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.
Nopa chef-owner Laurence Jossel is teaming up with fishmonger Joe Conte to open a new seafood restaurant and fish market at the Ferry Building, and it's called Nopa Fish.
We now know the identity of the woman who was fatally shot in East Oakland last Wednesday, as 33-year-old mother of eight Maria Ramos was shot while attempting to confront a group of alleged drug dealers.
The Pacifica man accused in the July 2023 stabbing of a woman inside an apartment in San Mateo has been declared mentally incompetant to stand trial.
Despite a current budget shortfall, the San Francisco Symphony is nonetheless contemplating a major redesign and expansion of Davies Symphony Hall in the coming years.
While the two-alarm fire on Oakland’s Ninth Street was contained pretty quickly after starting around 5:30 am Wednesday morning, the building no longer has power, and 38 residents are currently without a place to live.
A Rome-bound flight out of SFO was diverted to Sacramento for unknown reasons; a person was fatally shot on Wood Street in Oakland; and SF political figure Jon Jacobo has been released from jail to house arrest.
The 49ers may be on the verge of trading wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk; a shady billboard campaign is attacking Supervisor Connie Chan; and a wildfire in Marin County grew as large as 30 acres but has since gotten smaller.
Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s rambling Twitter Spaces interview Monday night is making more news, as the United Auto Workers union has now filed federal labor charges against both of them for saying striking workers should be fired.
An adaptive reuse project involving a historic building in Pacific Heights, which will add 24 units of housing to the neighborhood, is looking at a 20-percent uptick in construction costs and a two-year delay because of legal challenges from a single next-door neighbor.
There will be no more moons over your hammy in San Francisco, as the city’s last remaining Denny’s restaurant at Fourth and Mission streets closed up shop permanently on August 1.
