A slick new prime-time TV ad features the beloved — but illegal — Bernal Heights Hill swing that Rec & Parks keeps tearing down, so we spoke to the person that just keeps putting the swing back up, about its newfound TV fame.
As federal agents are now arriving in the Bay Area, there are rallies and marches scheduled for Thursday afternoon and evening to protest whatever it is Trump’s goons may be planning to do.
In a confusing turn of events, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie says he had a phone call with President Trump Wednesday night, and the president said he was calling off any federal deployment in the city. But does that mean federal agents will focus on Oakland or another locale?
Ahead of a planned immigrant round-up operation by federal agents in the Bay Area that seems likely to look like previous operations in Southern California, protesters gathered early Thursday morning outside the agents' staging area on Alameda's Coast Guard Island.
City Lights Bookstore has put up banners on its facade quoting a poem about tyranny by founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti; BART's board discusses Monday's disruption; and Michael Wolff is suing Melania Trump.
The teen girl in April's deadly crash in Marin County has been criminally charged; Meta is cutting 600 jobs in its AI units; and Paramount is making offers on Warner Bros. Discovery.
Former SF Sheriff's Office chief of staff Richard Jue got lucky with a diversion program sentence rather than having to stand trial for a March hit-and-run where he lied to investigators, and the Chronicle just obtained video of the crash.
Thursday could bring chaos to the Bay Area, and local leaders are hoping against hope that any protesters can temper their passions long enough to avoid what Trump and his team surely want, which are television images of violence and protest chaos that they can use to make their case for fascism.
Scott Wiener shook up the race by announcing this morning he’s running for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat, but the publication Politico just shook it up even more, saying that SF Supervisor Connie Chan might run for that seat against him.
It's unclear if or how the National Guard might be involved, but apparently a large contingent of federal agents, including US Customs and Border Protection personnel, is headed to the Bay Area on Thursday for some sort of operation.
SF Giants president Buster Posey is taking a big swing by hiring the first ever college coach with no MLB experience whatsoever as the team’s new manager, as University of Tennessee coach Tony Vitello will now manage the Giants.
In a political gesture to match Trump's own, many political gestures, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that he was deploying the National Guard, like he did during the pandemic, to support food banks in California.
The nine-year-old Blue Note Napa just announced they’ll close after a final show on New Year’s Eve, but the club’s top brass are dropping some notes that they may intend to open a San Francisco venue instead.
The crab cocktail will flow again at Fisherman’s Wharf steak-and-seafood spot Castagnola’s, which has been closed since the pandemic and embroiled in a $1.1 million lawsuit over unpaid rent, but they’ve just settled that lawsuit.
State Senator Scott Wiener confirmed the news that was leaked last week that he will run for Nancy Pelosi's seat in the US House of Representatives, regardless of whether Pelosi plans to retire.
Serial harasser of women Bill Gene Hobbs was arrested in SF again Tuesday for violating his parole; South Lake Tahoe has chosen a new mayor; and we are now in the second-longest government shutdown in US history.
The 40-year-old Mission Street restaurant Mission Hunan is closing; the alleged mistress in a Walnut Creek double-homicide is facing more charges; and Mayor Lurie is hyping up the "zero arrests” at Saturday’s SF No Kings protests.
The NBA’s Sacramento Kings have “GOT-PAIN” on their jerseys this year, as Anh Phoong’s law firm has secured a space that her law firm’s logo will appear as the ad on the Kings’ jerseys all season long.
There will be a big concert in the middle of SF's Civic Center the night before Super Bowl Sunday in February, with headliner Chris Stapleton joined by at least one other artist, Grammy-winner Sierra Farrell, and other concerts TBA.
A Palo Alto startup that makes weather balloons admits it was “likely” their balloon that struck a United Airlines flight this past Thursday, cracking the windshield, injuring a pilot and forcing an emergency landing.
Mayor Daniel Lurie might be trying to avoid a verbal confrontation with President Trump, but City Attorney David Chiu came out swinging Tuesday about this National Guard business.
Your Golden State Warriors tip off their 2025-26 NBA season tonight against the Lakers. And this year, they’ll likely have another Curry, as little brother Seth Curry is expected to join Steph Curry on this season’s Warriors roster.
It's a sign of the times for Academy of Art University, the San Francisco-based art college that once attracted students from all over the country and now has many of its students taking classes remotely.
SF’s most notorious serial groper and harasser is reportedly out of prison and back on SF streets, and was spotted Monday approaching women in the Castro and Dolores Park, often “yelling indecipherably.”
An East Palo Alto man with multiple violent charges on his record, several of which involved assaults on women, allegedly met a woman on Facebook Dating in June and proceeded to kidnap, rape, brutalize, and sexually traffic her over a six-day span.
