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.
The same day that we hear about signs of life at a large residential project at Van Ness and Market, another long-stalled, presumed-dead development project on Divisadero appears to be stirring awake as well.
Saying Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok are causing “significant mental health harms for adolescents,” US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is calling for public health warning labels on social media sites and apps, not unlike the warnings placed on packs of cigarettes.
A number of Antioch Police Department officers are facing federal charges over racist texts and violent behavior on the job, and the city just cleaned house of many of them, with a total of 13 officers either being fired or resigning because the hammer was about to come down on them.
A long-stalled residential tower slated to go into a lot at Van Ness and Market, which we thought was completely dead, may get revived by a new developer who is now taking a fresh look at the project's feasibility.
A big blow to kids who hoped their family connections would get them into a prestigious college could be coming as one of Assemblymember Phil Ting’s last bills on his way out of office would ban legacy admissions at universities statewide.
There's often a hefty amount of "Why didn't the police do anything?" talk when footage of the latest sideshow comes out, and police frequently respond that unruly crowds can get dangerous for officers, especially lone officers, when they try to intervene on the party.
Cal Fire firefighters are contending with multiple large wildfires across the state that all broke out over the weekend, and it seems like fire season is already in full swing, though it's still mid-June.
A group of Stanford students walked out of their graduation in protest of the war in Gaza; an SF venture capitalist is snapping up a group of Sonoma properties from an embattled investor; and the other half of Harvey Milk Terminal 1 opens to travelers today.
A 71-year-old woman became the first person in recorded California history to be killed by a black bear last fall. Following an investigation and interviews with people who know her, we now know the bear had been hanging around in the vicinity and stalking the woman's home for a while.
One person was fatally shot early Saturday on Wiese Street in SF's Mission District; parts of Solano County are under a Red Flag Warning; and BART riders witnessed a scuffle over a gun on Saturday afternoon at 24th Street Station.
A security guard at a Fremont CVS was fatally shot on the job; Capitol Police will pay the SFPD to guard the Pelosis' house; the former Westfield mall movie theater may not be vacant for much longer.
A Visitacion Valley park is being renamed for an 89-year-old woman who was killed there; former Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf has some skeletons in her political closet coming back to haunt her; and the potential Muni strike has been averted as the union just approved a new contract for operators.
That venerable, inimitable, sloppy palace of bad decisions The EndUp was born 50 (and a half) years ago, and they're now getting around to celebrating — appropriately kinda late — with a Union Square takeover dance party.
We’ve heard rumors for two years about an alleged wrench-beating laid on an Asian firefighter in SF by one of his colleagues, but the victim is now speaking out, and the tale involves an apparent department cover-up, a 75 MPH car chase, and the wrong guy getting fired.
Is it a good idea to have three kilos of cocaine and 600 grand in cash sitting in your van at 17th and Shotwell streets? Probably not, and two people learned that the hard way in a recent Mission District drug bust.
Those bright neon yellow- and green-jacketed street ambassadors are on the chopping block in Mayor Breed’s new proposed budget, as she’s calling to phase them out by 2026 to save a few dollars, but supervisors are furious because they think that program really works.
The nearly seven-year saga of a Whole Foods trying to move into the long-vacant Best Buy at Anza Vista’s City Center plaza could be ending with a fizzle, as the Amazon-owned grocery chain themselves appears to be pulling the plug on the project.
San Francisco police say they arrested a juvenile in connection with a Tuesday night shooting near Civic Center that occurred inside a corner store that is at the center of a potential Tenderloin crackdown.
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling that overturns a Trump era ban on bump stocks, largely because it was done by a federal agency and not by Congress. In writing for the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas notes that the late Senator Dianne Feinstein predicted this would happen.
Federal law enforcement is expanding its 'All Hands on Deck' initiative in SF's Tenderloin; there was a vigil Thursday for a hit-and-run victim in Bernal Heights; and two female Apple employees are suing over gender-based wage gaps.
Looks like more layoffs are coming at Twitter/X; the California legislature is poised to pass what they know is a completely bogus budget; and more Boeing airplane trouble as a plane did an inadvertent “Dutch roll” flying into Oakland
Mayoral candidate Mark Farrell just filed his paperwork to run for mayor on the November ballot, and curiously asks to be called “Small Business Owner” even though his venture capital firm has $100 million to throw around.
Former employees are spilling the beans on the extravagant spending and head-scratching decision-making by now-fired Bay.org CEO George Jacob. He’s hired former SF supervisor Angela Alioto as his attorney, but that may be little help as the feds are reportedly sniffing around.
