An unoccupied Waymo was reportedly hit in a hit-and-run collision early Monday just outside the Waymo dispatch lot at 14th and Folsom streets, and the suspects had apparently just stolen a car in SoMa.
A new report in the Washington Post says the SFPD is still using the facial recognition tools that it was banned from using five years ago, by just sending requests to other cities' police departments that are still allowed to use those tools.
An academic controversy has torn apart the 43-year-old environmental nonprofit the Bay Institute, with nearly the whole staff quitting because the president is publishing a book against their wishes.
The Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage will once again host a bevy of celebrities and celebrity-chef talent throughout the upcoming BottleRock weekend in Napa.
The high-speed rail expansion connecting the Fourth and King streets Caltrain station to the Salesforce Transit Center just got a major boost, as the Federal Transit Administration just kicked down $3.4 billion to make the project a reality.
The San Francisco Sunday morning tradition of Bay to Breakers reared its drunken head again for the 113th annual running of the race, with Dune, Barbie, and Tesla Cybertruck-themed costumed ridiculousness packing the streets.
A seriously injured driver was rescued Sunday after his vehicle's crash-alert system notified authorities of the location of his car, which had gone off a cliff on the Sonoma County coast.
David DePape, the 44-year-old man convicted in the October 2022 hammer attack on Paul Pelosi and sentenced last week in federal court, will see another sentencing hearing later this month due to a court error.
A 36-year-old man was shot while driving in downtown Oakland early Monday; one block in the Marina sees the city's most calls about blocked driveways; and Sam Altman says he can't eat out in public anymore.
Firefighters responded to a grass fire in an uninhabited part of Yerba Buena island around 2:30 p.m. Saturday; there's a new exhibition on puppets at the SF Public Library; and a Bay Area grandma swam from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands.
The street closures you can expect from the starting line at Howard and Main all the way to the Great Highway at Ocean Beach.
The SF Parks Department revoked the permit for the company providing horseback riding services at Golden Gate Park; a 78-year-old SF man with dementia is missing; and the Transamerica Pyramid is undergoing renovations.
Shasta County deputies killed a local bear known for breaking into homes and cars; Oakland will introduce the first all-electric bus fleet serving a major US school district in August; and the Contra Costa County Fair is requiring chaperones for minors due to fights among teens last year.
There’s some funny business in Steve Garvey’s taxes, aside from the fact that he owes several hundred thousand, as his property taxes are being paid by some nebulous group with the name “Sisters in Christ.”
The oldest roller coaster in California celebrates its 100th birthday Saturday, as the Giant Dipper at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk turns 100 with a rollicking party, and someone even brewed it a commemorative beer.
New high-end sushi comes to Hayes Valley, some great new tacos arrive in the Castro, and a huge new Korean marketplace that wants to compete with H Mart is headed for Daly City.
It's been just three days since we learned the name of the WNBA expansion team that is coming to San Francisco next year, and interest in the women's league and this SF team seems very, very high.
The Blue Note Jazz Festival is somewhat scaled-down, moved to later in the summer, and is not bringing back Dave Chapelle, but still boasts an impressive lineup featuring John Legend, Andre 3000, and Jill Scott.
The first of two sentences which will likely put 43-year-old wingnut David DePape behind bars for the rest of his life was handed down Friday in federal court.
A San Francisco supervisors' committee on Thursday effectively shot down a resolution concerning Mayor London Breed's announced plan to bring Chinese pandas to the San Francisco Zoo.
Warriors all-star Steph Curry is single-handedly trying to reverse SF’s commercial real estate doom loop, paying six times the 2021 sale price for a building at 20th and Illinois streets that will be his business headquarters.
Highway 1 has reopened to regular traffic, thanks to a new signal system that will allow traffic to flow in one direction at a time past the area where a rockslide made part of the roadway disappear in late March.
David DePape faces sentencing in federal court today for the 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi; protesters who took over a building at UC Berkeley have been arrested; and Justice Samuel Alito will have to answer for a 'Stop the Steal' symbol that appeared on his lawn in January 2021.
A naming contest is underway for the Berkeley falcon chicks; there’s more Gaza protest controversy at Sonoma State University; and one of Monday’s mayoral debates got canceled while the other one now only has two candidates participating.
The folks behind the West Oakland Farmers’ Market are leveling up with a new 12,000-square-foot brick-and-mortar food hall, and it will boast a new Almanac Beer Co. taproom.
