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Fourteen people were injured, one of them critically, in a shooting Wednesday evening after a fight broke out during an unsanctioned Juneteenth gathering by Lake Merritt in Oakland — which also devolved into a sideshow. This is the second Juneteenth shooting in Oakland in three years.
The annual rise in COVID infections is arriving along with summer gatherings as it has before; Sonoma County sees an 11% uptick in homelessness; and Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to ban cellphones from schools statewide.
A juvenile was shot and injured at 15th and Market streets Tuesday night; Assemblymember Matt Haney is being called out for lavish spending on sporting events; and the Club Q shooter has taken a plea deal on federal hate crime charges after previously pleading guilty in state court.
Recall-mania is back in 2024, as a group hoping to recall Mayor Sheng Thao has enough verified signatures to make the November 2024 ballot and possibly remove the embattled mayor.
Another trailblazing moment first for those who blaze up: Next month’s California State Fair will have legal cannabis sales and consumption, the first-ever state fair with pot being smoked legally on-site.
A fight is ongoing over SF Mayor London Breed's new proposed budget, in which she is attempting to cut the 14-year-old program Community Ambassador Program in order to close a major deficit.
The game commemorating baseball's Negro Leagues that is being played Thursday at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, which Giants legend Willie Mays had intended to attend in person before he passed away Tuesday, will be screened at Oracle Park for free.
After nearly a year of controversy, the SFMTA has decided to flip-flop the Valencia Street bike lane back to the old curbside design, but the new curbside bike lanes won’t be completed until January 2025 at the earliest.
The Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill now has a bigger Pride Flag — and a Progress Pride Flag at that — than the Castro's flying atop the building. And the Beacon Grand's is even bigger.
The “Say Hey Kid” and all-time greatest Giant Willie Mays passed away Tuesday at the age of 93, leaving a legacy of 24 All-Star appearances, countless broken racial barriers, and a statue at the SF ballpark by which he will always be remembered.
The city medical examiner has made a determination in the cause of death of 15-year-old Jázmin Pellegrini, who was found dead in the driveway of a home in San Francisco's Oceanview neighborhood in April.
A power outage caused a brief ground stop at SFO this morning; fog will move back in over SF and parts of the East Bay today and tomorrow; and the Point Fire in Sonoma County appears under control and is 50% contained.
Vandals destroyed an Oakland school garden planted by Steph & Ayesha Curry’s foundation; Elon Musk has yet another sexual harassment lawsuit on his hands; and the Polk Street Bob’s Donuts is moving to a different location after a landlord dispute.
It was literally a “lights out” performance, and not in a good way, on Monday night when the five major candidates running for San Francisco mayor debated at UC Law, and repeated technical glitches marred the night’s proceedings.
A judge on Monday ordered Paul Flores to pay $346,000 in restitution to the family of Kristin Smart, to cover expenses they say they incurred as a result of, and in the wake of, Smart's 1996 disappearance.
Convenience stores in a 20-block area of the Tenderloin will not be allowed to stay open between midnight and 5 am for the next two years, as City Hall says those corner stores “attract significant nighttime drug activity."
The sordid story of the faked 2016 disappearance of Redding housewife Sherri Papini, and her subsequent guilty plea in federal court to charges of lying to law enforcement and mail fraud, is now getting the documentary treatment on Hulu.
A tragic footnote to a high-profile police brutality case whose trial dominated SF headlines during the Chesa Boudin days, as we learn that the victim of a fatal Saturday shooting turns out to be the man who made news for being on the wrong end of an SFPD beatdown in 2019.
The second of three locations of Boichik Bagels made its debut Tuesday morning on Fillmore Street in Pacific Heights.
We have another story of a police chase that could have led to deadly consequences, only this time it appears everyone escaped uninjured.
An Orange County Tesla driver wasn’t actually driving his Tesla while cruising past the scene of a fatal car accident last week, and that Tesla in self-driving mode went and crashed into a police car.
It's been a wild few days for firefighters across California and in southern New Mexico, where at least a dozen wildfires have broken out, some of them fast-growing, fueled by dry conditions and high winds.
A group of people gathered for a Muslim prayer Monday for Eid al-Adha were harassed in SF; home values in Stinson Beach have exploded; and SF ranks dead last in a new study of the best- and worst-run cities.
A teen boy killed in Oakland has been identified as a Skyline High student; an American Airlines flight landed at SF with a damaged engine cover; and prominent SF landlord Mosser Capital apparently hasn't been paying its rent.
The Oakland B’s new mascot “Scrappy the Possum” is an obvious troll of the carpetbagging Oakland A’s, whose dilapidated stadium has a well-known possum problem.
