Valero is planning to shut down its Benicia refinery by next year; SF's return-to-office figures continue to trail other cities; and the Warriors eked out a win to land a spot in the playoffs.
The Cal football team’s star running back is leaving through the transfer portal; the Cloverdale murder-suicide victim has been identified; and a semi truck accident has highly complicated matters for Calistoga drivers.
As anti-Trump sentiment sweeps Canada over the whole tariff chaos, California Governor Gavin Newsom is trying to sweet-talk Canadians into visiting blue-state California, either because we’re losing tourism dollars, or maybe just to irritate Trump.
We may have another SF Pride controversy like the Chelsea Manning grand marshal fiasco in 2013, as some activists say they’re being denied requests to make deported makeup artist Andry Jose Hernández Romero this year’s honorary grand marshal.
Neil Mehta, the venture capitalist who we learned last year was the mystery buyer of the former Clay Theater and multiple retail properties on Upper Fillmore Street, says in a new podcast interview that he only wants the best for the neighborhood.
A car towing a small motor home caught fire on the lower deck of the Bay Bridge Tuesday afternoon, creating a traffic snarl that backed up into San Francisco.
It’s a story we’ve heard before, and is apparently still happening from time to time, as a Black and Latino couple had their Oakland home appraised for $250,000 less than it was worth, but now the state is forcing the appraisal company to pay the couple $75,000.
A progressive supervisor is taking on San Francisco's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, as well as the moderate-majority board she sits on, with new legislation that could prove politically difficult to oppose.
SF’s famed microbrewery Fort Point Beer Company won’t be an SF microbrewery anymore, as it’s merging with Santa Rosa’s HenHouse Brewing Co. and moving all its operations up to Sonoma County.
A fatal shooting occurred Monday evening just a block away from Market Street and the Powell Street BART station, and a suspect was quickly taken into custody.
We might know by tonight who the next mayor of Oakland will be; a man required rescue from a cliffside near Marshall's Beach in SF; and a homeless man in San Luis Obispo won $1M on a scratcher.
Over 750 people have been arrested for illegal camping in SF since last summer; OpenAI may be closing in on 1 billion users; and the Trump administration now wants to completely gut the State Department.
There’s finally a big name on the roster of SF’s women’s pro basketball team (kind of?), as the Golden State Valkyries just shocked the women’s basketball world by selecting Lithuania’s Justė Jocytė with the No. 5 overall pick at Monday’s WNBA Draft.
A grisly discovery at the Amtrak station in Fremont, as police found the remains of two animals Sunday that were decapitated and mutilated so badly that veterinarians cannot even identify the species of the animals.
A situation at Muni's Castro Station Monday afternoon involving a person in the trackway is likely to delay both inbound and outbound service in the Muni Metro tunnel.
After a couple of years of on-again, off-again reopening announcements, Upper Haight swing bar Club Deluxe says its reopening is back on again, with a couple new owners taking the reins and promising not to change anything.
The FTC's antitrust lawsuit against Meta, focusing on Facebook's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp over a decade ago, kicked off in federal court Monday morning, and Mark Zuckerberg is testifying.
The 113-year-old Roxie Theater just might be around for another 113 years, as the movie house has been secretly working on a deal to buy the theater outright, and they’re launching a fundraising leg of that campaign to complete the deal.
The nonprofit East Bay Media Center on Addison Street in downtown Berkeley was heavily damaged in a fire Monday morning that led to the evacuations of some neighboring apartments.
Pedestrians expecting to hear normal crosswalk commands in Silicon Valley are instead hearing prank voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg saying things like “F***, I'm so alone,” as some joker has hacked those cities’ crosswalk systems.
A couple was found dead in a possible murder-suicide in Cloverdale; several lanes of the San Mateo Bridge were closed Monday morning after a car fire; and Green Day's pyrotechnics lit a palm tree on fire at Coachella.
This week, 4/13-20, we present a few stand-out events among a huge roster of Earth Day, Easter, and 420 festivities, including Nerd Nite, a Tenderloin walking tour, a comedy-dating show, and a spirituality and psychedelics conference.
Berkeley police shot a domestic violence suspect after responding to reports of a woman screaming for help on Sunday morning. The man allegedly threatened officers with a gun and is now in critical condition.
In this week’s roundup, SFist pays tribute to Susan Kare, the groundbreaking designer of Mac’s early icons; Jorge Leon, the mastermind behind Oakland’s thriving sports scene; and Matthew Kraft, a social worker who received “Child Protector of the Year.”
Hundreds marched and danced during the annual People's March for Democracy; ICE now has access to the records of undocumented immigrants under federal investigation; and a 64-year-old man reportedly propositioned two underage girls in Petaluma.
