The 20 new liquor licenses Mayor Lurie is dropping on Union Square are getting predictable blowback from downtown bar owners, who are still struggling from the pandemic and not particularly keen on having 20 new competitors.
After months with no male gorillas in their troop, the San Francisco Zoo is set to introduce a 26-year-old male silverback gorilla named Cecil on Saturday, with high hopes that baby gorillas may soon follow his arrival.
SF’s US District Judge Susan Illston issued a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration’s attempt to fire thousands of federal workers during the government shutdown, effectively undoing many of those firings.
Those of us who lived in San Francisco in the last decade remember the ever-popular SF Street Food Festival — which thanks to widespread coverage on radio, web, TV, and in print was an immediate, very crowded success in its first year.
After June’s ‘No Kings’ protests brought out millions nationwide, the rabble-rousers are having another go at it this Saturday, with more No Kings demonstrations scheduled for SF, Oakland, Berkeley, and other Bay Area municipalities.
It's a city in chaos, folks! The streets are bedlam! Billionaires think the president should call in the National Guard to calm things down! But, actually, crime continues to be down, and SF is on track to have yet another historically low homicide count.
San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus perhaps saw her adamant appeals and denials as no-lose this year as county leaders sought to oust her, because now she appears to be retiring with her full pension and benefits.
A seven-mile California Highway Patrol chase from the Oakland Coliseum to the Uptown District left four people injured and a fire hydrant spewing a geyser Tuesday night, and the chase only ended when the suspect crashed into the hydrant.
An early morning fire Wednesday in the Marina District led to two firefighters crashing through the floor of the engulfed building, and a third firefighter was also hospitalized.
Gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter is trying to manage the minor fallout from her minor viral flub; a tornado might have touched down in San Mateo County Monday; and 'Bitcoin Jesus' has agreed to pay a $50M tax bill.
The South Lake Tahoe mayor who allegedly embezzled from a church has resigned; R&B vocalist D’Angelo has died at the age of only 51; and Dreamforce just had a surprise speech from Trump’s crypto czar and fundraiser David Sacks.
Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook content moderation had “gone too far” earlier this year, and promised less censorship. Until his boss man Trump told him to censor a Facebook page that ICE complained about, and Zuck quickly complied.
The suspect in a series of seemingly random freeway shootings on Highway 24 in Oakland, in which luckily, no one was hurt, has now been charged, and he reportedly has a prior vandalism conviction.
If you thought the California Forever plan, concocted by a group of billionaires with the help of a single, visionary CEO, to create a new city in Solano County was dead, you were naive.
Would you pay a half-cent extra in sales tax so BART and Muni don’t have to slash their service? That choice will be before you in November 2026, as a ballot measure was just approved to help Bay Area transit avoid a ‘fiscal cliff.’
Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a fairly sensible-sounding bill allowing immigrant parents to name a caregiver for their kids in case they are deported. Crazed conservatives are reacting by calling it the “Legalized Child Kidnapping Bill.”
Local novelty app-maker Riley Walz is on something of a tear, garnering local media attention from the Chronicle and others for the third time in almost as many weeks with a prank on Waymo vehicles.
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Embattled San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus, who has spent the last year defiantly refusing calls to resign, faced a final vote by county supervisors Tuesday, who voted unanimously for her removal.
The ‘perfect storm’ of an actual storm, government shutdown short-handedness, and a deluge of Dreamforce attendees left SFO all higgledy-piggledy on Monday, with thousands of travelers facing flight delays and reroutes.
Rainfall totals are in from this early October storm; a power outage in Oakland wasn't caused by the storm but by a Mylar balloon; and Walmart announces a new partnership with OpenAI.
Flood advisories were in effect until evening in multiple Bay Area counties; Kaiser is calling a planned nurses strike "unnecessary"; and airports are refusing to play a TSA video from Kristi Noem about the government shutdown.
A newly formed Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery will administer reparations in the state of California after Gavin Newsom just approved that bureau’s creation, but there’s still no word on what the reparations will look like.
The crisis PR team over at Salesforce has been working overtime since CEO Marc Benioff went full Trumpy in a New York Times interview Friday, going so far as to say he'd welcome the National Guard being illegally deployed in San Francisco.
Attention Macy’s shoppers, the downtown SF Macy’s was evacuated late Saturday afternoon after reports of an "explosive device,’ though a bomb squad did not find any evidence of explosives, and the store reopened for business Sunday.
The California Highway Patrol is telling a whole different story than the two teens who survived a fatal crash in Marin County this April, saying that the 16-year-old driver was speeding, and recommending vehicular manslaughter charges.
