The crisis PR team over at Salesforce has been working overtime since CEO Marc Benioff went full Trumpy in a New York Times interview Friday, going so far as to say he'd welcome the National Guard being illegally deployed in San Francisco.
Attention Macy’s shoppers, the downtown SF Macy’s was evacuated late Saturday afternoon after reports of an "explosive device,’ though a bomb squad did not find any evidence of explosives, and the store reopened for business Sunday.
The California Highway Patrol is telling a whole different story than the two teens who survived a fatal crash in Marin County this April, saying that the 16-year-old driver was speeding, and recommending vehicular manslaughter charges.
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong surprised the audience at Dua Lipa's Chase Center show Sunday, coming out to duet with her on "Wake Me When September Ends." And the previous night, Lipa did a cover of "Piece of My Heart" by Janis Joplin.
The 52nd annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off happened Monday morning in Half Moon Bay, and great big pumpkins vied for this year's title.
The 49ers not only lost the game Sunday to the Buccaneers, they continued their frustrating pattern of losing one of their best players to injury seemingly every week, and All-Pro linebacker Fred Warner is now done for the season.
If you ask Fairfax Mayor Lisel Blash, she doesn't love the idea of a 243-unit apartment building coming to her small Marin County town either. But the state has made such developments inevitabilities after decades of NIMBYism in places like Fairfax.
SF supervisors push back on Marc Benioff's National Guard comments; fewer Bay Area workers are working remotely; and the first significant rain of the season is rolling in.
Esteemed filmmaker Spike Lee received a Tribute Award at the Mill Valley Film Festival this weekend. While on stage with Oakland-based actor Delroy Lindo, who starred in four of Lee’s films, Lee suddenly remembered he directed the 2004 film 'Sucker Free City.'
Elon Musk recycled one of his tired, old ‘SF is a [fill in the blank] zombie apocalypse’ insults in an X post supporting Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s statement about sending the National Guard to “clean up” crime in San Francisco.
After three former women’s volleyball players filed Title IX complaints against Santa Rosa Junior College last month, the community rallied in support of an unnamed transgender player ahead of a game Wednesday amid ongoing anti-trans protests.
One of the victims in Monday’s medical helicopter crash in Sacramento has died; a suspect has been arrested in last week's hit-and-run crash in Bernal Heights; and UC California made history with the most Nobel Prizes in one year for a single institution.
LGBTQ homeless shelter, Jazzie’s Place, received an $18 million city grant to triple its size and increase its beds from 24 to 50, six of them for non-LGBTQ residents. It also added lockers with phone chargers and bathrooms with ADA-accessible showers and changing rooms.
NHTSA opened its third probe into Tesla of the year. The agency said it's received 58 reports of the manufacturer’s "Full Self-Driving" system ignoring red and green lights, veering into oncoming traffic while changing lanes, and using the incorrect lane to turn or go straight.
Farmers market colors; Club Waziema’s food menu; 10-cent half-pints; up-and-coming musicians; drag and horror; men loving men; Michael Jang and the Giants; honoring Filipino heritage; remembering Salesforce Tower’s architect; and a rare albatross sighting.
San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins tells Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, “We don't need your help here;” the SF Arts Commission was not consulted on Mayor Lurie’s “Big Art Loop” project; and nefarious characters are flocking to Yosemite, which currently only has one volunteer park ranger.
The South Lake Tahoe church where Mayor Tamara Wallace embezzled funds said they caught her in the act; Two Gilroy elementary schools have encountered copper wire theft in the past month; and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff mistakenly thought SFPD was defunded at some point.
Former Supervisor Hillary Ronen fought like heck to get ‘tiny homes for the homeless’ cabins at 16th and Mission. Now that those cabins are moving to the Bayview, Supervisor Shamann Walton is on a warpath against them, even though they will be empty.
After years of general chaos and injuries, and now being "forced into cooperating with police," SF's skaters are going to be having a fully permitted and organized "hill bomb" event this weekend on Twin Peaks.
The man arrested for torching two Teslas within a block of each other in SoMa on the same night in early 2024 was indeed a serial carsonist, as he was just found guilty at trial of also having torched five other cars the week before.
Bourbon Steak makes its big, second debut, Arquet sets an opening date at the Ferry Building, and Nob Hill's Ciccino is becoming something new, all in This Week In Food.
The tragic story of an apparent murder-suicide in San Francisco's Westwood Park neighborhood earlier this week gained some details on Thursday, and we now know that the perpetrator of the murders appears to have been the mother.
Two years after Nordstrom pulled their gigantic department store out of San Francisco, the high-end retailer is back with a small shop that just opened in the Upper Fillmore, though this shop only offers pick-ups, returns, and alterations.
Some more highjinks from the SF Sheriff’s Office: Sheriff Paul Yamamoto’s brother-in-law has incident reports alleging he grew marijuana plants in a locker at SF County Jail 3, and openly smoked weed while working as a plumber there.
What do you know? It looks like Elon Musk wasn't completely done with the Bay Area after all.
