On Friday, as they prepare to retire their Boeing 747s by the end of this year, United Airlines is flying a special flight from Chicago to San Francisco — a rare opportunity to fly

Oakland Councilwoman Lynette Gibson McElhaney may be facing hefty fines for ethics violations relating to a city-contracted architecture firm from whom she received free help in opposing a development that was planned next

City Attorney Dennis Herrera is still trying to force Uber and Lyft to release data on their drivers' daily trips within the city, and he's just filed a petition in court. [Chronicle] Check

Buzz Off: 40,000 Bees Removed From Castro Courtyard https://t.co/gBGCBovA1N by @YourProtagonist pic.twitter.com/Bmoi9LTqso— Hoodline (@Hoodline) July 20, 2017 Housing advocates say it's increasingly common for Bay Area

Google Glass 2.0 turns out to be really useful in the workplace, like on a factory floor. [Wired] New bike share bikes are already getting vandalized in Oakland. [East Bay Times] San

Remember that Los Altos Hills Airbnb where Beyoncé and Justin Bieber stayed that was $10K a night during the 2016 Super Bowl? It now goes for $30,000 a night. [Chronicle] I guess

Surprise! An umbrella-sharing startup in China, modeled on bike-sharing only with no way to track the umbrellas once they've been taken, ends in loss of 300,000 umbrellas. [SFGate] Kendrick Lamar is opening

Ridership to the Millbrae BART station is very, very low. [Chronicle] Hate crimes in California are increasing, particularly attacks on Muslims and gay men. [Chronicle] After all SF homeless shelters refuse them, SFPD

Somebody is putting googly eyes on statues in Golden Gate Park. [BrokeAss Stuart] In addition to nixing the large sculpture at the base of Salesforce Tower and adjacent to the Transbay Terminal, they're

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More Uber bads: A Los Angeles Uber driver has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a female passenger who fell asleep on Friday night. [CBS 5] Cannabis Buyers Club, a Berkeley dispensary, was

Some Trump protesters projected the words "Trumpcare Kills," among other things, on side of the white plastic sheathing the former Sears building in downtown Oakland last night. [Curbed] A San Francisco judge has

A protest today against the Republican health plan, actually a "die-in," outside the federal building at Seventh and Mission was disrupted by a man on a motorcycle who sped the wrong way down