An 87-year-old woman was seriously hurt and a hit-and-run collision in the Fillmore; the parents of the 19-year-old girl killed in that Piedmont Cybertruck crash are suing; and YouTube turns 20 years old.
A Concord-based housing developer was stalled on city permits in Antioch because they hadn't completed some other required work. So their CEO allegedly tried to bribe a city councilmember with $15,000, $5,000 of which was straight-up cash crammed into a coffee mug.
The Cupertino Whole Foods just three miles from Apple’s headquarters apparently has a vermin problem, and has been ordered closed by Santa Clara County health officials until they can get it cleaned up.
As has been pretty widely predicted, Saks Fifth Avenue has officially announced the closure of its Union Square store — which has been operating on an "appointment only" basis since last summer.
San Mateo County had fired embattled Sheriff Christina Corpus’s alleged romantic partner after she gave him a $246K job, but even now that she may be on the verge of being removed from office, she just went and flat-out rehired him anyway.
A Laotian-born artist who previously lived in San Francisco, Somboun Sayasane, was reported missing the day after Christmas from his South Sacramento home, and now his roommate has been arrested in connection with his death.
SF drag queen Panda Dulce did not give up on Drag Queen Story Hour when the Proud Boys violently stormed her reading in 2022. Instead, she stars in a new short film about it, and it has its West Coast premiere tonight at the SFFILM Festival.
The elderly man who is the sole surviving witness to the November 2022 stabbing of Vallejo resident Curtis Lind — though he only witnessed the aftermath of the stabbing — gave a day of testimony Tuesday in Solano County.
The Excelsior District street that was the 1940s boyhood home of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia just got City Hall approval to be renamed ‘Jerry Garcia Street.’ It’s currently called Harrington Street, but new signage will shakedown this street.
Yet another police chase has led to yet another death in the East Bay after a wrong-way crash near the Antioch Bridge Tuesday night led to multiple collisions.
The remains of a mystery animal found mutilated in Fremont are less of a mystery; Carlos Santa was hospitalized after a medical emergency; and rain is headed our way this weekend.
A famed nude beach in San Mateo County is being preserved; a Berkeley man who got whooped by an older woman at a Tesla protest has since been shot by police; and there was a brutal sucker-punching in the Castro Sunday but a suspect is in custody.
One former Fremont Tesla factory employee has received a settlement in a three-year-old lawsuit over alleged racially charged workplace incidents. But there are still more big lawsuits against Tesla looming, including a class-action suit from 16,000 Black workers.
Big-chain formula retail stores might soon be welcome again on Van Ness Avenue, plus there’s now an added a carve-out to include the shuttered Fillmore Safeway too, after the SF Board of Supervisors eliminated these formula retail restrictions.
79-year-old Orinda resident Patty Hung just finished her 39th consecutive Boston Marathon on Monday, continuing a streak and extending a record she already broke three years ago.
Australian pop legend and gay icon Kylie Minogue is doing an SF show this evening, and the Giants are playing the Brewers tonight, and it's all going to be happening in the same part of town.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has decided to shut down two tuition-free private schools it started for low-income students in 2016, giving no explanation, though kicking down $50 million to help with the students’ transition to new schools.
Luce, the once Michelin-starred restaurant at the InterContinental Hotel that was a proving ground for several well known chefs including, notably, Dominique Crenn, is calling it quits — and more than likely will be replaced with something less fancy.
You may not have heard of Scale AI co-founder Lucy Guo, but she just passed Taylor Swift as the youngest self-made billionaire woman, though that’s all based on her ownership stake in a company she no longer works for, and might not even be profitable.
A return-to-office mandate from the SF mayor's office has been pushed back following a negotiation with the union that represents city workers. But by the end of summer, most city employees will only be allowed to work remotely one day per week.
Bay Area Lady Gaga fans who may have been freaking out after an initial tour announcement left out California can now rest assured that Coachella will not be Gaga's only stop on her Mayhem Ball tour.
Family members are mourning an Oakland man killed by a hit-and-run driver; Dyke March organizers are trying to raise funds to cover the costs of bringing the event back for real this year; and Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan discusses blowback after the Top 100.
A fifth dead gray whale has washed up in the Bay; Barbara Lee gave her first press conference as mayor-elect; and a police chase of an armed robbery suspect from Concord to San Jose ended with a suspect shot and injured.
The Laver Cup, which is the tennis world's equivalent of golf's Ryder Cup, pitting European players against Americans and others from the rest of the world, is headed for the first time to SF's Chase Center at the end of the summer.
If you thought car-free JFK Drive was controversial, wait til you see the next dispute coming down the promenade, as free parking might soon be eliminated in Golden Gate Park to chip away at the city’s budget deficit.
