SF fell to No. 3 in Zumper’s latest most expensive apartments list, street-racing cars caused a multi-car pile-up in San Jose, and legendary 24th Street dive Pop’s Bar is now on the Legacy Business Registry.

Servers at Noka Ramen in Jack London Square happened to be dressed as Power Rangers when they intervened in an attack last week, Noe Valley's public-restroom party was canceled, and SF is surprisingly not the city with the most dogs, or even close?

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the COVID state of emergency will officially end in late February, a high-speed chase ends tragically in Oakland, and the jury deciding on the guilt or innocence of Ruben Flores in the Kristin Smart murder trial has returned.

Excellent news on the MPX front as monkeypox has largely receded, the death of 16-year-old Truckee teen Kiely Rodni has been ruled an accident, and footage from the January 6 Commission shows Nancy Pelosi vowed to punch Trump on that chaotic day.

The Castro Theatre’s new operator got more unwelcoming news from the neighborhood, a tree trimmer fell into a wood chipper in Menlo Park, and yet another violent rape was reported on the Stanford campus.

The much-ballyhooed Midnite Bagel Inner Sunset location is closing after just four months in business, SF Animal Care & Control confiscated 30 dogs from a negligent owner, and President Biden went full Dark Brandon with a mass pardon of everyone with a marijuana possession offense.

Dede Wilsey has dropped $350,000 on SF election measures, a Samsung pop-up shop is coming to the former Uniqlo space in Union Square, and even Kamala Harris’s niece had to sign an undated resignation letter to Mayor Breed.

A street name will indeed be renamed Vicha Ratanapakdee Way, Elon Musk is in hot water for deleting messages he was supposed to keep, and Brown Paper tickets is badly in arrears with some of your favorite local theaters and performers.

A major injury crash in Sonoma County briefly shut down 101 today, Gov. Gavin Newsom was in SF signing a package of laws aimed at boosting housing production, and SF is dealing with a backlog of COVID rent-relief applications and is stopping taking new ones.

A Tuesday morning shooting in Oakland’s Brookfield Village left one man dead and another injured, we have a video tour from inside the infamous Painted Lady fixer-upper, and the trove of city officials Mayor Breed demanded undated resignation letters from has become public.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has COVID-19, BART looks likely to yank the mask mandate next week, and Oakland resident Giles "Bud" Cropsey has passed away at age 111.

A 26-year-old SF man has been acquitted for reasons of self-defense after spending five years in jail for a New Year's Day 2017 killing, Michelle Obama is coming to SF in December, and 24th Street's Roosevelt Tamale Parlor has closed permanently (again).

The 100-year-old Roosevelt Tamale Parlor has closed its doors permanently, two people were shot outside an Oakland City Council meeting, and Dreamforce kicked off with an estimated 40,000 people in attendance.

Confused migrants were dropped at Kamala Harris’s home in a political stunt, Scott Wiener’s death-threat suspect was found guilty, and Sunday’s Leather Pride Fest means street closures, bus reroutes, and a few bare bottoms.

Sonoma County saw a third small earthquake just before noon today east of the town of Sonoma, Amtrak is suspending routes ahead of a freight rail worker strike, and some typhoon remnants could bring us some early-season rain this weekend.

SF-based Patreon laid off a chunk of its staff, DA Brooke Jenkins will try 16- and 17-year-olds as adults for certain “egregious” crimes, and those nonsense sidewalk barriers have finally been removed from the SFPD Mission Station.

An SFPD officer was injured while trying to interrupt a catalytic converter theft, Twitter and Elon Musk are still exchanging barbs, and Jeffrey Tumlin posts sped-up video of a Central Subway train during testing.