The SFPD has made arrests in two recent homicides; Disney is cutting a trans storyline out of a Pixar series that was made for Disney+; and Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a bird flu emergency.
With the City of Oakland drowning in about $129 million in red ink, Oakland City Council voted to approve a plan to cut police overtime, close a few fire stations, and eliminate some arts programs in hopes of closing the deficit.
For nearly three years, a vacant SoMa lot at Fifth and Clara streets has been accumulating water, garbage, and mosquitoes. Now three years and two lawsuits later, a new owner vows it should be cleaned up soon.
For 18 years, Piccino has been one of the reliably delicious favorites of the Dogpatch neighborhood, and now, after nearly two decades, the owners have decided to expand.
Researchers have found a population of California ground squirrels in an East Bay park that are actively hunting and eating voles, a behavior that has shocked squirrel experts.
A Tuesday afternoon car crash seriously damaged the storefront of Portola Drive’s Miraloma Club, leaving three people injured, and two of them hospitalized.
The relatively unknown Stephen Sherrill was just appointed by Mayor London Breed to fill the empty District 2 Supervisor seat formerly held by Catherine Stefani, and he’s vowing to vote exactly like Catherine Stefani did.
An 18-year-old who was living in the Tenderloin went missing in early January 2023, only to turn up dead a few weeks later in a warehouse basement in the Bayview District. We have not heard anything about the case since then, but an arrest was just made late last month.
One of Mayor London Breed’s final downtown rejuvenation efforts is bringing in some New York-based consultant firm who’s agreed to create 200 events in Union Square in 2025, hoping to generate more foot traffic and fewer retailers abandoning their storefronts.
Onetime SF supervisor and Black community leader the Reverend Amos Brown is gunning for Safeway following the announcement of its planned closure date in the Fillmore, and its plans to sell its land there for an enormous profit.
A dense fog advisory was in effect for the Bay Area Wednesday morning; one person died in a house fire in Forestville Tuesday; and a new private school is taking over part of a downtown SF office building.
The Bureau of Prisons will pay $116 million to FCI Dublin sex abuse survivors, the “black spatula” panic may all have been overblown; and the Hyatt Regency Downtown SF SoMa has been surrendered back to its bank.
Mayor London Breed clearly has less juice in City Hall these days, as her final three commission picks went down in flames at the last Board of Supervisors meeting of her mayoral tenure.
With the wildly popular Bay Bridge light display 'The Bay Lights' set to return in a couple of months, a group that files radiation lawsuits on the regular is suing to prevent the display’s reinstallation, calling it a “neurologic hazard.”
The Outer Sunset could still end up with a very tall, somewhat out-of-scale new residential development on the site of Sloat Garden Center, where a previous developer had proposed an insanely tall, 50-story tower.
After an outrage last week that the DMV approved a license plate which appeared to make a joke about the October 7 attacks against Israel, the family of the truck’s owner says people are misunderstanding that it was meant as an unrelated Tagalog reference.
A rare, damage-causing tornado made landfall Saturday afternoon in a town south of the Bay Area that had not even been under a tornado warning hours earlier, as San Francisco had been. How was there no warning?
Army veteran-turned-TikTok celebrity “Papa Jake” Larson will celebrate his 102nd birthday in Martinez this week with his nearly 900,000 social media followers tuned in, and he is not bashful about wanting you to send him a birthday card.
Before he became Trump's temporary lackey, Elon Musk was just your average bandwagon-jumping, San Francisco-hating tech CEO on Twitter, trying to tell the world that the city that birthed his company and many others had gone to hell overnight.
After seven days of deliberations, the verdict in the trial of Nima Momeni was read Tuesday morning, and the jury found him not guilty of first-degree murder in the April 2023 killing of Bob Lee, but guilty of second-degree murder.
A former Twitter executive who’s suing Elon Musk over unpaid severance is now taking over SF’s housing and economic recovery response under the Daniel Lurie administration, as Ned Segal has been named Chief of Housing and Economic Development.
It's Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's last day in office; a man was found dead in a burning RV on Wood Street in West Oakland; TikTok has asked the Supreme Court to block the law that wants to shut down its US operations.
Vallejo residents are calling on Newsom to send in the CHP to help their city's crime problem; a man escaped from a psych ward in San Leandro on Friday and is still missing and at-risk; and an Oakland smoke shop got busted for selling drugs.
After a seventh day of deliberations, the jury said they had reached a verdict Monday in the trial of Nima Momeni for the killing of Bob Lee in April 2023. But the verdict won't be read until Tuesday morning.
A battalion of Santas successfully cheated BART’s new evasion-proof fare gates during this weekend’s SantaCon festivities, and a TikTok video capturing their gate-hopping exploits is going viral.
