The suspect in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, was thought by his mother to be living in San Francisco earlier this year, though it's not at all clear that he ever did.
Layoffs, pay cuts, and reductions to the police and fire departments are all on the table in Oakland, as the City Council looks for ways to slash the city's budget as they confront a deficit of nearly $130 million.
The "noise pollution" created by outdoor pickleball courts has once again made the local news, as a condo association in downtown San Francisco has filed a lawsuit over pickleball noise.
A sitting Santa Clara City Council member and Vice Mayor of the city, Anthony Becker, was just found guilty of lying under oath about an illicit favor to the San Francisco 49ers ownership. He’s now stepped down, and he’s got prison time to worry about.
Work to reinstall a new set of even-more-weatherproof LEDs for the 'Bay Lights' art piece on the Bay Bridge — the third time that the work has been installed since its initial debut in March 2013 — is now underway.
A crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian on northbound 101 near San Francisco International Airport left the pedestrian dead and all northbound lanes shut down for several hours early Tuesday.
Royl Roberts, Pamela Price's administrative second-in-command, has temporarily taken over the Alameda Co. DA's office; that shattered BART entrance glass in downtown SF still isn't replaced; and gusty winds took down a large tree in Berkeley last night.
Former SF GOP Chair Harmeet Dhillon has landed herself a plum post in the Trump Justice Department; the Bay Area Syrian community is celebrating the fall of the Assad regime; and a 5.8M earthquake on the Nevada border could have been triggered by last week's quake off the coast.
A 62-year-old security guard is dead, and his colleague seriously injured, after a teen crashed his truck into the security booth of a gated community late Friday night, and the teen driver is facing vehicular manslaughter charges.
The fate of 45-year-old Middle Eastern restaurant La Mediterranee was up in the air after a new controversial landlord on a buying spree bought its Upper Fillmore building, but the restaurant and owner jointly announced a four-year lease extension for the legacy business.
There is no definitive stage version of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol,' just as there is no one definitive film version. And though ACT had a faithful and well loved version of its own that it staged for over 40 years, the company decided it was time for a change.
Rub elbows with Giada De Lauretiis, Maneet Chauhan, Jonathan Waxman and others at Pebble Beach Food & Wine in April 2025, with ticket pre-sales beginning today.
'The Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes,' an annual tradition from a quartet of SF drag queens going back 17 years, returns this holiday season in much fancier digs than where it began. And Friday's opening included a surprise guest.
A woman fell or leapt from the 17-story LUMA Hotel in Mission Rock Saturday afternoon in what police currently believe was a suicide attempt, though she instead appears to have crashed into an awning and suffered life-threatening injuries.
A man whom New York police are describing as a "strong person of interest" in last week's murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been arrested in Pennsylvania and identified as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione.
An SF whale watching boat tour took an unexpected direction Sunday morning, as the boat’s resident German shepherd suddenly went into labor and produced seven little puppies as the boat was setting sail.
We have a new development in the rovings of San Francisco's beloved but noisy wild parrots — at least one group of them anyway. They have been gathering regularly in recent months in the small redwood grove next to the iconic Transamerica Pyramid.
A Saturday night shootout at the Delta Bowl in Antioch has left two people dead, and they apparently both shot each other in some sort of dispute in the bowling alley’s parking lot.
A roving sideshow early Sunday morning that moved from North Oakland closer to downtown, drawing hundreds of spectators, ended with one car fully engulfed in flames.
A disabled BART train in Oakland was causing systemwide delays this morning; Marc Benioff tries to play off his recent Trump support; and jurors in the Nima Momeni trial, for the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee, resume deliberations.
The pair will not have the possibility of parole.
The City's last newsstand is operated by just one man; A record-breaking deal for the Giants; and Zach Bryan headlines a concert taking place next August.
A longtime prison escapee just got caught once more; The internet is adopting an anti-snitching policy for the UnitedHealthcare CEO's shooter; and Oakland is making large cuts to essential services.
An uncredible bomb threat forced evacuations at the state capitol; Trump's new AI czar dislikes OpenAI; State Farm is about to raise its car insurance rates in California.
Candy emporium It’Sugar has just closed down its Stockton and Market street store, which had previously been a Virgin Megastore and a Forever 21, but the realtor insists there’s already a new tenant moving in.
