss his decision in today's edition of The State of California.

A Mountain View-based startup is testing out technology that lets a pilot fly a plane without being on board. In today's Tech and Business Report, KCBS Radio news anchor Holly Quan spoke to Bloomberg's Thomas Black about this recent test flight and what Reliable Robotics is hoping to achieve.

Santa Rosa Police say gang activity is on the rise in city schools and is behind several cases of teen violence, including on-campus stabbings and students found with concealed weapons on campus. KCBS Radio's Jeffrey Schaub reports a newly revived police gang investigations unit aims to address the issue.

The prime minister of the Netherlands is visiting the Bay Area this week as part of a trade mission to Silicon Valley. KCBS Radio reporter Matt Bigler tells us why the Dutch leader also took time to visit Oakland.

A diverse group of Bay Area faith leaders today took to the Golden Gate Bridge together in a call for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza. KCBS Radio's Mike DeWald reports the gathering was mean to show solidarity across religions.

Get these stories and more in this afternoon's edition of the KCBS Bay Area All Local podcast, anchored by Holly Quan.

A resolution has been introduced to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. 

Finals week may be coming up for Cal State University students, but you won't find their professors in the their classrooms, instead they've donned union red.

Caltrans is inspecting dozens of storage yards underneath highways deemed to be at an increased fire risk.

For all this and more, KCBS Radio's Bret Burkhart and Patti Reising spoke guide you thought this afternoon's edition of the KCBS All Local Podcast.

The past few years have seen a decrease in HIV cases in San Francisco for all but one group: Latino men, which has actually seen a 10% rise.

The unequal data shows that while public health officials have been making largely positive impacts on HIV rates in California, new methods are needed to address emerging issues among populations living with HIV.

For more on this, KCBS Radio news anchor Holly Quan spoke with Dr. Monica Gandhi, professor of medicine and associate division chief of HIV, infectious diseases and global medicine at UCSF.

Emerging technology and molecular techniques are coming together at UCSF as part of new research into treating autism spectrum disorder. Researchers say the work they're doing essentially maps the disorder in what they call unprecedented detail.

For more on this, KCBS Radio news anchor Holly Quan spoke to Nevan Krogan, director of the Quantitative Biosciences Institute at UCSF's School of Pharmacy.

While consumers are spending a lot this holiday season, there are still fewer and fewer people actually going into physical stores. New data out of Upgrade Points shows which cities are seeing the steepest declines in brick-and-mortar retailers, with the San Francisco Bay Area coming in at number three.

For more on this, KCBS Radio news anchors Margie Shafer and Eric Thomas spoke to Michael LaFirenza, founder of Lattice Publishing, who worked with Upgrade Points on this report.