As expected following Monday's Fire Weather Watch, the National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning covering most of the Bay Area, San Francisco included, starting Thursday night.
After a private contractor reportedly ruptured a gas main in the vicinity of 24th and Hampshire streets in San Francisco, four buildings have had to be evacuated and Muni service near Potrero Avenue and SF General has been disrupted.
After years of finger-pointing at San Francisco over a small handful of local Walgreens closures, the company now admits it just has way too many stores, and will be closing 1,200 more of them across the US.
A driver died in a fiery high-speed crash Monday evening in Fremont that caused a structure fire at an apartment building.
Khezar Momeni is expected to take the stand today in brother Nima Momeni's murder trial; an Antioch man may have raped multiple women and police are seeking victims to come forward; and the Chronicle Editorial Board has endorsed Daniel Lurie for mayor.
An estimated 2,500 people gathered on Alcatraz this morning for Indigenous Peoples' Day; police in Pleasanton shut down a brothel in an apartment; and a dude in San Jose tried to use a skeleton prop to get through a carpool lane.
Just 44 days after he was shot in the chest, 49ers rookie receiver Ricky Pearsall suited up and returned to the 49ers practice field Monday, earning the teammate praise that he’s “the swaggiest white boy I’ve ever seen.”
Here’s one way around campaign finance laws: Make up a false, non-existent agency so the laws just don’t apply to your ads, mailers, and billboards. But these ads from the apparently made-up “Citizens for Campaign Finance Transparency” are paid for by a pro-Mark Farrell PAC.
Some might have believed that the state had a pretty open-and-shut case against Nima Momeni, given the volume of circumstantial, video, and physical evidence they have against him for the murder of Bob Lee. But his defense team is going to try their best to keep this from being so open-and-shut.
The city of Half Moon Bay was out of its gourd again Monday morning for the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, and it was a squeaker, as the winning 2,471-pound pumpkin won by a razor-thin margin of just six pounds.
The National Weather Service has issued a Fire Weather Watch for much of Northern California beginning Thursday at 11 am, including most of the Bay Area as well as the Sacramento Valley.
New evidence has come to light in the notorious Menendez brothers case, including a one-time member of the band Menudo giving sworn claims of sexual abuse by the brothers’ father, and LA District Attorney George Gascón may reopen the case.
There was a bit of a mishap Sunday during the Fleet Week Air Show in which one of a group of Navy parachutists misjudged their landing and collided with a mother and teenage son at Marina Green, causing minor injuries.
The trial of Nima Momeni for the April 2023 stabbing of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee begins today; dozens protested the potential closure of Sutro Elementary School on Sunday; and Tahoe's Homewood resort is not opening this ski season.
The Blue Angels, viewed by many as the peak highlight of the yearly Fleet Week festivities, came out Sunday and put on their usual show.
San Francisco business owners are reporting a small boom thanks to Fleet Week; A historic SoMa mural has been restored; and a fatal crash in the North Bay closed northbound lanes of Highway 101 for hours.
It appears Karl has claimed an unfortunate victim this weekend, as the Blue Angels announced they cancelled their Fleet Week Air Show for today, which they blame on the heavy fog currently present in San Francisco, according to a statement from San Francisco Fleet Week on X.
A dozen glass panels, part of the new canopies at the entrances to Powell, Civic Center and other stations were smashed last weekend, only months after their initial installation.
A SoMa garden is roiled in controversy; San Jose leaders are looking for more money to address homelessness: Trump and Harris have have sizeable leads in Arizona and Pensylvania respectively.
The alleged driver in March's deadly West Portal crash apparently said she mixed up the brake and gas pedals; A San Jose City Councilmember allegedly sent text messages sexualizing minors; and Tesla's stock is faltering after an unimpressive robotaxi reveal.
Two of the East Bay’s strangest political stories just collided head-on, as a very colorful character from the FBI probe that led to the Sheng Thao raid now says that Alameda County DA Pamela Price tried to shake him down for $25,000. But oh, this fellow has credibility issues.
Nearly one year to the day after thieves rammed a car into the Union Square Dior storefront, another car pulled the same scheme just before 3 am Friday morning, and the suspects are still at large.
Some very encouraging new statistics saying the number of tents on San Francisco streets is at a six-year low, including there being only one tent counted in District 8, but this does not seem to have meaningfully lowered SF’s homeless population.
We've got some new pizza happening around Mission Bay, Zanze's Cheesecakes are now available at a Bay Area grocery store, and the Chronicle reviews Bernal Heights duck and pork belly specialists Go Duck Yourself.
A comet that likely has never been viewed by modern humans, and was last visible from Earth at the time of the Neanderthals, will come in its closest path by our planet on Saturday, and you may be able to see it with your naked eye for several weeks in a row.
