There were two separate homicides in San Francisco on the day after Thanksgiving, including a fatal stabbing in the heart of the Mission District.
Closing arguments begin in the Nima Momeni trial; Oakland leaders consider putting a citywide sales tax on the ballot; and the SF Federal Building is being formally dedicated to Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi today.
Star running back Christian McCaffrey left the game early with a knee ligament injury.
The Union Square Macy's will now have to deal with a complex sale process; a local woman has camped on Angel Island for decades; and the Golden Gate Bridge will be much quieter on windy days soon.
The Spartans, who struggled offensively throughout against Colorado State's potent defense, won only one set out of five.
The SoMA federal building is getting renamed; An "Oakdale Ninja" has been convicted of murder via samurai sword; and Steve Jobs's widow recently hosted a philanthropic event downtown.
Black Friday is quiet this year in SF; A San Jose animal shelter is facing backlash for inhospitable conditions; and a man died today from being run over by an Amtrak train in Berkeley.
A new Palestinian restaurant is coming soon to Noe Valley, Thomas Keller is closing his Yountville Mexican spot after this weekend, and downtown Oakland has a new cocktail bar — with pickles! — all in This Week In Food.
A Sonoma County sheriff's deputy made a gruesome discovery Wednesday when performing a welfare check at a home east of Santa Rosa.
One person was killed in a crash on 280 in Daly City Thursday night; the three people killed in the Cybertruck crash in Piedmont have been identified; and an SF family received help from the fire department after their oven caught on fire during their Thanksgiving prep.
A person required rescue after falling into the Bay from Pier 45; a 30-year-old man has been booked on attempted murder charges in connection with the Bayview shooting of a pregnant woman; and Mayor London Breed has named a new SFO director.
SF’s most untraditional Thanksgiving tradition continues early Thursday morning, as the Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island returns, and will be streamed online.
The Chronicle has a funny look today at the variously, hilariously wrong images of San Francisco that are being spit out of AI image generators like OpenAI's DALL-E and xAI's Grok.
In setting out to do a new spin on the Dickens classic, American Conservatory Theater Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon enlisted playwright and friend Craig Lucas to write a new metaplay about a small-town putting on a production of 'A Christmas Carol.'
San Francisco Ballet dancers say they're paid at levels below SF's low-income threshold, and they’re threatening to go on strike on the opening day of their popular annual production ‘The Nutcracker.’
A 36-year-old San Francisco man not only beat his estranged wife for five hours, but also hung her French bulldog from a stairway banister, and today he’ll be sentenced to as many as ten years in prison.
The ridiculous clown car that is the second Trump administration just gained another clown.
A Tesla Cybertruck jumped a curb, hit a cement wall, and burst into flames just after 3 am Wednesday morning in Piedmont, and three of the four occupants in the car died at the scene.
Pedestrians were killed this morning in separate collisions on I-680 and I-5; a man was just convicted in a March 2022 murder outside a San Leandro bar; and PG&E is requesting yet another rate hike.
Former Rep. Katie Porter has filed for a restraining order against an ex-boyfriend; the long-vacant Lombardi Sports building in Russian Hill finally has a tenant; and the lighting of a 36-foot-tall wine barrel tree kicks off the holiday season Wednesday night in St. Helena.
37-year-old Kim Andrews is well-known to parents and nannies as someone who frequently makes violent threats toward small children, but her four-year run of terrorizing kids may be over, as she’s been arrested and may be detained indefinitely.
A tragic Monday morning car crash took the lives of two women while injuring three other people in the Ingleside District, and SFPD is charging a 21-year-old Santa Rosa man with driving under the influence.
Following the rains, expect some frigid winter cold to set in, with the season's first frost advisory happening Wednesday night into Thanksgiving morning.
Anyone trying to run to SFO Tuesday afternoon for the Thanksgiving holiday could encounter a snag unless they avoid the 101 freeway until they're further south.
A few other California cities are duplicating San Francisco’s tactic to merely hand the homeless a one-way bus ticket out of town, not because it's proven to be a particularly effective strategy, but more because it's just cheap and easy.
