SF Sketchfest has released its 2025 lineup; Lurie’s “family zoning” plan is getting an easy run through committees; and Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s big, inflated airship had San Franciscans looking at the skies and scratching their heads again today.
As booze-filled “entertainment zones” where people can buy to-go cocktails spread across San Francisco, now the Fillmore has one too, or rather, it has one big entertainment zone and another small one.
Tesla robotaxis currently have human drivers while the company gets its permissions worked out, but one SF Tesla robotaxi rider saw their human driver fall asleep at the wheel multiple times on their ride.
The SF Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve a new affordable-housing program based in a new building on mid-Market Street that would be dedicated to housing artists and creative types who are largely being priced out of the city.
The same developer that wants to build out the Fillmore Safeway into apartments now has the same idea for the Ocean Beach Safeway on LaPlaya Street, though in this case, that Safeway would reopen once construction was finished.
A yearslong fight between the FTC and Meta has ended with Meta prevailing, and a federal judge declaring that the company likely does not hold a monopoly in the social media sphere anymore.
Want to be a walking billboard for Bay Area billboard celebrity Anh Phoong? Now you can, for anywhere between $25-$50, with a new line of official Anh Phoong t-shirts and hoodies.
Zoox, whose funny-looking, steering-wheel-free, four-seater robocars have been roving about San Francisco for a while now, is now launching its first program to give rides to the general public.
In what seems like the umpteenth closing of a Bissap Baobab restaurant and nightclub location, owner Marco Senghor says he’s leaving his 18th and Mission Street spot, but promises to reopen a new location elsewhere.
A three-car crash at Broderick and Lombard streets Tuesday morning left a pickup truck partially lodged in the side of the La Luna motel and two people hospitalized.
The House is voting to release the Epstein files; the Navy apologized at a community meeting about "mishandling" the situation in Hunters Point; and Waymo does appear to be assisting with the Saturday night shooting investigation in the Mission.
The SF coroner succeeded in ID-ing an unidentified man found dead in SoMa; a developer has illegally destroyed a historic earthquake shack in Noe Valley, neighbors say; and the Trump administration is suing CA over the no-mask rule for ICE.
At least a couple more new restaurants are expected to sneak open before the year is out, and one of those will be Dingles Public House, in the Civic Center-adjacent space in the ground floor of the Inn at the Opera.
Maybe ghost kitchens aren’t scaring up as much business these days, as Uber founder Travis Kalanick just shut down a ghost kitchen that his new megabucks startup Cloudkitchens opened there five years ago.
The woof is on fire, as Santa’s little yelpers return to the Union Square SF Macy’s windows this Friday at noon, and this year the adorable, adoptable little critters will be available at “Name Your Price" rates.
It appears there are some mental health issues with the 27-year-old man accused of shooting and killing Laney College coach John Beam, as he reportedly told investigators that he shot Beam because he thought Beam was performing witchcraft on him.
Joseph Emerson, the former Alaska Airlines pilot who had a bad and extra-long trip thanks to some magic mushrooms and consequently did something very dangerous while on the jumpseat inside a cockpit, has successfully avoided further jail time.
A shooting on 16th Street in SF's Mission District Saturday night/early Sunday left one person dead and another critically wounded, and the crime may have been caught on camera by a passing Waymo.
A 39-year-old father and his seven-year-old daughter both drowned when hit by 15-20-foot waves swimming Friday near Big Sur, and after a hunt of nearly 48 hours, the young girl’s body was recovered Sunday afternoon.
Your San Francisco 49ers turned back into an offensive juggernaut and scored five touchdowns in Brock Purdy’s return at quarterback Sunday, but boy do these Niners seem to struggle with extra point attempts.
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A pair of freeway crashes Monday morning in SF, both on roadways headed in the direction of the Bay Bridge, led to injuries, a significant fuel spill, and a traffic nightmare for those trying to drive to the East Bay.
The FAA lifted its emergency restrictions on flight traffic; SF condo owners in older buildings are freaking out about a change to the fire code; and Morgan Freeman sues over AI replicas of his voice.
SF-based disability justice advocate and 2024 MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner Alice Wong died Friday at 51. Wong founded the Disability Visibility Project, served on the Obama-era National Council on Disability, and wrote the best-selling memoir, 'Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life.'
A shocking video has been circulating of a dirt bike crash that erupted into a large fireball last month in the Monterey Bay city of Salinas. The teen rider, who suffered minor burns and a broken ankle, is shown stumbling away from the crash — with flames clinging to him.
The adult victim in last Saturday’s shooting near the Ocean Beach Safeway was shot through his window; tickets are now on sale for SF Sketchfest 2026; and two people were shot at 16th and Mission early Sunday, one person has died and a suspect arrested.
