A public defender claims former Alameda County DA Pamela Price tried to shake her down for political donations in exchange for a lighter sentence for her client, and that public defender just won a subpoena to go through Price’s phone records to prove it.
Mayor-Elect Daniel Lurie announced his first three hires, and while two of them were campaign staffers, his out-of-left-field pick is former Giants executive vice president Staci Slaughter as his new chief of staff.
You better watch out, as Saturday’s SantaCon has fattened up with additional new Friday and Sunday events, making SantaCon a three-day, weekend-long affair as SF’s new holiday pop-up bars are hosting expanded SantaCon events.
An adventure tour group is planning to begin taking visitors on morbid tours of the site of the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana, and Bay Area family members of victims, and one of the near-victims herself, former Congresswoman Jackie Speier, are saying "hell no."
Two suspects were charged and entered not-guilty pleas in connection with an October smash-and-grab burglary at the Union Square Christian Dior store, a heist that involved at least 10 individuals, and that resulted in the theft of nearly $300K in handbags.
San Francisco's Sixth Street, two blocks of it anyway, has been a circus of drug use and general chaos for going on four decades, if not more. But business owners and police say that it's suddenly gotten much worse.
The good news is that the Bay Area has the highest concentration of high-earning people of any United States metropolitan region. The bad news is that this is partly the case because rich people have priced so many lower-income people out of the city proper.
Two people were killed in an apparent high-speed crash in Fremont Wednesday night in which a car collided with a tree, which then fell on a house, and debris from the car damaged the house as well.
Some rain arrived ahead of schedule Wednesday night in SF; crews are responding to the scene of a school bus crash on the Peninsula; and Biden just commuted the sentences of 1,500 inmates, most of whom were in home confinement.
Cruise employees say they were blindsided by news that GM is ending the autonomous taxi business; HGTV's Chip and Joanna Gaines are now part owners of a Tahoe hockey team; and sunsets in SF will start getting later next week.
Three blocks of Cole Valley are poised to be the next “entertainment zone” where bars can sell to-go cocktails during certain outdoor events and gatherings, adding to the two existing entertainment zones on Front Street and outside the Chase Center.
The Church of Ambrosia’s Zide Door in SF has been providing magic mushrooms and other legally questionable delights for over a year now at Howard and Seventh streets, but says they’re shutting down the SF location because of “harassment” from the SF Planning Department.
Arianna Fitts would be 11 years old today, and if she is still alive she may be living under another name with no memory of being called Arianna.
A car drove into the front of a Walgreens in West Portal Wednesday morning, causing some damage to the building, and minorly injuring two people.
San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie has plans to switch things up a bit in the mayor's office, reverting to a system that voters in the city did away with almost 30 years ago.
United Airlines just resumed the only non-stop route between the US and Christchurch, New Zealand, and it runs to SFO, but a Tuesday flight from Christchurch to SFO was diverted to Hawaii because it needed a crew change.
After the director of a city commission was found to be directing taxpayer-funded contracts to a man she lived with, City Hall officials have found what appears to be more self-dealing, and canceled their contracts with a controversial nonprofit.
The Luigi Mangione memes have officially broken the internet. Meta was experiencing some sort of major "disruptions" Wednesday morning, which were causing outages on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, and Messenger.
The beleaguered Safeway in the Fillmore, the planned closure of which was announced almost a year ago, now has a final closing date, and the company won't be negotiating this time.
A child in Marin County with suspected bird flu may have gotten it from raw milk; a teacher in a Benecia school is facing trial for molesting children; and Kimberly Guilfoyle has been nominated as ambassador to Greece.
Another day has passed with no Nima Momeni verdict; some hateful graffiti hit a Jewish student center; and GM is giving up the ghost on Cruise robotaxis and abandoning that line of business.
A new set of filings allege that a recycling company and a security firm funneled nearly $300,000 to a Sheng Thao political operative in exchange for lucrative city contracts, and now that political operative may have flipped and could be cooperating with the feds.
Congressman Adam Schiff is now Senator Adam Schiff, as he was officially sworn in Monday to cover the balance of the late Dianne Feinstein's term. And he says he doesn't just want to be known as a thorn in Trump's side.
Accused murderer David Misch may or may not have done himself any favors in taking the stand in his own defense Tuesday, in a murder trial that has been ongoing for six weeks, stemming from the deaths of two young women in 1986.
It looks like 2024 will be the year with the fewest murders in San Francisco since all the way back in 1960, as the city is three weeks away from likely recording its lowest homicide rate in 64 years.
