In addition to news that The North Face is closing its only San Francisco store in Union Square this month, we now have word that Zara plans to close its longtime boutique on the square too.
The dispensary chain MedMen was once the largest pot shop franchise in the US, but they’re closing their Cow Hollow shop in SF today, amidst widespread closures of their stores across California.
Coinciding with Biden's State of the Union address this evening, San Francisco Mayor London Breed gave her annual State of the City address to supporters and business leaders today, touting all the positive change she's seeing in SF.
We are coming up on three years that Shannon O'Connor, the mother of two boys at Los Gatos High School who was arrested in 2021 for throwing illegal, booze-drenched parties for teens at her home, has been behind bars.
The February 9 mass robbery of an Old Navy in Alameda was tracked to a house in Oakland, which Alameda police raided, and found $75,000 in merchandise — with the tags still on all of the items.
A United Airlines flight leaving SFO had a problem during takeoff on Thursday and ended up being quickly diverted to Los Angeles.
A significant spill of partially treated wastewater, likely storm-related, happened in Sonoma County last weekend, but officials seem to be downplaying the matter.
A Chinese national living in Newark was arrested by the feds for allegedly stealing AI technology from Google, and secretly sending the information to two Chinese companies he was working for on the sly.
There was a fatal stabbing Tuesday night in the Tenderloin that is being investigated as a homicide.
A power outage was impacting over 4,000 PG&E customers around Japantown and Lower Nob Hill this a.m.; the Union Square North Beach store is closing; and Grocery Outlet just opened in Marin City.
There's no Muni underground service on nights from 9:30 p.m. Friday until the following Friday; some intense thunderstorms caused localized flooding around the Bay today; and there was a tragic discovery inside a Santa Rosa apartment.
In what seems like celebrity bingo gone haywire, Ayesha Curry co-stars with Lindsay Lohan in an upcoming movie, and the Currys are now godparents to Lohan’s eight-month-old son — and somehow celebrity chef Michael Mina is caught up in all this too.
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After a local media stir, a 94-year-old woman who’s lived at her Mission District apartment since the 1940s will not be evicted as a landlord had initially proposed.
There was nothing on the ballot Tuesday in Solano County about the proposed new town/development that's being proposed by a cabal of Silicon Valley billionaires. But the group, called California Forever, did just release a new rendering.
A San Mateo Safeway may regret their decision to fire an employee who stopped a $500 shoplifting attempt, and then deny that employee unemployment benefits, because a state board ruled they have to pay the unemployment, and now a wrongful termination suit is looming.
Bar Agricole, which won accolades for its drinks and design after opening more than a decade ago in SoMa, has closed its second location, which opened post-pandemic in the base of the tower at 1550 Mission Street.
Longtime East Bay congressional representative Barbara Lee was rendered a lame duck by Tuesday’s election results, but Lee’s preferred successor for her House seat, Lateefah Simon, crushed all rivals in Tuesday's primary.
A man who appeared to be in the throes of a mental health crisis, perhaps brought on by the stresses of travel, was seen shrieking in the faces of ticket agents at the Frontier Airlines counter at SFO recently.
In a very-low-turnout election Tuesday, SF voters handed Mayor London Breed a couple of victories on police powers and drug screening for welfare recipients, while an affordable housing bond she abandoned is still too close to call.
In its first public response to a lawsuit from Elon Musk, OpenAI has published some emails with Musk showing that he signed off on the company's for-profit structure, and that he tried to claim "absolute control" of the company.
This means that California will not have a woman in the Senate next year for the first time in over 30 years.
Moderates won a bunch of seats on SF's Democratic Party governing board last night; at least one of two SF judges survived the election, while the other is too close to call; and Jackie Speier is back as a San Mateo County supervisor.
Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest man (at the moment); a one-time SF gang member was sentenced in a 2013 gang killing case; and the Union Square Burberry is trying to sell their building.
When the $70 billion tech giant Apple abandons an idea, it may be an idea simply not worth pursuing, which could be the state of the suddenly struggling autonomous vehicle industry.
The sun is literally setting in the wrong direction in the Oakland A’s seemingly AI-generated new renderings of their proposed Las Vegas ballpark, which may be a metaphor for this troubled stadium gamble.
