The odd story broke late Monday: embattled first-term San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has been driving on an expired license since February, after an October collision, and didn't even realize
* Stanley talks to some cyclists. [KRON4] * Expect confused drivers on/near Market Street, since most GPS systems won't reflect the new ban on turns onto the street. [Bay City News] * Farewell,
* Mid-Market, around Van Ness, is going to get awfully crowded with tall buildings. [Socketsite] * A kid who was (illegally) selling Outside Lands wristbands on Craigslist got briefly kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has apparently been driving on a suspended license since February, as the Chronicle is reporting, all because he failed to submit an accident report to the DMV relating to an
A river used to run through downtown San Jose, and now it doesn't. As the Mercury News reports, the Guadalupe River is history, with fish and wildlife missing or dead. "
A multi-year legal drama that's unfolded between the majority owners of the ARCO gas station site at Castro and Market and a developer who entered into a purchase agreement with
In the largest bit of corporate restructuring news to ever engage a general audience, Google has created a new parent company called Alphabet which will own Google and a variety of that company&
Free spirit alert! This guy is on some good drugs and just wants to dance! Indeed, SFist is conducting an open investigation into what substances (if any!) this shirtless gentleman may have ingested.
The 43-year-old woman accused of shooting and killing an 18-year-old student at Balboa High School cohabited with the youth prior to the slaying, her attorney says. As previously reported,
To our north in Lake County, just to the south of the Rocky Fire which has ultimately burned 70,000 acres over 12 days and is now 85 percent contained there's
After a young woman died near San Francisco General Hospital, police say they are investigating her death as "suspicious." Police say that the body of 23-year-old San Francisco resident
It was pretty cool that the Department of Recreation and Parks found a way to keep half of Dolores Park open during renovations — as you doubtless know, work on that park's
True to tradition, apart from Friday's unseasonable sun, things stayed pretty overcast but temperate for Outside Lands weekend, and Day Three was just as packed and dusty as Days One and
After sitting empty for five years, a long-shuttered grocery store just steps from a highly desirable Mission District stretch of 24th Street might reopen with a new tenant. 1245 South Van Ness
In last night's episode of Caitlyn Jenner's E! reality series I Am Cait, the celebrity seeks sanctuary in San Francisco, specifically at the Church of 8 Wheels. Jenner filmed
Yay! It wouldn't be a big festival/event day in San Francisco without KRON 4's Stanley Roberts finding some attendees "behaving badly." But rather than go after
* Your weekend ICYMI: CA probably won't pay for a transgender inmate's surgery, Fantastic Negrito's Outside Lands show was canceled after his intern was busted for scalping, there
Last week: down payments get the axe. This week: paperwork is stupid. GRIPE #2: Buying a house is top-5 on the list of Life's Little Nightmares. THE TRUTH: No one
The transgender inmate who fought to have the prison pay for her sex reassignment surgery is unlikely to have it happen after being granted parole. In April, a federal judge forced the state
An Oakland musician that was scheduled to take the stage at Outside Lands had his set abruptly canceled after getting busted for allegedly trying to scalp festival wristbands. Fantastic Negrito, whose real name
A 3.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Bay Area at 1:26 this afternoon, with a jolt that was felt in San Francisco and beyond. According to the US Geological Survey, the quake
All photos: Annie Lesser And with the weekend came the crowds to Golden Gate Park. All in all a pleasant, fun seeking bunch, the throngs teemed from the main stage for acts like
A San Francisco woman completed her 30-mile journey across shark-infested waters to become the first woman to swim from the Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge. Kim Chambers, a 38-
* A firefighter battling a wildfire near Lake Tahoe was killed when a burning tree collapsed. [KRON4] * SF's planning commission gears up for the first vote on a huge SoMa development. [SF
Outside Lands 2015: Day One will be remembered for its rare, not-even-that-brief moments of sun. Though a truly special and wonderful spectacle, the warm weather didn't last forever.
