The Bay Area won't get much of a break between atmospheric river storms this week, even though meteorologists had earlier assured us that we'd have a fairly dry weekend until Sunday.
New Belgium Brewing Company, the maker of Fat Tire, announced Thursday that it was ceasing operations at the SF Mission Bay location and shutting down effective immediately.
An earthquake with a preliminary 4.9M struck off the Eureka coast this a.m.; a house fire in the East Bay left two people seriously injured; and California's monarch butterfly population appears to be down 30% over last year.
The bar coming into the Castro’s former Harvey’s will now be called Pink Swallow; two more SF supervisors got Garry Tan-inspired death threat mailers; and some newly designed lanterns have been placed up in Chinatown.
Nearly six-and-a-half years since Whole Foods called dibs on the vacated Best Buy space in City Center plaza at Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue, the SF Planning Commission finally authorized the Amazon-owned grocery chain to move into the space Thursday.
The holidays are a fraught time for any family, and for the Dahls, the fictional family in Leslye Headland's new play 'Cult of Love' that just opened at Berkeley Rep, Christmas requires a lot of negotiations, and singing.
The very authentic French restaurant Jeanne d'Arc inside Cornell Hotel de France has been closed since 2020, but has reopened under new ownership, and its Old France interior and art serve a feast for your eyes while you feast on French cuisine.
'Tis the season once again for seeing the Instagram-famous "firefall" at Yosemite National Park, otherwise known as Horsetail Fall when the setting sun strikes it just right for a couple of weeks in February.
A new Chinese street-food spot has opened in the Richmond, and they specialize in Chengdu-style barbecue skewers, noodle soups, and a particularly delicious rolled and beef-stuffed pancake.
Big news on the local music festival circuit: The legendary B-52s are delaying retirement to headline Mosswood Meltdown — the punk music festival in Oakland's Mosswood Park that used to be called Burger Boogaloo.
The Livermore Police Department is sounding the alarm over a “crime trend” of unattended wallets being stolen from shopping carts at Trader Joe’s locations, though the obvious solution is just not leaving your wallet unattended.
Longtime East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee is vacating her seat in her bid for Senate, and of the nine candidates running to replace her, BART director Lateefah Simon seems to be pulling ahead.
In a move that coincides with the beginning of Black History Month, members of the California Legislative Black Caucus introduced 14 bills addressing reparations for the harms of slavery and historical racism, though cash payments are not among the proposals.
There was some minor flooding in multiple parts of the city Wednesday night, as well as downed trees; isolated showers remain possible through Thursday; and a gaping hole in a Chinatown sidewalk took the city a year to fix.
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There was a CHP-involved shooting Wednesday afternoon on I-280 in San Francisco, near the Mariposa Street on-ramp, and all southbound lanes of the freeway were subsequently closed.
Blackthorn, a 30-year-old bar in the Sunset, is facing a possible eviction; a judge has ruled that Californians don't need background checks to buy bullets; and Clorox is offering security escorts to employees exiting their Oakland headquarters.
Mayor Breed launched a Guaranteed Income for Trans People program in 2022, but a new lawsuit from a conservative legal group (that regularly sues Bay Area cities) hopes to halt it.
The Walgreens at Castro and 18th streets was robbed Tuesday night by an organized group of smash-and-grabbers who came with garbage bags to fill.
The good news for mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie is that a new poll shows him 18 points ahead of London Breed in a head-to-head matchup. The bad news for him is that Breed’s still ahead by five points if you count all candidates, though ranked choice favors Lurie.
A SoMa sports bar is planning a Super Bowl party that won't be like any other in town, at least any other occurring in a public place or sports bar. The entire event, the owners say, is "reserved exclusively for Chiefs fans only."
While it only applies to unincorporated areas of the county, a new law just passed by the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors will make it a misdemeanor to refuse shelter if you’re homeless.
Two Northern California journalists got to the bottom of who was disrupting various city hall meetings with anti-semitic messages in Berkeley and Marin County. The neo-Nazis then started impersonating those journalists in the same meetings, and others across the country.
A central figure in the disastrously bad investigation into the 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins in Vallejo, Detective Mat Mustard, remains on the force, and a popular new Netflix documentary casts him as a villain.
After a weekend uproar over a tweet in which local political donor Garry Tan posted that some SF supervisors should “Die slow,” three supervisors say they received physical hate mail citing the tweet and reading “I wish a slow and painful death for you and your loved ones.”
A much anticipated Senate Judiciary Committee hearing took place Wednesday that gave Senator Lindsey Graham and others a chance to grandstand on an issue that has rare bipartisan support, the problem of social media and kids.
