The college campus protests sweeping the nation have of course also swept UC Berkeley, with an estimated 175 tents now pitched at Sproul Plaza — up from just a dozen last week — and classes have been canceled at UCLA today amidst an outbreak of violence at that school’s protest.
Unless the attorney general backtracks in any way, come July, restaurants in California will no longer be able to add service charges and other surcharges to customers' checks — and this will mean that the price of drinks and dishes will likely go up significantly.
Expect traffic disruptions in multiple parts of San Francisco and Oakland today, with protest demonstrations planned around the Bay Area in conjunction with May Day.
Police in San Jose busted a brothel; a beloved formerly homeless man in Berkeley was found dead from an apparent fall; and Google was experiencing a major outage this morning.
The Biden administration just eased marijuana restrictions nationwide; Sharon Stone has a new art show in SF; and the Golden Gate Ferry will resume service from SF to Sausalito on Wednesday.
Is there really some pent-up demand for people that want to get married at Outside Lands? They must think so, as the festival has added an on-site wedding venue, performing real weddings for $349 (plus fees).
There may be more than 1,000 sea lions on SF’s Pier 39 right now, sunning themselves, barking, and getting good and fat, largely thanks to a school of anchovies available for them to feast upon.
A new wine bar offshoot of Saison is opening this spring a block away from the Michelin two-star restaurant on Townsend Street, and at the helm is Saison co-founder and sommelier Mark Bright.
A "fully engulfed" car fire Tuesday morning caused some delays and three lane closures on the Bay Bridge.
Something called City Campus imagines carving out a collectively owned set of properties in the center of the city to create a walkable "campus" where the like-minded and tech-employed can raise kids together, or something.
San Francisco-based houseware and cookware purveyor Williams-Sonoma just got nailed with a $3.18 million fine for claiming that products were “Made in USA” when they were actually made in China, and it’s not the first time the company has done this.
When you vote on whether to reelect Mayor London Breed on November 5, you might also be voting on Breed’s new $360 million bond measure that would fund hospitals, homelessness services, street improvements, and even Harvey Milk Plaza.
Cal Poly Humboldt, which in the last week and a half has become the site of the "nation's most entrenched protest," per the New York Times, was the site of another show of force by police this morning in the nationwide campus protest movement.
A fatal crash on I-880 in Oakland was causing delays; four children were injured by a suspected DUI driver in the South Bay; and the Mercury News is suing OpenAI over the use of its copyrighted material to train ChatGPT and other bots.
Developer Crescent Heights is suing the operator of the NEMA building over back rent; a beekeeper in North Oakland had her bees stolen; and another crash stemming from a cop pursuit has injured innocent bystanders in Santa Clara County.
There’s only one candidate who’s already sending out mailers for SF’s November mayoral elections while it’s still April, and that’s Levi Strauss heir Danial Lurie, whose campaign PAC is bolstered by a million-dollar donation from his mom.
There was a meeting Sunday at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco at which several Black parents spoke about racist incidents their children had suffered at SF public schools.
The spirit of rural Tuolumne County came to the Bayview District Sunday, as the SF Rec and Parks Department celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the founding of San Francisco's furthest-flung park, the popular Mather Family Camp.
Meta has confirmed that it has launched a limited-time, invite-only bonus program for social media creators on Threads, in an apparent effort to boost engagement on the platform as it crosses the 150 million user mark.
The oldest restaurant in California, Tadich Grill, celebrated its 175th anniversary on Sunday, bringing many local luminaries, with political foes Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Aaron Peskin burying their hatchets for one brief afternoon over cioppino and crab cakes.
It's a third pivot for the space downstairs from Che Fico, where Che Fico Alimentari will be calling it quits on May 9 to make way for a more high-volume to-go operation and more private dining space.
We may have another carsonist on our hands, or else the same individual who set fire to two Teslas in SoMa in February is back at it.
A San Francisco-based federal judge is sending an attorney to prison for ten years, after he hired a hitman to kill his estranged partner, a Zimbabwean fashion icon, but unfortunately for him the hitman was actually an undercover FBI agent.
After San Francisco saw a major plastering of posters about a missing teen last week, the story ended happily for parents Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield when their child was found safe.
A gunshot victim died in Oakland Saturday afternoon; the Chronicle alerts us to dogs overdosing on fentanyl; and the incoming class at Lowell High School is once again disproportionately white and Asian.
