The man accused of causing a fatal collision while spontaneously street-racing on a main thoroughfare in Redwood City two years ago pleaded no contest earlier this week and faces up to nine years in prison.
Well, this complicates the push for pandas. A new report by an SF Zoo oversight commission describes the facility as “dilapidated,” “extremely outdated,” and says parts of the zoo are even “crawling with rodents.”
Late Thursday, a message went out from Cal Shakes' Executive Director Clive Worsley making the sad announcement that the 50-year-old theater company, based in Orinda, would be shutting its doors for good amid significant financial strain.
The jury returned with a guilty verdict Thursday in the trial of 56-year-old Theobald "Mylo" Lengyel, the former Mr. Bungle bandmember who admitted to the killing of 61-year-old girlfriend Alice "Alyx" Herrmann in her Capitola home.
A low cloud ceiling could impact the Blue Angels air show on Saturday and/or Sunday; London Breed is courting support as a No. 2 ranked-choice pick for progressives; and downtown SF restaurants are offering Friday deals.
The jury has been empaneled and the trial of Nima Momeni begins Monday; a trio of young suspects has been indicted for a bank robbery spree around the Bay Area; and an Oakland man has disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
A Galileo High School student was shot next to the school's football field just as the new school year began, and on Tuesday, police arrested a 17-year-old suspect for the crime.
DNA tests determined that it was one single coyote who’d killed three dogs at Crissy Field and the Presidio since September 15, so National Park officials killed that coyote Sunday, as it had been getting pretty aggressive with people too.
It's time to enjoy some Che Fico pizzas over at the Chase Center — and while Miller and Lux may have some draw for the upscale steakhouse thing, the opening of Che Fico Pizzeria might mark the first standalone reason for people to go Thrive City when they aren't going to a concert or a game.
Riders would have to climb the equivalent of eight flights of stairs in an emergency under the current design of the proposed BART-to-San Jose stations, and some officials are waving red flags that this is not feasible emergency planning.
San Francisco police announced the Tuesday arrest of a "high-volume" dealer of fentanyl, meth, cocaine, and prescription pills, and they say they uncovered much evidence of his drug dealing at his Oakland home.
A possible October Surprise in next month’s recall election of Alameda County DA Pamela Price comes in a new report that claims that more than 1,000 misdemeanor offenders walked free because Price’s office missed deadlines to file charges.
Among the food options at the new complex of buildings at Mission Rock will be the first standalone, quick-service pizza shop from Flour + Water, outside of its recently opened flagship location in North Beach.
The latest legal drama regarding whether Oakland Airport can have "San Francisco" in its name comes from the Oakland airport, which has filed its opposition to SF’s injunction, and claims SF is faking the data that customers are confused by the name change.
A San Francisco man was arrested and charged with two September armed robberies that turned into assaults involving sex workers and johns in Oakland's unofficial red-light district.
JD Vance was in Woodside for a fundraiser last night; UCSF has responded to complaints about no air conditioning at the Parnassus campus; and the Blue Angels will be doing their practice flights today.
Some of the transferred FCI Dublin prisoners say they face terrible conditions at their new prison; Nima Momeni’s lawyer wants Bob Lee’s ex-wife banned from the trial over some very funny insults; and the Castro’s former 7-Eleven will not become a specialty meat shop.
More than 20% of all cryptocurrency fraud happened right here in California last year, and the FBI San Francisco Field Office was kept busy, dealing with a staggering $260 million in crypto scams in 2023 alone.
San Francisco is now officially assessing the possibility of building a gondola airlift from the Forest Hill Muni station to Laguna Honda hospital, a seemingly out-of-left-field idea that would admittedly be fun as heck if they actually went through with it.
The good news is that the SFPD solved 94% of all homicides committed in SF last year. The bad news is that SFPD ranks worst of all major California police departments in solving nearly every other form of crime.
An ambitious proposal to expand San Francisco's rent control ordinance to units built through 2024 has been scaled back, but Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin says that voters should know what the board's plans are in the event that Prop 33 passes next month.
The BART system has seen a significant drop in crime so far this year compared to the same period last year, and BART wants everyone to know about it.
Rodents of unusual size are no longer just something from the movies. These swamp rats known as nutria are a scourge spreading across Contra Costa and Solano counties, and they’re a risk to our crops, livestock, and water supply.
The first of many pieces likely to appear in the coming days and weeks in the local media have appeared, quoting upset parents, following Tuesday's anouncement of 11 proposed school closures in the SF Unified School District.
Changes have now been implemented at the West Portal intersection where a family of four was killed by an apparently out-of-control, speeding driver in March, but some in the neighborhood doubt these changes will make them safer.
