Gavin Newsom’s Oakland and East Bay anti-crime crusade continues, now with Newsom announcing he’s sending a bunch of state Department of Justice attorneys to prosecute crime in Alameda County, which may be a message to DA Pamela Price.
The owners of a Popeyes franchisee, which ran three fast food restaurants in Oakland, Tracy, and Newark, had to pay $212K after a federal investigation revealed numerous labor law offences.
A pedestrian was struck and killed early this morning on Sixth Street in SoMa; the power is still out for almost 13,000 PG&E customers after Sunday's storm; and the Supreme Court was hearing arguments today about Trump's eligibility for the Colorado ballot.
A pair of SF tow-tuck operators accused of fraud; another video goes viral of a brazen retail theft, this time in Emeryville; and Santa Rosa's 47-year-old La Tortilla Factory is shutting down.
A fairly large sinkhole opened up Wednesday afternoon in the Mission District, and it opened up right underneath an SUV that was driving over it.
Guess it’s time to knock off the jokes about how Uber loses so much money, as the company just posted a $1.9 billion profit for 2023, its first annual profit since Uber’s 2019 IPO.
Three out of the cast of 15 of the upcoming Top Chef season hail from San Francisco kitchens, which puts the odds of the show crowning a new local celebrity chef at one in five.
Here we go again with luxury cruises being vessels for illnesses, as a cruise ship suffering an outbreak of unexplained gastrointestinal illness has now docked itself in San Francisco.
A guy who likes to climb big buildings for internet glory — and, he says, anti-abortion advocacy — was just arrested in Las Vegas for scaling The Sphere.
More political drama completely unrelated to education at the SF school board, as some out-of-town attorney had lodged a lawsuit to force school board members to be elected by geographic districts, and SFUSD may have no choice but to comply.
Former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, who was fired one year ago by Mayor Sheng Thao amid an internal affairs scandal, has now filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the city.
A self-driving Waymo robotaxi apparently hit a bicyclist at about 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon at 17th and Mississippi streets, which may put a dent in Waymo’s hopes to be considered the safer of the two big self-driving car companies.
The sheriff in San Joaquin County wants to destroy all 88 cars that his deputies seized in a sideshow last weekend; a boy was killed in a freak accident at a Marin County school; and the power remains out for 35,000 PG&E customers.
Golden Boy Pizza is opening a new location in Parkside; the flagship Trader Vic’s in Emeryville may have to close next year; and the Oakland Zoo has taken in an illegally-owned and injured marmoset monkey.
The young man who posted Elon Musk’s private jet coordinates has drawn the ire of Taylor Swift for tracking her private jet coordinates too (and posting her CO2 emissions), so Swift’s attorneys have handed him a pre-Super Bowl cease-and-desist letter.
In a stunning podcast interview published today, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman seemed to square up against the A’s moving to Las Vegas, saying their proposed stadium site “doesn’t make sense,” and “they’ve got to figure out a way to stay in Oakland.”
One of the highlights of Sunday's highlight-filled Grammy Awards was a duet between the great Tracy Chapman and young country music star Luke Combs, whose 2023 cover of her 1988 hit "Fast Car" hit No. 2 on the Billboard chart.
An underground electrical fire was creating some traffic in and around SoMa Tuesday afternoon, so be warned.
SF headlines of the mid-1970s were dominated by the saga of Patty Hearst, an heiress who was kidnapped, only to join her captors and rob banks with them. After her release from prison, she has led a life of dog shows and John Waters movies.
The self-driving robotaxi company Cruise may have had a worse track record of highly dangerous near-misses than previously reported, and faces five state and federal probes into incidents like almost running over children.
Ridership on Muni buses and trains was up to 86% of pre-pandemic levels on weekends last year, and up to 68% on weekdays, but revenue across the SFMTA remains down — and are these ridership numbers even real if people don't pay?
Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he's increasing state police presence in Oakland and the East Bay by a whopping 900% in response to a crime surge.
High-profile fashion designer Zac Posen, known for designing red carpet looks and showing at New York Fashion Week, is taking on a new corporate role as executive vice president and creative director at Gap Inc., and CCO (Chief Creative Officer) of Old Navy.
Just under 65,000 PG&E customers were still without power as of this morning; the man killed by a fallen tree in Santa Cruz County has been identified; and an appeals court has ruled that Trump is not immune from prosecution for January 6th.
UCSF is reportedly weeks away from closing a deal to acquire two struggling hospitals; a sex offender was arrested for jumping a fence at a Livermore school and acting lewdly; and the top wind gust recorded in the Bay on Sunday was 102 mph.
