Once dubbed “the Carnegie Hall of public sex in America,” the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre has been closed since the pandemic. But a new ownership group hopes to revive it, possibly with alcohol service and karaoke.
The trial has ended for Direct Action Everywhere activist Zoe Rosenberg, and she has been convicted of trespassing and conspiracy in connection with a 2023 raid on a Petaluma poultry farm in which she stole/rescued four chickens.
After D’Arcy Drollinger’s two-and-a-half year reign as the nation’s first ever Drag Laureate, the wig has been passed on to Per Sia, a staple of Drag Queen Story Hour and an afterschool arts program teacher.
KitKat, a bodega cat who patrolled and slept alot in Randa's Market on 16th Street, was allegedly run over by a Waymo vehicle, inciting what could be a fresh wave of anti-robot sentiment in San Francisco.
The SFPD says it has identified three suspects in last week's restroom sexual assault on a young girl, and there's a report of a man who'd been lurking in the area and talking to young girls.
The SF Public Press put in a records request for call logs of Mayor Lurie’s famed call with President Trump where Trump called off the cavalry of an impending federal troop invasion. Lurie's office refuses to disclose details.
After some tense months while the company was under investigation by the state attorney general's office, OpenAI announced Tuesday that it had completed its restructuring, with its nonprofit arm, the OpenAI Foundation, in control of its for-profit business.
California Highway Patrol officers went on a wild ride across the Bay Tuesday night, pursuing a vehicle that reached speeds of 160 miles per hour in a chase that went from Oakland to SF and then to Hayward, though the five suspects are still at large.
In partnership with an electric car company and an autonomous tech company, Uber is getting back into the robotaxi business, ten years after its first rushed attempt to put autonomous vehicles on the road.
A Cloverdale man has been charged after an apparent hate crime incident at a Rohnert Park bowling alley; Nvidia becomes the world's first $5 trillion company; and Atherton is no longer the country's priciest zip code.
Sergey Brin’s blimp showed up in the SF skies again today; California Democrats are salivating to run for the new districts Prop 50 could create; and SF City Hall named its new Inspector General, who’s Mohammed Nuru’s prosecutor.
There’s more dirty laundry coming out in the whole Sheng Thao mess, as San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo faces federal charges for taking bribes and kickbacks, and lying to the FBI about a $2,000 envelope of cash.
The four men accused in the October 2019 murder of Tushar Atre in Santa Cruz are all facing trial or have already faced trial this year, six full years after the crime.
After a month-long firestorm that a hit-and-run suspect accused of killing two women while driving on meth could get a diversion program instead of facing trial, an SF Superior Court judge just ruled the case will indeed go to trial.
Three men, ranging in age from 19 to 22, have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of another man in early July near SF's Fisherman's Wharf.
North Beach’s supervisor Danny Sauter just passed legislation allowing storefronts to merge in that neighborhood, supposedly to fight vacancies. Business owners wonder what he’s talking about, pointing out one of the city’s lowest vacancy rates.
San Francisco police are investigating a reported sexual battery or sexual assault of a child in a restroom near the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park on Thursday.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Tuesday announced his 45th lawsuit against the Trump administration so far this year, joining two dozen states in suing the USDA for withholding SNAP benefits from low-income Americans as a consequence of the government shutdown.
As Santa Rosa police sift through evidence in the killing of Condor Club manager Mark Calcagni, they’ve arrested a couple that both used to work there, and say the pair’s firing was "at least one motivating factor" in the alleged murder.
Music legend Sting was just announced as a headliner of the Super Bowl Weekend concert series in San Francisco, which is being put on by the NFL's hospitality provider.
Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies fatally shot a man during a traffic stop Monday; the victim in Sunday's fatal crash at the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf has been ID'd; and Bay Area food banks are mobilizing as SNAP benefits go unpaid.
An inmate wanted in a homicide case in Seattle was mistakenly freed in Contra Costa County; a large union of federal workers has broken with Democrats over the shutdown; and Alaska Airlines is cutting five routes out of SFO.
The Trump administration has already declared they’re sending election monitors to California for next week’s Prop 50 vote. But the Gavin Newsom administration just announced they’ll have their own monitors to monitor Trump’s monitors.
As we await further details from federal investigators about a strange incident that capped off a tense day Thursday in Oakland outside the gates of Alameda's Coast Guard Island, the Chronicle has obtained some strange surveillance video.
Former Walnut Creek resident Jim Morrison just skied about 30,000 feet down the north face of Mount Everest, becoming the first person ever to ski down Everest’s steepest and most challenging route, the Hornbein Couloir.
