The city medical examiner has made a determination in the cause of death of 15-year-old Jázmin Pellegrini, who was found dead in the driveway of a home in San Francisco's Oceanview neighborhood in April.
A power outage caused a brief ground stop at SFO this morning; fog will move back in over SF and parts of the East Bay today and tomorrow; and the Point Fire in Sonoma County appears under control and is 50% contained.
Vandals destroyed an Oakland school garden planted by Steph & Ayesha Curry’s foundation; Elon Musk has yet another sexual harassment lawsuit on his hands; and the Polk Street Bob’s Donuts is moving to a different location after a landlord dispute.
It was literally a “lights out” performance, and not in a good way, on Monday night when the five major candidates running for San Francisco mayor debated at UC Law, and repeated technical glitches marred the night’s proceedings.
A judge on Monday ordered Paul Flores to pay $346,000 in restitution to the family of Kristin Smart, to cover expenses they say they incurred as a result of, and in the wake of, Smart's 1996 disappearance.
Convenience stores in a 20-block area of the Tenderloin will not be allowed to stay open between midnight and 5 am for the next two years, as City Hall says those corner stores “attract significant nighttime drug activity."
The sordid story of the faked 2016 disappearance of Redding housewife Sherri Papini, and her subsequent guilty plea in federal court to charges of lying to law enforcement and mail fraud, is now getting the documentary treatment on Hulu.
A tragic footnote to a high-profile police brutality case whose trial dominated SF headlines during the Chesa Boudin days, as we learn that the victim of a fatal Saturday shooting turns out to be the man who made news for being on the wrong end of an SFPD beatdown in 2019.
The second of three locations of Boichik Bagels made its debut Tuesday morning on Fillmore Street in Pacific Heights.
We have another story of a police chase that could have led to deadly consequences, only this time it appears everyone escaped uninjured.
An Orange County Tesla driver wasn’t actually driving his Tesla while cruising past the scene of a fatal car accident last week, and that Tesla in self-driving mode went and crashed into a police car.
It's been a wild few days for firefighters across California and in southern New Mexico, where at least a dozen wildfires have broken out, some of them fast-growing, fueled by dry conditions and high winds.
A group of people gathered for a Muslim prayer Monday for Eid al-Adha were harassed in SF; home values in Stinson Beach have exploded; and SF ranks dead last in a new study of the best- and worst-run cities.
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.
