A two-year-long SF Unified School District payroll fiasco is still not resolved, so the district has decided to cut ties with the calamity of a payroll system called EMPower, and start over with a whole new vendor.
It's been a while since we had any update on the long-awaited, approved but still not open Trader Joe's at Fulton and Laguna streets. But there is movement happening inside the store space!
In an apparent attempt to halt the nonstop parade of terrible headlines about the former Westfield San Francisco Centre mall, the mall’s new management is renaming it “the Emporium Centre San Francisco” while promising more security and new attractions.
The NoPa neighborhood gets a delicious new brunch spot, a popular Oakland taco stand has gone legit, and the beloved Cafe Jacqueline in North Beach is temporarily closed, with 87-year-old chef Jacqueline Margulis sidelined with a broken arm.
A verdict has been reached in a case from February 2023 involving a beating and stabbing in San Francisco's SoMa district.
The four candidates for the next chief of police in Oakland that were put forward this week by the city's police commission addressed the public and introduced themselves at a candidate forum Thursday night.
The latest large-scale but insanely intricate work by SF muralist Amos Goldbaum jazzes up a little-known yet gorgeous public garden walkway in Bernal Heights.
Elon Musk, who helped to co-found OpenAI nine years ago, is now suing the company and its CEO Sam Altman, arguing that it has abandoned its professed mission to develop AI "for the benefit of humanity broadly."
Supervisor Aaron Peskin has repeatedly said he’s not running to be mayor of San Francisco in November 2024, but it was easy to dismiss those claims as a chess-match ploy. And now, multiple local media outlets say that yes, Peskin will run for mayor this year.
Alameda County DA Pamela Price's office is being accused of violating the state's Public Records Act; Discovery Bay was rattled by another earthquake last night; and asking rents in San Francisco have come down compared to the same time last year.
UC Berkeley spent nearly $7 million to clear protesters out of People’s Park; the next ‘Star Wars’ movie will be shot entirely in California; and Gavin Newsom is responding to blowback by saying Panera won’t be exempt from an upcoming minimum wage increase.
The red-hot USF Dons men’s basketball team is playing at the Chase Center tonight in a monster game that will be on national TV (well, ESPN2), but they’re up against Gonzaga, who have beaten them 28 times in a row.
The San Francisco Art Institute looked done-for last year when it declared bankruptcy and was $10 million in debt, but it will now survive as an art institution, and its Diego Rivera mural is staying right where it is.
Frances, which will be celebrating 15 years in the Castro later this year, remains one of the city's neighborhood restaurant gems, and the menu has recently been seeing some changes at the hands of newly promoted chef de cuisine Ricky Chu.
A project that's been ongoing for two years at California College of the Arts in San Francisco seeks to imagine new ways to rebuild the town of Greenville, which was virtually leveled by the 2021 Dixie Fire.
A new city report that is conveniently timed before Tuesday’s 'drug screening for welfare recipients' vote finds that some drug users get SF welfare even though they don’t live here, though the report only details 41 people doing this.
A Pacific Grove man was rescued Tuesday after being stranded on a cliffside for two days in Big Sur, following a harrowing car crash.
Tahoe area residents are being warned of some very extreme weather coming their way — and even there's already been a good amount of snow up there, what's coming is a whole hell of a lot more.
The rather unique waterfront Chevys Fresh Mex along the Emeryville Marina has announced its permanent closure, so if you’re a Chevys fan, you’ve got just six more weeks to go enjoy its fajitas and Bay views.
There was a cluster of earthquakes overnight, beginning with a 4.1M, under the ocean off Eureka; a Napa teen experienced a life-changing snowboard accident last weekend; and Leap Day is special for one Oakland family.
A protest shut down a lecture by an Israeli lawyer on the UC Berkeley campus; SF officials say the Macy's building on Union Square could become a lot of things besides retail; and two big video game makers announced layoffs.
While three suspects had been charged with murder in the December 29 shooting and killing of Oakland police officer Tuan Le, a fourth figured he could just plead guilty to robbing the cannabis shop and have that be that. But now that suspect is facing murder charges too.
The wheels turn and the drama persists in Oakland over the ongoing effort to install a new police chief, and it's coming down to a battle of wills between the police commission and the mayor.
The building that housed Yoshi’s SF and the Fillmore Heritage Center has been a vacant reminder of a boondoggle for going on five years, but someone’s finally in negotiations to take on the lease and make it some sort of food hall and event space.
California's new minimum-wage law for fast-food restaurants, which takes effect April 1, seems to not apply to Panera Bread or the handful of other chains that bake and serve their own loaves of bread. Wonder why?
