An arrest has been made in connection with a deadly crash near Concord last weekend; longtime Stanford women's basketball coach Tara VanDerveer is retiring; and you can head to some parks in the East Bay to see superblooms of California poppies.
As we knew from his first announcements last week about his campaign for mayor, Supervisor Aaron Peskin is leaning into the concept of "recovery" — both as it pertains to the city of San Francisco's return to prosperity and his own struggles with alcohol.
Another black eye for boxer Mike Tyson’s attempt to become a marijuana mogul, as the California Department of Cannabis Control has ordered a statewide recall of two of his “Undisputed” cannabis flower products.
When City Hall banned vending on Mission Street, it offered two alternative sites for legal vendors. But now the city is shutting one of them down, because no one ever goes there.
A racist provocation in Russian Hill was caught on video that showed three Chinese-American nonprofit workers being harassed by a passerby, and the passerby now faces assault and hate crime charges.
Given how life has been going the past few years, it would be unwise to declare anything with certainty like, "The pandemic is finally, truly over." But the hospitalization stats in California show that COVID isn't what it used to be.
There’s another attempt underway for an SF-to-LA overnighter that would compete with airline travel, this time a train service, which has made progress on getting access to the existing train tracks the trip would require.
Get ready for rosemary fried chicken and the gooiest mac and cheese when acclaimed East Bay chef Fernay McPherson debuts the first San Francisco location of Minnie Bell's Soul Movement next week.
A two-story house — actually a houseboat — was seen floating across San Francisco Bay during Monday's solar eclipse, and it captured the imagination of many who wondered where it had come from and where it was headed.
An individual was caught on security camera smashing the windows of the Masjid Al-Tawheed mosque on Sutter Street last week, and reportedly returned again Tuesday to harass the assembled congregants.
A three-story Crunch Fitness on New Montgomery Street in SF has closed after 30 years; Oakland native Zendaya talks to Britsh Vogue about her early start in Hollywood; and video shows a whale off Pacifica with fishing gear wrapped around its tail.
An Oakland woman has been charged for setting another woman on fire; California courts have sided with a Trumper who wants to run for two offices at once; and librarians at local SF branches held a rally demanding more security.
A new report from the California State Auditor finds the state has spent $24 billion on homelessness since 2018, only to see things get worse, and dings the state for not keeping track of whether much of this money is even accomplishing anything.
A 60-year-old Oakland man is now facing hate-crime charges for criminal threats and vulgar statements he made to a gay couple who are his neighbors, and there is video showing him threatening to kill them if they didn't move within two weeks.
The 16-year run of Mission brewpub Monk’s Kettle is coming to an end on 16th Street, but they’re moving to a larger spot in Oakland’s Rockridge. And they’ve got choice words for the role delivery apps played in their SF location’s demise.
There will just be one extra day of music this year on the weekend after Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park, and the metal-heavy lineup was just announced.
One year into Governor Newsom sending California Highway Patrol officers into SF in a fentanyl crackdown, he’s touting that they’ve seized 42 pounds of fentanyl just in the Tenderloin, and insists that crime is down significantly in SF.
Brazilian politics are, like America's, in a volatile and divisive place. And Xitter is reportedly being weaponized in ways that violate Brazilian law — which does not have complete protections for free speech. So Elon Musk is basically threatening to shut down all operations in the country.
The IKEA-affiliated Ingka Centres collaborated with a British hospitality firm to create a new paradigm for the mall food court. Will cocktails, Scandinavian pastry, and abundant plant-based options bring in crowds?
A 49-year-old SF deputy sheriff is currently in custody for what’s alleged to be a seven-month pattern of violence, stalking, and use of surveillance devices on his estranged partner.
A pedestrian was killed crossing the 101 freeway near SFO; 15 cats and kittens were dumped outside Kaiser's San Leandro hospital; and a downtown SF post office might get named after Dianne Feinstein.
The Parkmerced standoff with a barricaded man was resolved peacefully; SF-based First Republic Bank will cease to exist as of Memorial Day weekend; and the Kimpton Alton Fisherman's Wharf hotel has been surrendered to its lender.
The three-story husk of a building at 2551 Mission Street has been vacant and accumulating graffiti now since 1987, but efforts to transform it into art galleries and retail spaces are finally showing some progress.
An RV fire broke out around 2:30 am Monday morning on Newhall Street in the Bayview District, and quickly spread to an adjacent warehouse. The fire was extinguished within a half-hour, but the RV is obviously totaled.
Get your freak on when Missy Elliott comes to the Oakland Arena in July with Busta Rhymes, Ciara, and Timbaland, as tickets go on sale this week for Misdemeanor’s first tour in 20 years.
