The 40-year-old Mission Street restaurant Mission Hunan is closing; the alleged mistress in a Walnut Creek double-homicide is facing more charges; and Mayor Lurie is hyping up the "zero arrests” at Saturday’s SF No Kings protests.
The NBA’s Sacramento Kings have “GOT-PAIN” on their jerseys this year, as Anh Phoong’s law firm has secured a space that her law firm’s logo will appear as the ad on the Kings’ jerseys all season long.
There will be a big concert in the middle of SF's Civic Center the night before Super Bowl Sunday in February, with headliner Chris Stapleton joined by at least one other artist, Grammy-winner Sierra Farrell, and other concerts TBA.
A Palo Alto startup that makes weather balloons admits it was “likely” their balloon that struck a United Airlines flight this past Thursday, cracking the windshield, injuring a pilot and forcing an emergency landing.
Mayor Daniel Lurie might be trying to avoid a verbal confrontation with President Trump, but City Attorney David Chiu came out swinging Tuesday about this National Guard business.
Your Golden State Warriors tip off their 2025-26 NBA season tonight against the Lakers. And this year, they’ll likely have another Curry, as little brother Seth Curry is expected to join Steph Curry on this season’s Warriors roster.
It's a sign of the times for Academy of Art University, the San Francisco-based art college that once attracted students from all over the country and now has many of its students taking classes remotely.
SF’s most notorious serial groper and harasser is reportedly out of prison and back on SF streets, and was spotted Monday approaching women in the Castro and Dolores Park, often “yelling indecipherably.”
An East Palo Alto man with multiple violent charges on his record, several of which involved assaults on women, allegedly met a woman on Facebook Dating in June and proceeded to kidnap, rape, brutalize, and sexually traffic her over a six-day span.
A Vallejo man is offering a reward for the return of his stolen bulldog; a Daly City man was arrested in connection with a pair of assaults last week; and someone has been tucking transphobic messages inside books in a Noe Valley bookstore.
SF Mayor Daniel Lurie issues a new statement about Trump's National Guard threat; BART has not clarified what the 'equipment issue' was this morning; and police in Atlanta may have thwarted a mass shooting at the airport there.
Yes, there were “live weapons over the freeway” on I-5 near San Diego Saturday for a JD Vance and Pete Hegseth party, but the show had to be called off early, as the artillery blew off prematurely and pelted CHP vehicles with shrapnel.
A surfer had a run-in with a sea otter last week in the same vicinity that the infamous Otter 841 was menacing surfers and kayakers two years ago, in what turned out to be a hormonal reaction to being pregnant.
As pretty much every attempt to reduce blight around the 16th and Mission BART station has failed, BART is now floating the idea of a “community-driven process” of meetings and workshops to revitalize the beleaguered station area.
Former Cafe Flore owner Terrance Alan started as a member of the “gay weed mafia” that won medical marijuana legalization in 1996, and co-founded the SF Entertainment Commission, but the Flore Dispensary owner has just passed away at age 73.
The nightmare of Donald Trump wielding the National Guard as his personal army in cities where he claims, without evidence, that this intervention is needed, is going to continue for now, after a decision filed Monday by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
This La Nina season is shaping up to be an early and wet one already, and after last week's rain, more is heading toward Northern California as soon as Friday.
One person died in a collision on the eastbound side of I-80 in Emeryville Sunday afternoon, which led to lane closures and a significant traffic backup.
With many of the 49ers’ biggest stars out with injuries, running back Christian McCaffrey put the team on his back and racked up 201 yards just by himself, as the Niners pummeled the Falcons for a big 20-10 win.
A number of online platforms were impacted by an Amazon Web Services outage early Monday; two consolidated lawsuits are ramping up against social media platforms; and the new iPhone is outselling the last model.
A problem that arose just as the Monday morning rush hour began is creating yet another headache for commuters who rely on BART.
In a Sunday morning interview with Fox News, Trump reinforced his plans to send National Guard troops to San Francisco while potentially invoking the Insurrection Act. He said “they want us in San Francisco” and San Francisco was great before it went “woke.”
During the first intermission at Saturday night’s hockey game between the San Jose Sharks and Pittsburgh Penguins at SAP Center, an offensive fan-submitted message flashed across the scoreboard in support of ICE. The team later apologized for the oversight.
Some Glen Park residents are perplexed by Time Out's coining their beloved neighborhood as cool; Mayor Lurie was conspicuously absent from Saturday’s “No Kings” rally in SF; and some MAGA supporters showed up to Palo Alto’s “No Kings” protest.
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The Oakland Police Department says when officers responded to a report of a break-in at a residence, they were informed that someone tied to the break-in was suffering from a medical emergency. After a brief scuffle, the suspect became unresponsive before dying at the hospital.
