A car slammed into an Oakland auto body shop on Tuesday evening; Cupertino is accepting its "builder's remedy" penalty for blowing its Houwing Element deadline; and First Lady Jill Biden is coming to the Bay Area today for a fundraiser.
The Supreme Court handed trans kids a surprise win on bathroom issues; China Live struck a deal so that it won’t be evicted; and the California Department of Public Health just puzzlingly said you can go to work with COVID-19 if you don’t have symptoms.
Three years after acquiring alcohol delivery app Drizly, Uber is shutting the platform down and moving all liquor delivery services to Uber Eats.
We now know the names of two victims of the Sunday night’s tragic plane crash in Half Moon Bay, including the pilot, and the make of the homebuilt aircraft. There is also some conflicting information on whether there may have been others onboard.
An office-to-residential conversion, the second major one to move forward on Market Street, is in the works at 785 Market, a.k.a. the Humboldt Bank Building, and the developer has plans to turn the building into 120 apartments for middle-income residents.
The 2024 Chinese New Year Parade just announced the very good get of Awkwafina as the parade’s Grand Marshal for its Year of the Dragon parade coming up Saturday, February 24, 2024.
The Mission Bay neighborhood has seen two fatal shootings in the span of just one week, meaning that the first two homicides of 2024 in San Francisco both occurred within blocks of each other, about seven days apart.
The San Francisco Airport Commission has taken its vote and, predictably, it has unanimously approved the renaming of the International Terminal at SFO after the late Senator Dianne Feinstein.
A November 2023 pit bull attack at Baker Beach has gone pretty much unpunished, as SF Animal Care & Control does not have jurisdiction over the area that is a national park, leaving a dog attack victim flummoxed.
Elon Musk is in some sort of negotiation with the board of Tesla to regain greater voting control at the board level, and he's making this publicly known in a series of tweets, for some reason.
The wheels of justice have moved stunningly slowly in the case of a man found dead in a Vallejo hotel room in 2018, but the pair accused of killing and robbing him finally has a trial date set that will begin more than six years after the killing itself.
A woman died Monday afternoon in a bicycle accident in rural West Sonoma County, about six miles north of Timber Cove and in a northern section of Cazadero, after colliding with a downed tree.
An unmanned sailboat drifted onto Baker Beach Monday; Google is laying off hundreds in its ad-sales department; and winter weather prompted 1,700 flight cancellations today.
The body of one victim of yesterday's plane crash off Half Moon Bay has likely been found; one of the victims in a hot-air balloon crash in Arizona was a 24-year-old from Cupertino; and hundreds take part in an MLK Day march in SF.
You've heard about the Bay Area's problem with big eucalyptus trees that smell nice but are nearing the end of their lives and have a habit of falling over? Well, one did just that on Crossover Drive in Golden Gate Park, causing a major traffic backup on 19th Avenue.
A 20-year-old San Francisco man is in jail for carjacking and assault, after hooking up with a Grindr date, allegedly pulling out a semiautomatic weapon, trying to steal the date’s car, and then shooting him.
The glamorous life is coming to Oakland’s Ivy Hill neighborhood, where a block of East 21st Street has been honorarily renamed “Escovedo Way” in honor of 80s pop star Sheila E. and her groundbreaking percussionist father Pete Escovedo.
A frequently listed Sea Cliff property that's been on and off the market at various exorbitant prices in the last few years was re-listed after the new year, and appears ready to change hands once again for well under its asking price.
We are in era where AI can recreate someone’s voice, and scammers are taking notice, with one San Rafael couple almost paying $15,000 to con artists who’d accurately mimicked their son’s voice in a panicked phone call.
It seemed like a desperate trial balloon to fill vacant office space when Mayor London Breed asked the UC system to build an expanded campus in San Francisco, but now the university acknowledges they are at least “exploring” the idea.
Landlords expecting that another boom time is just around the corner, ignoring the fact that retail has been struggling since before the pandemic and that restaurants are struggling across the city, may shoulder much of the blame for the impossible economics of managing small businesses in SF.
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A small plane which took off from the East Bay crashed in Half Moon Bay sometime after 7 p.m. Sunday night, and as of late Monday morning, the Coast Guard suspended their search for survivors, without having found the pilot or any of the passengers.
A female driver apparently speeding westbound into San Francisco from the Bay Bridge took the Harrison Street off-ramp going way too fast Sunday night, and flew right off it into an adjacent building.
A 23-year-old man died in the detox unit of San Mateo County Jail; some parts of West Marin still have some flooding from Saturday's rains; and more rain is on the way next weekend, with some Tuesday as well.
A three-car pileup claimed the life of one woman, while two drivers were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence around 3 a.m. Sunday morning.
