A fire just before 5:30 am Monday morning at a Redwood City strip-mall liquor store took the lives of two people who were apparently trapped inside, both of whom were declared dead upon being discovered.
Mayor Lurie’s long-promised two-hour limit on RV parking on SF streets took effect Saturday, though its effect may be limited, as many of the RVs already have a six-month extension lined up to stay parked right where they are.
As court-ordered over the weekend, the Trump administration is tapping emergency reserve funds to pay out partial SNAP benefits for the month of November, despite there being funds available to pay full benefits.
Slain conservative activist’s Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA traveling rally “American Comeback Tour” is coming to UC Berkeley in just one week, so the university is forced to reconsider security after Kirk’s assassination.
November 12 is the last day for any fans to take a final ride on one of the light-rail trains that have been running through the streets and tunnels of San Francisco since 1996, as the last of them is finally getting retired.
There sure were a lot of 49ers fans in the stands 3,000 miles away in East Rutherford, New Jersey on Sunday, and they were rewarded with the sight of a dominant Niners win, despite quarterback Mac Jones getting a gusher of a nosebleed.
In a federal murder case that hinged on trans issues and the dangers of sex work, a 22-year-old sex worker has been sentenced to five years for the killing of a man who picked her up for sex and drove her to the Crissy Field parking lot.
A 9-year-old boy was shot and injured in Antioch; East Bay resident and 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams says he is 'declining fast' and sought cancer treatment help from Trump; and more rain is on the way this week.
When vintage store the Future Past in SF’s Inner Richmond put Gap Inc. on blast, accusing its Banana Republic brand of blatantly copying owner Lindsey Hansen’s original upcycled jeans design, the company removed the jeans from its store and website.
A former apartment manager in Santa Clara County is suspected of orchestrating a major identity theft scheme in which she allegedly sold tenants’ personal data while also using their identities to create fake IDs and credit cards in their names.
In an ironic twist indicative of our times, authors Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin-Pritchard were about to go on stage to discuss their new kids’ book 'The Day the Books Disappeared' at a San Ramon elementary school when they were told not to mention banned or queer books.
A man accused of sending death threats to Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee will go on trial; LA Dodgers fans were pretty well behaved after the team’s World Series win Saturday; and a man was shot multiple times in SF's Polk Gulch while walking by people who may have been fighting.
This week: Making use of rotten pumpkins; dancing at the Filipino market; growing up on an Alameda shellmound; and reclaiming the past through kids’ books. Plus, SF Trans Film Festival, teen inventors, the art of falconry, capybara mania, and a serendipitous City Hall photo-op.
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Firefighters received a report of a two-alarm fire at 9:25 pm on the 1500 block of Filbert Street Friday night. A person was found dead in the third-floor unit where the fire started, as SFFD was potentially delayed by hoarding conditions, along with the amount of overhead wires on Filbert.
The Millbrae police chief suspected of commuting from Idaho is now being investigated by Idaho officials; the firefighter who saved the Marina after the 1989 earthquake has died; and 113 people who were arrested during the 2023 Dolores Park hill bomb can now take part in an existing lawsuit.
Amazon laid off 780 Bay Area workers this week and twice as many layoffs are coming next year; two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to continue funding SNAP payments; and several Antioch High School football players were allegedly caught on camera bullying another student.
Elon Musk visited Joe Rogan’s podcast again, and continued his crusade against his more successful AI competitor Sam Altman, pretty much flat-out saying that Altman murdered the engineer found dead in his SF apartment.
The US Navy detected high levels of the radioactive isotope plutonium-239 at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard about a year ago, and the city of SF is wondering why they didn’t get around to informing us until just now.
An upscale Filipino spot is set to take over the Sons & Daughters space on Nob Hill, YUJA Kitchen from an AL's Place alum opens in Rincon Hill, and North Beach is getting a bunny cafe, all in This Week in Food.
Here’s one costume that goes paleo for Halloween, and the entire year, as the fifteen-foot-long glowing LED dinosaur “Doloresaurus” roars, plays music, and tricera-tops all the other costumes in town.
Tony-winning play Stereophonic blew into town this week with the bravado of the legendary rock band that it sorta kinda imagines the story of, pulsing with 1970s recording studio vibes, and using fiction to fill in the missing pieces of an iconic moment in American music history.
Not a moment too soon for SF parents whose kids are heading out trick-or-treating tonight, SFPD has arrested a 19-year-old in the case of a girl who was dragged into a bathroom and sexually assaulted at Golden Gate Park’s Polo Field.
A new City Hall report throws cold water on Mayor Lurie’s “family zoning” plan, saying it won’t really build much housing. YIMBY groups are threatening to sue, while west side voters say it’s overdevelopment and are threatening a recall.
Many have called the hulking Brutalist fountain at Embarcardero Plaza "maligned" and even "ugly," but artist Armand Vaillancourt's sculptural work still has many fans who will not be pleased by the lastest move by SF Rec & Parks to remove it in short order.
Waymo has acknowledged that one of its autonomous vehicles ran over a beloved corner store cat on 16th Street Monday, and the company says it will be making a donation to an animal rights organization in the cat's honor.
