A new poll suggests that California Forever has a major uphill climb to get a ballot measure passed this November that will allow their new city-from-scratch project to move forward.
Apple laid off 614 workers in Santa Clara; police in Fremont nabbed an arson suspect for setting small fires in Fremont and Newark; and there was a 4.7M earthquake in New York City this morning.
The Castro Theatre unearthed a beautiful relic while doing renovations; Oakland Coliseum workers are up in arms over the A’s moving to Sacramento; and some hail fell in the early afternoon Thursday.
Like it or not, facial recognition cameras are coming to gates at Oracle Park, in what Major League Baseball calls “hands-free” ticketing, but others call a “nuclear bomb of privacy.”
The Speakeasy, an immersive theater piece set in the 1920s that ran for 425 performances pre-pandemic in a subterranean space in North Beach called The Palace Theater, is reopening tonight. And as it does, former cast members are raising alarms.
SF is embarking on a plan to “lift” the Embarcadero by as much as seven feet to address rising sea levels, but the Ferry Building’s operator is not taking kindly to the notion that the building could be shut down for years.
The state may be making an example of Portola Valley, which has failed to complete the rezoning necessary to get its Housing Element certified, and now the "builder's remedy" could go into effect.
Uber once had grand plans to operate its own driverless taxis, but now it's playing nice and partnering with Waymo to have food delivered without humans involved in Phoenix.
A tiny start to a very ambitious project got underway when Rec and Parks installed a few new sycamore trees in Civic Center Plaza, though this lofty landscape design has been stalled for years.
This will in fact be the final season that the Oakland A’s play in Oakland, as the team officially announced Thursday morning that they’re moving to Sacramento to play in a rinky-dink minor-league ballpark while their Las Vegas stadium gets built.
A 38-year-old software engineer for Microsoft was apparently curious, eagle-eyed, and lucky enough to have discovered a pernicious bit of code in the widely used Linux operating system, that someone, somewhere, had gone to some lengths to hide.
SF Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who we've known is running for mayor for over a month now, is finally ready to make his official announcement, but first he leaked it to several news outlets again.
Three people were wounded in two separate shootings in East Oakland; automated speed cameras are coming sooner than we thought to SF; and Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan asks "what happened" to Tosca Cafe.
A car crashed into El Buen Sabor taqueria at 18th and Valencia today, but no one was hurt; residents of The Paramount have been waiting for compensation for a 10-day power and water outage in February; and there's already at taker for The North Face store in Union Square.
Gavin Newsom ordered SF to start compelling severely mentally ill people into CARE Court back on October 1. But now six months into the program, it’s only served 22 people.
An East Bay woman has crocheted what appears to be the world's longest scarf at 982 feet long, and that scarf’s measurements are currently under review to grant her the Guinness World Record.
Crazily, only one vote separated congressional candidates Evan Low and Joe Simitian as the final votes were counted earlier this week, and one vote was added to Simitian's tally, resulting in a dead-even tie.
A new, likely high-end Japanese restaurant is in the planning stages at 140 New Montgomery, in the ground-floor space formerly home to Trou Normande in the building that was formerly home to Yelp's headquarters.
No beans about it, the amateur soccer team affiliated with the taqueria El Farolito is now the best Cinderella story in soccer, as they beat their second consecutive professional team in the US Open Cup tournament Tuesday night.
A rash of East Bay sideshows this weekend involved one in Oakland with a hit-and-run, but the mayor of Antioch claims he sicced drones on one of the sideshows, and he’ll bring the daredevil drivers to justice.
After four years of being closed and variously boarded over, the former Cafe Flore space at Market and Noe streets comes alive again tonight as Fisch & Flore.
Residents of Big Sur are being told that their last chance to evacuate the area for the next several days is at 4 pm Wednesday, after which there will be no more convoys of vehicles allowed to pass across a partially collapsed section of Highway 1.
A 34-year-old San Francisco man got a little off course at Lake Tahoe’s Kirkwood ski resort and ended up spending a night in the wilderness, but was eventually rescued by a cavalcade of search personnel and a CHP helicopter.
The shortlist of nominees for this year's James Beard Awards is out, and while San Francisco has been largely snubbed once again, there are a handful of Bay Area honorees.
A woman experiencing a mental health crisis who wandered into a high school gymnasium in Petaluma on Tuesday had apparently suffered self-inflicted wounds after exiting her house through a window.
