There were some car crashes during this morning's very rainy commute; Live 105 has cancelled their rebooted Not So Silent Night concert; and the government shutdown is officially over.
Transit fans toast to the final rides of the last 90s-era Breda light-rail train on the J-Church line; a former Newsom aide is indicted for stealing funds from Becerra; and there was a shooting at Oakland's Skyline High School.
A big fish in the Sheng Thao scandal may be ready to turn evidence against Thao and the people accused of bribing her, as San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo might sing like a bird to avoid his own bribery charges.
A conglomerate of big-name banks just finally bought the San Francisco Centre mall for a fraction of its previous value, though this tells us nothing about what will happen to the mall, as those banks are just going to sell the place again.
In what will be the 19th annual iteration of the festival, Bay Area chef Charlie Palmer's renowned Pigs & Pinot returns to Healdsburg in a new location in March, with a unique, all-star roster of father-son chef teams.
San Mateo County begins a new law enforcement era today with the naming of new Sheriff Kenneth Binder. Binder replaces Sheriff Christina Corpus, whose two-year tenure was rife with controversy, and who retired last month after county supervisors voted to remove her.
We now have the most in-depth peek to date inside the still under-construction Castro Theatre, as crews complete what's been a nearly two-year-long, $41 million renovation project.
A vacant city-owned warehouse is going to become the “drunk tank” for people on drugs, as arresting people and trying to sober them up is Mayor Lurie’s latest attempt to cut down on drug use on San Francisco streets.
The spring and summer schedule at the revamped and renovated Castro Theatre is getting filled in further today with the announcement of several film screenings, and confirmation that the SF Silent Film Festival will be returning there.
Waymo announced Wednesday that its cars are officially being deployed on Bay Area freeways, and while not all riders will have access to the service right away, you can theoretically now take a Waymo from downtown San Francisco to downtown San Jose.
A Saturday night road Castro Valley car crash and subsequent brawl is being investigated as road rage, and the 49-year-old man killed in the incident was a father of nine taking his kids for ice cream.
Congressional Democrats drop an Epstein bombshell involving Trump; federal enforcement of drug crime in SF has plummeted this year; and the Northern Lights were flickering around the Bay Area Tuesday night.
The rain returns Wednesday in all likelihood; BART is jacking up its parking lot prices by as much as 30% on January 1; and the Macy's Union Square Holiday Tree was lit back up again Monday night with marginal fanfare.
A 35-year-old Utah woman last seen at a beach bonfire the night of Thursday, November 6 at Rio Del Mar Beach has been missing for five days, and authorities are now finding reason to suspect her disappearance may have been foul play.
You may have seen this coming, but Monday's small dustup in Berkeley that appears to have left one t-shirt seller bloodied, and that Fox News characterized as sheer bedlam — which it was not — is now going to be investigated by the Trump Justice Department.
Before the ice rink at the Tahoe ski resort Heavenly had even opened to the public, a well-known local bear named Charlie decided to test the ice out for himself, and no one was going to tell him he had to leave.
As new SF supervisor Beya Alcaraz faces a fresh new scandal about a freezer full of dead animals and a mouse infestation, it seems Mayor Daniel Lurie may not have background-checked his new District 4 supervisor pick very thoroughly.
A woman who was protesting the November 2023 APEC summit in San Francisco was left with devastating injuries from being sucker-punched by a man who had just shown up to volunteer at the event. She's now suing the organizers and the man himself.
House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi used an event Monday about Covered California open enrollment to sound alarms over the number of Californians who may lose their healthcare due to Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.
The Charlie Kirk traveling memorial show had its stop in Berkeley Monday night, and one guy hawking Jesus t-shirts got bloodied up in a lone fistfight, though it was otherwise a long night of garden-variety Berkeley rabble-rousing.
The FAA's mandate to reduce air traffic continues unchanged this week; a significant storm is heading our way; and the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the SNAP situation.
Video from a runaway Muni light-rail incident next to Duboce Park on September 24 shows that the train operator likely fell asleep at the wheel, and had been hunched over barely awake several minutes earlier.
Autopsy reports come in for the Westwood neighborhood murder-suicide; a man was sexually assaulted near the UC Berkeley campus; and a local congressman wants private jets to be grounded during the remainder of the shutdown.
Donald Trump’s tariffs are making it a zoo out there on Americans' finances, as the Oakland Zoo’s holiday spectacular Glowfari is more expensive this year because of Trump’s tariffs on illuminated display equipment from China.
A very anticlimactic ending to that much-ballyhooed February SFPD raid of Jefferson Square Park where 86 people were arrested: Only one suspect actually faced felony drug charges, and he was just acquitted of those charges.
