Skateboarders are in mourning as a hallowed skate spot in San Francisco's Chinatown succumbs to demolition this weekend. "China Banks" — better known as the Portsmouth Square pedestrian bridge — has long served as a proving ground for serious skateboarders thanks to its steep banks and brickwork.
The San Francisco Giants are suspending payments to outfielder Harrison Bader following his involvement in a late-night scooter crash in Cow Hollow last weekend. Bader has been out of action since late May with plantar fasciitis in his left foot.
The 49ers are parting ways with veteran executive Paraag Marathe; SFPD uses a drone to locate a suspect in a stabbing; and a donut duel kicks off in Santa Clara.
One dead, another wounded in daytime shooting at Oakland adult school; WNBA star Brittney Griner files for divorce; and authorities release two ransom notes in Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case.
SF-based telehealth company Hims & Hers is being sued by the FTC and the states of California and Utah over alleged predatory business practices, including sharing private health data with advertisers and misleading customers over charges and services.
Burdell chef Geoff Davis is expanding to Rockridge and taking over the soon-to-close Wood Tavern, Jollibee draws a line near Powell BART, and Tartine's Chad Robertson is doing big things in Brooklyn, all in This Week In Food.
New polls suggest Connie Chan is now only behind by a few points in the race for Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat despite Scott Wiener's sizable fundraising advantage.
In a sure sign of downtown San Francisco's upswing, much-beloved Tartine Bakery is planning to open a large outpost in the Financial District, in a former CVS.
As other appeals courts have also done over the last year as President Trump's goons go about trying to rid the country of immigrants of all kinds, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a new ruling striking down the administration's policy of detaining immigrants within the country.
A local tech CEO who offered “instant interviews” to anyone who got a permanent tattoo of the company logo was quickly met with backlash, leading the founder to acknowledge that the seven people who took him up on it would’ve gotten interviews either way.
A fire in one of PG&E's underground electrical vaults led to some early morning emergency activity and a shelter-in-place order in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, and a one-alarm house fire in Visitacion Valley has displaced six.
A 19-year-old man from Hayward with an alleged history of domestic violence was charged with attempted murder in connection to the shooting of a young Berkeley woman in the face, and his mother was arrested for allegedly helping him escape.
The Woodside Fire in Sonoma County is now 20% contained but almost doubled in size overnight; global tech layoffs have already surpassed all of 2025 in 7 months; and a powerful marine event will bring rough seas Saturday night into Sunday, along with potential high winds in the hills.
SFO is getting private sleep lounges in the fall of 2027; SF City Attorney David Chiu is suing two hotel booking sites alleging they gouge customers; and some of Anthropic’s AI models hacked into the systems of three businesses.
Ghirardelli Chocolate closed the doors of its flagship location in SF’s Fisherman's Wharf Thursday after union workers walked off the job to launch a three-day strike over an ongoing contract dispute.
Music festivals on the scale of Outside Lands are not designed for people with broad or varied tastes, and once again, the set-time schedule reveals a variety of moments when fans will have to make difficult choices, and likely miss an act or two who they'd otherwise like to see.
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A wind-driven wildfire that began Thursday is burning into an area of heavy timber along the Sonoma County coast near Highway 1, north of Jenner and Fort Ross.
Following an earlier lawsuit over a damaged Airbnb rental, former Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt's startup Botco is now facing a class-action lawsuit from former contract workers who allege unpaid overtime and termination pay.
At least a dozen immigrants have been detained by federal agents at Bay Area airports over the past month — many over expired visas rather than active removal orders, leading advocates to suspect ICE is accessing flight information.
Waymo robotaxis are going to be popping back onto Bay Area freeways in the coming days, following a voluntary six-week recall in which the company's software was updated to better handle emergency road closures and construction.
There was a major backup on 101 Thursday morning impacting both northbound and southbound lanes, following a collision near the Highway 37 interchange in Novato that took out a power pole and sparked a small brush fire.
A former behavioral health clinician from San Francisco faces several felony charges for allegedly grooming a teenage client at a juvenile detention center in Contra Costa County for two years then sexually abusing him upon his release.
Speculation and rumors have been swirling for months now about who would play the titular role of Mary Todd Lincoln when Cole Escola's 'Oh, Mary!' comes to San Francisco this fall, and now we have an answer.
The SFPD is increasing patrols following a spate of shootings in the mid-Market area; a gyrocopter crashed while taking off at Petaluma Airport; and Trump appears to be dropping his nomination of Todd Blanche for AG.
A few more details emerge in the Sheng Thao corruption case; an Amazon engineer died by possible drowning in Lake Tahoe Monday; and a sportscaster is accusing ESPN of withholding the Kyle Shanahan crash story for over a week.
