The clown show continues today with the Trump administration waving its hands in the direction of Alcatraz in an attempt to distract the more distractable members of the public from all the terrible shit they're doing.
A fire broke out Wednesday night in Oakland's Chinatown; San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan says he uses ChatGPT to write speeches; and the Senate voted overnight to claw back $1 billion in funding for NPR and PBS.
Nancy Pelosi says Trump's vision of reopening Alcatraz is the administration's "stupidest" idea yet; an eerie photo has been released of three teens who were in that Cybertruck crash in Piedmont; and an Oakland group struggled with having an invite to the Kennedy Center.
Public TV and radio icon KQED was already deep in red ink even before Trump came back to office, but is now laying off at least 45 more employees, as corporate contributions dry up and Trump is likely yanking more of their funding.
Murder charges have now been filed against the 31-year-old Napa woman whose two children died in a solo vehicle crash in March in which she was allegedly driving under the influence.
A wild turn of events in the story of a UC Berkeley professor who was shot execution-style in Greece on July 4, as his ex-wife has been arrested by Greek police on suspicion that she had his murder arranged.
The complicated story of a 31-year-old San Jose man who has been in this country, undocumented, since he was six years old, has drawn hundreds of supporters as he faces possible deportation.
There is some legal drama happening in the local restaurant world, with the widow and children of late celebrity chef Michael Chiarello filing suit against three investors in Chiarello's restaurant group who they say wrested control of his businesses "in a hostile takeover" after the chef's death.
The owner of a building at Ellis and Hyde streets is in hot water with the city for not providing hot water for tenants, and a new city lawsuit says he also allowed rampant rat infestations, sewage leaks, and doors that didn’t lock.
Bring a bucket and a mop, because Splash brother and former Golden State Warrior Klay Thompson is apparently having a Hot Girl Summer of romantic involvement with rapper Megan Thee Stallion, and the TMZ brigade is all over it.
After two years in which homelessness remained a top priority for city leaders in many parts of the Bay Area, the number of people living on the street in San Jose remained virtually unchanged.
A summer surge of COVID cases is underway in the Bay Area; budget airline Avelo, which is now doing deportation flights, is ending all commercial service in California; and police in Greece continue seeking out the gunman who killed a Berkeley professor.
Trump is pulling a bunch of the National Guard troops out of LA; one of this weekend’s Russian River drowning victims was an Oakland 17-year-old, and San Francisco might be getting the 2028 MLB All-Star Game.
If you want to go to next summer’s World Cup games at Levi’s Stadium, you’ll have to hope to get lucky in a ticket lottery, and the place will have to change its name for two weeks because FIFA won’t let them call it “Levi’s Stadium.”
It's certainly not a scandal by any stretch in 2025 terms, but the Chronicle is going public with a reader letter and its restaurant critic is trying to quash criticism that she perhaps wasn't objective in a recent review.
A two-alarm fire at 5 am Tuesday morning at Eighth and Natoma streets has left ten people displaced from their South of Market homes, but no injuries have been reported.
The SFPD is on the hunt for a group of deplorable juvenile suspects who allegedly launched an unprovoked attack on a woman walking in the area of Folsom and Main streets in the Rincon Hill neighborhood.
The 113-year-old Roxie Theater might just last another 113 years, as they’ve closed the sale to permanently buy and own their theater building, and there even are plans afoot to serve wine and movie-themed cocktails from the adjacent Dalva.
The still embattled, still in-office San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus made her first court appearance today in civil court, making a brief statement to formally deny four accusations brought by a civil grand jury late last month.
HBO Max may still be vying with Netflix for overall dominance at the Emmy Awards, but Apple's streaming service marked a banner year for Emmy nominations Tuesday, boasting both the most-nominated comedy, 'The Studio,' and the most-nominated drama, 'Severance.'
SF donut shop institution Bob’s Donuts has been further immortalized as the subject of the new children’s book ‘Bob's Donuts for Breakfast,’ which tells the tale of an intrepid dog and squirrel who are trying to get themselves some donuts.
A 30-y-o Bay Area man who has been here since he was 6 got a restraining order against ICE but now has his day in court; DA Brooke Jenkins addresses local antisemitic incidents; and a look into the root causes of the homelessness epidemic in LA.
A man who was fatally shot by San Jose police Sunday had allegedly just stabbed his own child and called police there; a Turkish Airlines flight to SFO had to divert due to a death onboard; and Obama tells Democrats to 'toughen up.'
Nearly two dozen Bay Area cities are among those nationwide being affected by the Republic Services trash collector strike, and some of these cities are being forced to get creative with dumpsters as the rubbish continues to stack up.
A Castro District Walgreens manager who took matters into his own hands and punched a shoplifter, which ended up cutting the shoplifter’s eye, has been found guilty of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury.
