The Southern California fires are now nearly as large as San Francisco itself; Kohl’s is closing five Bay Area stores; and Anita Bryant, who famously took a pie in the face from a gay rights activist in 1977, has reportedly died.
Police can apparently now hop into stalled, confused Waymo robotaxis and drive them away manually, and this reportedly happened twice Wednesday night at Mayor Daniel Lurie’s inauguration party.
San Mateo County officials put out a statement this week in response to a government claim by embattled Sheriff Christina Corpus, a claim which, they say, is riddled with "incorrect and misspelled names" and "is largely devoid of any alleged facts supporting its conclusions."
New SF Mayor Daniel Lurie declared a City Hall hiring freeze (but not for cops or firefighters) on Day One of his administration that faces a $876 million deficit, and he says he’ll have his fentanyl crackdown plan ready to pass on Tuesday.
In two separate shooting incidents that have occurred since the new year began in the SoMa neighborhood, two suspects are now facing attempted murder charges.
A former janitor at UC Berkeley has opted not to stand trial for the March 2023 killing of a beloved Oakland Gay Men's Chorus member and sometime drag performer, who died in his own apartment after what appeared to be an early morning hookup.
A Wednesday afternoon welfare check in the Santa Rosa senior community of Valle Vista found four people dead, and while police are ruling it a homicide, they’re not saying much more about the circumstances.
Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown was packed Wednesday night, as a night market, street performers, mainstage acts, and a VIP banquet celebrated the inauguration of Daniel Lurie as the city's 46th mayor.
Those 1,200 nationwide Walgreens closures are starting to kick in, and 12 Walgreens stores in SF will close in late February, including the one where Banko Brown was shot. The company blames high rent, but legal settlements probably have a hand in this too.
Wind conditions are expected to worsen in LA throughout the day Thursday; the lack of rain this winter in SoCal is consistent with La Niña; and police in Santa Rosa arrest an alleged carjacker who shot at them.
Muni is cutting midday service on some bus lines to address budget woes; the official death toll in the LA wildfires rises to five; and Trump is trying to blame Newsom for the fires, again.
An upstairs spot above two unassuming Mission-Bernal restaurants has reportedly been a hotbed of unpermitted late-night after-hours parties complete with gambling machines for the last two months, and City Attorney David Chiu is investigating.
District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is now a heartbeat away from being mayor, as he was just elected President of the SF Board of Supervisors, and somehow extinguished an expected challenge from Supervisor Myrna Melgar.
The enduring legend and unsolved case of the Zodiac murders in the Bay Area has now haunted multiple generations of both police detectives and crime reporters in the city. Kevin Fagan is one of them, and he's retiring, effective today.
Union Square retailers and tourism officials are hoping that a Burning Man statue of a 45-foot-tall nude woman is going to rev up the beleaguered district’s shopping scene, and we’ll see if they’re right when it goes up in early February.
Daniel Lurie was sworn in Wednesday as the 46th mayor of San Francisco, giving an inauguration speech that was predictably focused on the hot-button issues of drugs, crime, and the perception of safety on city streets.
New revelations about a previously unknown kidnapping for ransom in Contra Costa County allegedly committed by Matthew Muller, the culprit in the 'American Nightmare' kidnapping and assault of a Vallejo woman in 2015, came in part due to that woman's advocacy.
The raging fire situation in LA looked ominous for many residents this morning, even if they were not immediately in view of the flames. And while the Palisades Fire has captured coverage in the last 12 hours, the Eaton Fire in the northeastern part of the county is looking even more destructive.
The latest twist in the ambitious plans to extend Caltrain to the Salesforce Transit Center is a developer hoping to send Caltrain tracks underground, and cover that land with new towers, one of which would be taller than the Transamerica Pyramid.
Confirming what was already looking likely earlier this week, recent former Congresswoman Barbara Lee announced Wednesday that she will, indeed, be running for mayor of Oakland in an April special election.
The Palisades Fire raged overnight in Los Angeles destroying at least 1,000 structures; gusty winds here in the Bay toppled trees and power lines; and Daniel Lurie gets inaugurated today in Civic Center Plaza.
The Palisades Fire is wreaking absolute havoc in Southern California; that long-promised ability to just tap your debit card to pay transit fare is being delayed indefinitely; and the Giants just acquired three-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Justin Verlander.
While the unreasonably massive elephant seals are now in Marin County all the way from the Aleutian Islands, they are here for mating season, and you can only watch them from a few dozen yards away.
The annual pre-Valentine’s Day custom of 400-pound, six-foot-wide hearts showing up in SF beats on for its 21st year, but don’t get your heart set on a big display, because there aren’t that many of them this year.
This week in robocar snafus: A Waymo in Phoenix went a little haywire recently, and its passenger says he was late getting to a flight because the car refused to stop circling the same parking lot.
