The Castro's newest plant shop officially opened today, a new Spanish taverna is coming to the Mission District, and a drag show in Yolo County was disrupted by a group of possible Proud Boys making homophobic and transphobic remarks Thursday night.

The SF Sheriff's Office has gotten over twenty-four applications for concealed carry permits since SCOTUS struck down a "proper clause" law, Alameda County will drop masks for most indoor public settings starting Saturday, and protesters have rallied across SF in support of reproductive rights.

Grand Coffee opened a new Mission District cafe today, a 120-acre vegetation fire in Pittsburg is now contained, and Pacifica police are investigating the burning of a Pride Flag at Sunset Ridge Elementary School as a possible hate crime.

SF-based Sonder Holdings announced it's cutting over 20% of corporate roles, a man was arrested in relation to a Richmond District robbery, and Berkeley police reported someone was killed by an Amtrak train near 2925 Bolivar Drive this morning.

An elderly woman was killed in a hit-and-run in Oakland this week, the Bay Area will get its first Raising Cane's location this summer, and on Saturday, June 4, SFMTA will celebrate Muni Heritage Day.

There's going to be a spaghetti party in the Mission District tomorrow, SF Giants manager Gabe Kapler says he will remain in the clubhouse during the national anthem at ballgames to protest gun violence, and more “harrowing details” are still emerging from the Uvalde, Texas massacre.

Two local Sprouts Farmers Market locations will close soon, Governor Newsom has absolutely no interest in running for president, and SF police assisted a mother delivering twins from inside a vehicle.

Sunday Streets is coming to Bayview this weekend, the SF City Attorney’s Office sues the property owner of the Tenderloin boba shop Quickly for housing violations inside the building’s SRO units, and Wall Street narrowly avoided a bear market today.

Someone riding an e-scooter in Lower Nob Hill was robbed Thursday, the CA Historical Society at 678 Mission Street is waiving entrance fees this weekend, and you can still register as "non-binary" for Sunday's big SF race — which will now give out awards to non-binary winners.

Chinatown's massive Tiger Dragon mural was recently defaced, a small plane crashed in the Marin Headlands this afternoon — killing two people — and the 48-year-old flea market at the BART station parking lot on Ashby Avenue is being forced to move.

The first case of avian flu was reported this week in the United States, ghost kitchen startup Local Kitchens is opening up even more locations in the Bay Area, and reports are swirling around that Elon Musk plans to replace Twitter's current CEO when he takes over later this year.

Oakland is considering a mask mandate for some large events, the Valencia Street art corridor will be held tomorrow between 16th and 17th streets, and — for the second year in a row — COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States.

Novato High School was given the all-clear after a bomb threat, five Oakland cops were found wrongly fired in the fatal shooting of a homeless man, and Eataly is gearing up to open in Santa Clara’s Westfield Valley Fair center.

The Texas man who carjacked an Oakland man Tuesday also had his young daughter with him, a Bay Area teacher was charged by Contra Costa County prosecutors Friday with 29 counts of child molestation, and Arinell Pizza is in danger of closing.

An elementary school in San Rafael will reinstate its mask mandate, SFPD increased its reward money for information in the case of Nicole Fitts to $250K, and just a single day after Grinnell — the male in the famous Berkeley falcon pair— was found dead, his female companion has replaced him.

The Presidio Raptor Cam is back after a two-year hiatus, Cupertino’s new massive development project under construction will include 2,400 below-market-rate housing units, and BART recorded 138,794 riders yesterday—marking the single-busiest day for the rapid transit agency in two years.

A Caltrain struck and killed someone on the tracks in Menlo Park this morning, the Tenderloin Linkage Center apparently closed today for scheduled maintenance, and a four-alarm fire began burning Friday morning at a vacant 50,000-square-foot commercial building in Campbell.

A man was shot during an attempted robbery in SoMa, there’s a $700M superyacht docked in Italy that might be associated with Putin, and at least one "omicron-delta hybrid" COVID-19 infection has been detected in California.

Highway 50 near South Lake Tahoe is back open, Bay Area rent prices continue inching closer to pre-pandemic levels, and a local couple — with the help of their friends — has raised nearly $200K in funds to help people fleeing Ukraine.

East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell is doubling down on his remarks about kicking Russian students out of the country, a local spa is offering free passes to Ukrainians, and SF police are looking for a man who robbed a bank on the first block of West Portal Avenue Thursday afternoon.

McDonald's recently launched its "McPlant" burger in the Bay Area, an estimated 73% of all Americans now have some immune protection against Omicron, and Muni is offering free rides for the Lunar New Year weekend.

It was announced Friday morning that former A’s player Jeremy Giambi died by suicide Wednesday, the Outer Sunset is one step closer to getting its first dispensary, and Barack and Michelle Obama's nearly life-sized portraits in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery are coming to SF this summer.

The SF Medical Examiner’s Office has identified Frank Chavez as the victim in Monday's late-night Mission District stabbing, there’s a new “fancy” pedestrian bridge at the Warm Springs/South Fremont BART station, and the U.S. Covid-19-related death toll has now surpassed 900,000 lives.

The California Attorney General says that Meta can't just "eat” up competitors, the Oakland Redistricting Commission has finally decided on a new map, and the LED forest currently glowing in Golden Gate Park will beam for at least one more month.

UCSF scientists are getting closer to explaining the "brain fog" some people experience after recovering from COVID-19, an SF man was charged for repeatedly abusing his four-month-old puppy, and it looks like we can expect some Bay Area rain to come our way next month.