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.
Just one day after the Mayor of South Lake Tahoe admitted to embezzling money from a church, we learn that the city’s second highest-ranking elected official was arrested for assaulting an employee at a bar he had been 86’d from.
A "possible" bomb threat Tuesday afternoon led to the evacuation of San Francisco's Lowell High School, though this appears to have been just a precautionary measure.
Another serving of “Shrimp Boy” in today’s headlines, as the SF Sheriff’s Office has rehired a deputy who admitted lying to the FBI over lending a Shrimp Boy-affiliated hired hitman his department-issued bulletproof vest.
The suspect in last month's deadly minivan crash in Napa County has a record of drug arrests and has been deported from the US multiple times, ICE says, making this case more likely to become a politically charged one.
The San Francisco Giants finished their season nine days ago, but neighbors who live near Oracle Park say the ballpark has been blasting its bright-white flood lights as late as 4:30 am, and wreaking havoc on their sleep schedule.
Following an administrative hearing in August, the retired judge overseeing the hearing has issued a 42-page opinion that essentially calls Sheriff Christina Corpus uncredible, and offers multiple grounds on which to remove her from office.
A medical helicopter crashed Monday on a highway in Sacramento, injuring three; Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill to give raises to Cal Fire firefighters; and the government shutdown is impacting air traffic control towers across the country.
Uniqlo confirms its return, near Union Square, to the former Old Navy flagship; the power was out today for thousands in Oakland; Bari Weiss is now the head of CBS News.
The 1,300-store chain Club Pilates was hoping to swoop into a Valencia Street storefront that’s been vacant for a year and a half. The SF Planning Commission still deemed this formula retail, and rejected their bid.
We have another instance of a Bay Area law enforcement vehicle engaged in a high-speed chase resulting in casualties for people not involved in that chase. This time, an elderly man was reportedly left with major injuries.
Seven teens are accused of busting the glass entrance doors of Concord’s Sunvalley Shopping Center and emptying merchandise out of stores at around 4 am Sunday morning, but they didn’t make it far after a bungled getaway attempt.
A shocking political story out of South Lake Tahoe, as Mayor Tamara Wallace admits to stealing money from the local Presbyterian Church, and having attempted to end her own life because of it last month.
It was a gorgeous late-summer weekend in Golden Gate Park as the beloved Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival rang in 25 years, with stars of bluegrass — and jazz, and rock, and country, and folk, and other genres — serenaded a grateful SF audience.
It's a fall season of splashy restaurant openings in San Francisco at last, after some quiet years on the restaurant scene. And among those is the revamp of Michael Mina's Bourbon Steak, in the grand ground floor spaces of the Westin St. Francis.
Now a few months into the speed-camera era of San Francisco traffic enforcement, the most notorious block for speeding covered by the cameras is at Third and Bryant streets, which accounts for nearly 25% of all SF speed camera tickets.
