The MacArthur Fellows for 2024 have been announced, and among them are San Francisco-based disability justice activist and writer Alice Wong, and onetime SF resident and famed cabaret performer Justin Vivian Bond.
An early September arrest of a hot dog cart vendor at the Embarcadero is still in the news because of the very rough physical tactics used, but the SFPD just released body cam video they claim shows the woman assaulted a city employee, and coerced a little girl to cry.
Madame Tussauds, which had operated the longtime wax museum at Fisherman's Wharf for the last decade, has permanently closed up shop, and this staple attraction of the Wharf for several generations is no more.
After street bollards and barriers chased the sex work scene off of Capp Street, but merely moved that activity over to Shotwell Street, the SFMTA has voted to bring the barriers to Shotwell Street too.
The 1960-built Department of Motor Vehicles office and its parking lot at the tip of the Panhandle in San Francisco will be redeveloped as affordable housing, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Thursday.
A medical emergency shut down some BART service in the East Bay Wednesday night; Eric Swalwell endorses the recall of Pamela Price; and this week's heatwave has gotten an extension.
SF mayoral candidate Mark Farrell failed to disclose a large loan for the purchase of his home four years ago; the eventual developer of the Coliseum site says it is not behind on any payments to Oakland; and a Bank of America outage that freaked out customers is being resolved.
Is it a “success” when your company rakes in an all-time record $6.6 billion venture capital round, but expects to lose nearly that same amount of money this year? Welcome to SF’s new AI economy, where OpenAI just raised the largest VC round of all time.
More than 100 workers at Amazon’s Toland Street warehouse in SF’s Bayview District have voted to unionize, though the hard part will be getting Amazon to recognize or negotiate with the union.
A drug kingpin who pleaded guilty to supplying street-level dealers in SF's Tenderloin with about two tons (1775 kilograms) of meth and cocaine between June 2018 and his arrest in 2019, fled the country while out on bond three years ago. But he was found, extradited, and has now been sentenced.
A very tall new residential tower may still rise at the site of the former Honda dealership at Market and South Van Ness, with the developer submitting revised plans to the city for the long-stalled project.
29-year-old Mikala King, and her five-year-old son King Scott, were last seen in Oakland on September 24. Both have disappeared since, and the Oakland Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating them.
An ex-boyfriend of fashion designer Calvin Klein became roommates with a gay couple in Santa Rosa during the pandemic, then started dealing meth out of their house, then got arrested and sent to prison for two years, and now he's suing because he wants his stuff back.
San Francisco's rules targeting people who live in parked RVs on the streets are about to tighten up, as the SF Municipal Transit Agency has approved a law to tow people’s RVs if they refuse an offer of shelter.
A person was killed while asleep in a sleeping bag in Berkeley's Aquatic Park, and one suspect has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.
It’s the second incident in two weeks where misbehaving pedestrians effectively held someone hostage in an SF Waymo, as two bros stood in front of the self-driving car and persistently demanded the phone number of the woman riding it.
A 68-year-old woman required rescue from a beach in Monterey County on Monday; some of Dianne Feinstein's jewelry and other belongings are going up for auction; and many Bay Area schools are getting through this heatwave without air conditioning.
Giants legend Buster Posey was introduced as the team’s new president of operations; there was yet another fire at a troubled Potrero Hill affordable housing complex; and Tuesday was the hottest day of 2024 (so far).
It was a supervisor-on-superintendent pile-on Tuesday afternoon, as the SF supervisors unloaded on embattled SFUSD superintendent Matt Wayne over a $20 million hole in the special ed budget, which was revealed to be nearly $30 million.
The Cal Golden Bears will be in the national spotlight Saturday as ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ will be broadcast live from Berkeley for the first time ever, but if you want to get your sign on TV, you better get there by 6 am.
Various competing interests have killed multiple bills in the California legislature over the last decade that would have allowed specific cities to grant licenses for liquor service past the longtime 2 am cutoff. But one LA assemblymember has gotten one tiny carve-out passed in her district.
The first two Portola Music Festivals in 2022 and 2023 elicited widespread noise complaints, particularly from residents on the island of Alameda — who said they were kept up with rattling windows and unpleasant, dubstep-borne bass vibrations all weekend.
The state attorney general has filed a lawsuit against Humboldt County's Providence St. Joseph Hospital for refusing to provide an emergency abortion on a night when the mother might have died without one.
Almost exactly one year after a high-profile crash on San Francisco's Market Street in which an automated Cruise vehicle dragged a woman for 20 feet before stopping, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued a fine and a consent order to the GM-backed company.
The rich kids are fighting in the SF mayoral race, as the Republican-leaning money man behind the political group Neighbors for a Better San Francisco is not pleased with Daniel Lurie’s mailer attacks on Mark Farrell’s dubious campaign finances.
