Mayoral candidate Mark Farrell's record on addressing homelessness is thin, though he's trying to use it as a campaign tentpole; that Trump fundraiser raised $12 million; and a 71-year-old woman was fatally mauled by a black bear in a small Sierra County town.
We now know where that Union Square Nintendo store is going to be; San Franciscans are suddenly smoking less weed than they have in years; and MAGA masses are in the Marina to cheer on Trump — but they’re met by a giant Trump Chicken in a prison jumpsuit.
The latest attempt at a crackdown on illegal street vending is a law that hopes to separate the legal, permitted vendors from the folks just selling stolen stuff, and the legal vendors on Mission Street say it’s a step in the right direction.
The fashion of Mr. David Couture and the fashion icon Juanita MORE! will hold a free fundraiser for LYRIC this Friday at SF’s Saks Fifth Avenue, as Juanita has now raised a staggering $1 million for local charities over the last 30 years.
A standoff has been going on for much of Thursday forcing the closure of a block of 24th Street in San Francisco's Mission District, and it involves a possibly armed suspect.
Bay Area VC billionaires and podcast bros will roll out the red carpet for convicted felon Donald Trump Thursday night at a Pacific Heights fundraiser, a sign of the increasing commingling of political “moderates” with full-on Trumpers.
The state law that was set to take effect next month outlawing all "junk fees" charged to consumers, which was set to upend the practice of adding service and healthcare charges to restaurant checks, might be moot where restaurants are concerned.
The trial of accused Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape is barely underway, and the judge in the state trial has just dismissed the three most serious charges against him, siding with public defenders who had argued for this.
The California Supreme Court has ruled in favor of UC Berkeley and against a neighborhood group in a lawsuit that was testing the boundaries of the state's environmental review laws for new developments.
Oh mylanta! The Lower Pac Heights house that served as the exterior of the household on famed sitcom ‘Full House’ is back on the market for $6.5 million, and apparently they’ll throw in vintage concrete slabs that have Bob Saget and John Stamos’s handprints on them, for an undisclosed extra price.
A man was fatally shot in Dolores Park Wednesday night, in a rare event for the area but neighbors say they have been asking for more police presence around the park.
The two young men convicted for the 2019 murder of a Roman police officer are having their appeal heard; Visa has moved into its new offices in Mission Rock; and SF Pride puts out a statement saying there is "no Israeli float" in the Pride parade.
A wildfire broke out in St. Helena that is threatening structures; racist and sexist slurs were spray-painted on the front of SF City Hall; and protesters showed up at a Democratic fundraiser in Oakland where Kamala Harris was appearing.
Despite the collapse of the so-called “NFT restaurant” that was supposed to come to Salesforce Transit Center, and the broader flame-out of the NFT and Web3 boondoggles, someone still thinks that an NFT-only members club in SoMa can appeal beyond a shrinking subset of crypto bros.
Runway 28L at SFO, which has been closed since mid-January while construction crews have been making design improvements to two taxiways that should hopefully mean higher safety standards for planes moving around the airport.
The acclaimed LBGTQ musical ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ finally gets its San Francisco run at the Victoria Theatre, with Katya Smirnoff-Skyy in a hilarious and crowd-pleasing Pride Month production.
San Francisco's queer nightlife world and San Francisco at large lost an icon Tuesday night. Miss Gina LaDivina, a longtime performer at Aunt Charlie's, The Stud, and Oasis has passed. The cause reportedly was complications from cancer.
Associate Chronicle restaurant critic Cesar Hernandez has lodged one notable difference of opinion with former critic Michael Bauer, who continues to make restaurant recommendations on Instagram.
The happy hour live shows at The Page will continue, as the SF Entertainment Commission granted the bar a Limited Live Performance permit on Tuesday — though a few neighbors showed up to complain that the music is too damned loud.
An alarmingly large wild hare (or rabbit?) was rescued by CHP officers Sunday night on Highway 17, likely from a terrible fate on that busy roadway.
Yes, the three-story-tall inflatable Trump chicken has been dusted off and will be re-inflated Thursday in SF, wearing a black-and-white prison uniform, in an act of protest of Trump appearing in SF to collect some money from some Silicon Valley billionaires who have lost the thread of reality.
A child drowned in Alameda Creek on Memorial Day, and despite the efforts of the first responders, that child died at the hospital. We’re now learning she was 11-year-old Dana Nino Gonzalez.
Pro-Palestinian protesters took over the office of Stanford President Richard Saller this morning; a prominent Yosemite rock climber has been sentenced to life for sexual assault; and a free grocery store has opened in the Bayview.
Today’s heat wave is likely to continue into Wednesday; a free grocery store is coming to the Bayview District; and all four of this year’s rapidly growing Berkeley falcon chicks have now taken flight.
There’s some community outrage over how the building owner whose rent increase did in Capp Street bar The Uptown is now himself opening a bar there, in what looks like an owner move-in eviction of a nightclub.
