Humphry Slocombe is closing its original Mission District scoop shop, the owner of El Faro is selling the business after a series of break-ins, Bun Mee opens in the Marina, and Alice Waters gets a special honor in DC, all in This Week in Food.
The latest Trump attack ad claims one of the 2007 Chauncey Bailey killers “should have been in jail” when Bailey was killed. But the reality is that the office of then-SF DA Kamala Harris did put that suspect in jail for a year.
After being fenced off for years, the 2.5-acre India Basin Waterfront Park at 900 Innes has its grand opening Saturday, and will eventually be part of sprawling 65-acre park that hopes to rejuvenate Bayview and Hunters Point.
The mentally ill homeless man who stands accused of killing a 74-year-old woman at the Powell Street BART Station in July remains hospitalized and has not entered a plea. And now the Chronicle has dug into this criminal record, which is extensive.
SF's 33 new speeding-detection cameras will begin issuing warnings in February, tickets in April; more details emerge about the mother and son found dead in Antioch; and a new Costco just opened in Napa.
SFPD is going to shuffle its local station boundaries; a judge has declined to recuse DA Brooke Jenkins from the Golden Gate Bridge protest case; and a new set of tiled stairs is about to be unveiled in Glen Park.
The key witness for the prosecution is likely going to be a reluctant one, as Khazar Momeni made her first appearance on the witness stand Thursday and appeared to want to defend her brother, who stands accused of first-degree murder.
Matt Wayne, the embattled superintendent of San Francisco schools, is handing in his resignation, two days after Mayor London Breed lashed out and called for a halt to the school-closure decision process, and said she'd lost confidence in the superintendent.
With the SFMTA looking at a $214 million deficit and potential service cuts, a ragtag band of riders came up with Prop L, which would tax Lyft, Uber, and Waymo rides to effectively bail out Muni.
SF Standard owner Michael Moritz trashed Supervisor Aaron Peskin in the NY Times yesterday. Today we get some insight into why, as a Telegraph Hill condo project Moritz is backing just had its applications canceled, though mostly because of a missed deadline.
A teacher has been placed on leave following complaints from parents at a school board meeting in Cupertino that their four-year-old children were being taught overly complex ideas about gender identity and expression.
The City of San Francisco finds itself in an odd position arguing a case before the Supreme Court that seeks to push back on the way the Environmental Protection Agency enforces the Clean Water Act.
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao gave an interview to the Chronicle, claiming the FBI has informed her she was not a target in the raid on her home, and insisting that the recall effort against her is 80% funded by one donor who does not even live in Oakland.
Antioch police made a gruesome discovery Wednesday afternoon when they were performing a welfare check at a home near the DeltaFair Shopping Center.
Thursday marks the 35th anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake, which happened on October 17, 1989, amid a World Series that pitted the Bay Area's two baseball teams, the Giants and A's against each other.
In what appears to be Santa Clara County’s first guilty verdict in a transgender domestic homicide case, a 25-year-old Union City man was convicted of killing then-24-year-old Natalia Smüt Lopez of San Jose.
Bay Area fire departments are setting up "strike teams" to prepare for possible wind-fueled fires; Aaron Peskin shoots back at Michael Moritz's op-ed; and those new BART fare gates have come to 16th & Mission Station.
A Tuesday morning stabbing behind the Walgreens in the Castro left a man in critical condition; a good friend of Bob Lee testified at the Nima Momeni trial today; and the SFPD made an arrest in a July homicide at 16th and Mission.
As sexual assault accusations pile up against the now-jailed Sean “Diddy” Combs, the newest of these comes from a woman who says Combs raped her in Orinda in March 2018.
Halloween falls on a Thursday this year, which in the Castro basically counts as a Friday, but don't expect any big block party or street closure — neither of which has happened in nearly two decades.
When the NY Times confronted JD Vance over an old email where Vance said “I hate the police,” Vance claimed he was venting his frustration with SFPD over a car break-in. But the Chronicle found that the break-in happened several months after Vance sent the email.
After only two years as the boutique Line Hotel, the 12-story hotel portion of the building at 950 Market Street that also houses the Serif condo development is going to become a Hilton property as of December.
A woman is in critical condition following a shooting Tuesday morning in the Mission District, and police are looking for four male suspects.
The BART system continues its ridership dregs due to remote work and persistent three-day work weeks, and it may come begging for a tax increase, but Muni just scored its highest monthly ridership numbers since before the pandemic.
For the second time in two years, billionaire Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz has taken to the New York Times Opinion pages to spout off about San Francisco politics, and this time his aim seems to be to ensure no one includes Aaron Peskin on their ranked-choice ballots.
