SF Mayor London Breed’s new tactic to reduce homelessness won’t be seen as particularly compassionate, as her latest executive order demands encampment sweeps where people are first offered a bus ticket out of town before they’re offered shelter.
There’s suddenly a terrible stench emanating from the Anchor Brewing Company building; Laguna Honda is finally admitting new patients again after its regulatory nightmare; and DJ Shortkut of Invisibl Skratch Piklz fame has been hospitalized after a severe stroke.
Don Lemon is suing Elon Musk over their canceled Twitter/X deal; we now know the identity of the Calistoga police officer who ran over a pedestrian with a police truck; and San Francisco retail vacancies just hit a new record high.
Wealthy SF mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie is millions of dollars ahead of his rivals in the fundraising race, according to just-released public information, but this revelation wrought a puerile pissing match between Lurie and Mark Farrell on Twitter Thursday.
A terrifying construction accident in San Mateo Thursday morning, as a trench collapsed and buried a worker in ten feet of dirt, though he has been rescued, hospitalized, and remains in critical condition.
The founder of the app IRL, which, pre-pandemic, sought to connect users with real-world events but later pivoted to online events and more social media features, has now been charged with fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
The hardly upscale corner store Buddies Market at Chenery and Diamond streets in Glen Park just produced a Powerball jackpot of nearly $1 million for a lucky customer, so it may be your corner store of choice for Saturday’s $171 million drawing.
A toy poodle named Papaya was killed by another dog while in a dog walker's care at a San Francisco dog park Tuesday morning.
Tensions are high among students, parents, and teachers in the San Francisco Unified School District, as the district has announced they’re going to close a number of SF public schools, and they’ll say which ones they’re closing in just a few weeks.
The ongoing Park Fire in Butte and Tehama counties has now destroyed 480 buildings and counting, according to the latest update from Cal Fire. And while the fire has progressed more slowly over the last several days, that may change as hotter, drier weather sets in.
Oakland's mayor and police chief held a town hall in an Oakland hills neighborhood; an 18-year-old was killed in a crash in Walnut Creek; and SF Marathon organizers are apologizing for a major error.
SFPD releases footage of fatal officer-involved shooting; BART's electrical fire on Saturday caused extensive damage; and Big Lots is closing 50 stores in California.
The SF Department of Public Health’s latest effort to prevent drug overdoses is employing local drag queens Kochina Rude and Nicki Jizz to lead a month-long outreach campaign to distribute fentanyl testing strips and teach people how to administer Narcan.
This sudden new trend of specific identifiable demographics doing online meetups for Kamala Harris has SF City Attorney David Chiu co-organizing a "AANHPI Men for Kamala Harris" call, and they’ve lined up stars Ken Jeong and BD Wong to join in.
As downtown San Francisco tries to party its way out of the lack of foot traffic and the office vacancy problem, Supervisor Aaron Peskin has introduced a measure that would streamline the permitting process to create more outdoor parties.
The tragic story of the Camp Fire in 2018 almost replayed itself last Wednesday night, when the single road in and out of Cohasset, a town about 12 miles away from Paradise as the crow flies, was blocked by a wall of flames.
San Francisco is the first city in the nation to ban AI software used to set rent prices, as the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved banning algorithms used to maximize what landlords charge for rent.
Luckily, at least for those of us in the Bay Area, most of the smoke from the massive Park Fire burning in four inland NorCal counties has not been blowing our direction — at least not yet. But smoke from the Pedro Fire, a much smaller fire that is burning near Modesto, is headed our way.
Two early morning fires in two days destroy commercial buildings in the East Bay; a man at the center of the BBQ Becky video has died; and SF's Castro Street is set to lose some palm trees.
The man accused of pushing a 74-year-old woman to her death at a BART station finally appeared in court; Lady Gaga got engaged to an SF tech executive; and Bayshore Boulevard 24-hour diner Silver Crest Donut Shop has closed, though perhaps only temporarily.
An unidentified 22-year woman was struck and seriously injured by a Calistoga Police Department vehicle Monday night, and the California Highway Patrol has taken over the investigation into what happened.
The former director of the SFPD’s now-dissolved nonprofit SF SAFE was arrested Tuesday on 34 felony counts, after reports of profligate misspending of public money on lavish parties, forged checks, and possibly her own rent. But did city officials get some of these gifts too?
A fungal infection that is becoming more common in California but was once rarely seen outside of Arizona and northern Mexico appears to have afflicted multiple attendees at the Lightning In a Bottle festival outside Bakersfield in May.
San Francisco's ever-shifting strategy to address the crisis of homelessness shifts again this week to an aggressive effort to clear encampments off of streets and push individuals to accept shelter and/or substance abuse treatment.
An NBC Bay Area report in May detailed that 25% of SF school crossing guards said they or their school children had nearly been hit by self-driving Waymos, and now Mayor Breed is promising to hold the Google subsidiary more accountable.
