Students from Daniel Webster Elementary School won the 43rd Annual Leap Sandcastle Classic on Saturday at Ocean Beach, with their interpretations of two SF-style crabs playing with Nintendo game controllers.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has been doing a good job of getting his name out there in the national media over the last year or two, in what has clearly been an orchestrated plan in preparation for a presidential run. And on Sunday he finally fessed up that yes, he's probably going to run.
A satirical ad campaign from some as-yet-unidentified pranksters/performance artists has spent real money on multiple billboards in San Francisco and New York that satirize some of the "stop hiring humans" messaging of actual AI startups.
A still-unidentified woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash at Ocean and Ashton avenues early Sunday night, though police quickly found their suspect, who remains in SFPD custody.
The government shutdown is impacting air travel and may impact it even more in the coming week and beyond, as air traffic controllers miss paychecks and call in sick.
Your San Francisco 49ers looked jet-lagged and hungover for their early Sunday morning game, scoring their fewest points all season, and giving up nearly 500 yards in a 26-15 loss to the oddly dressed Houston Texans.
A water main broke in SF's Sunnydale neighborhood Monday morning; BART had more equipment trouble today in the Transbay Tube; and President Trump admits he underwent an MRI earlier this month.
An outdoor enthusiast from Colorado recently reached the top of Yosemite’s El Capitan with his eight-year-old son, and he did the same with his oldest son two years earlier. This time, he brought a documentary film crew, and some worry he’s endangering his kids’ lives for recognition.
Kevin Ortiz, a wheelchair-user and content creator documenting his cross-country tour of NFL stadiums, had trouble obtaining ADA-compliant seats at Levi’s Stadium. The 49ers say they’ll fix their policy but already have a track record — a 2020 class action settlement and a pending 2023 suit.
Sami Hamdi, a British Muslim journalist and political commentator currently visiting the US on a speaking tour for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), was detained by immigration authorities at San Francisco International Airport Sunday morning.
SFMTA announced there have been no reports of ICE on Muni despite concerns; Authorities in Monterey County are searching for two 12-year-old runaways involved in two hit-and-runs; and two former employees of Condor Club manager Mark Calcagni are suspected in his killing.
Advocates warn of ongoing isolated ICE raids after an undocumented immigrant was detained in front of his San Jose home Saturday — despite the Trump administration calling off the mass deployment of federal agents in the Bay Area earlier this week.
The Women’s Professional Baseball League (WPBL), which was co-founded by former Oakland A’s coach Justine Siegal, has chosen San Francisco as one of its four founding cities for its inaugural 2026 season, along with Los Angeles, New York, and Boston.
In this week’s Field Notes: Financial literacy for youth; Filipino tea and an all-Filipino band; Latino history; mezcal traditions; ceramic and wood; sculptural trees; Bay Area haunts; a mountain lion’s journey; and Santa Cruz’s new upscale hotel and spa.
An ophthalmology professor from Stanford University created a device that helps people with vision loss read again; Newsom signed a bill calling for a state commission on the inclusion of trans athletes in competitive sports; and the Millbrae police chief is suspected of commuting from Idaho.
The National Weather Service is forecasting 20-foot sneaker waves and rip tides this weekend; the one remaining Walgreens pharmacy in the Mission has an average 45-minute line; and some of Muir Woods National Park’s operational partners pitched in to reopen the park for ten days.
While San Francisco is courting the Tennessee school Vanderbilt to bring a satellite campus to town, Oakland is reportedly in negotiations with one of the most prestigious historically Black colleges and universities, Howard University.
It is hard not to hear the many, painful echoes of our own time in the story of Suffs, the Tony-winning Broadway musical based on real events in the women's suffrage movement of the 1910s.
Even though there’s only one issue on your upcoming November 4 ballot, Trump’s Justice Department is calling out the cavalry of so-called election monitors to spy on polling places, perhaps as a warm-up for the 2026 midterms.
JouJou coming along, Castagnola's makes a comeback in Fisherman's Wharf, and a smashburger pop-up goes brick-and-mortar in the Sunet, all in This Week In Food.
Given how the billionaire CEOs all lined up to throw money at Trump's second inauguration, helping the despot feel like the king he's always wanted to be, his royal ballroom is also being funded by these billionaires, including the Bay Area's tech-wealthy.
Some pre-trial defendants will be released from SF jails merely because there aren’t enough lawyers for their cases, and now the SF Controller will audit the situation, as DA Brooke Jenkins has brought a wave of misdemeanor prosecutions.
Five people were stabbed early Friday morning, four of them requiring hospitalization, during some sort of altercation inside a business in the Inner Richmond.
Oakland Mayor and former Congresswoman Barbara Lee never had the pleasure of a phone call from President Trump on Wednesday. But she now says that she has otherwise been able to confirm that no immigration-arrest "surges" are happening in the Bay Area, full stop.
A new legal drama titled 'Cupertino' has been greenlit at CBS, and it's a procedural along the lines of 'The Good Wife' that will focus on David-versus-Goliath legal battles in the world of the tech elite.
