Thomas Keller seems to be battening down the hatches at the Michelin three-star French Laundry after a string of less-than-stellar reviews. And recently he went so far as to tell the Chronicle's MacKenzie Chung Fegan that she wasn't welcome there.
The victim in last week's shooting near Fisherman's Wharf has been identified; a fire at a downtown SF highrise was apparently caused by a tossed cigarette; and former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
This weekend: Some Bay to Breakers runners didn't get their medals at the finish line; Last week: A treasure hunt, a time capsule, a spider monkey, and two rattlesnakes; This week: a ton of free, live music and Chinatown Pride.
Alfredo Romero, 61, a longtime Recology mechanic died Friday at the San Francisco-Brisbane Tunnel Avenue facility. OSHA is investigating.
Two days after graduating from the SFPD Academy, rookie officer Ryan Kwong was arrested for DUI following a crash in the Outer Sunset that injured five people, including one critically.
A red flag, wildfire warning is in effect for some North Bay residents through Monday evening; SFUSD canceled its plans to lay off support staff for the 2025-26 school year; and a suspected car bomb explosion at a Palm Springs fertility clinic was declared a terrorist attack.
An assailant may have sprayed pepper spray at police officers on the platform of Powell Street Station, or someone did, and the incident led BART trains to temporarily bypass the station Saturday afternoon.
Lisa Truong launched a diaper drive that's distributed more than 66 million diapers across California; Rudy Corpuz Jr. turned his rough past into a peacekeeping mission; and Chris Thoms ran every street in Alameda County to fight hunger.
Many Bay Area arts and nonprofit organizations are facing sudden federal funding cuts from the NEA and AmeriCorps, forcing urgent budget changes and putting key creative and community programs at risk.
A federal appeals court ruled Oakland police can be held liable for the 2022 death of Lolo Soakai, a bystander killed after an unauthorized pursuit—challenging qualified immunity and allowing the family's lawsuit to proceed.
Georgia hiker Tiffany Slaton talks about her experience enduring a blizzard in a remote Sierra cabin; an SF fugitive was arrested at BevMo in an RBG t-shirt; Giants' Wilmer Flores hits three home runs, including a grand slam, in a big victory against the A's.
Brock Purdy signed a five-year contract as the 49ers' franchise quarterback; a new report found arsenic in 100% of the rice tested in U.S. stores; and Microsoft laid off 6,000 employees nationally and 122 locally.
Strange new drama as the Recall Joel Engardio campaign enters the final days of its signature-gathering, as State Senator Scott Wiener claims that Aaron Peskin is secretly running the recall. Peskin responds that “Scott Wiener is full of sh**.”
Sausalito and Marin County leaders have been dealing with the issue of less-than-seaworthy — and potentially polluting — boats, some with otherwise unhoused people living on them, for a number of years. But things really came to a head in the pandemic.
An acclaimed Berkeley pizza spot is expanding to San Francisco, the Lord Stanley team is shifting its focus to Dogpatch, and St. Helena is getting a fancy new (museum) restaurant, all in This Week in Food.
A new Change.org petition is floating the idea of Noe Valley seceding from San Francisco and instead incorporating into Marin County, though this petition does not do much to explain the motivation here, and obviously this makes very little geographic sense.
As the Athletics return to the Bay Area for the team's annual three-game series against the San Francisco Giants this weekend, many longtime fans are staying home and instead focusing their support on local teams.
Two people who filed ethics charges against SF DA Brooke Jenkins for improperly accessing sensitive information got Jenkins sentenced into a diversion program, and now they’re both appealing that sentence, saying Jenkins deserves a harsher punishment.
More details have come to light on the incredible survival story of Georgia hiker Tiffany Slaton, who was rescued — just hours before her 28th birthday — after enduring a blizzard for three weeks in a remote cabin in the Sierra National Forest.
The expansion WNBA team the Golden State Valkyries are already setting sales records despite not even having played a game yet, but they play their first real regular season game tonight at the Chase Center.
A man who was roaming the streets of North Beach and the area between there and Union Square on Tuesday appears to have targeted multiple women and randomly spat in their faces, and the SFPD says they are looking into it.
A cable car side-swiped a car door on California Street; NVIDIA's share price has come roaring back; and SF volleyball players are upset over new rules for Golden Gate Park meadows.
NorCal wildfire season could kick up this weekend; a whimsical transit nerd speed-rode the entire Muni light-rail line; and here’s Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale as John Madden and Al Davis in a new movie.
The site of a deadly 2015 fire at Mission and 22nd streets has sat vacant and swampy for ten years, but the landlord whose neglect allegedly caused that fire has been rewarded with permission to build a fancier and more lucrative 10-story replacement.
Sunday brings the 112th annual ‘running of the drunks’ known as Bay to Breakers. Here are some tips to prepare a solid costume, conceal your booze, and quickly find liquor stores when you’re out way deep in Golden Gate Park.
