The latest corpse flower bloom is underway; Matt Haney’s ‘4 am Last Call’ bill might get killed by a committee chair; and two of the seven people killed in last week’s NorCal fireworks explosion had attended SF’s Buena Vista Horace Mann school.
The Oakland Zoo’s aging petting yard goat Jellybean is off in the great petting zoo in the sky, as her arthritic condition became too much to bear, and the zoo "made the difficult decision" for July 3 to be her final day.
Some ads for sex workers both inside and outside the US were showing up in Instagram stories recently, and though they've been removed it certainly reveals a flaw in how such ads are being screened.
An especially brutal incident occurred at an SF immigration courthouse Tuesday morning, as protesters attempted to block an ICE SUV that was apparently transporting an arrested immigrant, and the SUV simply plowed its way through the demonstrators.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.0 rattled parts of the South Bay Tuesday afternoon, and its epicenter was in an unusual spot.
In the biggest change since the attacks of September 11, 2001 drastically increased airport security around the US, the Department of Homeland Security has just announced that airline passengers can now keep their shoes on while passing through TSA checkpoints.
A recent near-miss between jets taxiing across runways at San Francisco International Airport was avoided by a United flight crew, and it appears to have been the fault of an overwhelmed and/or overtired air traffic controller.
High school senior Angelo Ray was charged with murder for shooting and killing his 17-year-old girlfriend in May, but he claims the shooting was accidental, and a judge granted his release as he awaits trial.
The Trump administration says they’re pulling $4 billion in federal funding for California’s now-three-decade-old dream of an SF-to-LA high-speed rail system, and the project’s new leader is looking for ways to get investors to subsidize it.
With nothing better to do in LA and without a protest to quash, the Trump administration is now using the National Guard to set up a perimeter around a completely peaceful and mostly empty city park, while federal agents on horseback roam around.
Oakland police are touting a drop in violent crime in June; San Jose police hold a news conference about the arrest of one of their own; and the death toll in the Texas floods has risen to 104.
Protesters showed up at Sam Altman's SF home on Sunday; a 37-year-old Oakland man was shot at his own Fourth of July party; and parts of Golden Gate Park will start to be closed off starting July 23 as Dead & Co. and Outside Lands setups begin.
On Saturday, Elon Musk declared he was starting a new political party to declare war on both Democrats and Republicans. By the time the markets closed on the first business day after that, Tesla shareholders lost a collective $68 billion.
The long-awaited, still controversial, $41 million renovation of the historic Castro Theatre may or may not be complete by year-end, but Another Planet Entertainment is now starting to line up bookings starting for March 2026 and beyond.
Something’s flying into the former Hobson’s Choice bar location at Haight and Clayton streets, a new concept called The Green Heron, from the same team behind SF’s two locations of The Red Tail Beer and Wine Bar.
The sharp decline in San Francisco overdose deaths in 2024 appears to be reversing itself in 2025, and the infusion of new synthetic opioids into the market has this year on pace to be SF’s deadliest year for overdoses since, well, 2023.
A month after a group of transit activists installed “guerilla benches” at SF bus stops that had no benches, the city’s Public Works Department says they will demand that these activists remove the unauthorized benches.
An Oakland Police detective who was arrested two years ago on bribery and perjury charges under former District Attorney Pamela Price continues to face the music for his alleged misdeeds. And multiple cases linked to him have ended in dismissal or lenient plea deals.
The ex-boyfriend of an 18-year-old recent high school graduate in Morgan Hill who was found dead last week was arrested Sunday as he tried to cross back into the United States from Mexico.
Business was abnormally slow at Fisherman's Wharf and elsewhere in SF over the holiday weekend; firefighters halted a 30-acre wildfire in San Jose Sunday night; and a man was shot at the Antioch BART station.
A Kentfield family is among the missing after Friday's flash floods in Central Texas. Mark Walker, 52, who's the brother of former Giants pitcher Tyler Walker, Mark's wife, Sara, 50, and their son Johnny, 14, were visiting Hunt, Texas. Their daughter Ellie was reportedly rescued from summer camp.
A Mumbai-based engineer who excelled in interviews reportedly held multiple Silicon Valley startup jobs at once, often disappearing after landing offers of up to $200K. Soham Parekh impressed on paper, but founders say most of his resume was fake.
A former San Jose police officer charged with DUI after a 2021 road-rage incident — with a child in his car — is avoiding prosecution through a military diversion program. He reportedly punched a woman in a violent case prosecutors say the law wasn’t meant to cover.
One person was killed and four injured in an early Saturday shooting in SF's Bayview District; Oakland has received a $10 million grant to improve street safety and expand bike lanes; and someone was stabbed with a glass shard for allegedly cutting in line for Pokemon cards.
Illegal fireworks ignited dozens of fires across the Bay Area on the Fourth of July — from Oakland and Alameda to Antioch and San Jose — with Oakland Fire Department responding to more than 60 fires.
