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.
If you happen to catch a glimpse of Salesforce Tower just after midnight this month — and from dusk until dawn during Pride Week — you will see the giant head of drag queen Peaches Christ, and a video of her silhouette dancing.
The $400 million makeover of the Transamerica Pyramid is nearly complete, and while we don't know too much about the new restaurants on the way, we've got some new details about the renovation.
All five major candidates for San Francisco mayor faced off Wednesday night in their first proper debate of this year’s mayoral race. All stuck tightly to their pretty wonky scripts, but the crowd let loose on the candidates (and the moderators) with booing and heckling.
Elon Musk has often said that Tesla is an AI company, and not just a car company, and now some shareholders in Tesla want to hold him to that.
There's some good news on the retail front for San Francisco, with the Union Square-adjacent Emporium Centre San Francisco having signed seven new leases in recent weeks to fill some of the abundant vacancy in the troubled mall.
A preliminary hearing has concluded, and a Santa Cruz County judge has concluded that there is enough evidence to put 54-year-old Theodore Lengyel of El Cerrito on trial for the murder of a Capitola woman he was in a relationship with.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of upholding women's access to mifepristone; there was a fatal motorcycle crash on westbound I-580 in Livermore causing a major backup; and the Oakland City Council approved the sale of the Coliseum complex.
Caltrain says its electrified trains will be launching on September 21; an SF supervisor introduces legislation to try to save Queer LifeSpace in the Castro; and Alaska Airlines will begin service out of SFO's Harvey Milk Terminal 1 next week.
A 20,000-square-foot warehouse near the Golden Gate Bridge will be transformed into a gigantic disco roller rink for the Church of 8 Wheels’ first-ever Skate Week in July, and wait ‘til you see the faux stained-glass windows they’ll be decorating the place with.
Some 100 of the eventual 400 law-endorsement license-plate readers coming to San Francisco are already up and running, and SFPD says they're making arrests on the daily with the data these are bringing in.
Sony Pictures Entertainment just bought up all 35 locations of the boozy and boutique movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse, including the New Mission theater on Mission Street, after the chain had previously declared bankruptcy in 2021.
A young model whose image was used by artist Patrick Nagel for the illustration that adorns the cover of Duran Duran's seminal 1982 album 'Rio' has been revealed after years of sleuthing, and she lives right here in the Bay Area.
The dread “two red line” COVID test results are showing up at rates we haven’t seen since January, as the new FLiRT variants and a surge in travel are creating another summer increase in COVID-19 cases.
One man was injured in a shooting Tuesday morning in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood; another man was stabbed in the Mission District Tuesday evening, and the suspects in both crimes remain at large.
Embattled Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price seemed to be trying to quash rumors when she insisted in a new statement that three alleged gang members accused in an April 2023 freeway shooting that left a five-year-old girl dead will indeed be prosecuted.
The SF Board of Supervisors on Tuesday signed off on Mayor London Breed's plan to raise $25 million to bring some pandas over from China to reside temporarily at the San Francisco Zoo.
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted to make the city a sanctuary for transgender people; a new poll finds Mark Farrell leading in the SF mayor's race; and In-N-Out has raised its prices in California to cover the state's minimum-wage requirements.
The SF Board of Supervisors approved Mayor Breed’s controversial police commission pick; billionaire Chris Larsen wants to give SFPD $1 million; and 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey will grace this year’s popular ‘Madden’ video game cover.
The naming-things-after-Dianne-Feinstein movement is not letting up just yet, and California's two senators just introduced a bill to name a federal building in San Francisco after her.
Nearly one year and plenty of controversies into the center-running bike lane on Valencia Street, the SFMTA has had enough of the complaining, and will consider moving the bike lane back to the curb side at next week’s meeting.
The Castro Theatre’s marquee and neon sign will be lit back up and fully restored next Wednesday night, as part of the Frameline Opening Night block party that will also feature a screening of the new Lil Nas X documentary, and you don’t even need tickets to this free community event.
It was almost inevitable given how paltry the number of local finalists were, but the James Beard Awards were on Monday — the chef and restaurant portion of the awards, which span multiple nights — and SF got nothin', once again.
With crime a hot-button issue in the upcoming November elections, both SF Mayor London Breed and President Joe Biden can tout that crime has decreased significantly in the last six to twelve months. But they may have a tough time convincing voters of that.
In his ongoing quest to convince the world that OpenAI is up to no good and that only he can build the world's best and most ethical generative AI models, Elon Musk sounded off on Xitter Monday in the wake of Apple's announcement that it is partnering with OpenAI.
