It's once again about time for Apple's annual, post-Labor Day product launch event, and this year it comes with a semi-big new product, with a lot of caveats.
The now-defunct Tropicana Las Vegas resort and casino has been sentenced to death by implosion on October 9 so the carpetbagging Oakland A’s can try to build a stadium there, and the destruction will come complete with "a drone and fireworks show."
The Burning Man Census for 2023 is now out, just as Burners are arriving on the playa for another late-August week of revelry in the Black Rock Desert. And many of the demographic trends seen in the 2022 census are continuing.
An unidentified Alameda County Fire Department officer has been placed on administrative leave after a TikTok video showed him confronting a driver and calling that driver a “dumbass Mexican” who was “going to work some f***ing lawn job.”
An off-duty Oakland police officer or two appeared to have taken an Oakland Police Department boat out for personal use on Saturday, along with their significant others and at least a couple of children, for a trip up to Tiburon.
The motorbike gangs were particularly brazen on both sides of the Bay Sunday afternoon, halting traffic on the Bay Bridge, allegedly robbing a store in Oakland, and creating bedlam in the Castro, Mission District, and North Beach.
There was a death reported Sunday in Black Rock City, on the first full day of this year's Burning Man festival, and so far the only detail released is that the victim was female.
Oakland police are investigating the shooting of a driver who ultimately crashed their car Monday morning; a hardware store in SF's Parkside neighborhood was damaged in a fire; and Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France.
A San Jose restaurant is selling super-cheap burgers; Kamala Harris is erasing Berkeley from her history; and an invasive tree-killing beetle has been spotted in the South Bay.
In Vallejo, one person is dead after a sideshow early Saturday morning that included lasers, drones, cars drifting around a ring of fire, and guns fired.
The City of Oakland has yet to make a single payment on the vehicle in the 16 months since acquiring it, according to reporting published earlier this week from The Oaklandside.
The gates into Black Rock City were temporarily closed Saturday due to rain; Berkeley's new dorms were funded by a family with pro-Israel ties and that is causing controversy; and Sunnyvale has made yet another push to solve its housing crisis.
A San Leandro woman may be charged with homicide in the fatal shooting of her boyfriend; the California College of the Arts is facing a $20M deficit: and a man was caught on camera jumping onto a Waymo's hood and blowing kisses.
You won’t see this TV ad in California, but it’s all over the swing states, dredging up a 2008 incident where an undocumented immigrant whom Kamala Harris released on drug charges committed a purse-snatching that ended in the victim’s skull being fractured.
Less than a month after the SF Board of Supervisors banned a rental price algorithm tool from being used here, the company called RealPage that makes that tool was just sued by the US Department of Justice for illegal price-fixing.
Julius' Castle could finally be getting close to a reopening after 12 years of teases, sandwich spot Limoncello is expanding to Civic Center Plaza, and three new restaurants have been announced for vacant spaces in Stonestown Galleria.
We are just three weeks and change from one of the highest-profile murder trials in recent memory in San Francisco, that of Nima Momeni for the April 2023 murder of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee.
Even though some of the biggest Silicon Valley venture capitalists are jumping on the Trump train, the Project 2025 that would apparently guide a second Trump term says that tech companies "prey on children, like drug dealers."
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.
