Two cars were struck but no one was injured in a shooting on Highway 24 in Oakland; a significant early-season storm is heading our way; and there's a girls' softball vs. boys' Little League fight happening in Lafayette.
The family of four killed in Westwood Park has been identified; a drone show dazzled and confused passersby in the Embarcadero; and the Collective Impact nonprofit accused of bribery survived a legal attempt to cut off their city funding.
The 39-Year-Old Bernie bro who’s running against Nancy Pelosi next November launched his campaign in SF Wednesday night, with the curious profile of a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist who’s also made $170 million in tech.
Gwyneth Paltrow's all-powerful Goop brand got into the restaurant business four years ago in Southern California. And now, three Goop Kitchen outposts are headed to the Bay Area.
An SF-based biotech company is working on a safer, reformulated version of MDMA, better known as ‘molly’ or ‘ecstasy,’ and we’re not tripping when we say they just won FDA approval to begin Phase 1 clinical trials.
Mayor Lurie, Scott Wiener, and D2 Supervisor Stephen Sherrill all took some heat at SF town halls this week over Lurie’s proposed “family zoning” plan, with both critics and supporters saying the other side would turn SF into Miami Beach.
The battle over Gavin Newsom's stick-it-to-Republicans ballot measure, Prop 50, which would temporarily redraw California's congressional district map for the next five years, is heating up in its final month, and it is looking very expensive.
A woman who formerly worked as a housekeeper for the victims has been arrested in connection with a home-invasion robbery allegedly committed by her stepson and an accomplice last month.
On October 8, 2017, wildfires ignited in multiple spots in Napa and Sonoma counties, seemingly all at once, amid a dangerous windstorm that helped the fires to spread rapidly and disastrously, especially for two residential neighborhoods in Santa Rosa.
This haul of power tools was allegedly stolen from a construction site in the Outer Sunset, by a crew police say was hitting houses under construction in overnight heists in the Mission, Bayview, and beyond.
Rep. Eric Swalwell says an 'Epstein bomb' about Trump is about to divide Republicans in the House; Palo Alto police are investigating some vandalism as a hate crime; and a group of 30 Bob Ross paintings are being auctioned to benefit public television.
It's confirmed: There will be no Blue Angels for Fleet Week; a 3,000-acre old-growth forest outside Fresno was destroyed by the Garnet Fire; and Israel and Hamas have reportedly agreed to a first-phase peace deal.
We’re now learning that the victim of this past weekend’s late-night Bernal Heights hit-and-run was 30-year-old father Binod Budhathoki, and neighbors want something done after Cortland Avenue’s ninth dangerous crash in three years.
The 2008 saga of four SF and LA gay men who murdered a Palm Springs art dealer and sold off his possessions (while hiding his body for nine years!) is getting its close-up this week, as NBC’s ‘Dateline’ explores this yesteryear scandal.
The election for California governor is over a year away, and a lot more is bound to happen before then. But the right wing on social media has seized on a clip of Democratic frontrunner Katie Porter deciding to end an interview because she didn't like its tone.
The statue of Junipero Serra along I-280 was removed by Caltrans two months ago, and nobody really noticed. Now its removal is suddenly a big controversy, with SF Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone calling it anti-Catholic persecution.
A gruesome discovery was reportedly made by a family member Wednesday in San Francisco's Westwood Park neighborhood, and while details remain slim, an entire family appears to be dead.
The general manager of SF’s famed first topless club The Condor was shot and killed Friday near his Santa Rosa home, and police are flummoxed as to who shot Mark Calcagni, and why.
Federal authorities arrested a suspect they believe is responsible for sparking the devastating Palisades Fire in January in Los Angeles.
There may be 20 new bars coming to Union Square, or maybe existing restaurants given the newfound right to serve booze, as Governor Newsom granted Mayor Lurie and Scott Wiener their wish for 20 new liquor licenses for Union Square.
For reasons that he did not share publicly, Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell is leaving his post after less than a year and a half on the job, which leaves Oakland once again in search of a new police chief.
UC Berkeley professors have won Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry this week; San Jose faces complaints about the disposal of homeless people's belongings; and Nicole Kidman pulls out of an event at USF.
Smoke filled the Embarcadero BART station on the Tuesday evening commute; Dolly Parton is apparently having some serious health issues; and SF got its own Nation’s Giant Hamburgers which opened on Tuesday.
It may not surprise you that the SF Board of Supervisors declared an honorary commemoration day with the word “Ass” in the title, but it might surprise you that they declared October 17 as “Broke-Ass Stuart Day.”
A 42-year-old man has been charged with murder after he allegedly shot and killed a 17-year-old boy who, along with an accomplice, had allegedly been repeatedly burglarizing cars on the suspect's block. And the suspect's family says it was self-defense.
