After police were called to perform a mental health wellness check on a woman in an East Richmond apartment Thursday evening, the situation quickly turned chaotic with the woman shooting a gun at officers.
After years of efforts to unionize, more than 200 local and remote US workers from the San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation voted to join the Communication Workers of America labor union Thursday.
A Pittsburg police officer and a suspect were both shot when a gun went off in an altercation Thursday; the National Weather Service is warning of hazardous beach conditions all weekend; and Bethany Frankel is at Burning Man and hating it.
Supervisor Stephen Sherrill frets about whether SF can handle large Fleet Week crowds next month; NYC and LA are both restricting AI use in classrooms; and a 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck four miles north of Santa Rosa Thursday.
Does Chonkers have a brother? Did Chonkers start a trend among his Stellar sea lion bros? Whatever the case, we appear to have a rare second sighting of a second Stellar sea lion over by Fisherman's Wharf.
Burning Man officials say they kicked out a Christian-themed camp for repeatedly filming festivalgoers without consent, and some are speculating the group may have engineered the controversy to claim religious discrimination.
The US Postal Service is urging people to reconsider sending checks through the mail amid a surge in check-washing schemes, warning that its blue collection boxes are also being targeted by thieves.
SF supervisors scrutinized Lurie’s plan Wednesday to push through an contract with OpenGov for the city’s PermitSF platform while questioning the portal’s performance and the administration’s decision to bypass competitive bidding.
The annual release of the Burning Man census has arrived, and we have a picture of how the demographics of Black Rock City may be changing, at least as of the 2025 burn.
A wrongful death case is headed to trial in San Francisco in February, brought by the family of a man who overdosed on fentanyl and meth while sitting on a 9-San Bruno Muni bus, and was left there slumped over by the bus operator for hours.
Meta has been rolling out updates to its smart glasses in an ongoing effort to prevent users from filming people without consent, and the company has bricked the cameras of thousands of users who attempted to dismantle the LED.
Now that everyone is becoming too lazy to do old-fashioned Google searches and actual book research, park rangers in Northern California say they're starting to see the dangerous impacts of AI planning for hikers.
Journalist and personification of the women's movement Gloria Steinem has died; Hurricane Lowell could seriously impact Kauai; and Nick Bosa returned for his first full practice with the 49ers since his ACL injury.
Sausalito City Manager Elaine Forbes has resigned after that whole burglary arrest situation; the SF Zoo just lost a 24-year-old mandrill who died after surgery; and George Lucas's billion-dollar museum, once slated for SF, is getting ready to open in Los Angeles.
The new waterfront plaza, in the wharf space where Alioto's restaurant once stood, had its ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, with Mayor Daniel Lurie calling it "a new reason to return" to Fisherman's Wharf.
The local entrepreneur behind San Bruno’s Hangry Planet, billed as North America’s first fully plant-based gas-station convenience store, has sold the property and business for more than $12 million.
A morning fire at a home in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood sent smoke billowing over the area, led to three firefighters being injured, and ultimately displaced one family of seven.
In a matter of weeks, you will be able to charge your phone while riding a Muni bus, as the SFMTA is getting ready to roll out a new fleet of electric buses that will offer free USB charging ports.
Attendees at a Lowell High School baseball game last spring heard varsity players make racist comments toward a competing team, and while they’re now being reprimanded, they were allowed to complete the championship.
Monterey County authorities continue to search for a Salinas man and his 14-year-old daughter, both of whom are suspected in the death of an infant — possibly born of incest — who was found dead by the side of a road last month.
Supervisor Jackie Fielder proposed new legislation preventing evictions for less than a month’s unpaid rent, which was co-sponsored by five supervisors and supported by Mayor Daniel Lurie.
A 32-year-old Milpitas woman is accused of running down and killing her friend with her car on Friday in a bizarre incident that happened just before a third woman, also a friend, was found fatally stabbed.
A man who was dumpster-diving in the Tenderloin became trapped inside a Recology garbage truck Wednesday morning after the dumpster was emptied into it, prompting a two-hour rescue by 25 firefighters.
Uber is laying off about 10% of its global workforce in a restructuring; the SF Opera is postponing its annual ball due to a threatened musicians' strike; and a swimming teacher was viciously attacked by an otter in Lake Tahoe.
According to the people who clean robotaxis, Waymo riders are disgusting; a plane carrying a team of doctors crashed in Central California, but no one was injured; and a candidate for supervisor in Calaveras County died after a fall.
