![[Update] Two Teens Found Safe After Going Missing After East Bay Homecoming Dance](https://img.sfist.com/2024/10/missing-teens-san-lorenzo.jpg)
A pair of 15-year-olds went missing Friday night and are likely together, but authorities have described them as "at risk" and put a broad alert across the Bay Area for their safe return to their families.
A car fire along I-580 in Castro Valley Sunday spread to nearby vegetation; the final evacuation orders from the Oakland hills fire were lifted Sunday evening; and today is the last day to register to vote online in California.
Kamala Harris has changed her tune in recent weeks; San Jose's Rotary Club has unveiled a new mobile health clinic; and professional skateboarders made an unexpected appearance in Twin Peaks
His return likely will help the team better manage the absence of starting receiver Jauan Jennings, who is out this week with a hip injury.
The project, named Esmeralda, says it is completely separate from the similar "California Forever" proposal from Solano County.
The Keller Fire in Oakland is mostly extinguished; an SF-based nonprofit says it has the "special sauce" needed to fix the Tenderloin; and Muni looks to finally move its software off of floppy disks.
Evacuation advisories have been released for the Berkeley Hills over fire concerns; Sonoma County's Measure J has led to political ads on milk cartons; and a startup is claiming it can connect people through dreams.
Previous Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf came out swinging in favor of recalling current mayor Sheng Thao on Friday, which may not be surprising, as Schaaf had always endorsed Thao’s rival Loren Taylor.
Amidst several reports of Teslas in “Full Self-Driving” mode having crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one crash that killed someone, a federal road safety agency is now investigating whether the Tesla technology might be to blame.
![[Updated] Four-Alarm Wildfire In Oakland Hills Damages Two Homes](https://img.sfist.com/2024/10/wildfire-oakland-oct-18-24.jpg)
A vegetation fire in Oakland quickly grew to 13 acres Friday afternoon, amid a Bay Area-wide Red Flag warning, and has damaged multiple homes in the Caballo Hills neighborhood and prompted 500 residents to evacuate.
The fate of the former Westfield mall, now called the Emporium Centre San Francisco, will be decided at an auction next month, as the receivership process appears to be soon wrapped up.
Humphry Slocombe is closing its original Mission District scoop shop, the owner of El Faro is selling the business after a series of break-ins, Bun Mee opens in the Marina, and Alice Waters gets a special honor in DC, all in This Week in Food.
The latest Trump attack ad claims one of the 2007 Chauncey Bailey killers “should have been in jail” when Bailey was killed. But the reality is that the office of then-SF DA Kamala Harris did put that suspect in jail for a year.
After being fenced off for years, the 2.5-acre India Basin Waterfront Park at 900 Innes has its grand opening Saturday, and will eventually be part of sprawling 65-acre park that hopes to rejuvenate Bayview and Hunters Point.
The mentally ill homeless man who stands accused of killing a 74-year-old woman at the Powell Street BART Station in July remains hospitalized and has not entered a plea. And now the Chronicle has dug into this criminal record, which is extensive.
SF's 33 new speeding-detection cameras will begin issuing warnings in February, tickets in April; more details emerge about the mother and son found dead in Antioch; and a new Costco just opened in Napa.
SFPD is going to shuffle its local station boundaries; a judge has declined to recuse DA Brooke Jenkins from the Golden Gate Bridge protest case; and a new set of tiled stairs is about to be unveiled in Glen Park.
The key witness for the prosecution is likely going to be a reluctant one, as Khazar Momeni made her first appearance on the witness stand Thursday and appeared to want to defend her brother, who stands accused of first-degree murder.
Matt Wayne, the embattled superintendent of San Francisco schools, is handing in his resignation, two days after Mayor London Breed lashed out and called for a halt to the school-closure decision process, and said she'd lost confidence in the superintendent.
With the SFMTA looking at a $214 million deficit and potential service cuts, a ragtag band of riders came up with Prop L, which would tax Lyft, Uber, and Waymo rides to effectively bail out Muni.
SF Standard owner Michael Moritz trashed Supervisor Aaron Peskin in the NY Times yesterday. Today we get some insight into why, as a Telegraph Hill condo project Moritz is backing just had its applications canceled, though mostly because of a missed deadline.
A teacher has been placed on leave following complaints from parents at a school board meeting in Cupertino that their four-year-old children were being taught overly complex ideas about gender identity and expression.
The City of San Francisco finds itself in an odd position arguing a case before the Supreme Court that seeks to push back on the way the Environmental Protection Agency enforces the Clean Water Act.
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao gave an interview to the Chronicle, claiming the FBI has informed her she was not a target in the raid on her home, and insisting that the recall effort against her is 80% funded by one donor who does not even live in Oakland.
Antioch police made a gruesome discovery Wednesday afternoon when they were performing a welfare check at a home near the DeltaFair Shopping Center.
