A trio of Latinx drag performers are putting on a show Friday in Oakland in protest of ICE — and the cast includes recently detained performer Hilary Rivers, who spent three months in ICE detention.
The folks behind the beloved local food truck meetup series Off the Grid are getting their own brick-and-mortar place in Union Square’s former Uniqlo store, and the place will be called Off the Grid’s Holiday Food Market.
California Senator Alex Padilla announced Tuesday that he will not be seeking the governor's office in 2026, as he'd been rumored to be considering in the last two months. Instead, he will remain in the Senate through the end of Trump's current term.
There's a rally Tuesday afternoon for the bodega cat KitKat who was run over by a Waymo, and it’s being organized by Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who’s vowing legislation for local controls of self-driving vehicles.
After the reopening residency by Sam Smith is done in March, Another Planet Entertainment has booked a slate of queer (and/or queer-friendly) performers for the Castro Theatre, in a clear gesture of good will toward the LGBTQ+ community in the neighborhood.
Notorious cryptocurrency huckster Sam Bankman-Fried is angling for a new trial on all the fraud counts that netted him a 25-year prison sentence, while his parents are angling to get Trump to give their rich-kid son a pardon.
In what surely seems like a win for downtown and for Mayor Daniel Lurie, regardless of whether he had a hand in it, Macy's has confirmed that it will not be closing its Union Square flagship store anytime soon, and will instead work with a developer to reimagine the property.
Former VP Dick Cheney has died at age 84; wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour are forecast in the storm that's arriving on Wednesday; and East Bay Congressmen Swalwell and DeSaulnier say ICE is ramping up activity on Election Day.
Surveillance video is out from last month's Oakland Museum heist; Supervisor Jackie Fielder is calling for AV regulation after the death of KitKat the bodega cat; and the situation with air traffic controllers may be getting worse.
A 15-month-long controversy over the possible removal of the brutalist Vaillancourt Fountain is over, as the SF Arts Commission just voted 8-5 to take it down, though they say it will be put into storage and it could possibly be rebuilt.
A fire just before 5:30 am Monday morning at a Redwood City strip-mall liquor store took the lives of two people who were apparently trapped inside, both of whom were declared dead upon being discovered.
Mayor Lurie’s long-promised two-hour limit on RV parking on SF streets took effect Saturday, though its effect may be limited, as many of the RVs already have a six-month extension lined up to stay parked right where they are.
As court-ordered over the weekend, the Trump administration is tapping emergency reserve funds to pay out partial SNAP benefits for the month of November, despite there being funds available to pay full benefits.
Slain conservative activist’s Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA traveling rally “American Comeback Tour” is coming to UC Berkeley in just one week, so the university is forced to reconsider security after Kirk’s assassination.
November 12 is the last day for any fans to take a final ride on one of the light-rail trains that have been running through the streets and tunnels of San Francisco since 1996, as the last of them is finally getting retired.
There sure were a lot of 49ers fans in the stands 3,000 miles away in East Rutherford, New Jersey on Sunday, and they were rewarded with the sight of a dominant Niners win, despite quarterback Mac Jones getting a gusher of a nosebleed.
In a federal murder case that hinged on trans issues and the dangers of sex work, a 22-year-old sex worker has been sentenced to five years for the killing of a man who picked her up for sex and drove her to the Crissy Field parking lot.
A 9-year-old boy was shot and injured in Antioch; East Bay resident and 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams says he is 'declining fast' and sought cancer treatment help from Trump; and more rain is on the way this week.
When vintage store the Future Past in SF’s Inner Richmond put Gap Inc. on blast, accusing its Banana Republic brand of blatantly copying owner Lindsey Hansen’s original upcycled jeans design, the company removed the jeans from its store and website.
A former apartment manager in Santa Clara County is suspected of orchestrating a major identity theft scheme in which she allegedly sold tenants’ personal data while also using their identities to create fake IDs and credit cards in their names.
In an ironic twist indicative of our times, authors Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin-Pritchard were about to go on stage to discuss their new kids’ book 'The Day the Books Disappeared' at a San Ramon elementary school when they were told not to mention banned or queer books.
A man accused of sending death threats to Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee will go on trial; LA Dodgers fans were pretty well behaved after the team’s World Series win Saturday; and a man was shot multiple times in SF's Polk Gulch while walking by people who may have been fighting.
This week: Making use of rotten pumpkins; dancing at the Filipino market; growing up on an Alameda shellmound; and reclaiming the past through kids’ books. Plus, SF Trans Film Festival, teen inventors, the art of falconry, capybara mania, and a serendipitous City Hall photo-op.
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Firefighters received a report of a two-alarm fire at 9:25 pm on the 1500 block of Filbert Street Friday night. A person was found dead in the third-floor unit where the fire started, as SFFD was potentially delayed by hoarding conditions, along with the amount of overhead wires on Filbert.
The Millbrae police chief suspected of commuting from Idaho is now being investigated by Idaho officials; the firefighter who saved the Marina after the 1989 earthquake has died; and 113 people who were arrested during the 2023 Dolores Park hill bomb can now take part in an existing lawsuit.
