The SFFD put out a fire inside an industrial building in the Bayview; workers on the Alcatraz ferry went on strike over the holiday weekend; and Steph and Ayesha Curry just had a fourth child.
A massive fire broke out at the Economy Lumber warehouse in East Oakland Sunday night, sending thick smoke billowing over the city.
Neighbors had a block-party fundraiser Sunday for the fire-displaced family on Grove Street; an SF man was shot and critically wounded in Oakland; and 50 residents of a senior care facility in Oakley were displaced by a sewage leak.
Scientists are trying to figure out what's behind a dramatic rise in dead, stillborn, and malnourished sea lion pups, in the Bay Area and along the West Coast.
The lowriders were on parade this morning in the Mission for Carnaval; the Chronicle delves into a new wage-theft complaint at Horn Barbecue; and Bradley Cooper and Steph Curry were tossing cheesesteaks into the crowd at BottleRock.
Rich SF mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie said Friday that he will opt out of public financing for his campaign; a man was convicted for molesting a high schooler on a Muni bus; and Napa's Bottle Rock music festival is starting this weekend.
Alex Honnold set a new solo speed record on the longest route on El Capitan, the Salathé Wall; police used less-lethal force on a man carrying around a rifle in the Bayview on Thursday; and Kaiser medical residents in NorCal are unionizing.
The San Francisco 49ers organization agreed to cough up more money to the City of Santa Clara by settling two lawsuits, but the city bizarrely must still pay for “buffet service” for 49ers fans in the most expensive seats, and there’s a new $4 charge on Levi’s concert tickets.
A woman who was struck and injured by a cable car in Russian Hill in December 2022 has won an $11 million settlement.
Outta Sight Pizza expands to Chinatown, Bettola gets set for opening in the Inner Richmond, and Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan pans Tadich Grill but says 60-year-old Scoma's on Fisherman's Wharf is still keeping quality high.
A terrible week gets even worse for SF’s Aquarium of the Bay and its parent nonprofit Bay.org, as the aquarium just lost its accreditation with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, amidst an almost-daily array of other scandals for the nonprofit.
In an eery sign suggesting that Trumpists and fomenters of civil war are everywhere among us, a flag that was flown by January 6th insurrectionists, and recently by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito made an appearance this week atop a building in San Francisco's Jackson Square.
Mario, Luigi, and Pokémon are swooping in to hopefully save San Francisco’s Union Square, as the video game giant Nintendo just announced they’re taking over one of the many vacant retail spots in the beleaguered shopping district sometime in 2025.
Graduation ceremonies went terribly wrong at Skyline High School in Oakland Thursday night, as a shooting after the ceremony left three people injured, and one suspect has reportedly been arrested.
There were traffic situations in both the eastbound and westbound directions on the Bay Bridge Friday morning, with a semi truck's trailer fully engulfed in flames just east of Yerba Buena Island.
A 70-year-old Oakland woman who disappeared while hiking near Fort Bragg was located Thursday; the candidates for mayor of SF all gather for a Milk Club forum; and a group of Valencia merchants want the SFMTA director to resign.
Berkeley's famed baby falcons now have names from their naming contest; Alcatraz ferry boat drivers might be going on strike soon; and Memorial Day weekend travel volumes are expected to meet or exceed the all-time record.
Three deaths are being investigated as homicides in San Francisco, all of which occurred since last Friday.
This weekend kicks off the third year in a row for the Beer and Wine Garden in Golden Gate Park, but this year they’re serving cocktails too, and renaming it “The Whale’s Tail.”
If this has happened to you, then you know what an incredible pain it is to get Meta to help you get your account back. And some states' attorneys general are pushing back.
The 25th anniversary How Weird Street Faire was abruptly postponed not even 48 hours before its gates were scheduled to open in early May, but the festival has announced it will be held on September 21, 2024, with an “Autumn Equinox” theme.
The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously today in favor of an insurance company in a case involving pandemic-related closure orders and whether property loss insurance could be applied to address economic losses from a virus.
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.
