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.
A machete-wielding man, who was reportedly just casually waving his large knife around while seated on a crowded BART train, was arrested Monday morning in San Francisco, and it sounds like he's been a frequent flyer with local authorities.
Monday night saw the first debate for Dianne Feinstein’s former Senate seat, where Katie Porter and Adam Schiff took center stage, while Barbara Lee fought to stay in the game, and Republican Steve Garvey stumbled in his attempts to not seem like he was a Republican.
San Francisco commuters who use the Muni underground likely encountered some trouble Monday if they were trying to get home after 6 p.m., and it's because of what SFMTA officials said was a "determined and elusive" dog running in the downtown tunnel.
A planned condo tower at the base of Telegraph Hill has grown from 16 to 24 stories; the Tonga Room is replacing all of its ceramic mugs with more standard glassware, after many thefts; and Greta Gerwig got snubbed in the Oscar nominations.
Chunli Zhao, the man accused in last year's mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, was just formally indicted by a grand jury; the short-lived Whole Foods space on mid-Market is up for lease; and Judge Judy is out campaigning for Nikki Haley.
Investigators' fears are confirmed that there were indeed four people aboard the homebuilt plane that crashed in Half Moon Bay a week ago Sunday, and heartbreakingly, the pilot and one passenger were actually planning to get married this coming weekend.
The team behind the popular upscale Indian restaurant Rooh, which has locations in San Francisco, Palo Alto, and New Delhi, is expanding once again, and their restaurant Alora has an experienced chef on board with plenty of experience in Italian and Spanish cuisine.
Stanford women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer overtook former Duke men’s basketball coach Mike “Coach K” Krzyzewski on the all-time wins list Sunday night, as VanDerveer’s 1,203 wins make her the all-time winningest coach in the college game.
The Santa Rosa Police Department just arrested a 64-year-old man who they say is connected to a local drug ring, and in his car they say they found four pounds of methamphetamine intended for sale.
Responding to outcry from the community and clearly some pressure from the city, Safeway now says it will keep its Fillmore District store open until early next year (at least).
In the Venn diagram of American voters, there is clearly some overlap between white evangelicals and white supremacists, and so it maybe shouldn't be shocking that Saturday's annual Walk for Life in San Francisco drew some neo-Nazi support.
The Oakland In-N-Out at 8300 Oakport Street has stunningly reported more crimes than any address in the entire city of Oakland over the last five years, so In-N-Out corporate has decided to just shut the place down entirely, even though the location is profitable.
We are apparently in the final days of the auction that will determine what (if any) future there is for SF’s Anchor Brewing Co. and popular Anchor Steam beer, as the winning bidder will reportedly be determined by the end of January.
Billionaire multi-CEO Elon Musk took a break from running his companies to take a tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp Monday and attend a conference on antisemitism organized by the European Jewish Association (EJA) in Krakow.
Last night's rains caused some minor flooding in Guerneville — though the Russian River is not at flood stage; BART's Oakland Airport Connector is having some problems; and there was a vigil marking one year since a deadly mass shooting in Half Moon Bay.
SF-based runner Cal Calamia says that they were denied the $5,000 NYC marathon prize over an eligibility rule that was posted late, and now there's some drama.
Intense rainfall is expected Sunday night, prompting flooding warnings and wind advisories.
The San Francisco 49ers pulled ahead of the Green Bay Packers in the last few minutes of their playoff game to win; anti-abortion advocates marched in rainy downtown SF Saturday; and another Half Moon Bay airplane crash victim was identified.
A new fancy bar has replaced another fancy bar in the Mission, there's a new focaccia pizza and drinks spot in the Presidio, and a new pop-up bar is arriving at a museum in the Dogpatch.
