Some will always slip through — and hopefully they don't cause wildfires. But the police departments in San Jose and San Francisco are publicizing news of recent busts involving big caches of illegal fireworks.
Maritime Boat Club comes to Union Square, Crustacean sets an opening date for its new downtown location, and Buoy Bar debuts next week in Hayes Valley, all in This Week in Food.
Having hit a legal roadblock after trying to change its name to ‘San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport,’ Oakland officials are now taking another stab at it with the new proposed new name ‘Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport.’
The question of the legality of President Donald Trump declaring, by fiat, that children born in the United States are not automatically citizens — something that is clearly guaranteed by the 14th Amendment — was not answered by the Supreme Court. But they handed Trump a win nonetheless.
After some social media video showed a boat in Discovery Bay seeming to intentionally plow into a Jet-Ski and other boats Sunday, two suspects have been arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
Fox News is once again facing a defamation lawsuit over false claims made on air, with California Governor Gavin Newsom filing suit against the network Friday, in much the same way President Trump has sued other media organizations.
A fatal freeway crash early Friday morning in Albany that appeared to involve a driver for DoorDash caused a traffic nightmare for some early commuters on I-80 and I-580.
The SF Police Department is claiming a major victory against the street drug trade, saying they made 97 arrests Wednesday and insisting they caught a large number of “fugitives with outstanding arrest warrants.”
The USNS Harvey Milk will heretofore be called the USNS Oscar V. Peterson; BART service was impacted by a fire near the tracks in West Oakland; and the Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring photo IDs to look at porn sites.
Barry Bonds is getting a statue at Oracle Park; there’s an IMAX screening of the Grateful Dead concert movie coming to SF; and Recology will be jacking up your rates by almost 25% in a phased approach beginning October 1.
A man allegedly fatally shot his mother in front of multiple witnesses on Saturday, June 21, and the San Francisco District Attorney's Office has charged him with murder.
The 107-year-old clock tower at Ghirardelli Square has been concealed behind white wrapping for nearly a year, but just had its triumphant unveiling now that some water damage problems have been repaired.
A new twist on Tenderloin corner stores harboring illegal gambling dens comes via the latest one busted on Taylor Street, which was also allegedly selling illegal cannabis and mushrooms, all apparently in plain sight.
An estimated one million people will be attending the San Francisco Pride festivities this weekend, including the Civic Center festival on Saturday and Sunday, and the parade up Market Street.
Turnout was slightly down in the 2024 presidential election, which some Kamala Harris supporters have blamed for her loss. But a new analysis finds that even if turnout had been higher, Harris still would have lost the race.
In another decision along ideological lines that strikes another blow to women's health and choice over their own healthcare, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of South Carolina's crusade to disqualify Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds.
It’s the end of a very long era, after Central Drug Store has spent 117 years at its current Mission Street and Santa Rosa Avenue location, it will close permanently on July 15 as owner Jerry Tonelli is heading toward a well-deserved retirement.
It was "Budget Day" in City Hall on Wednesday, and the city's supervisors were reportedly working late into the night — until around 2 am Thursday — working out the final details on next year's budget with the Mayor's Office.
The 13-year-old accused in the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy at San Jose's Santana Row is back in court today; SF's population rose again slightly in 2024; and some San Franciscans who worked on Zohran Mamdani's campaign in New York speak out.
The big reveal of the new 2025 Michelin Guide for California happened in Sacramento Wednesday night, and the big local winners include a tiny restaurant in West Oakland that already won over the Chronicle's critic.
Today was "Budget Day" at SF City Hall as the new budget gets finalized; the Trump Dept. of Ed is holding California's feet to the fire over trans athletes in school sports; and an aggressive black bear was euthanized in the Tahoe area.
Apparently the In-N-Out burger chain will sue you if you make YouTube videos impersonating one of their employees and saying there are condoms and cockroaches in their food, as one SoCal YouTuber has discovered this week.
There’s some head-scratching among those planning to attend this Saturday's Pride Weekend music festival previously called SoSF, after the event lost Kehlani as headliner, then changed its name and location, and deleted all social media posts.
It's not far off from the world imagined in '2001: A Space Odyssey,' in which an AI opts to kill the humans it was working for when they are conspiring to shut it down. A new study by SF-based Anthropic suggests that such potentially harmful behaviors are common across most existing AI models.
There was a wild scene at Frederick and Masonic streets in SF early Wednesday afternoon, after a vehicle drove onto the sidewalk, crashed into a backyard, and landed on a propane tank. There was no fire, but the driver of the vehicle has been hospitalized.
