It was a small political win for Supervisor Ahsha Safaí at the SF Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday, as the board voted to approve the expansion of a bus program for the city's homeless that he had earlier proposed.
Republicans in Congress are expanding their probe of alleged antisemitism in the ranks of higher education to now include UC Berkeley, after a late February lecture was disrupted by protesters.
Several lawsuits stemming directly from a 2022 mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York grocery store, which contend that social media platforms actively engage and profit from individuals spreading and consuming hate speech with deadly consequences, can move forward, a judge has ruled.
Robert Alvin Justus Jr., the self-identified "Boogaloo boy" with a "bloodlust for police," was sentenced last week in federal court after his 2023 conviction for the murder of Protective Services Officer Dave Patrick Underwood.
The July 2023 death of 63-year-old Yanfang Wu is back in the headlines, and now more politically charged, as Mayor London Breed is demanding that SFPD release the video of the shoving incident that killed Wu.
A charismatic preacher, his son and his daughter are accused of killing a three year-old girl, the preacher's granddaughter, through a ritual that was described at the time as an exorcism.
An early morning three-car crash Tuesday near the Bay Bridge approach, which stemmed from a police pursuit following an alleged burglary, killed one person and injured three others, and the subsequent investigation led to hours of traffic on westbound I-580 and Highway 24.
Over 100 people gathered for a vigil Monday evening at the site of Saturday's West Portal crash; a Fremont man led Marin police on a crazy chase; and UCSF assures St. Mary's and Saint Francis staffs that they don't plan on layoffs.
A murder investigation has begun after a woman was found dead on Dakota Street in SF's Potrero Hill; Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is touting a recent turnaround of crime statistics; and coyote pupping season has begun in the Presidio.
It was a wild scene at a Contra Costa County courthouse Monday, as a man on trial for murder allegedly busted his restraints, stabbed his own attorney with a pen, and attacked his prosecutor for good measure too.
You know it’s hard times in the luxury hospitality racket when even the owner of a Four Seasons hotel can’t pay their bills, as the Four Seasons Embarcadero owner reportedly hasn’t made their loan payments in three months.
A major piece of San Francisco restaurant real estate will be back in play again this year, as upscale vegan Italian spot Baia is closing its doors at the end of the month.
Much like her predecessor in the job, Soleil Ho, newly installed Chronicle restaurant critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan took on a Bay Area sacred cow for her first review at the paper, Zuni Café.
The interview that apparently destroyed Don Lemon's relationship with Elon Musk, because it was not fawning enough for Musk's liking, or something, is now online, and in it, Musk discusses his use of prescription ketamine.
Former SF Public Utilities Commission head Harlan Kelly was sentenced to four years in prison Monday for fraud charges, after he was found guilty of taking bribes and giving phony information on a bank loan application.
A 78-year-old woman was booked Sunday on suspicion of multiple charges in connection with the deadly crash in West Portal Saturday afternoon that claimed three members of a family.
After a 24-season run as the Giants' PA announcer, legendary local radio personality Renel Brooks-Moon announced Monday she will no longer be the voice of the Giants at Oracle Park.
What might have been a single, roving sideshow brought cars spinning donuts and spectators to a couple of prominent San Francisco intersections Saturday night and early Sunday.
United Airlines sent out a letter to customers Monday about a string of recent incidents; two people and a dog had to be rescued from Fort Funston Sunday evening; and I-680 reopened this morning after a weekend of repair work.
Three members of a young SF family, including the married parents and a young child, have reportedly died from injuries sustained while waiting at an SF bus station that an SUV struck Saturday afternoon.
The Richmond District's Connie Chan held her first campaign event Saturday; a Solano County man was arrested for two separate shootings in the Tenderloin in the past two years, and a favorite Big Sur free car camping beach is banning camping.
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Three people, all members of a family, died in a car accident Saturday just outside West Portal Station in San Francisco.
An SF judge gave a very lenient sentence to Daniel Cauich, who randomly stabbed a 94-year-old Asian woman in 2021.
Watch out for road closures in FiDi through SoMa; inflation in the Bay Area is rising less than in the pass few years but electricity costs are spiking; and a judge ordered that a third-party watchdog monitor a troubled East Bay federal prison.
Dumpling Kitchen is about to open in Noe Valley, a Swedish hot dog pop-up is popping up in the Sunset, and Che Fico's Italian deli and market is opening next week in Menlo Park.
