California will likely soon become the fifth state in the nation to ban students from using smartphones in schools, though the full ban likely would not go into effect until the 2026-27 school year.
A 27-year-old man was killed while working in East Oakland; a 20-acre brush fire destroyed several structures east of Petaluma Wednesday; and a rare bee not documented in 45 years has been spotted in the Bay Area.
Four people, including two bus operators, were injured in a crash of two Muni buses in the Bayview; a person was reportedly struck by a BART train in downtown Berkeley; and the final legal dispute over Salesforce Transit Center's construction has been resolved.
Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had choicer words than we realized for Donald Trump in the aftermath of the January 6th insurrection, calling Trump “a domestic enemy in the White House” and saying, “He’s gotta pay a price for that.”
A chef known for her Louisiana-style gumbo and po'boys is pivoting to selling zhuzhed-up hot dogs at a new Ferry Building kiosk that opens next week.
An outside firm has been hired to perform an audit of the 98 statues and monuments in SF, and recommend which ones should be removed or altered if they "no longer represent the values that we say the city stands for.”
And in the latest example of Donald Trump acting less like a president and more like a crude teenage boy, he reposted a joke on Truth Social that makes an off-color reference to both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
For the last two years, SF General Hospital has been proactively trying to limit ER visits and public episodes among meth users by providing them with an anti-psychotic drug called Olanzapine that’s being called “the next Narcan” for stimulant addiction.
Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday touted the success of the ongoing "surge" of California Highway Patrol officers doing added law enforcement in Oakland.
All charges have been dropped in the case against Marquise Cooper, one of four suspects who has been jailed in connection with the December 29 shooting death of Oakland police officer Tuan Le.
There’s pushback against the sex worker situation on both sides of the Bay, as the new Oakland Police chief is promising a coming crackdown on International Boulevard, while Shotwell Street residents have sued SF over sex work on that street.
A big rig struck a freeway sign on I-680 in Pleasanton; a Berkeley homeless man was arrested for killing another man; and one of the suspects in the beating of a Dublin High School student was reportedly a parent.
Tesla batteries are being blamed for a grass fire in Lafayette; Bay Area biotech giant Genentech will lay off nearly 100 employees; and pop singer M.I.A just took a hard Trumper turn a month before her Portola Festival performance in SF.
With the 2026 Super Bowl and several World Cup games coming to Levi’s Stadium, the 49ers say they’re sprucing the place up with plenty of enhanced 4K, 5G, and whatever amenities there are in the pricey luxury suites.
A San Francisco middle school in the Portola District, identified as serving one of the most food-insecure populations of students in the SF Unified School District (SFUSD), now has a free grocery market in the school, with the help of Amazon.
We don’t know why a parent and four other teens followed a high school student into a locker room and beat him up Friday, but the school’s principal is vowing that arrests are on the way.
A horrific wrong-way crash occurred Monday afternoon in which a pickup truck being driven by a Florida man collided head-on with a woman's Tesla, killing her and her 14-year-old passenger.
Faced with right-wing criticism that taking down false posts somehow “censored Americans,” Facebook-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg threw in the towel and said that his social media companies will be more hands-off with misleading posts.
A towering, illuminated sculpture of a nude woman, one of a series of three created for Burning Man by artist Marco Cochrane in the last decade, is set to make an appearance in SF's Union Square, pending final approvals.
Barni, a 5-year-old German shorthaired pointer whom you may have encountered while waiting in a TSA line at San Francisco International Airport, just won a prize for being cute from the TSA.
The SF Board of Supervisors put Amazon’s proposed Mission Bay “fulfillment center” in a two-year time-out, but that pause is now finished, and Amazon just unboxed their plans for the facility at Seventh and Berry streets.
We called it back in May, and it has come to pass: Chef Charles Phan is bringing The Slanted Door full circle back to its original digs in the Mission District, five years after closing the restaurant at the Ferry Building.
A person brandishing a weapon caused a major disruption at West Dublin/Pleasanton Station; the Kremlin is trying to calm fears about Telegram; and an SF homeless advocate says latest encampment sweeps aren't helping.
A 26-year-old man has been charged with arson in connection with the early July Thompson Fire near Oroville; an arrest has been made in Friday's homicide in Dublin; and Elton John has backed out of performing in SF at Dreamforce.
SF Mayor London Breed just un-endorsed the Prop D ballot measure to trim the number of commissions at City Hall, amidst continuing allegations that rival Mark Farrell is just using the Prop D contributions to finance his own mayor’s race.
