A fire tore through several homes in San Francisco's Outer Sunset neighborhood Wednesday morning, and three people required rescue, including one who was injured jumping from a window.
Two banks in Oakland's Chinatown were targeted for smash-and-grab ATM thefts Wednesday morning; Republican legislators in California are scrambling to stop a redistricting effort; and today is the day Tap and Ride begins on BART.
A missing week-old SF baby has been found safe; we’re getting video of Diana Ross complaining about the sound at Stern Grove; and ESPN just pulled the plug on a Spike Lee docuseries about Colin Kaepernick.
A whirlwind week in a bad way for Bay Area musician Michael Franti, as he faces allegations that he sexually groomed a woman when she was 19, had a music event he was headlining canceled, and has suddenly parted with his management agency.
Monsoonal lightning is being predicted for some already dry and fire-plagued areas of Southern California later this week, as a heatwave prepares to settle in across much of the state.
Cannabis activist Richard Lee opened two highly successful (and highly illegal) medical marijuana dispensaries in Oakland, founded Oaksterdam University, and bankrolled the recreational cannabis measure, but just died at 62.
The beloved vintage houseware consignment shop / full-time flea market Stuff, which closed its Valencia Street location in January 2024 due to a rent hike, lives on in two locations now, but a third will bring the business back to the Mission.
A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a cold-case double-homicide that occurred in January 2015 in San Francisco's Bayview District which took the life of a mother of three who was standing outside her home.
The fired former City Manager of Santa Clara had long raised eyebrows for her salary and benefits package, but now says some of that criticism was stage-managed by 49ers team brass, who did not appreciate her scrutiny of Levi’s Stadium.
Embattled San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus gave her first testimony before a hearing with the county's board of supervisors on Monday, and she remained defiant in denying the allegations against her.
San Francisco-based car-rental startup Kyte, which was seen a potential rival to the big, old-school rental-car companies in the US, has shut down following a year of contraction and financial strain.
Nick Olivero, the executive director and co-founder of SF's Boxcar Theatre — most well known for their immersive piece The Speakeasy — has resigned from the organization after a social media vigilante posted a video accusing him of attempting to meet up with a minor for sex.
Residents of the Outer Sunset and Richmond once again flooded 311 with complaints about this month's concerts; more SF city employees are ordered back in the office next week; and In-N-Out Burger is opening its first Washington State location.
A body was found while a homeless encampment was being cleared in San Jose; a heatwave this week could bring monsoonal lightning to parts of the state; and Original Joe's in Walnut Creek had to close just days after opening due to a kitchen fire.
Tenderloin dive bar Edinburgh Castle Pub has been on the selling block for more than five years, with no apparent takers, and now a bank has reportedly foreclosed on the building and forced the bar’s closure.
There was a shooting Monday afternoon that followed some sort of lengthy verbal altercation between two people, and the police briefly intervened.
Golden Gate University, which made it known last year that it is using only a fraction of its main campus building at 536 Mission Street and was seeking a buyer so that it can downsize somewhere, appears to have found that buyer.
Masked and armed US Customs and Border Patrol agents showed up to menace a Gavin Newsom event last week, and now Newsom is demanding records explaining why, and whether Fox News somehow had a hand in this.
"Move it or lose it, that's what they say," Diana Ross said on stage Sunday in San Francisco's Stern Grove, after her second costume change and after announcing that she turned 81 years old this year.
There was a fair bit of chaos at a residential building at the edge of the Tenderloin Monday morning, near Civic Center, prompting a citywide alert to avoid the area.
After nixing a plan three years ago to euthanize a number of the geese plaguing Foster City, the town is going to pay a contractor to shoo off the pesky birds.
A 21-year-old man is dead after a bar fight became a homicide early Saturday in the Solano County city of Dixon.
Diana Ross electrified Stern Grove but complained about her sound; Taylor Swift fans have a theory she’s playing the Super Bowl in Santa Clara this year; and 50,000 SF schoolkids return to the classroom today as the 2025-26 school year is underway.
The month-long search for a missing Sacramento mother of four, Whisper Owen, 36, and her baby daughter Sandra McCarty, 8 months, ended Sunday when they were found dead in their car, which was submerged in an irrigation canal under a bridge in San Joaquin County.
Chris Hansen’s upcoming documentary 'Predators' will investigate Roblox, the popular game-making tool accused of enabling the exploitation of underage users. The company is also being sued by the state of Louisiana.
