Sonder, the San Francisco-based rival to Airbnb that had established a lucrative partnership with Marriott last year, has now lost that partnership and is shutting down entirely.
‘Straight Outta Hunters Point’ director Kevin Epps saw his life go sideways, from making movies with Spike Lee to being charged with a 2016 homicide. This odd tale continues as his murder trial began today.
As poor Americans continue to be pawns in the Trump administration's gameplay over the government shutdown, California Attorney General Rob Bonta is seeking guidance from the Supreme Court over how to address the administration's latest "capricious" demand.
A developer is looking to build 3,500 housing units in San Francisco in the coming years, about half of which would be in a mixed-use development at the site of the former Safeway in the Fillmore.
All the big local news outlets were live-streaming today’s memorial service for the West Coast’s first Black female TV reporter, Belva Davis, after the trailblazing 92-year-old’s death in late September.
The 49ers lost some pretty significant ground in the playoff race with a 42-26 loss to the LA Rams on Sunday, and are now nearly two games behind those Rams and the Seahawks in the NFC West standings.
Well this is an unexpected turn of events. Christine Pelosi, the daughter of Nancy Pelosi, will not run to take over her mother's seat in the House of Representatives in 2026, as was widely speculated.
The Supreme Court declined to reconsider the 2015 decision affirming the right to gay marriage; the court did agree to hear a case about late mail-in ballots; and a Tesla driver allegedly stabbed a cyclist in the Marin Headlands.
A confrontation near O’Farrell and Market streets between the SFPD and a homeless man, whose large, off-leash dog allegedly bit a bystander in an unprovoked attack, led to one of the officers shooting both the man and dog in the legs.
When the city of Santa Rosa told 10-year-old beekeeper Nicholas Bard he had to get rid of his beloved backyard bees — an impressive colony consisting of thousands, he took on a months-long battle to change the city’s zoning laws, and won.
San Ramon was the center of at least seven small earthquakes; the Trump administration is demanding that states give their SNAP money back after the latest ruling; and a Sunnyvale city councilmember opened a can of worms when he responded disparagingly to a campaign text message.
A little before 9 pm Saturday night, gunfire erupted when a fight broke out between a group of people near the Safeway supermarket at Fulton and La Playa streets in SF’s Outer Richmond neighborhood. At least five people were injured, including one critically.
While the Alamo Square home of dog walker Terry Williams undergoes renovations after burning down in the spring of 2024, a porta-potty at the site was set on fire around 1 am Saturday. Additionally, the suspect in the case of the racist threats has been missing since the fall of 2024.
This week: Protecting newt migrations, returning the Tule elk to their land, and remembering Humphrey the Humpback whale. Also, Joan Baez in Alameda, mentors for trans youth, 20 years of MoAD, calendar and puzzle fundraiser by East Bay creatives, and a 1912 tugboat for sale.
A Gilroy teen found a razor blade in her Halloween candy; a federal judge in Oregon has permanently blocked Trump from deploying the National Guard in Portland; and the group MoveOn is flying an anti-ICE banner over Levi’s Stadium for two hours prior to Sunday’s 49ers game.
Surfers were met with 40-foot waves on the opening day of surf season in Mavericks, California; take part in a hyphy video shoot at Powell Station Saturday; and no injuries were reported after an apartment fire in North Beach Friday.
Here’s one way to take matters into your own hands when the federal government is shut down, as one frequent swimmer at SF’s China Beach saw the beach was closed for the shutdown, so he simply GoFundMe’d up the money to reopen it.
The Quince and Cotogna team is opening Bar Coto down the street, the former Aphotic team has a cocktail bar coming down the pike, and Nyum Bai/Lunette chef Nite Yun has published a cookbook, all in This Week In Food.
A trademark dispute has been resolved so the Cliff House can still be called the Cliff House when it reopens under new ownership, though apparently that reopening is now delayed until near the end of 2026.
Former San Francisco Mayor London Breed may, indeed, be among the field of candidates vying for Nancy Pelosi's seat in Congress after she retires next year.
As they gather to await the death of their hard-charging, ambitious stage mother, three sisters, and then a fourth, estranged sister, parse through their past in playwright Jez Butterworth's 'The Hills of California,' now playing at Berkeley Rep.
A copper wire theft job at the Oakland Coliseum DMV ended up wrecking the HVAC system and flooding the place, leading to a seven-month repair job, but that DMV office will open again on Monday.
San Francisco International Airport was seeing widespread delays, though not extreme ones, Friday morning, and a ground stop of over four hours was ordered for incoming flights that began at 4 am.
A 45-year-old Dublin man is charged with peeping and loitering inside a UC Berkeley sorority house, as well as stealing residents’ underwear. Then a search of his home turned up an assault rifle and 900 rounds of ammunition.
Millions of California SNAP recipients woke up to full EBT cards Friday; Safeway is closing another Bay Area store; and RVs were seen getting towed en masse in SF's Bayview on Wednesday.
