After a month-long firestorm that a hit-and-run suspect accused of killing two women while driving on meth could get a diversion program instead of facing trial, an SF Superior Court judge just ruled the case will indeed go to trial.
Three men, ranging in age from 19 to 22, have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of another man in early July near SF's Fisherman's Wharf.
North Beach’s supervisor Danny Sauter just passed legislation allowing storefronts to merge in that neighborhood, supposedly to fight vacancies. Business owners wonder what he’s talking about, pointing out one of the city’s lowest vacancy rates.
San Francisco police are investigating a reported sexual battery or sexual assault of a child in a restroom near the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park on Thursday.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Tuesday announced his 45th lawsuit against the Trump administration so far this year, joining two dozen states in suing the USDA for withholding SNAP benefits from low-income Americans as a consequence of the government shutdown.
As Santa Rosa police sift through evidence in the killing of Condor Club manager Mark Calcagni, they’ve arrested a couple that both used to work there, and say the pair’s firing was "at least one motivating factor" in the alleged murder.
Music legend Sting was just announced as a headliner of the Super Bowl Weekend concert series in San Francisco, which is being put on by the NFL's hospitality provider.
Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies fatally shot a man during a traffic stop Monday; the victim in Sunday's fatal crash at the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf has been ID'd; and Bay Area food banks are mobilizing as SNAP benefits go unpaid.
An inmate wanted in a homicide case in Seattle was mistakenly freed in Contra Costa County; a large union of federal workers has broken with Democrats over the shutdown; and Alaska Airlines is cutting five routes out of SFO.
The Trump administration has already declared they’re sending election monitors to California for next week’s Prop 50 vote. But the Gavin Newsom administration just announced they’ll have their own monitors to monitor Trump’s monitors.
As we await further details from federal investigators about a strange incident that capped off a tense day Thursday in Oakland outside the gates of Alameda's Coast Guard Island, the Chronicle has obtained some strange surveillance video.
Former Walnut Creek resident Jim Morrison just skied about 30,000 feet down the north face of Mount Everest, becoming the first person ever to ski down Everest’s steepest and most challenging route, the Hornbein Couloir.
Students from Daniel Webster Elementary School won the 43rd Annual Leap Sandcastle Classic on Saturday at Ocean Beach, with their interpretations of two SF-style crabs playing with Nintendo game controllers.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has been doing a good job of getting his name out there in the national media over the last year or two, in what has clearly been an orchestrated plan in preparation for a presidential run. And on Sunday he finally fessed up that yes, he's probably going to run.
A satirical ad campaign from some as-yet-unidentified pranksters/performance artists has spent real money on multiple billboards in San Francisco and New York that satirize some of the "stop hiring humans" messaging of actual AI startups.
A still-unidentified woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash at Ocean and Ashton avenues early Sunday night, though police quickly found their suspect, who remains in SFPD custody.
The government shutdown is impacting air travel and may impact it even more in the coming week and beyond, as air traffic controllers miss paychecks and call in sick.
Your San Francisco 49ers looked jet-lagged and hungover for their early Sunday morning game, scoring their fewest points all season, and giving up nearly 500 yards in a 26-15 loss to the oddly dressed Houston Texans.
A water main broke in SF's Sunnydale neighborhood Monday morning; BART had more equipment trouble today in the Transbay Tube; and President Trump admits he underwent an MRI earlier this month.
An outdoor enthusiast from Colorado recently reached the top of Yosemite’s El Capitan with his eight-year-old son, and he did the same with his oldest son two years earlier. This time, he brought a documentary film crew, and some worry he’s endangering his kids’ lives for recognition.
Kevin Ortiz, a wheelchair-user and content creator documenting his cross-country tour of NFL stadiums, had trouble obtaining ADA-compliant seats at Levi’s Stadium. The 49ers say they’ll fix their policy but already have a track record — a 2020 class action settlement and a pending 2023 suit.
Sami Hamdi, a British Muslim journalist and political commentator currently visiting the US on a speaking tour for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), was detained by immigration authorities at San Francisco International Airport Sunday morning.
SFMTA announced there have been no reports of ICE on Muni despite concerns; Authorities in Monterey County are searching for two 12-year-old runaways involved in two hit-and-runs; and two former employees of Condor Club manager Mark Calcagni are suspected in his killing.
Advocates warn of ongoing isolated ICE raids after an undocumented immigrant was detained in front of his San Jose home Saturday — despite the Trump administration calling off the mass deployment of federal agents in the Bay Area earlier this week.
The Women’s Professional Baseball League (WPBL), which was co-founded by former Oakland A’s coach Justine Siegal, has chosen San Francisco as one of its four founding cities for its inaugural 2026 season, along with Los Angeles, New York, and Boston.
