An Inner Richmond shop may have been unwittingly drawn into an illegal drug operation; Google just made its biggest-ever acquisition of a startup; and State Route 140 into Yosemite National Park is closed because of a rockslide.
It is widely believed that Oakland businessman Mario Juarez was an informant on the case that led to the raid of Sheng Thao’s home. Some might assume that's why shots were fired at him at his Fruitvale home, and now charges have been filed in that case.
After his multiple previous attempts to throw out zoning restrictions in areas near transit hubs have failed, state Senator Scott Wiener has a new measure to streamline larger housing projects near a more limited number of those hubs.
The eighth man to be charged in connection with sex crimes at the now shuttered women's prison known as FCI Dublin, and the one charged with the most counts, had his first day of trial Monday at a courthouse in Oakland.
A probably politically motivated act of vandalism has resulted in an arrest in San Jose, after a man seen in a viral video keying a Tesla in a Costco parking lot has been taken into custody.
The Fillmore Heritage Center that was home to the former Yoshi’s has been a bust, and its latest disappointment is a mere $100,000 settlement payment from a developer who got a city loan on the place for $5.5 million.
Modeled on Jimmy Kimmel's "Mean Tweets" segments, SF Mayor Daniel Lurie has posted a video to social media in which he's reading nice emails the city has received about Muni drivers.
Saks Fifth Avenue, which already switched to an appointment-only model at its Union Square store, may not be sticking around much longer in SF, real estate experts surmise.
A former Napa elementary school teacher who’d beaten the rap on some 2007 child sexual abuse charges is now somehow facing more felony counts for lewd acts with children under 14 in Benicia, and a judge has ruled he’ll stand trial.
The Giants have sold a 10% stake in the team to private equity firm Sixth Street; two children killed in a DUI crash in Napa have been identified; and the Trump administration is ending the Emergency Housing Voucher program.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2, later revised at 4.0, shook the East Bay Monday evening and was felt as a brief shake in San Francisco.
Waymo has reached a deal to start mapping its routes to SFO; the SFMTA is thinking about putting pickleball courts on top of underutilized city-owned garages; and a midwife and her associate have been arrested in Texas for providing abortions.
BART is touting that fare evasion may have dropped by one third since they started putting in those so-called “evasion-proof” fare gates, though this is just based on some informal poll they did where they asked riders if they saw anyone hopping the gates.
Convicted murderer Scott Peterson's time at Mule Creek State Prison outside Sacramento just got a little worse, after he reportedly got beaten up last week, and now we're hearing from the inmate who did the beating.
The very large, old Twitter bird logo that used to be attached to the building's former Market Street headquarters is on the auction block and hoping to fetch $40,000, but you’ll have to pay the shipping on the 12-foot, 560-pound piece.
Xfinity/Comcast customers lost internet, phone, and TV service Monday morning around 10 am. And an initial promise of service restoration by 1 pm has now been updated to 8 pm.
Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, and booze conglomerate Diageo are among the corporations that are backing away from supporting San Francisco's LGBTQ Pride celebrations this year, marking some shameful fair-weather-friend behavior in a time of frightening fascist action.
A 31-year-old Napa woman was allegedly under the influence and speeding when she crashed her car into a tree Sunday morning, killing her own ten-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter.
A man who was serving time for the vehicular manslaughter deaths of a Redwood City couple, stemming from a 2022 street-racing incident with a teenager, was found dead over the weekend in his cell.
The Sunset District did not exactly roll out the welcome mat for their new car-free Great Highway, as on the very first night of its new car-free status, a mural in the park was vandalized in what may have been an act of protest.
SF Mayor Daniel Lurie is signing a new executive order Monday and announcing an ambitious plan for tackling the combined crises of homelessness, drug addiction, and mental health, which includes holding nonprofits more accountable for outcomes.
VTA workers are entering their second week of a strike; BART Red Line service between SFO and Millbrae is suspended; and Chuck Schumer is postponing his book tour over "security concerns."
Local drag icon Peaches Christ is organizing a protest in London on March 31 as part of an ongoing effort to push the investigation forward into the 2023 death of longtime friend and creative partner, Heklina.
This week, March 17-23: The annual free tulip event will be at Union Square; Roxie's having a one-night screening of the Compton Cafeteria riot doc, 'Screaming Queens'; plus, bikes and books, a burlesque extravaganza, and a free game fest.
A Vallejo youth who was reportedly below legal driving age was pursued by police on Friday after the juvenile was seen speeding through a red light in a stolen vehicle, causing several near-collisions.
