Mayor London Breed on Tuesday announced and swore in San Francisco's new interim fire chief, Sandy Tong, who takes over after the sudden retirement of Chief Jeanine Nicholson.
Last week CNN ran a report detailing that more than 50 very nice houses in Antioch were just giant hidden illegal pot grow operations, with no one living in the houses. Now it turns out one of those homes is owned by an Oakland police officer.
A stabbing Sunday in the NoPa neighborhood led to an alleged rampage by a suspect in a vehicle, including hit-and-run collisions, and an ultimate confrontation with police.
Charges should be filed today or tomorrow in the shooting of Ricky Pearsall; there was an increased police presence in Union Square Sunday and Monday; and a Spare the Air Day has been declared for Tues. and Wed.
Mayoral candidate Mark Farrell engaged in some political opportunism vis a vis Saturday's shooting; Ricky Pearsall is out of the hospital; and slain hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin was mourned at events in Berkeley and Jerusalem.
Among the six hostages found fatally shot in a tunnel under the city of Rafah on Saturday was American citizen and Berkeley native Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose parents have spent the past eleven months advocating for the hostages.
A major hotel workers strike is set to begin; Sonoma County's biggest marijuana trade show is opening its doors; Lottery officials say a million dollar Powerball ticket was dispensed.
49ers rookie Ricky Pearsall was shot in Union Square Saturday after an apparent attempted robbery. He was rushed to Zuckerberg SF General Hospital, where he is reportedly now in "fair" condiition.
A young girl in San Francisco was rushed to the hospital yesterday evening after suffering a gunshot wound at her home on Chicago Way, a neighborhood on the southern end of the city.
Caltrain wants to offer youths a $1 fare; A once-loved San Jose lake is seeing cleanup efforts; Kamala Harris's housing plan might do more harm than good.
A battle over chicken farms is gripping Sonoma County; X is now suspended in Brazil; new vaccines for COVID variants have arrived.
Not even the ritziest enclaves of Contra Costa County are immune to having large-scale illicit marijuana grow operations, as a CNN report found three homes on the same street in Antioch were busted for not being homes, but instead enormous indoor pot grows.
There are actually several contingents of Burners heading to Ocean Beach Saturday to put on their own miniature versions of Burning Man, but one of them appears to be co-organized by former District 1 Supervisor Eric Mar.
In this week's food news, a new Peruvian-influenced spot comes to NoPa, The Brixton reopens with a new menu, and The Slanted Door is set to return to its old spot.
A house on SF's famous Lombard Street — the "crookedest" block of Lombard, in fact — has just hit the market, and it has some stories attached to it.
San Francisco Fire Department paramedics were called to Ocean Beach Friday morning after surfers pulled a paddle boarder out of the water who was floating and apparently unresponsive.
The Bay Area’s big Labor Day weekend street fair will be Sunday’s fourth annual Bizerkeley Food Fest, with samples and delicious dishes galore of eats “made by vegans for a meat eater's tastebuds.”
The two-year-old Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco is expanding and moving to a new space in San Francisco's Financial District, in a deal with a real estate investment firm.
The streets will be closed to cars and the beer steins flowing at Oktoberfest on Front, as the Oktoberfest block part will be California’s first alcohol-drenched “entertainment zone” party under new legislation.
A Bay Area man posted a moving tribute to his son and ex-wife on Reddit, after they were both killed in a tragic collision Monday afternoon on a freeway in San Jose.
A man in his 70s was killed in a hit-and-run in East Oakland; Kamala Harris says she'd appoint a Republican to her cabinet; and a Castro business owner says he's fed up with break-ins.
49ers receiver Brandon Aiyuk just ended his holdout; Scott Wiener’s controversial AI safety bill has passed the state legislature; and they’ll begin installing BART’s jump-proof fare gates at 24th Street station starting Tuesday.
You may soon be able to stock up on cannabis at a discount price at your local farmers’ market, as the state legislature has approved a proposal to let growers sell there directly. Oh, and Matt Haney’s “cannabis cafe” bill has passed too.
Finally shedding the last vestiges of the company once known — and still often referred to — as Twitter, Elon Musk is shutting the operation down for good at the Twitter Building on mid-Market Street on Friday the 13th of September.
New federal indictments lay out a slew of insurance fraud charges against the co-owner of the Bayview’s notorious Specialty Towing, among them a charge that he loaded a tow truck full of four clunkers, faked an accident, and tried to collect full insurance.
