Oakland will be temporarily closing two fire stations for the next six months, a move that is part of the city's broader plan to address a looming $129 million dollar budget deficit.
Horn Barbecue is headed to Sacramento now as well, the Castro is getting a women's sports bar, and Oakland's Bombera wins an East Bay honor, all in This Week in Food.
27-year-old Robert Sonza was in court Thursday for a series of car thefts and gun charges dating back to 2019, having been given probation and then reoffending each time. Yet an SF Superior Court judge gave him probation yet again, despite more than a dozen arrests.
In case you missed it, singer, songwriter, and producer Chaz Bear aka Toro y Moi was the headliner at Downtown First Thursdays last night, and a major crowd showed up for the day-after-New-Year's-Day event.
A Berkeley woman says two people tried to kidnap her son while they were walking on the street; the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf reopens Saturday; and California's population grew for the second consecutive year.
We’re learning new details about the New Year’s gas station homicide in the Mission District; a large-scale public menorah in Oakland was defaced for the second year in a row; and the two New Year’s Day attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas both involved cars from an SF rental company.
Here’s one demographic that does not loathe the robot cars driving around San Francisco, as blind people have rave reviews for Waymo’s dedicated features to accommodate people with visual impairments.
People who don’t have garages can have a hell of a time finding a place to charge their electric vehicle, but hundreds of new SF curbside charging stations are in the works, and the first few will be in Dogpatch and Duboce Triangle.
The new Lurie administration will include a new "czar" of public safety who will oversee SF's police and fire departments, in addition to other public safety-related agencies, and Thursday they announced their pick.
Five-year-old Elias Wolford was shot in the December 4 Oroville school shooting, and has had no movement in his legs since. But on New Year’s Eve, his family announced he was able to wiggle his foot, indicating his legs may eventually recover.
San Francisco and the Bay Area are in for some light rain Friday as a weak new cold front moves in from Alaska, but then we're looking at an extended dry period, which isn't great news for anyone starting ski leases up in Tahoe.
SF’s first dedicated women’s sports bar is coming to the Castro District on Market near Sanchez Street this year, and will probably become the go-to place to watch the Golden State Valkyries’ WNBA games.
A man died and a woman and toddler were shot and injured Thursday morning not far from the parking lot where the Alemany Farmers' Market is held, in Bernal Heights.
Well, this sure sounds like a positive, if kooky, sign for mid-Market as a Burning Man-esque tech collective is close to buying the 16-story building at the corner of Sixth Street that was once home to the Burning Man organization.
The first homicide of the year in San Francisco happened less than a half hour after midnight on New Year's Eve, at a gas station in the Mission District.
The death toll in the apparent terrorist attack in New Orleans Wednesday has risen to 15; a Mill Valley family says they narrowly escaped being in the area of the attack; and a 4.7M earthquake rattles Lake County.
In a highly symbolic New Year's Day event, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded as it sat outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, leaving one person dead, and speculation is swirling about a possible link to the tragedy in New Orleans hours earlier.
While Oakland saw a drop in homicides in 2024, the city unfortunately made up some of that gap in the final hours of the year on Tuesday.
At least 10 people were killed when a pickup truck drove into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans; a suspect has been arrested in an East Oakland shooting of an elderly man; and a fisherman was caught with an illegal haul in SF.
They’re predicting no fog for tonight’s fireworks display; the Chronicle ran down which SF neighborhoods get the most DUI citations; and your Muni fare is going up to $2.75 effective January 1.
A new federal report says that the avian flu outbreak has driven the price of eggs in California to a whopping $9 a dozen. We hit the local Safeway and found that yes, in SF, eggs really can cost that much right now.
San Francisco always has been a drinking town, and 2024 brought a collection of cool new watering holes in which to wet one's whistle — and one where you can also get your dance on.
The five-year reign of SF Municipal Transit Authority director Jeffrey Tumlin ends today, and in an exit interview, he points the finger at rideshares and robotaxis for Muni’s $300 million deficit.
Given everything this team has accomplished over the years, it seems reasonable to not believe that they would actually choke against a conference rival in front of their fans, for the third time this season. Right?
A troubled, empty Potrero Hill apartment complex known for attracting squatters was hit by a trash fire Sunday afternoon, and one person has been detained, apparently on suspicion of setting the blaze.
