Brentwood police say they have arrested two teenagers, one male and one female, following an alleged assault, kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery last week, and the two teens were apparently known to police.
A drive-by shooting in Antioch left behind 53 shell casings but no one was injured; a house fire near Hayward left a firefighter injured; and the Watsonville man killed by storm debris on a Santa Cruz beach has been identified.
A few buzz-worthy spots had locals doing their usual line-standing or jockeying for tables online this year, and we've seen a collection of terrific new restaurants despite an overall quiet year on the food scene.
People have passed out in the back of Waymos, but so far they've woken up; the city of Oakland hasn't collected over $1M in fines issued for illegal dumping; and it's going to be very chilly around the Bay Tuesday morning.
The security guard whom SFPD officers fatally shot in a bizarre incident two weeks ago appeared to pull a gun and move to aim it at officers as they were attempting to detain him, as seen in bodycam footage.
The good news is that San Francisco saw the lowest number of homicides in 2024 than the city has had in 64 years. The bad news is that traffic deaths were at a level we haven’t seen in 17 years.
More than three dozen bars across San Francisco have reportedly been hit by alleged drink-and-dash thief known as Jared, who’s been racking up bar tabs and then disappearing without paying.
New Year’s Day has replaced New Year’s Eve in the hearts and minds of many San Francisco’s disco bon vivants, thanks to the SF’s longest-running New Year’s Day party Breakfast of Champions, which notches its 25th anniversary on January 1.
Matthew Muller, the man at the center of what was, at first, the very mysterious 2015 disappearance and subsequent return of a Vallejo woman, Denise Huskins, is now heading back to court to face charges relating to alleged assaults from six years earlier.
One of two boutique, luxury hotels that were meant to be part of a renaissance on mid-Market Street — which never really materialized — the Proper Hotel at Seventh and Market, now looks like it might fall into the hands of its lender.
After a Saturday afternoon crash of two BART Police SUVs and a medical supply vehicle responding to an overdose call at the West Oakland station, three BART police officers and the medical supply driver are reportedly recovering.
Many Americans have had an unpleasant surprise during these past couple celebration-filled weeks, and that surprise was a gastrointestinal virus.
President-elect Donald Trump, in a fairly typical reversal, offered a praise-filled statement in reaction to former president Jimmy Carter's recent passing at the age of 100, after insulting him for years.
A crew of thieves hit four gas stations in Oakland in quick succession; a hiker required rescue at Devil's Slide; and the mother of the OpenAI whistleblower now says his apartment was "ransacked."
Former president Jimmy Carter died today; An airplane crashed in South Korea; and 2024 has set the record for traffic deaths in SF.
2024 showed promising signs that the opioid crisis is declining; Mayor-elect Lurie named a few staffers; and a local skateboarding legend had a crowded funeral.
Trump is hoping for a stay on the TikTok ban; homelessness surged across the country in 2024; and red wine sales in SF saw a sharp decline this year.
The honeymoon may be over for Donald Trump’s coalition, as the billionaires and bigots are now at open war with one another over immigration and H-1B visas, and Elon Musk called some Trumpers “contemptible fools.”
Four days after a winter swell took out a 150-foot section of the historic Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, the mayor of Santa Cruz is hedging when asked about whether a rebuilding plan is getting underway.
San Francisco-born and Mill Valley-raised, actor Monica Barbaro not only plays Joan Baez in the new movie ‘A Complete Unknown,’ she sings the vocals and plays the guitar herself. That made for a very anxiety-inducing phone conversation with Joan Baez.
Hard Knox Cafe closes its original location in Dogpatch, Lobby Bar is changing owners in the Castro, and The Forge is moving from Oakland's Jack London Square to Rockridge, all in This Week in Food.
Some character spent his Christmas Eve standing outside a Bernal Heights mosque, ripping pages out of the Quran, and menacing Muslims with a Thor-style giant hammer, in the latest incident of Muslim harassment in San Francisco.
Don’t just abandon your natural Christmas tree on the street! Recology will gladly take it and dispose of it responsibly for free if you put it out with your trash and recycling bins during a specific window of time, starting next Thursday.
A suspect in a Thursday carjacking in San Francisco was spotted driving in Rancho Cordova, in Sacramento County, and when sheriff's deputies began pursuing him, he allegedly fired at them out of the car window.
A massive pothole about one lane wide opened up on I-880 south in Oakland; Oakland saw its 81st homicide of the year on Thursday; and ChatGPT experienced a serious outage.
