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.
Remember that one lady in Pac Heights who gained unfortunate viral fame for confronting a man who wrote “Black Lives Matter” on his own property? She just went on ‘Dr. Phil,’ and had a very sympathetic audience of concerned-looking white people.
A new bar and nightclub serving Caribbean food, and featuring a rooftop cocktail lounge, is in the works at 1815 Market Street, near the Castro Safeway on Mint Hill.
The tech billionaire class will be popping more Champagne than usual this week, as they appear to have enough signatures to get their utopia thingy “California Forever” on the November ballot in Solano County.
A new event is happening Thursday with the goal of bringing some foot traffic and liveliness to SF's downtown, and it's called Downtown First Thursdays.
The City of Oakland's 15-month saga of not having a full-time police chief will officially end next week when former Lubbock, Texas chief of police Floyd Mitchell takes over the job, but his compensation package is already drawing some complaints.
After three pandemic years of population decline in California, things have turned around, and 2023 was the first year of slight population growth since 2019.
