Lasers light up the Transamerica Pyramid; Newsom signs bill making penalties harsher for smash-and-grab thieves; and Trump comes to California looking for campaign funds.
The Transamerica Pyramid had its grand reopening Thursday; the hot dog vendor who SFPD roughed up in an arrest now says she’s pregnant; and PG&E will be raising your rates again for the third time in barely a year.
Donald Trump happens to be holding a rally today at Tucson, Arizona’s Linda Ronstadt Music Hall. San Francisco resident Linda Ronstadt is furious about this, and posted a Taylor-Swift style “childless cat lady” endorsement of Kamala Harris.
This season of the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival got extended to include two weekends of performances of ’The Tempest’ at Sue Bierman Park at the foot of Market Street, on the Embarcadero. And CalShakes comes back alive in Orinda this weekend with its production of ‘As You Like It’.
A Sacramento man accused of stabbing two people on an Amtrak train Sunday night had his attempted murder trial proceedings suspended, as he’ll now get a mental competency hearing to determine whether he even will stand trial.
At least one US Supreme Court justice is on the record as wanting to overturn the landmark same-sex marriage decision, so California voters will consider Prop 3 in November, which would enshrine gay marriage into the state constitution.
A certain apartment complex in South San Francisco allegedly had a brothel operating out of one of the units, and a 65-year-old woman has been arrested and is being accused of serving as its madame.
A San Francisco man and a juvenile accomplice were arrested last week in connection with a possibly wide-ranging auto burglary "operation" that included at least two burglaries in Alamo Square and near the Palace of Fine Arts.
An early morning medical emergency at 16th & Mission was causing major BART delays in both directions through SF; teachers in Half Moon Bay avert a strike; and the mayoral candidate debate again.
Mayor London Breed backed out of a Wednesday evening KPIX debate with her challengers; 65-year-old North Bay chain Mary's Pizza Shack has filed for bankruptcy; and next year's AIDS Lifecycle ride will be the last.
The California Highway Patrol conducted a routine traffic stop in I-680 in Concord, and a drug-sniffing dog indicated there may have been narcotics in the vehicle. And were there ever, as the CHP seized nearly 100 pounds of suspected methamphetamine from the car.
The SFPD arrest of a hot dog vendor who was slammed to the ground and held down made a splash in the local news. But both sides are now going public with their own versions of events, which unsurprisingly, do not quite match.
There’s relief across the 12 Galaxies, as San Francisco's ubiquitous sign-toting icon Frank Chu had been hospitalized after a late June fall at a BART station, but he is now mostly recovered. While he was at one point partially paralyzed, he’s now very much mobile and back on his beat.
A ruling by the Supreme Court allowing cities to crack down on illegal camping without necessarily providing shelter to the unhoused has even brought Berkeley's city council around to approving more unfettered encampment sweeps.
The 174-year-old “Abner Phelps House” at Oak and Divisadero streets is considered the oldest house in San Francisco, and it has just changed hands, with plans to make it the headquarters of local music promoter Noise Pop Industries.
The public defender representing the 17-year-old Tracy boy who's been charged with armed robbery and attempted murder in the August 31 shooting of Ricky Pearsall says that video evidence suggests the attempted murder charge should be dropped.
Australian developer Lendlease may not completely abandon its 47-story Hayes Point project after all, as SF city leaders are looking to cut a deal and let them out of an affordable housing requirement.
San Francisco police raided what appeared to be an illegal casino operation inside of one or more Tenderloin storefronts Tuesday evening, seizing 16 gambling machines.
Elon Musk doubles down on the creepiness of his already weird polygamist-baby-factory lifestyle by tweeting at Taylor Swift Tuesday night, following her endorsement of Kamala Harris.
A Tuesday search warrant on two East Bay homes in Richmond and San Pablo resulted in the discovery of more than 700 apparently stolen catalytic converters, as well as 1,100 pounds of copper wire, and $113,000 in cash.
The San Francisco Fire Department held its annual 9/11 commemoration ceremony; an arson arrest was made in a big SoCal wildfire; and somehow Trump never managed to drag "liberal San Francisco" while debating Kamala Harris.
An injury crash involving an overturned big rig that dumped a large amount of debris in the roadway closed all lanes of westbound Highway 24 in Oakland today, causing a major traffic situation.
We now know the day the L-Taraval trains are going to begin running again; the Giants are finally ditching those bizarre creamsicle-orange uniforms; and Dreamforce road closures have already started with the conference looming next week.
A Thursday night light show celebrating the public reopening of the Transamerica Pyramid will cover the east-facing side of the tower with an array of precision laser graphics.
The experiment moving the Valencia Street bike lanes to the center of the street was not a success, and SFMTA says they’ll be moving the bike lanes back to the curbside possibly as soon as January 2025.
