Waymo is getting set to launch its autonomous taxi service in Los Angeles this week, and just announced it will launch in Austin this year. Meanwhile, California lawmakers are considering a bill that would give cities more leeway in limiting the company's impact.
A smattering of RVs permanently camped on Bernal Heights Boulevard has grown larger, and now City Hall says they’ll enforce a long-forgotten 27-year-old ban on overnight parking on the street.
Two people were injured, including one child, and ten people were displaced by an apartment fire Tuesday night in Lower Nob Hill.
A protest arrived at the International Terminal at SFO Wednesday morning, with protesters calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
The Presidio is about to undergo a whole lot of road construction; the high-speed rail project is once again short on cash; and the House of Representatives has just passed a bill that would ban TikTok if it doesn't divorce itself from its Chinese parent company.
The principal of Everett Middle School is on leave over that school’s sexual assault scandal, Bernie Sanders endorsed Dean Preston for supervisor, and Stanford basketball star Cameron Brink has declared she’s heading to the WNBA Draft.
The former church on Fillmore Street now popularly known as the Church 8 Wheels was granted landmark status by the SF Board of Supervisors Tuesday, and while the property will be redeveloped into housing, its popular skate rink will reportedly stay intact.
In a clear sign of the times for social media, some newish, high-end office space in San Francisco's SoMa district that had been leased, pre-pandemic, by Meta when it was in a rapid growth phase, looks to be getting subleased by TikTok parent company ByteDance.
You would think that overcharging SF residents by $95 million would lead to Recology losing its monopoly on local trash collection. It has not, and now it appears Recology will keep that monopoly after a competitor dropped their bid.
There is a long history of San Francisco and other cities around the Bay Area weighing in on world affairs by way of non-binding resolutions — which serve as symbolic flag-plantings for city leaders to express their sympathy, or outrage, on an issue that is far outside their jurisdiction or control.
Literally every remote public commenter at last Tuesday's Emeryville City Council meeting was a racist troll, presenting a test for one of the few Bay Area cities that still allows remote public comment.
Following last week's news about the closure of Bar Agricole, we now have some clarification about the concept's future, and owner Thad Vogler's other plans.
Governor Gavin Newsom says his Oakland crime crackdown is working, announcing that California Highway Patrol sting operations have netted 168 suspects and 360 stolen cars since early February.
Mayoral hopeful Mark Farrell, who is seeking to challenge the woman who he once before replaced, and who ultimately replaced him in his brief stint as mayor six years ago, has just spelled out some more specifics in terms of his agenda.
Meta is suing a former executive for stealing proprietary documents on his way out the door; a victim in an attempted car theft in San Lorenzo was shot at by thieves; and an acclaimed Mission burrito spot has significantly raised its prices.
An SFO-bound United flight had to turn back after leaving Sydney due to a "maintenance issue"; a car was stolen Monday in the East Bay with a toddler still in it; and Airbnb has banned the use of all indoor security cameras.
Brock Purdy married his college girlfriend Jenna Brandt over the weekend, and we found their wedding registry, which is on Crate & Barrel and has mostly modest items priced at under $100.
The Oscar-winning film 'The Holdovers,' which stars Paul Giamatti and is set at a New England boarding school in the 1970s, is brazenly similar to a screenplay that a former Pixar writer penned and shopped around Hollywood in recent years, that writer says.
A 20-year-old San Francisco man has been charged with multiple felony sex abuse counts for an alleged sexual assault of an Everett Middle School student, and remains in custody.
Convicted murderer Scott Peterson has, for some reason, attracted the attention of the Los Angeles Innocence Project, and the case against him in the 2002 murder of his wife Laci Peterson is getting a new hearing this week in San Mateo County.
There are actually two new locations of the now-reincarnated vintage emporium Stuff, and the SF shop will have the same giant letters from the old Valencia Street location.
Popular Detroit-style pizza outfit Joyride Pizza is expanding once again, and will be opening a new location soon right next to San Francisco's Ferry Building.
We probably have the anti-vaxxers to thank for this one, as a potential measles outbreak could be on the horizon in Sacramento after an unnamed child exposed as many as 300 people to the virus.
Donald Trump is attacking Facebook again for no particular reason, calling it an "enemy of the people" and sending Meta's stock price tumbling.
Four Oakland Taco Bell restaurants appear to have gone drive-thru only, though some only in the evening, in the latest hit to Oakland’s fast-food landscape.
