Hayward and Alameda County leaders have proposed a $900,000 reparations fund for residents whose land was seized during the demolition of Russell City — a historically Black and Latino community — to make way for an industrial park in the 1960s.
Nicholas Pellegrino, a 29-year-old San Francisco Catholic high school teacher and track coach, is recovering after his throat was slashed in a train robbery while traveling near Milan, Italy — a survival he and his surgeons call “miraculous.”
The drivers of six sports cars were caught racing over 100 mph on SF freeways last weekend; a man was rescued from the water near SF's Ferry Building; and hundreds showed up to an ICE protest at FCI Dublin led by Japanese-American activists.
The Valkyries and KALW hosted a touching reunion for the legendary Pioneers, a short-lived but groundbreaking Bay Area women’s basketball team that drew huge crowds from 1979 to 1981 — thanks in large part to the dedication of Oakland-raised sportswriter Maya Goldberg‑Safir.
A 21-year-old Columbia dropout built Cluely to help users “cheat on everything.” Now rebranded as a productivity tool, it’s facing scrutiny from critics, as well competition from Truely, an app by another Columbia student that detects stealth AI.
Local staycation ideas, mahjong nights in a historic church, Black Oakland’s future at OMCA, indie musicians reviving Contra Costa, and SF’s new Disability Cultural Center. Plus, the Tenderloin Museum turns 10, a youth poetry call, and an East Bay trail to explore.
SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto denied DOJ's request to hand over a list of noncitizen inmates; a driver in LA crashed into a crowd early Saturday, injuring over 30 people; and trash pickup will resume this weekend as the strike has ended with a tentative deal.
Ten detained Americans were released by Venezuela while 250 Venezuelans were released by El Salvador in a deal; John Waters takes the stage this weekend as host of Mosswood Meltdown festival; and specialized support for LGBTQ+ youth through the 988 crisis hotline has ended.
Onsen brings back dinner service, Luka's Taproom is coming back in "remixed" form in Oakland, and Hyphy Burger sets a date for a grand opening after being softly open this month, all in This Week in Food.
Dolly Parton will appear (via video) with the SF Symphony in two weeks, as her new symphonic endeavor “Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs In Symphony” comes to Davies Symphony Hall to celebrate Parton’s staggering 60 years of hitmaking.
The endlessly charming and delightful outdoor piano recitals of Flower Piano will return for the event’s ten-year anniversary in September, and the ten-day schedule keys in with highlight performers Jill Tracy, Lavay Smith, and the Glide Ensemble.
A beer festival with a bevy of local brews, live music, and food trucks is descending on the Parade Ground at the Presidio Saturday, and it should be a pretty good time.
Over the next ten years, there will be a fair amount of construction activity happening on the main span of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, as a project to protect it from significant damage in an earthquake gets underway.
The same alleged drug dealer is accused of selling the fentanyl that killed two different babies in two separate incidents three months apart in San Jose, and now he and the first baby’s father are facing murder charges.
A big rig somehow caught fire on the shoulder of I-580 early Friday morning in Livermore, near the Altamont Pass, and the fire spread to an adjacent hillside.
Amoeba Music on Haight Street will be mobbed with Asian pop fans Thursday as boy band product Jackson Wang is coming in for a meet-and-greet session. But do not buy a ticket, as any tickets out there are all fakes.
A woman was fatally shot while walking her dogs in San Leandro; a man who was suffering from a gunshot wound collided with a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy; and Trump says he's pulling high-speed rail funding.
Scalpers are gaming the Stern Grove lottery ticket system; a wild and ‘bawdy’ Trump-Epstein scandal just broke at a very awkward time; and a state parole officer was shot and killed Thursday afternoon in Oakland.
This very uncomfortable-looking man is SF Parks Alliance CEO Drew Becher, who had to squirm Thursday as angry SF supervisors' committee grilled him over how $4 million was misspent, and he claimed he just didn’t know it was happening.
Seth Stowaway isn't wasting any time since closing his Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant in the Mission. In addition to launching a private dining club, he'll be opening a new, more casual restaurant tentatively called Chicken-Fried Palace.
Standup comic and cable TV personality Roy Wood Jr just shared a tale of a run-in with former SF Mayor Willie Brown, and says Da Mayor waltzed into one of his shows without paying, and swiped a CD from the merchandise booth.
A mother and son who had set out to attend a Boy Scouts camp in Calaveras County got quickly lost thanks to a questionable GPS unit, and then got stuck on a remote logging road deep in the Sierra woods with no cell signal.
The SF Board of Appeals heard an appeal Wednesday from a coalition of trans activists, historians, and others hoping to preserve the former Compton's Cafeteria site in the Tenderloin as a landmark of trans and queer activism.
The Trump administration is going to try to have a showy showdown over sanctuary policies in California, and likely elsewhere, and they're now setting their sights on county jails and sheriffs in large jurisdictions.
The 51-year-old founder of a San Jose custom t-shirt and print business is dead after a Sunday morning fire ripped through his business’ building, and the arson suspect in custody is an unhoused woman with a previous arson conviction.
