SoMa’s Buzzworks bar is planning a rooftop expansion; Dr. Fauci popped in to San Francisco for a chat about the early days of HIV; and the year's biggest heat wave yet appears headed to California next week.
Those 2,000 sea lions who’d crammed the docks of Pier 39 are now basically zero sea lions at Pier 39. But don't worry for them, they’re just off getting laid.
A queer- and trans-led alternate march, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, is planned for Sunday in the Castro, dubbed 'No Pride in Genocide.'
While Fat Joe may be the headliner of the event, Vallejo native E-40 is also on the card for a Friday rally for Joe Biden in swing state North Carolina after Thursday night’s highly anticipated presidential debate.
San Francisco plays host every June to one of the biggest LGBTQ gatherings in the world, reminding everyone that this city is still the epicenter of the queer universe — even if that universe has grown much bigger since the early days of "gay liberation."
Embattled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao may have received donations through a campaign money laundering scheme that could be the root of last week’s FBI raid of her home. But of the 93 alleged illegal donations, some may have gone to top Recall Sheng Thao backers too.
Norwegian DJ and music producer phenom Alan Walker, known for his hypnotic and high-intensity records, is about to send shivers down San Francisco's spine with his upcoming 'Horror House' gig on Halloween night at Bill Graham Auditorium.
It's not all peace, love, and mushroom tea in the Plumas National Forest, with around 500 members of the Rainbow Family gathering five miles north of Antelope Lake, and federal authorities are trying to kick them out.
A three-alarm fire broke out Wednesday night at a roofing supply warehouse in West Oakland, and the fire appeared to have started outside the building, possibly in a debris pile.
A tragic day today for firefighters in both Oakland and San Diego, as four-year veteran of the Oakland Fire Department Caeden Laffan died by drowning in San Diego at about 2 am Thursday morning, while attending the California Summer Firefighter Games.
A teen had to be rescued in Alameda after getting stuck in some shoreline mud; Tesla's been ordered to stop polluting; and the Supreme Court released another handful of big decisions, including one about the EPA.
Thieves used a car to ram and burglarize a cigarette store in SF's Richmond District; Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is fundraising to fight the recall; and a curious coyote wandered onto the Pink Triangle on Twin Peaks Tuesday.
The annual, unpermitted and outlaw Dolores Hill Bomb event is being advertised as happening on Saturday, July 6, and neither police nor event organizers appear to be changing their approach after last year’s fiasco that saw 81 minors arrested.
Isn’t the unpermitted sale of bacon-wrapped hot dogs the most victimless crime imaginable? The SF Giants and the city’s Department of Public Health feel otherwise, and have launched a new wave of enforcement against the hot dog carts.
BART is planning to run trains every five minutes through San Francisco starting Sunday morning, in what it says is its "most robust service ever" for San Francisco's Pride Parade.
It hasn't exactly been the most organized and controversy-free event of the Pride Season, but this year's Dyke March is apparently coming with some extra organizational turmoil.
Apparently every member of the Bakersfield Hells Angels chapter was arrested in an early Tuesday morning raid of eight different Southern California locations, conducted by 150 various law enforcement officers.
A potential legal battle between the developer and owner of the Transamerica Pyramid and the high-end private club that was supposed to become a main tenant there makes it sound like all is not well with this partnership.
The Supreme Court may be sidestepping a thorny abortion case, but the result appears will be that a lower court's pause on Idaho's near-total abortion ban will continue.
Another COVID-19 outbreak in the correctional system, as SF County Jail is seeing a spike with 42 prisoners currently infected, though the highest numbers of infections are being reported at the County Jail No. 3 facility which is in San Bruno.
The East Bay city of Antioch is struggling with too few cops and too many sideshows, but its city council just unanimously passed a ban on advertising, promoting, encouraging, or even watching a sideshow.
A BART maintenance vehicle derailed early Wednesday near 19th Street Station in Oakland, and this has led to some emergency work and the halting of some service out of Richmond.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of social media companies and the Biden Administration with regard to curbing misinformation online; BART has halted Red Line service; and Santa Rosa is dealing with a large power outage.
An Alameda County prosecutors’ union voted “overwhelmingly” to endorse recalling Pamela Price; a new elementary school slated for Mission Bay might be nixed over budget problems; and SF’s only dedicated Harley-Davidson dealership has closed.
An ambitious affordable housing for teachers was set to bring 63 housing units to a bedraggled abandoned building at 18th and Mission streets, but the federal funding was denied, and the project is now delayed indefinitely.
