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.
63-year-old Mission taqueria El Faro was robbed twice over the weekend; there was a rollover crash in St. Francis Wood; and Tim Walz wants the Electoral College to go away.
Muni underground service is finally back up and running; that former San Jose Police union director pleaded guilty to dealing opioids; and the debate for the former Feinstein Senate seat happened tonight.
A couple hours ahead of a planned announcement by the San Francisco Unified School District, the school closure shortlist has come out, and though it does not represent a finalized list, it will give parents and teachers an idea of what's to come.
A new lawsuit from 14 state attorneys general goes after TikTok for those “challenge” videos that have killed teens nationwide, and even alleges an economy of underage nude videos that have created a "virtual strip club" on the platform.
A new viral video shows a stalled Waymo getting entangled with a Muni bus this weekend, and when a gaggle of tech bros coming from an industry party try to help, they seem to just make things worse.
Bar Agricole, which reopened this spring in a new location, as a companion bar to Osito, quietly closed its doors in July and won't be reopening, apparently ever, anywhere.
The man arrested over the weekend after a series of crashes in Sonoma County that authorities attributed to road rage, one of them fatal, has now been charged with murder and hit-and-run, the district attorney confirms.
Several US cities have recently ditched the police surveillance tool ShotSpotter that’s used to detect gunfire, and Oakland could become the latest, as critics say it bogs police down with false-positive notifications.
It's not clear how many hours we may be looking at here, but Muni was melting down Tuesday morning, with no light-rail trains able to pass through the Market Street subway tunnel in the downtown direction.
Nurses say that a group of patients at the UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus were subjected to torrid indoor temperatures of 98 degrees or more during this past week’s heatwave, as the hospital does not have air conditioning on certain floors.
An Alameda County judge sided with defense attorneys Monday and dismissed manslaughter charges against two of the three Alameda police officers involved in the April 2021 death of Mario Gonzalez.
SF Unified will reveal its school closure "eligibility" list today, but not a final list; a new poll finds Bay Area residents broadly support Prop 36; and a protest against encampment sweeps outside Berkeley's old City Hall continues to grow.
The trial of Nima Momeni for the 2023 murder of Bob Lee starts next Monday; the Livermore PD calls out Pamela Price over one particular case; and mail-in voting starts today in San Francisco.
An exhaustive analysis from the Chronicle wonders if there’s some chilly vibes in the relationship between Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, possibly dating back to Harris beating Pelosi’s friend DA Terence Hallinan in 2003.
The company that called themselves “the Uber of Weed” is going up in smoke, having blown through $250 million in venture capital but now announcing they’ll likely cease operations on December 31.
The only thing funnier than Elon Musk’s prepubescent jumping at a Donald Trump rally this weekend was a series of jokes made on Musk's own Twitter mocking the awkward antics.
Weather apps like the iPhone's, and even the National Weather Service, under-predicted this past week's heatwave in San Francisco — and said it was only going to be a three-day warming spell, which clearly it was not. Why did this happen?
People came out in droves but most were trying to huddle in the shadier parts of the Castro neighborhood for the 50th anniversary of the Castro Street Fair on Sunday.
Bodycam video from the Oakland Police Department shows a high-stakes drowning situation in the Lake Merritt Channel, but officers were able to rescue a man by jumping into the water themselves to pull him ashore.
