Supervisor and mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin was on TV Thursday night discussing the city's efforts to cajole the Macy's organization to change its mind about closing the San Francisco store.
One of two men who allegedly committed a home-invasion robbery is being tried in Alameda County for the murder of his accomplice, even though the person who pulled the trigger was the homeowner they were allegedly robbing.
We don’t know how many women have been transferred out of the scandal-ravaged and soon-to-be-shuttered FCI Dublin women’s prison, but attorneys for the inmates have filed an emergency restraining order to halt the clearly haphazard and rushed transfer process.
San Francisco's oldest and arguably most beloved LGBTQ party space, The Stud, is set to make a grand reentrance on Saturday, with a new outfit and in new digs, celebrating every era that the place has lived through.
A looming recall election has not deterred Alameda County DA Pamela Price from charging three police officers with involuntary manslaughter in a 2021 case where a suspect died from what was ruled to be “restraint asphyxiation” by the officers.
A giant panda, or a pair of pandas, will be coming to the San Francisco Zoo sometime in the future, as Mayor London Breed has succeeded in her mission to coax some Panda Diplomacy out of China.
After a settlement in a lawsuit from disability rights advocates, BART is now legally required to fix elevators and escalators quickly; an inmate from Alameda County escaped a prison camp; and Tesla is recalling all its Cybertrucks.
The SFMTA is going to be doing an "intensive" crackdown on parking next month; an East Bay rapper has been charged with robbery and false imprisonment; and Redwood City is looking to permanently ban cars from a section of Broadway.
Traffic was disrupted in both directions of Highway 1 north of Half Moon Bay Thursday afternoon, as a car went over a cliff shortly before 1 pm, and the driver of that car has been pronounced dead.
There’s a mini-storm of social media outrage after DA Brooke Jenkins brokered a settlement where the driver who killed a four-year-old girl near the Caltrain station last August will get just two years probation, community service, and a safety class.
BART's Fleet of the Future is ready to become the Fleet of the Present, and the legacy fleet of cars with their upholstered seats will be relegated to history after some final runs in the East Bay on Saturday.
A year and change after the Oakland Police Department saw its umpteenth chief ousted over an internal affairs scandal, yet another internal affairs scandal has come to light, just as newly hired Police Chief Floyd Mitchell is preparing for his first day on the job.
It’s SF driving 101 that you should not follow a confused self-driving Waymo vehicle down a closed road, but that’s what happened Tuesday night near Highway 101 in Potrero Hill, after a stalled Waymo traffic jam led to the robotaxis veering into a closed lane.
As expected, the City of San Francisco has filed a trademark infringement suit against the Port of Oakland's Board of Commissioners and the City of Oakland over a plan to rename Oakland Airport.
In a not-at-all surprising development, Google has fired the 28 workers who staged a sit-in protest Tuesday in a top executive’s office, all in protest of a billion-dollar contract Google has with the Israeli government during the Gaza conflict.
Oakland police fatally shot a man Wednesday night outside a home in West Oakland while assisting Sacramento police, who were attempting to arrest the man in connection with a homicide.
SF city leaders gathered for the annual 1906 earthquake commemoration at Lotta's Fountain this morning; police conducted a sting in West Portal targeting non-yielding drivers; and 23andMe might be taken private.
Some SF Zoo staffers are complaining about problems with safety at the zoo; the suspect in the early April shooting death on Mission Street has pleaded not guilty; and buses were seen leaving FCI Dublin today, transferring prisoners out.
The “DUI Saturation Patrols” we normally associate with Saint Patrick’s Day and Super Bowl Sunday will be rolling out for this Saturday’s 4/20 observances, as SFPD hopes to discourage people from driving while stoned.
You can now buy the seats that Another Planet Entertainment has removed from the Castro Theatre at $349 a pop (or two for $499), though critics say the theater has “committed a massacre and are now selling the body parts for profit.”
In what the owner hopes is the first of many locations across the country, Toast'N Egg is about to debut at Irving Street and 20th Avenue, serving variations on the popular egg-filled Korean street toasts known as gilgeori.
Things are going to get pretty gay at Chase Center on October 20 when Australian ur-twink Troye Sivan and British hyperpop star Charli XCX bring their co-headlining tour to town.
Your Golden State Warriors will miss the playoffs after getting blown out in their Play-In Tournament game against the Sacramento Kings Tuesday night, and Klay Thompson going 0-10 on shooting and completely scoreless does not bode well for his Warriors future.
The 2024-25 seasons have been announced at the Bay Area's two biggest regional theaters, and highlights include two new hip-hop musicals, a new adaptation of Mozart's 'The Magic Flute,' and a new production of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' featuring Hugh Bonneville.
SF DA Brooke Jenkins released the couple dozen people who were in jail for blocking the Golden Gate Bridge in Monday's Gaza ceasefire protest, and they haven’t even been charged, though Jenkins is vowing they’ll be investigated for possible felony charges.
