SF Board of Education President Lainie Motamedi abruptly resigned from the board Friday morning, citing "health and personal circumstances," and Mayor London Breed is already swearing in her replacement.
Joseph Emerson, the former Alaska Airlines pilot who attempted to shut off an SFO-bound plane's engines as he rode in the cockpit last fall, due to a bad and extended mushroom trip he was on, has given a new TV interview.
Mayor London Breed won the coveted SF Police Officers Association endorsement Thursday, but members of the union are grumbling off the record that there was no real vote, and claim that there’s more support for Mark Farrell among the ranks.
A two-alarm fire broke out overnight at the defunct ButtercuP diner in Oakland's East Peralta district; one man was fatally shot in East Oakland last night; and sea lions are being sickened by toxic algae on the California coast.
Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema has released its 2024 schedule; three people were injured when an AC Transit bus hit another vehicle; and the cancellation of Hiero Day has many complaining about unpaid bills.
Robotaxi company Cruise currently has its California permits suspended, but they are definitely plotting their comeback, and just announced they’re partnering to offer self-driving Cruise rides on the Uber app.
Firefighters in San Jose rescued an injured and unconscious cat in a house fire this morning which also left a firefighter with injuries.
Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover was largely financed by a secret group of wealthy investors. Those investors’ names are now public, and the list includes Jack Dorsey, Larry Ellison, and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
Merchant Roots, which for six years has been delighting in-the-know diners with theatrical, wildly imaginative culinary experiences on a variety of themes, has just made a move to a massively bigger space — though dining experiences will remain intimate, affairs, with only two seatings per night.
The latest skullduggery in the SF mayor’s race has Google search results for Mark Farrell that make it look like prominent local publications ran headlines declaring “Don’t Trust Mark Farrell.” But the headlines are fake, and the Lurie campaign appears to be paying Google to manipulate them.
The scope of activities happening in downtown San Francisco on the first Thursday of every month just got bigger with UNSTAGED, a new Mid-Market block party being put on by Market Street Arts. And it will turn the F-line streetcar into a boistrous, mobile jazz venue.
If you need another bone to pick with PG&E, they cut off the power for the beloved senior dog rescue operation Muttville, and the disruption in electricity is apparently resulting in elder dogs being euthanized instead of getting a chance at a new home.
A crash and subsequent battery fire earlier this week involving one of Tesla's semi trucks that shut down I-80 in both directions for most of an entire day is now being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board.
BART police made an arrest Tuesday of a felon with a loaded handgun; a domestic incident leads to a man's death in San Leandro; and BART was experiencing delays early Thursday.
A man found dead inside a Richmond manhole was apparently stealing copper wire; charges were filed against two people in a Hayward freeway shooting; and one of SF's craft breweries has announced its closure.
It is illegal for the Mayor of San Francisco to hold a second job. So is it odd that Mark Farrell got paid more than $100,000 by his employer, just hours before being sworn in as interim mayor in 2018?
Fulfilling their pledge to put on three free concerts in the city this year, Another Planet Entertainment has just announced what the second one will be, and it's Portugal.The Man.
Heads up, those who ride Muni’s K, L, M, and S lines — the West Portal and Forest Hill stations, and all of the Twin Peaks Tunnel, will be closed for eight whole days, effective Thursday morning.
A teenage boy was reportedly shot Wednesday afternoon during the third day of the new school year, not far from Galileo High School.
In an effort to flex some muscle on a national stage and counter the Republicans' tired narrative about San Francisco being a hellhole, billionaire Chris Larsen and Mayor London Breed threw an SF image-boosting party on Night Two of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
At one point last year, neighbors were trying to get Bissap Baobab’s alcohol license revoked because of music playing past 10 pm. But the Senegalese restaurant won that fight, and now can stay open until 4 am on Friday and Saturday nights.
A live broadcast of 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' Tuesday night in Chicago with House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi as a guest was interrupted several times by pro-Palestinian protesters in the audience.
It was last August when an under-construction Hayes Valley building caught fire, with many speculating that people camped just outside the site caused the fire. Construction has gone nowhere since, and neighbors are alarmed that squatters appear to have moved in, and it could just burn again.
A man and a woman are both in custody in connection with a quadruple shooting outside an East Oakland apartment complex Saturday morning that left two people dead, and two others wounded.
Over 20 people who had been living in RVs near Stonestown have been given permanent housing; Aaron Peskin lays out his plan for homelessness; and a 71-year-old hiker goes missing.
