1980 U.S. Olympic swim team member, former U.S. national team swim coach, and four-decade coach of San Ramon Valley Aquatics Richard Thornton died while heading out to surf in Santa Cruz on Thursday, according to his family.
San Francisco will get a sprinkling of rain starting Saturday morning, but the storm system moving in from the north will be bringing the first major snowfall of the winter season to the Sierra.
The 18-year-old who was killed in a fireworks mishap on Treasure Island has been identified; the 10-year-old boy in Sacramento who fatally shot a friend with his father's gun will not be charged; and the Pacifica Pier is closed for a damage assessment.
Another mass shooting at an Iowa high school killed a sixth grader and injured five others; London Breed is touting a decrease in SF crime over the holidays; and the so-called Point Reyes shipwreck could be gone from its Inverness beach before long.
A Thursday ESPN report says Draymond Green will return to the Warriors “in the coming days,” which would sure help a Warriors team with a losing record just two weeks shy of the mid-season point.
A new cafe, with pizza, cocktails, beer and wine, is opening January 15 in the former Transit cafe space at the Presidio Transit Center (215 Lincoln Blvd.), right at the entry of the Presidio Tunnel Tops.
Assemblymember Matt Haney’s bid to legalize Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes went up in smoke after a Gavin Newsom veto in October, but Haney has high hopes that the governor will take a kinder view of his new version of the bill.
A long troubled but still very active and popular Safeway location in the Fillmore neighborhood is slated to close in early March, with the site being sold to a residential developer.
They may be four years late and $148 million over budget, but the Golden Gate Bridge’s suicide prevention barriers are now fully in place on both sides of the bridge’s entire 1.7-mile span.
A 72-year-old Florida man (and likely Trump supporter!) has been arrested after allegedly making criminal threats against Bay Area Congressman Eric Swalwell and his family.
We are likely to see another few days of protest at Berkeley's People's Park, after campus and city police descended Wednesday night to execute an elaborate operation in which 160 shipping containers are to be used to wall off the park on all sides.
The shocking Monday morning BART train derailment that left nine people injured and a train on fire seemed to be a combination of mechanical failures and human error, and that $2.2 million “Fleet of the Future” train will be out of commission for a while.
The two men charged in the killing of OPD Officer Tuan Le make their first court appearance; there was a vigil in SF for the 13-y-o boy killed in a pre-Christmas hit-and-run in Antioch; and House Democrats release report showing millions Trump received from foreign governments.
A judge has ruled that DA Pamela Price has to recuse herself from prosecuting a former employee; the Valencia bike lane saw a significant drop in usage; and some Sonoma County teens got caught stealing road signs, because they got stuck in some mud.
The suspect who Oakland police say fired the gun that killed Oakland Police Officer Tuan Le on Friday morning has now been publicly identified, and it turns out he already served time for killing another man a decade ago, when he was still a juvenile.
A tempest in a teapot story from last week saw local rapper Chino Yang saying “someone extremely powerful” threatened him over a London Breed diss track. But we now learn it was allegedly just 82-year-old, long-ago SF supervisor Rev. Amos Brown.
A man who was reportedly naked and having a mental health crisis was firing off a gun on New Year's Eve morning, and he was arrested and thankfully no one was struck by any of the bullets.
California cannabis regulators are onto a scheme where labs are overstating the amount of THC in your weed, and right now, two-thirds of the state’s labs are barred from testing marijuana flower.
The normally quiet neighborhood of Bernal Heights saw an arsonist destroy four cars by setting them ablaze around 9:30 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, and some yet-unconfirmed reports say the same individual may have tried to burn at least one house, too.
It honestly didn't seem that wise or plausible to begin with, but Manny Yekutiel has officially said that his very hypothetical candidacy for San Francisco mayor has been put on the back burner for now.
A man who stayed at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis last year has filed a lawsuit against the Marriott corporation claiming negligence after he was allegedly assaulted by a person he says was homeless on hotel property.
In what’s fast becoming a copycat crime across the Bay Area, another ATM theft victimized a Bank of America at Balboa Street and 38th Avenue sometime after 3:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Tensions are mounting in Oakland over the nearly yearlong selection process that has still not resulted in a satisfactory nominee to be the city's next chief of police. And following the on-duty death of a police officer last week, one city council member is urging the mayor to take decisive action.
The Instagrammable and booze-enhanced mini golf of Urban Putt has apparently run its course and closed permanently, though another miniature golf proprietor will tee it up at that Mission District location.
It was the week before Christmas that we learned that Theobald “Theo” Brooks Lengyel, a Bay Area musician and former member of the experimental rock group Mr. Bungle, was being sought for questioning in connection with the disappearance of his girlfriend.
