Check out these events around the Bay Area to celebrate Cinco de Mayo; but watch out for increased police patrols to prevent sideshows; and a 3.4M earthquake struck the Humboldt County coast Sunday morning.
Drawn to giant schools of anchovies and herrings in the Bay, record numbers of sea lions are stopping by the SF waterfront before heading to SoCal to mate, to the delight of tourists and locals.
Saturday's rain was almost an inch in downtown SF, but should clear out by nighttime; a woman was busted for running an illegal gambling ring in the Tenderloin; and a rat infestation shut down an Oakland McDonald's.
Governor Gavin Newsom plans to reopen the collapsed portion of Highway 1 near Big Sur by Memorial Day weekend; a police standoff with a suspect in the North Bay has shut I-80; and you can adopt pets for free at SF and Berkeley shelters this weekend.
Some shows are made or broken by their lead actor, and that is certainly the case with 'Funny Girl', the recent Broadway revival of which is now on tour and opened this week at SF's Orpheum Theatre.
The Slanted Door is no more (at the Ferry Building at least), Go Duck Yourself is open for dining in Bernal Heights, and a new "beach bistro" is coming to the Outer Sunset.
SF Mayor London Breed’s latest gambit to get you to please go downtown and spend money again is her new proposed “entertainment zone” where establishments can sell alcohol to street patrons, and the first of these could be on the Financial District’s Front Street.
This year’s annual “Tri-Pawed Picnic” meetup for three-legged dogs hopes to unleash an all-time record, as the event is gearing up to set the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of three-legged dogs ever in one place.
It’s a baby falcon bonanza this spring for those who love fluffy little raptors, as a second peregrine falcon livestream is now up and running from a nest on Alcatraz, and the mama falcon there was actually born to Berkeley falcon Annie in 2018.
House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is receiving the highest civilian honor from President Biden at the White House Friday afternoon, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Saturday's 25th annual How Weird Street Fair will not be held on Saturday, as organizers suddenly blame a bad weekend weather forecast, and will “postpone” the event until maybe June.
Two San Jose police officers engaged in a shootout Thursday night with a suspect which left the suspect and both officers injured.
SF Mayor London Breed said that funding would be added for City Clinic in her proposed bond measure; the USPS is offering a reward in connection with a mail carrier robbery in Oakland; and thousands turned out for Downtown First Thursdays.
The wife of the doctor who drove his family off a San Mateo cliff is asking the court for leniency; a big new UC Berkeley student housing complex will be given an Ohlone name; and Golden Gate Park’s beloved annual LED forest Entwined has its closing party Saturday.
There are more questions than answers about the hanging death of 34-year-old Randy Dudley, whose body was discovered hanging from a tree at a Bernal Height park Tuesday morning, but authorities have made a preliminary ruling that it was a suicide.
Onetime District 6 supervisor candidate and longtime veteran of City Hall, Honey Mahogany, is joining the London Breed administration as the new executive director of the Office of Transgender Initiatives.
The EPA, state Attorney General, and SF Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board just dropped a combined lawsuit onto the City of San Francisco, claiming the city has allowed “more than 1.8 billion gallons of untreated sewage” to flow each year into the Bay and Pacific Ocean
Well this sounds pretty meth-y. A Sonoma County man who had asked police to get him an ambulance because he was having a panic attack allegedly ended up stealing that ambulance and taking it for a crazed trip through Santa Rosa.
There's tempest in a pint glass brewing over pint-sized patrons being brought to breweries and taprooms, as a social media flare-up reignites the debate over parents who bring their kids into drinking establishments where minors are legally allowed.
While some restaurateurs are still making big bets on downtown, Charles Phan has, after several years of foot-dragging, made it official that he is not reopening The Slanted Door at its longtime Ferry Building space.
LGTBQ health advocates, along with City Clinic doctors and members of the Harvey Milk Democratic Club are rallying today outside the clinic on Seventh Street to protest Mayor London Breed's omission of clinic funds in a proposed bond measure.
A former attorney and Mormon bishop in Vacaville is on trial for the sexual abuse of his then-11-year-old adopted daughter, and other church associates are giving some pretty damning testimony on the witness stand.
A fire broke out Thursday morning at a residential building on Jackson Street near Leavenworth in SF's Nob Hill neighborhood, and it was disrupting cable car service.
The LAPD cleared the encampment at UCLA early this morning after facing heavy resistance; a tussle broke out at the UC Berkeley encampment Wednesday night between two opposing groups; and the Bay Lights are set to come back on on the Bay Bridge next March.
Evan Low has beat out Joe Simitian in the recount of their primary congressional race for second to go against Sam Liccardo in November; crime is trending down in Oakland so far this year; and Pamela Price is calling for a state probe into the recall backers' funding.
