The temperatures have been above 90 degrees pretty much every day of July in Santa Clara County, and the marathon heat wave is believed to be responsible for 19 people dying from the heat there since July 1.
Oakland's Temescal has a new oyster bar, Cow Hollow sports bar Final Final has new owners and will be getting a slight makeover, and a new ceviche and michelada shop is opening next week in the Bayview.
A rash of recent sideshows in the tony neighborhood of Pacific Heights has led the city to install speed bumps to prevent the motor mayhem at Divisadero and California streets.
A confluence of factors, including heightened fears and risks of wildfires in a national forest that has seen several devastating ones in recent years, led to an outsized response from local and federal authorities to the arrival of the Rainbow Family campout this year.
The kid, now a 29-year-old man, who rappelled into a luxury car showroom in San Francisco in 2011 and drove off with celebrity chef Guy Fieri's yellow Lamborghini, and then later fired a gun at romantic rival, was granted parole on Thursday.
It could be a sign of financial trouble for Musk’s Twitter, and it’s definitely a bad sign for downtown SF’s office space recovery, that the social media company just put all 800,000 square feet of its Ninth and Market headquarters up for sublease.
On Friday, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that charges had been filed in the case of an alleged kidnapping of a 17-year-old girl that took place at a BART station last week.
All AT&T cell customers likely had their call and text records breached; that Australian businessman found in an SF hospital may not have met with any violence after all; and California's mountain ranges could see dry lightning strikes this weekend.
The FBI has unsealed their criminal complaint against an alleged Berkeley arsonist; we have fascinating new insights into how the neighborhood Dogpatch got its name; and the annual Grace Cathedral laser light show begins again Thursday night.
It’s the silver anniversary faire la fête of the French discotheque Bardot A Go Go’s annual Bastille Day Party this Saturday, and its co-founder looks back on 25 years of crepes, cigarettes, and 1960s period apparel.
A 36-year-old man who’s apparently not fond of self-driving robotaxis allegedly went on a tire-stabbing spree against them, and stands accused of slashing Waymo tires 17 times in a three-day span, though the cars’ cameras caught him on video.
An elderly woman with a history of homicidal tendencies toward roommates who made too much noise at night has been charged with the fatal beating of a woman who was her roommate at a nursing facility in San Jose.
A prankster has added some stickers to signs to better represent the range of activities that go on on Shotwell Street, which is a designated Slow Street with city-installed signage.
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Noël Wise is in line for a big promotion to the federal judiciary, and as such, was lambasted by attention-seeking Republican senators Wednesday. But she’s still likely to be confirmed by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
A shootout late Monday night/early Tuesday near 16th and Mission streets led to a four-car crash and left one individual dead.
A well known, criminally violent individual who has roamed the streets of the Castro for years was seen on camera last week assaulting a tourist and then getting taken down by a nudist bystander.
In a very public rebuke of Alameda County DA Pamela Price, Governor Gavin Newsom has suddenly yanked the extra state attorneys he’d offered to Price, saying, “Your office has yet to make use of these resources.”
An Alameda man allegedly went on some kind of domestic rampage Wednesday night, killing his wife, son, and his wife's parents, and also shot and injured another young son.
A Los Angeles man was arrested two weeks ago after he was caught by the TSA at SFO trying transport six kilograms of methamphetamine to Australia.
The influential Bay Area Council has surprisingly come out in favor of California Forever's Solano County plans; Scott Peterson is back in court today; and a luxury penthouse in Pac Heights has dropped its asking price significantly.
A 17-year-old girl was reportedly kidnapped from the Powell Street BART station Tuesday night; the Bohemian Club is facing another lawsuit from employees; and the Pelosis have been buying up Nvidia stock.
There’s a towering new statue between the Ferry Building and Pier 1 of a nine-foot-tall woman dressed in jogging apparel, and the work “As Sounds Turn to Noise" will be there on loan from a gallery in Los Angeles for the next six months.
Yes, the menu looks like a Playbill for a musical called 'Dogs,' styled after Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Cats,' and many of the drink names are, also, spoofs of character names from 'Cats.'
California is experiencing much the same summer COVID upturn as the rest of the nation, and there’s some evidence that the symptoms of the new virus variants now include gastrointestinal issues too.
In an unfortunate turn of events, Pixar is continuing with layoffs at its Emeryville animation studio in the same month that its latest release is smashing box office records and raking in cash at theaters worldwide.
