The biennial Point-in-Time Count of San Francisco's homeless population is happening Tuesday, January 30, and it's the first time since 2022 that the city will get a semi-accurate picture of how many people are living here unsheltered.
Levi’s Stadium will continue to be called Levi’s Stadium until 2043, as the apparel company has agreed to re-up their naming rights deal for $170 million, even though they still have nine years left on their original deal.
Just as the City of San Francisco is suing the state's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) over the expansion of robotaxi permits, Alphabet-owned Waymo wants to expand its permits further to cover the Peninsula and part of Santa Clara County, as well as LA.
An SFPD-funded “crime prevention” nonprofit is now itself under investigation for crime, with an untold amount of money missing, a criminal investigation for check forgery, and a suddenly fired executive director.
Elon Musk has proven himself no better and no wiser than the many, many idiots who chatter about conspiracies and the "Deep State" on social media, the only difference being he's a billionaire who owns a social media platform who should know better.
SF's Sunset District had a major power outage Thursday morning; BART was experiencing delays due to an "obstruction" on the tracks near Civic Center; and tickets for Sunday's NFC Championship game are very expensive.
A man was arrested for indecent exposure after allegedly sitting in his car outside Washington High in SF; Rep. Josh Harder wants the DEA to criminalize Tranq; and six bodies were found in the Mojave desert under strange circumstances.
The SF sheriff’s deputy behind a scandal where incarcerated people were forced to fight, and sheriff’s deputies bet on them, has been rehired after winning his arbitration case.
The latest legislation from SF’s state Senator Scott Wiener takes aim at speeding drivers, and calls for all cars sold in California to have devices that don’t allow drivers to go more than 10 MPH over the speed limit.
Sheriff's deputies are facing violent pushback while serving eviction notices in the East Bay this week, and one was shot and wounded Wednesday afternoon in Union City.
Hey, remember that “$1.7 million toilet” that had the local media flush with outrage back in 2022? The cost got squeezed down, but still no toilet, and it won’t be plopped down 'til April at the earliest.
As things move ahead, with a hope and a prayer, on California's high-speed rail project, the first segment of which is on track to open in 2030, we have some new renderings of what the train interiors may look like.
Just last month we had an incident in San Francisco in which a car was stolen with a child still in the backseat, and now we have another in Oakland, which happened on Tuesday.
The U.S. District Court judge in charge of the Oakland Police Department's federal oversight says he’s “concerned” that the city hasn’t had a police chief for a full year now. Well, how do you think 450,000 Oakland residents feel, pal?
The James Beard Award "long list" is out, and while it hardly guarantees any more Bay Area love than the awards saw fit to dole out last year (which was almost none), there are at least a dozen local chefs and restaurants in contention for shortlisting.
A new study suggests a pretty positive century ahead for population growth on the West Coast, and cities like San Francisco that are less car dependent and already dense are likely to fare
As the 2024 mayoral race heats up, Mayor London Breed is hyping fresh statistics saying that overall crime was down by 7% in San Francisco in 2023, though that number depends on how you cook the books.
A standoff ensued Tuesday night in Oakland after an eviction notice was served; a woman was rescued from floodwaters atop her car in Livermore; and a Walgreens in downtown SF is set to close.
A widely TikTok-mocked office-to-condo conversion has actually sold; now even teenagers are getting jilted out of payments by the SFUSD payroll fiasco; and SFPD has arrested a suspect in this week’s vandalism of planters outside the restuarant Alora that's opening Wednesday.
The Elon Musk and tech-PAC wing of the local SF political scene has their man to run against District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston in November, and it's tech founder and former Assembly candidate Bilal Mahmood who just announced he's running for Preston's seat.
A Brentwood woman is dead at the hands of her significant other, and authorities engaged in a standoff with the apparent shooter outside a bedroom in Brentwood for 12 hours before he ultimately took his own life Tuesday morning.
Trash and refuse now cover the sand at SF’s Fort Funston and Ocean Beach, but don’t go picking it up — as it’s from sewer system “outfalls.”
The Castro just lost a big conference in the ten-year-old Lesbians Who Tech summit, but there may be no love lost, as Castro Street merchants had been bitter over how the summit shut down and gated off the neighborhood’s main corridor for five days.
Two people who were apprehended fairly quickly following a grisly torture and murder case that took place inside a mid-Market apartment in 2019 are finally facing sentencing following a jury verdict.
Florence Kong, one of the many, many people ensnared in a federal probe of San Francisco City Hall that dates back to 2019 and beyond, has just agreed to an eyebrow-raising $750,000 settlement with the city.
