Two people have died and two others were critically wounded this afternoon by a gunman, according to the Oakland Police Department. The violence, which authorities say arose from a verbal altercation, occurred somewhere on 83rd Avenue.
Gov. Newsom signed a bill that aims to crack down on retail theft; an Oakland bookstore that recently burned down has seen an encouraging crowdfunding campaign; and William Shatner is in the Bay Area this weekend.
Rich with history, the SF Giants and Oakland A’s ‘Bay Bridge Series’ will play out its final iteration on Saturday and Sunday, as the A’s will play in Oakland for only another six weeks.
The NY Times just dropped a massive exposé on our favorite butt of jokes Shen Yun, but there’s nothing funny about the fact that the troupe is sitting on more than $250 million, while paying its dancers $12,000 a year and forbidding them from getting medical treatment.
This week on the SF food scene, Fikscue Craft Barbecue and Kayah by Burma Love are coming to the Chase Center's Thrive City, and The Brixton is revamping its food menu.
A Sacramento man has pleaded no contest to the January 2023 murder of Julio Chavez-Montoya, a 63-year-old building maintenance man who lived in a downtown Oakland office tower.
There was a very rare black bear attack on a human being on Monday in Tuolumne County, but the 24-year-old jogger who suffered the attack has since reportedly been released from the hospital.
This spring and summer have been part of a very active season for sideshows on both sides of the Bay. And while some communities are passing new laws to crack down on these stunt-driving events, SF police have just seized several vehicles they say took part in one particularly wild sideshow in June.
Allegedly “in the coming weeks,” you’ll be able to upload your California driver’s license and present it digitally in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, that is, if you consider getting your ID out of your wallet to be some terribly time-consuming task.
A woman was killed after crashing into a tree along I-280 in Daly City on Friday morning.
The Park Fire is now 49% contained; BART's board just voted on a contract to build a big new BART Police headquarters in Oakland; and San Jose State has converted a hotel in San Jose into a dorm.
Renowned local chef Dominique Crenn’s Paris restaurant has closed after just a year; Mark Farrell got the highly coveted firefighters’ union endorsement in the mayoral race; and you’ll soon be able to flash your ID on Google Wallet or Apple Wallet.
The first government lawsuit against websites and apps creating deepfake AI nude images of people is coming from right here in San Francisco, as City Attorney David Chiu is suing the top 16 purveyors of fake nude images created without the subjects' consent.
It’s the first time in 14 years that Burning Man hasn’t sold out before the event, and tickets are still available with T-minus ten days until the gates open, after last year’s mucked-up nightmare where people couldn't leave.
A raft of criminal cases, at least one of which involves the death of two pedestrians in San Francisco, are being tossed out after an appellate court ruling that chided the city's courts for still using the pandemic as an excuse for unconstitutional trial delays.
A September production of Shakespeare's 'As You Like It' is full-steam ahead at the California Shakespeare Theater, after an emergency fundraising drive launched in July succeeded in covering a $350,000 budget shortfall.
The renowned 47-year-old tattoo parlor Ed Hardy’s Tattoo City will be closing at the end of 2024, as its legendary founder Don Ed Hardy is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
A man who was accused of murdering his boyfriend inside the apartment they shared in Hayes Valley in late 2017 has taken a plea deal, and he's been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
A mother of five was roughed up in a recent jaywalking arrest, and now there’s video of the incident, so she says she's going to sue SFPD for leaving her with a concussion and a separated shoulder.
There's been some bad luck on nonstop United flights to Rome out of SFO this week, with two now having had to divert after takeoff for different reasons.
CHP officers found a body Wednesday night not far from SF General; the SF firefighters' union is backing Mark Farrell for mayor; and Colin Kaepernick is apparently thinking about becoming an NFL coach.
Tech giant Cisco is laying off around 6,000 employees; Nancy Pelosi says she is losing sleep over the fact that President Biden is mad at her; and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is opening a new location in the Bay Area.
What would have been the biggest housing bond in California history has already been yanked off the ballot three months before the election, and Bay Area voters will not be voting on a $20 billion affordable housing bond in November’s elections.
Tired of sideshows and reckless driving, residents of Oakland’s San Antonio neighborhood put tires filled with rocks and dirt in their streets as a deterrent. The City of Oakland quickly removed them.
It's a promising sign for the ongoing fentanyl crisis in San Francisco, as for the second month in a row the city counted a decreasing number of unintentional drug overdose deaths.
