Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie named a few more new staffers; the egg shortage is showing no signs of cracking for Bay Area grocers; and the SF International Airport just opened their new Sensory Room.
A 29-year-old Antioch woman with outstanding warrants was arrested with a carload of allegedly stolen merchandise in Sonoma, and her alibi that she was just some innocent 12-year-old girl did not fool the deputy sheriffs.
There is a bit more intrigue around the tragic death late last month of former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji, who was found dead in his Lower Haight apartment of an apparent suicide.
A string of car-ramming burglaries continued in Oakland early Thursday morning, as the Lucky Supermarket in Montclair was rammed into with a vehicle by a team of thieves who went straight for the ATM.
You had your Christmas break from the rain, but it arrives back in the city later today, with a not-insignificant three-quarters of an inch set to fall tonight.
Once again, in order to encourage people to use public transit and not drive on New Year's Eve, SF Muni buses and trains will be free to ride on the evening of December 31.
The Christmas morning actions of 37-year-old Steven Weatherford saved the lives of his aunt, uncle, and brother when their Oak Knoll house caught fire Christmas morning, but Weatherford himself would perish after saving his family.
Residents and visitors heading to Bay Area beaches are being warned to stay out of the water, and to stay off rocks and jetties near the water, amid a high risk for rip currents, sneaker waves, and dangerous high surf starting starting Thursday.
A building burned after an apparent explosion in Capitola Village Christmas morning; a car crashed into the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza; and the Chronicle explores "NDA wines."
Firefighters and other first responders arrived at the crash scene just before 4 pm near the south side of Golden Gate Park at Park Presidio Bypass.
Smash-and-grab burglars hit a San Leandro restaurant for eggs on Christmas Eve; Union Square was packed with last-minute shoppers; and this recent storm brought massive waves back to Mavericks.
Bissap Baobab has at long last won their liquor license fight; Marina and Cow Hollow residents have clawed back some free parking; and the future does not look bright for the Inner Sunset Clancy’s Christmas Trees.
The lawsuit, first filed Friday in California state court, alleges that San Francisco engaged in tax methodology that is “distortive and will grossly overstate Lyft’s gross receipts."
The vacancy blues are ending for the Fisherman’s Wharf building that had housed the now-shuttered Madame Tussauds, as a Smurfalicious new pop-up called Smurfs: The Adventure will bring a permanent new tenant to that Jefferson Street property in May 2025.
We now know who the deceased is in the officer-involved shooting in Union Square last week, and a few details about the bizarre and angry-sounding hit-and-run the precipitated the shooting.
Yule want to see these photos of the SF fire station that won the 2024 SF Fire Department Holiday Decorating Contest, plus pictures and video of the other runner-up stations that decked the halls hard to bring joy to the world.
A man is dead in Santa Cruz after being trapped under the debris of the pier-smashing waves, and two people are missing near Monterey after being swept into the ocean, as the raging high surf conditions take a deadly toll.
San Francisco firefighters responded to a one-alarm fire early Tuesday that appears to have broken out, improbably, underneath and at the edge of Pier 28 in the rain.
Flood advisories were issued Tuesday for SF, San Mateo, and Sonoma counties; there's a chance of thunder Tuesday afternoon; and the hotel workers appear to have ended their strike with the final hotel, Hilton.
A 150-foot piece of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf collapsed with people on it during high surf; Reem's is being forced to close at the Ferry Building; and hotel workers are still striking outside the Hilton.
A nightmare came true for several skiers at the Tahoe ski resort Heavenly Monday morning, as their ski lift chairs collided, and some victims reportedly fell 30 feet to the ground before being rushed to a hospital.
A minivan somehow caught fire in the Caldecott Tunnel at around 10 am Monday morning, snarling traffic for multiple hours, but the eastbound tunnel bore in which the vehicle caught fire was reopened at about 1 pm.
With rapid growth, and without a robust content moderation system, Bluesky is already entering an era of bots and misinformation.
Waymo could have one of its biggest fights to date on its hands as it pushes toward providing rides between San Francisco and SFO — but a permit process is underway to allow the company to begin mapping the airport for that purpose.
The Oakland Diocese declared bankruptcy in 2023 when forced to pay settlements to 330 victims of sex abuse at the hands of priests. Now victims’ attorneys say the church transferred more than $100 million into an inactive nonprofit to hide their assets.
