A new wildfire broke out early Wednesday in the Sierra foothills; the Park Fire is now 34% contained but continues burning to the northeast; a group of RV-dwellers were shuffled away from an area near Stonestown in SF.
Idris Elba has canceled his DJ set at Outside Lands; longtime local political figure Jon Jacobo pleaded not guilty to sexual assault; and the latest calls for Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao to resign come from the city’s police union that has always hated her anyway.
So-called “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk apparently thinks that free speech means forcing advertisers to buy ads on his website by suing them, as his latest lawsuit has sued advertisers for pulling their ads from his platform.
20-year-old Walnut Creek product Amit Elor just became the youngest American ever — man or woman— to win an Olympic Gold Medal in wrestling, after Tuesday’s gold medal win was her 41st consecutive victory.
In-N-Out has filed an application to take over a former Burger King in South San Francisco, adding to your In-N-Out pitstop options just south of the city.
A yet-unidentified pregnant woman in San Mateo was killed Sunday, and the police department there identified her 33-year-old boyfriend Andrew Coleman as the suspect. He was arrested five hours later in West Covina, seemingly attempting to flee.
Adrian "A.J." Gonzalez, who was 15 when he confessed to the sexual assault and killing of his 8-year-old neighbor Madyson "Maddy" Middleton in 2015 in a Santa Cruz apartment complex where they both lived with their parents, never stood trial for the murder. But that is about to change.
Effective today, the self-driving taxi cars of Waymo are giving paid rides into Daly City and Colma, but they still can’t drive on US 101 or I-280, and they cannot drive you to the SF International Airport.
The biggest-spending political group in SF, Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, was hit with a $54,000 fine for failing to disclose payments in the Boudin recall campaign, and now we learn that Brooke Jenkins got $175,000 for her “volunteer” work in the recall campaign.
A BART alert Tuesday morning said that there were delays on BART in the East Bay direction out of SF due to a disabled train in the Transbay Tube.
For the first time since Michelin began publishing dining guides for the Bay Area, 25-year-old fine-dining institution Gary Danko has lost its Michelin star. But on Monday night, the tire company and venerable restaurant-guide producers bestowed new stars on four San Francisco restaurants.
Perhaps looking to counter the "San Francisco liberal" label that Republicans insist on giving her, VP Kamala Harris has selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate in the 2024 election, according to multiple sources.
Three people were shot and injured in West Oakland on Monday; conflicting events at the Coliseum and Oakland Arena Saturday created a horrific traffic jam; and another heatwave will hit some parts of California today.
Onetime rising political star in SF, Jon Jacobo, has now been charged with rape and sexual battery; Kay Jewelers at Stonestown was hit with a smash-and-grab robbery Sunday; and Nancy Pelosi suggests adding Biden to Mount Rushmore.
The new gig is not currently working out too well for former Oakland Chief of Police Anne Kirkpatrick, as she apparently ran her car into two pedestrians in New Orleans on Saturday night.
Google has been declared "a monopolist" in a landmark decision that may shake things up in Silicon Valley. The decision came down Monday in US District Court for the District of Columbia.
The African American Sports & Entertainment Group will soon become the full owner of the Oakland Coliseum, as they bought the City of Oakland's ownership share of the Coliseum earlier this year, and they just bought the other half from the departing Oakland A’s.
While there was some suggestion that Xitter might let go of just a portion of its longtime office space at what quickly became known as The Twitter Building over a decade ago, it looks like Elon Musk is finally getting out of SF for good.
There was a fatal shooting in the Mission District early this morning, and this is now the third death by gun violence in the Mission in less than a month, and the fourth since mid-June.
According to a new Muni survey, 72% of riders rated the city’s public transit service as “good” or “excellent,” though that comes with the catch that the more frequently people ride Muni, the less satisfied they are with it.
The new and supposedly more aggressive sweeps of homeless encampments are turning into a familiar game of whack-a-mole, as new tents are reportedly popping right back up in areas where city workers have cleared encampments.
For years now, food events purporting to have unlimited free beer tastings and tacos have been luring in unwitting festivalgoers around the Bay Area, who apparently didn't do much Googling before wasting their money on the latest version in SF on Saturday.
A shooting or shootout with multiple gunmen likely involved took place in the early hours of Sunday morning near the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland during an illegal sideshow.
A San Jose police officer was killed in the line of duty Saturday; SF's Dahlia Dell in Golden Gate Park has a new hillside section; and RFK Jr. gets even weirder with new revelation about dumping a dead bear cub in NY's Central Park.
Firefighters now have the Park Fire 30% contained; a wave of attacks is hitting a senior housing complex in Oakland; and the annual World Dog Surfing Championships on Saturday saw intrepid dogs surfing on some ruff waves.
