SFPD announced a $250,000 reward in a 2006 unsolved murder case; an East Bay chiropractic school professor is being sued by students for alleged sexual misconduct; and authorities race to investigate an Alaska commuter plane crash that killed ten people.
Muni is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its beloved “Worm” logo, designed by Walter Landor of the esteemed Landor Associates. Landor also worked with big name clients such as Levi’s, Fed Ex, and Coca-Cola.
Compton’s Cafeteria, site of the 1966 trans uprising, is now the first U.S. historic site recognized for its role in the transgender movement, earning state and federal landmark status last week.
Hog Island Oyster Co. will be featured in Google’s Super Bowl ad, showcasing their mix of sustainable farming and AI-powered tools for streamlining operations and enhancing customer service.
Iconic programmer and hacktivist Aaron Swartz has been honored with a marble bust; schools in at least ten states have closed due to flu surge; and tons of thousands of food is going to waste in Houston due to the USAID pause.
Ali Benjamin's acclaimed 2015 young-adult novel The Thing About Jellyfish has now been adapted for the stage, and Berkeley Rep hosted the play's world premiere this week.
Bob Geary, 1980s ventriloquist cop, has died; Trump dumped 2.2 billion gallons of water from two California lakes last weekend; and a Wisconsin Democrat is set to introduce a bill called “Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy.”
San Francisco and the SF Zoo’s gorilla preserve are mourning Thursday's death of 43-year-old Western Lowland gorilla Oscar Jonesy, who died unexpectedly following a medical procedure.
The Cassava team is back with a new downtown cafe, Smoke Soul Kitchen debuts next week in the Bayview, and a new bar and restaurant has moved into the former Starline Social Club in Oakland, all in This Week in Food.
SF City Attorney David Chiu is leading a lawsuit against the Trump administration for targeting sanctuary cities, and Chiu’s odds may be good, because his office brought the same lawsuit against Trump in 2017 — and won.
A civil rights lawsuit has been filed against the Hercules Police Department and three officers over an April 2024 incident in which the officers forcibly restrained and tased a 21-year-old man who had just suffered his first-ever grand mal seizure.
A 2015 fire at 22nd and Mission Streets fueled a theory that landlords were torching their own properties for profit. The site still sits empty and neglected, and the SF Planning Commission just delayed a plan for its notorious landlord to make that handsome profit.
Recalled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao made her first court appearance at a procedural hearing Thursday in federal court in Oakland, and the judge seemed to be throwing some shade in her direction.
Nearly two weeks after being shot on Ninth Street in front of his dispensary, Martin Olive is recovering well and giving interviews, and says he never met or interacted with the upstairs neighbor who tried to kill him.
A knife-wielding homeless man injured an SFPD officer in NoPa; Nima Momeni is due in court today to schedule sentencing; and people keep climbing on this new sculpture at Patricia's Green.
Dogpatch’s Esprit Park has reopened after an $8.5 million remodel; the Castro creep who was allegedly exposing himself to teens has been charged; and Shen Yun is apparently under a federal DHS investigation for possible visa fraud.
You’re not being bamboo-zled, the San Francisco Zoo is already advertising the job “Assistant Curator of Giant Pandas,” and they say the salary range is between $67,000-$72,000 per year, even though this panda thing is not a done deal.
One week ahead of the big All Star Game, the massive new sports bar Splash at Thrive City has opened, with 30,000 square feet of space for eating, drinking, game watching, and game playing.
While this new SFPD ‘Hospitality Task Force’ arrives the weekend before the double-team of the NBA All-Star Game and the Chinese New Year Parade, the reconfigured police staffing will be in effect year-round in the Union Square tourism district.
Locals and regional water nerds alike have been flocking to see the massive, circular drainpipe-style spillway in action at Lake Berryessa this week, the first time it's been active since 2019.
The 2023 murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee on the streets of San Francisco, a story very familiar to readers of SFist by now but maybe not to the rest of the country, will be featured in Friday's episode of 'Dateline' on NBC.
Russian River Brewing's perennial cult favorite beer Pliny the Younger — the rabid, continued popularity and cult status of which is baffling to some but completely justified to others — is more plentiful than it used to be.
You might say Oakland firefighters have their hair on fire over the recent closures of two city fire stations, with four more closures potentially looming, as response times have more than doubled, and the risk of SoCal-style wildfire outbreaks has ballooned.
A Tuesday shooting by Richmond police that was initially described as a standoff with a domestic violence suspect is being investigated by the California Attorney General's Office.
A person was found dead of a gunshot wound Thursday morning in Redwood City, on a suburban street behind a Whole Foods.
