Paul Yep, the retired SF police officer whom incoming mayor Daniel Lurie tapped to become the new Chief of Public Safety in the Mayor's Office, was involved in a car collision several years ago in which he rear-ended a couple, and they accused him of being drunk at the time.
In a shift akin to what Elon Musk has done with the platform we still call Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will soon be more of a free-for-all when it comes to misinformation, with "community notes" inserted when facts are questioned.
A Jerusalem miniature donkey in Palo Alto named Perry served as the movement model for Eddie Murphy’s ‘Shrek’ character Donkey in the animated franchise, but Perry succumbed to a hoof disease last week.
There was an update, of sorts, on Monday about the California High-Speed Rail project, two weeks ahead of the inauguration of Donald Trump — which will usher in another era of Republican middle fingers held high in the direction of such projects that aren't in their states.
The City of Antioch welcomes its third interim police chief in 18 months through its revolving door, and new Chief Joe Vigil will have the department's racist text scandal and a new federal oversight monitor to deal with.
It's a new year and with it we get the first big restaurant opening announcement for San Francisco: Coming this summer, chef David Barzelay and the team behind Lazy Bear are planning to open a grand, old-school French restaurant.
Two people have been charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection with a Saturday overdose death in Marin; Latinx Democratic Club co-president Kevin Ortiz has been cleared of sexual misconduct allegations; and EDM producer Zhu will be DJing at Daniel Lurie's big block party tomorrow.
The suspect in the NYE homicide in the Mission District has been charged; Matthew Muller, the man convicted in the 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins, allegedly committed another kidnapping that year; and there was an attempted break-in at the Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory.
Facebook and Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg continues his mixed martial arts fascination, and his increasing kowtowing to Donald Trump, with the curious addition of UFC president Dana White to Meta’s expanding board of directors.
Governor Gavin Newsom says last year’s $68 million budget deficit is now completely erased, and he claims the state is running a surplus again, though he won’t say how much of a surplus.
Recently retired Congresswoman Barbara Lee has just opened a campaign account for a run for Oakland mayor, and she's reportedly close to making a final decision about whether she will seek the job.
Pete Doolittle’s paintings of cartoon-version robots and animals have been hanging in San Francisco homes and bars for decades, but the longtime SF artist passed away Thursday morning at the age of 47.
The crowds of drug dealers and users along Sixth Street have SF Supervisor Matt Dorsey proposing 100 arrests every night for “drug-related lawlessness,” though we clearly do not have the police officers and jail capacity to follow through with this.
The commercial Dungeness crab season finally kicked off this past weekend, after a now familiar two-month delay, and San Franciscans turned out in force on Sunday to buy some of the first catch from the boats.
The infamous dine-and-dasher known around SF as “Jared” was arrested and detained for once again skipping on a bill, though he has since been released, and bartenders be warned that he is currently a free man.
A changing of the guard takes place this week at San Francisco City Hall, and the festivities around the mayoral inauguration will be going on all day Wednesday.
VP Kamala Harris will help to certify Trump's Electoral College win today in DC; Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is stepping down; and SF native Ali Wong took home another Golden Globe.
An arrest has been made for a shooting at a homeless shelter from last night; A hit-and-run in the Portola has left one person dead; and the Warriors are strongly pursuing an unexpected trade target.
A shooting Saturday evening in SoMa prompted an emergency alert from the city and left one person with serious injuries.
No injuries have been reported so far.
New traffic lights are coming to the Great Highway; More details about the security guard shot outside the Union Square Dior store by police; and two neighborhoods are set to get SF's first curbside electric charging stations.
Mayor-elect Lurie just unveiled his new PR team; Supervisor Matt Dorsey is emphasizing a Sixth Street cleanup; and the veteran behind the Cybertruck explosion apparently wrote a manifesto detailing his despair in the days leading up to the incident.
Ronn Owens was a KGO AM radio staple for nearly 50 years in San Francisco, though retired in 2021, and is now facing enormous medical bills from four bouts with cancer, a heart condition, and a more than 20-year battle with Parkinson’s disease.
The CHP pulled over a suspected drunk driver Monday night in Madera County, and discovered the driver in possession of several pounds of illegal marijuana, and a baby spider monkey in a onesie. The monkey has now been transferred to the Oakland Zoo for medical care.
The new armada of automated license plate readers in SF are taking three million surveillance photos every day, but the SF Police Department is being cagey about disclosing where the hundreds of cameras are located.
