North Beach Restaurant makes a big comeback, there's some legal drama between partners at Farmshop in Marin, and the Chronicle's MacKenzie Chung Fegan has named her favorite new restaurant of the year.
It's become a bona fide thing to host a holiday-themed pop-up or "experience" in your bar for the month of December, and that is happening once again at a bunch of spots around San Francisco and beyond.
That embattled $700-a-month sleeping pod complex has lost its City Hall approval, because the SF Planning Department says it doesn't comply with the city’s affordable housing rules, among other permit violations.
In a sign of things to come in the year ahead, as Trump supporters from every basket of deplorables feel emboldened to once again spit in the faces of others and proclaim their dominion, a conservative BART director on her way out gave out a provocative parting gift to her colleagues.
Barring Supreme Court intervention in the next five weeks or so, TikTok may have to shut down its US operations, something that a legion of influencers making incomes from the platform are not happy about.
The Bayview RV triage site that’s been dubbed the “most expensive homeless response” in SF history has been deemed a failure and will wind down operations in a few months, after blowing through $15 million and only accommodating about one-fifth of the people it was supposed to.
The man who allegedly shot up a parochial school in Butte County Wednesday before taking his own life was known to law enforcement in the Chico area from some petty crimes two decades ago, and was reportedly homeless.
Thursday's earthquake was the biggest in the Mendocino Fracture Zone since 1992; there have been dozens of aftershocks including a 4.0M this morning; and Biden is reportedly considering blanket pardons for people on Trump's enemies list.
Santa Clara’s vice mayor has been found guilty of perjury in a 49ers scandal; SF’s broken emergency sirens were useless when for once they were actually needed during the tsunami warning; and Pamela Price is officially no longer the Alameda County District Attorney.
Seven months after it abruptly closed following years of abuse allegations and convictions involving staff and a former warden, the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin (FCI Dublin) is being shut down for good.
A gruesome discovery in West Oakland Thursday morning, as police discovered a dead body that was reportedly wrapped up in a plastic garbage bag, in a case that seems like it’s being investigated as a homicide.
A tsunami warning was issued for Northern California Thursday morning, with great drama that reverberated across national news outlets, and then rescinded just over an hour later. But why was it issued in the first place?
The San Francisco Ballet’s 'The Nutcracker' will indeed premiere Friday night, as the ballet dancers’ union and the SF Ballet have struck an eleventh-hour labor deal to ensure the Sugar Plum Fairy will be dancing.
Reliably predicting the weather more than a week out has been something of a Holy Grail in the meteorology industry for half a century.
Livermore will get lit in the national TV spotlight tonight, as ABC’s “The Great Christmas Light Fight” has a home from the Alameda County locale whose display features more than 900,000 lights.
BART train service through the Transbay Tube was briefly halted and the agency said it was clearing all trains out of underground tunnels in San Francisco and on the Peninsula ahead of a potential tsunami. But the warning was lifted, and service is slowly resuming.
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A significant underwater earthquake off the Humboldt/Mendocino Coast was expected to cause tsunami effects and coastal indundation starting after noon in San Francisco, but the tsunami warning has been lifted.
SF food and drink establishments will no longer have to pay licensing fees for outdoor seating and a host of other add-ons under newly passed legislation, though the breaks don’t kick in until 2026.
All Seventh-Day Adventist schools in the Bay Area are closed Thursday after a Wednesday shooting in Butte County that appears to have targeted one small school associated with the denomination.
CHP is seeking the owner of a 'grumpy' looking Persian cat found on the loose on a busy road; Walgreens is closing three East Bay stores; and JetBlue is ending service in San Jose.
A shooting at a parochial school in Oroville injured two students; a Bay Area mountain guide appears to be missing in New Zealand; and Day One of deliberations in the Nima Momeni trial ended without a verdict.
Mayor London Breed’s final fiscal update of her tenure in office shows a budget deficit that’s nearly $100 million higher than it was projected to be just four months ago, and the Trump administration seems likely to yank some already-promised federal funding.
There will once again be a one-day, multi-act concert the weekend following the Outside Lands festival in 2025, and organizers Another Planet Entertainment said they’ve got country star Zach Bryan and indie rockers Kings of Leon as the headliners.
California's 13th Congressional District has flipped from Republican to Democrat, and with that race settled, we now know that the Republicans yet again hold the slimmest of majorities in the House — 220 seats to Democrats' 215.
One of San Francisco's most popular and beloved restaurants, The House of Prime Rib, is being sued by a former employee in a class action suit — the second such suit in 18 months — for alleged labor violations including denying rest breaks.
