What started as a bookish academic kerfuffle has blown up into a larger scandal of financial mismanagement, and the CEO of the SF Aquarium by the Bay and Bay Institute has stepped down as reports surface that he blew huge money on lavish travel and concerts in Dubai.
San Francisco police are touting a new round of pointless arrests that they made last week during an eight-day operation to discourage sex work in a section of the Mission District where it has basically existed, undeterred, for three decades or more.
A 36-year-old man is under arrest after allegedly striking a female pedestrian with his bicycle in North Beach Wednesday and then fleeing the scene.
Two workers at the Contra Costa County Fair were robbed at gunpoint; UC Berkeley had a big power outage; and the Justice Department is now suing Live Nation for having a monopoly on ticket sales.
A suspicious death Friday in the Tenderloin is being investigated as a homicide; an 18-year-old UC Davis student has gone missing in SF; and police in Atherton's employ "bait houses" to nab burglars.
Frameline 48 just announced the full schedule for its 2024 LGBTQ+ film festival in June, and as promised, Opening Night will be that free outdoor screening of the new Lil Nas X documentary.
It’s not new news that RFK Jr.’s vice-presidential pick Nicole Shanahan is wealthy because of her gargantuan divorce settlement from Google co-founder Sergey Brin, but the NY Times dug into her past to find “cocaine, ketamine and psychedelic mushrooms” use, and an affair with Elon Musk.
You may have noticed if you've Googled something in the last week that the search results page on the site is now topped with an "AI Overview" that purports to answer whatever question you may have been trying to get answered. The trouble is, some answers can be blatantly wrong.
A new investigative report shows that one in four San Francisco school crossing guards have had a “close call” with a self-driving vehicle, though many of the other guards say that the autonomous cars drive better than people do.
The owner of two historic Fisherman's Wharf restaurants that closed in recent years, Tarantino's and No. 9 Fisherman’s Grotto, is suing the city of San Francisco for millions of dollars, blaming multiple factors including pandemic closure orders for the restaurants' closures.
San Francisco's Cow Hollow neighborhood invites bold spirits, creative souls, and unapologetic foodies to the upcoming 46th Union Street Festival.
The wealthy conservatives of the Bay Area who remain insane and greedy enough to want Trump back in the White House will get to gather at the Pacific Heights lair of one of Trump's biggest local champions, David Sacks in early June.
With the Oakland Raiders long gone and the Oakland A’s having one foot out the door, the deficit-strapped City of Oakland just struck a deal to sell their 50% stake in the Oakland Coliseum to the African American Sports & Entertainment Group for more than $100 million.
It was clearly just a stunt from the outset, but now that 50-story tower that was proposed to be built near SF's Ocean Beach has been officially taken off the table.
California cities are scrambling to comply with state-mandated housing element goals, and they may be scrambling too hard, as a state committee is going to audit whether the goals are too demanding and the penalties too harsh.
In his latest bid to regain a position in city government, former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong has announced that he is now running for a city council seat in November.
A San Francisco man was arrested in Pacifica for burglarizing businesses; an SF Sheriff's Dept. exercise involving chemical agents impacts kids at a nearby school; and Shasta Lake has filled up for the second year in a row.
A new French bistro has opened in the Castro’s former Catch space; Noe Valley businesses are up in arms over some upcoming street construction; and three new baby bison are now strolling with their herd at the Oakland Zoo.
It’s still up to the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control whether Another Planet Entertainment gets the liquor license they want for the Castro Theatre, but the SF Board of Supervisors recommended they do so, and we got a look at their application.
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The ex-husband of Park Tavern owner Anna Weinberg, James Nicholas, has signed a lease to take over the restaurant's space in North Beach, and it will be reborn as Park Tavern this fall.
Assemblymember Matt Haney’s latest attempt to bring Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes to California just overwhelmingly passed the state Assembly, and hopes to avoid getting vetoed by Gavin Newsom as it was last year.
A house fire that broke out on the same block as the famed Painted Ladies gutted a two-unit building, and it happens to be the home of a longtime neighborhood dog-walker who was recently targeted with racist threats.
Did OpenAI think it was cool to try to turn 'Her' into reality with the help of voice actor Scarlett Johansson?
As parent company Disney pushes for budget cuts, Pixar Animation Studios is going forward with some previously announced layoffs, primarily impacting staff working on series production for Disney+.
A 13-year-old boy is facing murder charges over a fatal stabbing that occurred at the San Leandro Safeway on Bancroft Avenue, and San Leandro police arrested the young suspect while he was at school.
