Proving again that tech executives can always fail upwards, the CEO that ran self-driving car company Cruise into a ditch, Kyle Vogt, has just been handed $150 million for his new venture called the Bot Company that claims it will eventually develop robots to do household chores.
Restaurateurs in California are very nervous about how their businesses will fare when they have to stop adding surcharges to customers' checks and either raise menu prices or lower wages, or both, starting in July.
Neighbors in the vicinity of the new, very much anticipated, long-delayed Trader Joe's at Fulton and Laguna streets in Hayes Valley have been noticing some very well-stocked shelves and refrigerator cases in recent days. And now we have the official word on the opening.
Self-driving car company Waymo may have its time in the barrel coming just like the now-suspended Cruise, as the NHTSA is probing 22 separate crashes and safety incidents with their cars. Oh, and Amazon’s Zoox is being investigated too.
A scheduled May 20 debate among mayoral candidates by two tech-funded advocacy groups has been making Mayor London Breed uneasy, and as of Tuesday, she is officially pulling out.
The Emporium Centre San Francisco, formerly known as the Westfield San Francisco Centre, continues on the vacancy train with the announcement of the July closure of American Eagle Outfitters, one of the larger remaining stores in the mall.
Tuesday morning’s unveiling of San Francisco's WNBA expansion team name and logo did not disappoint, as we learn that the team will be the Golden State Valkyries, with a kick-ass Bay Bridge-inspired purple logo.
The food lineup for this year's Outside Lands just dropped, and it includes a slew of past festival favorites, along with several notable newcomers to the fest from the local food scene.
Protesters are sitting in on the San Jose State campus as of Monday; a protest arrived at a fundraiser for North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman in Sonoma; and succession drama roils a family-owned winery in Napa.
An SF man with six prior convictions has been arrested for an April murder in Oakland; gas prices in CA could go up 50 cents next year; and VP Kamala Harris dropped a very public F-bomb Monday in a conversation with a comedian.
The so-called “drug testing for welfare benefits” law that SF voters passed in March will not actually involve drug testing, but instead be based simply on what people answer on a questionnaire.
A new dataset suggests that while SF still lags way behind New York and other cities in terms of daytime, mid-week foot traffic, people are now frequenting bars and restaurants in downtown SF almost at pre-pandemic levels.
Former KTVU anchorman Frank Somerville, who has had a rough couple of years battling alcoholism and losing his prime local media gig, has been sentenced in connection with a drunken domestic incident in Berkeley last June.
The venerable San Francisco-based jeweler Shreve & Co. just announced they’re closing up their Union Square shop permanently, though watch and necklace enthusiasts can clean up on 60% off liquidation sales starting this Friday.
A jury in Alameda County on Monday reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Joseph Roberts, who was accused in the killing of his girlfriend, 27-year-old Rachel "Imani" Buckner — whose dismembered torso was discovered on the Alameda shoreline last summer.
A black smoke cloud spread over the San Francisco Bay on the Sunday afternoon of Mother’s Day, as a reported lithium battery fire broke out at the Port of Oakland.
The summer music festival lineup news continues with a weekend leak of the Portola Festival lineup, which turns out to have been real and was confirmed by festival organizers Monday morning.
There are reports that new tech industry darling OpenAI is working on an AI-powered search engine they hope will overtake Google, but the company’s ballyhooed Monday announcement did not show anything that will have Google shaking in their shoes.
It's been over 18 months since David DePape, the man who violently assaulted former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul in front of two police officers in October 2022, admitted to the crime. But the wheels of justice grind slowly forward.
One person was injured in a fire at the Broadway Hotel on Polk Street Sunday morning; a prominent East Bay political couple was killed in a SoCal car crash; and hundreds gathered at Glide Sunday for a memorial for Rev. Cecil Williams.
Above-average snowpack in the Lake Tahoe basin has helped to fill up Lake Tahoe, which will be able to meet water demand for the next three years.
A judge ruled that California's lawsuit against billionaire Vinod Khosla over the beach he bought and closed off to the public can proceed; hundreds of pro-Palestinian protestors disrupted UC Berkeley's graduation; and a second night of the Northern Ligths were visible in the Bay Area Saturday.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying to balance the state's budget deficit by cutting spending and leaving jobs open; the Feds want to sentence Paul Pelosi attacker David Depape to 40 years; and President Biden is back in the Bay to fundraise (again).
A rare solar storm could bring some visible Northern Lights to the corners of the Bay Friday overnight; Oakland is finally getting a new permanent police chief this weekend; and a fire in Japantown injured two people Friday morning.
This 13-month-old giraffe from Louisiana has a new home at the Oakland Zoo, but he doesn’t have a name yet. You can now help name the towering teen in a naming contest that runs through Monday.
