Broadway sensation 'Oh, Mary!' announces 'Night of 1000 Marys' Halloween celebration in Oakland; Yountville launches Napa Valley's first open-container zone; and President Trump denies he wants to turn press briefing room into an indoor pool.
Late night food staple Pinecrest Diner to be featured in Amazon Prime series; Knicks owner James Dolan draws ire for fake ring offer to staff; and geese test positive for bird flu at Alameda beach.
With a potentially record-breaking El Niño threatening to bring severe weather and coastal flooding to the Bay Area, SF Mayor Lurie has declared a local emergency to help the city prepare for the coming months.
A beloved Bernal Mexican restaurant is expanding to the Chase Center, a rising star chef's new spot has found a home on Upper Fillmore, and Jupiter Room appears close to opening on Upper Polk, all in This Week In Food.
Pacifica police arrested three people accused of stealing merchandise from a Spirit Halloween store, and an employee sustained a non-life-threatening injury after allegedly being shoved to the ground.
We're learning more details about a shooting last Friday in Potrero Hill, and the victim was a teen boy from the Mission whose mother says she doesn't know any reason why anyone would want to hurt him.
With Election Day approaching, experts are urging voters to take their mail-in ballots to official election drop boxes or mail them at least a week in advance and request a same-day postmark amid changes to post office policy.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health says it is investigating two cases of tuberculosis that are tied to the Crazy Horse strip club on mid-Market.
Five Marin County teens and other Bay Area rescuers joined a 30-person effort to evacuate a stranded climber who fell into a crevasse after summiting Mount Shasta, severely injuring his leg as dangerous weather kept helicopters from reaching him.
A buyer has reportedly been selected for most of the former SF Centre mall property — the portions facing Market Street, but not the former Bloomingdale's store, which is on a separate parcel of land.
The OPD is investigating a possible criminal act in its 911 outage; immigration attorneys warn that ICE has been getting more violent in making arrests around the Bay; and three men have said in a new documentary that they were paid to have sex with the late Lindsey Graham.
Safeway is closing a San Jose store as well as a Richmond bakery; North West dressed as Bay Area-born-and-raised ‘Baddies’ star Natalie Nunn; and emergency upgrades are taking place along Highway 37 in the North Bay this weekend.
Meta has been ordered to pay $25 billion in New Mexico over Facebook’s mishandling of user data and misleading privacy claims tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which exposed millions of users’ personal information ahead of the 2016 election.
As the popularity of personal AI agents like Meta's Muse begins to grow, banks are already seeing issues with agents conducting unauthorized activities, and they're already rewriting their terms of service to ban the use of these bots.
SF’s Bottom of the Hill will live on under a new owner in 2027, with a longtime patron taking over the business and pledging to preserve its independent spirit, while the original owners will keep the building to help ensure it remains a music venue.
A battle is afoot between Airbnb hosts and the company over a policy change regarding self-cleanup requests, though Airbnb says it is just trying to shield guests from onerous pre-checkout tasks like stripping beds and doing laundry.
Oakland's 911 call system went down Wednesday night, and calls continue to be rerouted to Alameda County dispatch until the problem can be resolved.
A major player in SF’s affordable housing system is facing heightened city oversight after officials flagged alleged employee self-dealing and other financial concerns that could put millions of dollars in public funding at risk.
SF officials have selected Las Campesinas, meaning “female farmworkers” in Spanish, as the proposed new name for Cesar Chavez Street, but some residents and merchants along the three-mile thoroughfare think it’ll be too hard to spell.
A Tesla reportedly operating in "Full Self-Driving" mode on I-80 Thursday morning struck and killed a 71-year-old pedestrian in Vallejo.
Someone stole the Too $hort Way street sign in East Oakland; ethical hackers discovered a major vulnerability in some ubiquitous web software thanks to AI; and Valkyries fans packed the Chase Center for a first-ever watch party inside the arena (but sadly they lost).
Nancy Pelosi's office also got a suspicious piece of mail containing powder; eBay announced a layoff of 9% of its workforce; and a home in the Richmond has transformed into 'Boohalla.'
SF plans to direct $1.8 million in supplemental funding toward immigrant legal defense as ICE arrests rise across the Bay Area, bolstering services that help detained immigrants challenge their arrests and connect with legal support.
The first fatal overdose in SF involving MGM-15, a potent kratom-derived opioid sold in products marketed as supplements, has prompted a health alert as police seize hundreds of kratom products and other items from local smoke shops.
Lurie’s campaign says Prop F would preserve Police Commission independence, but the measure would give him new power to fire police commissioners without requiring approval, potentially exposing them to political pressure over officer discipline.
