One person was injured this morning when a Caltrain struck an occupied vehicle on the tracks; a man had to be rescued in Alameda when his sailboat became submerged; and the burglarized cannabis business near which the Oakland cop was shot has been identified.
Elon Musk had a snit over Green Day’s New Year’s Eve performance; that November state gambling initiative is getting ready to spend big; and the Sierra Nevada snowpack is at just a fraction of where it normally is in a new year.
Another hit for SF’s scandal-plagued Department of Building Inspection, where a freshly fired inspector is facing misdemeanor charges for granting building permits to his own home, and to buildings owned by his family members.
Some “projection activists” did a number on the SF Ferry Building just before the clock struck midnight for the fireworks show Sunday night, briefly displaying “STFU Musk” and other messages hammering Donald Trump and London Breed.
On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling denying an "en banc" rehearing of a case that was decided by a three-judge panel of the court last April, blocking Berkeley's ban on natural gas appliances in new construction.
The latest drama over SF’s state-mandated goal to build more than 82,000 new housing units comes from Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Connie Chan, who want to blow up that mandate with a lawsuit, though City Attorney David Chiu may be unwilling to throw that bomb.
The investigation continues into the tragic killing of an on-duty Oakland police officer last week who was among several officers responding to an alleged cannabis dispensary burglary. And over the holiday weekend, the OPD says it made "several" arrests.
A man who was fatally stabbed in SF's South of Market neighborhood before the New Year's weekend has been identified, and the condition of the second victim is not known.
Yet another new COVID variant called JN.1 is fueling yet another surge in COVID transmission according to wastewater data, while flu and RSV cases are also showing a sharp rise in the wake of holiday gatherings.
A crash Monday night at the southwestern edge of San Francisco, near the Oceanview neighborhood on Junipero Serra Boulevard/Highway 1, left one person dead and two others with serious injuries.
BART resumed normal service this morning after Monday's derailment disaster; a storm is rolling Tuesday afternoon with some heavy rain; and a high surf advisory has been issued for Wednesday for the NorCal coast.
A person died early Monday in a fireworks mishap on Treasure Island, less than an hour into the new year.
A person was struck and killed by a car doing donuts in Oakland on New Year's Eve; a BART train partially derailed outside Orinda Station Monday morning, sparking a fire and injuring nine passengers; and another storm is heading our way.
About 40 employees across eight Bay Area Good Vibes stores filed for a union election on Friday.
Muni and AC Transit are offering free rides, while BART is extending its operating hours.
You'll get a good view of the fireworks (if the weather holds) at the Embarcadero and Twin Peaks; the suspects in the fatal Friday shooting of an Oakland police officer are still at large; and these state laws go into effect this week.
Dr. Christopher Herndon surrendered his medical license after a woman that he treated 14 years ago at UCSF came forward with claims that he's the biological father of her children.
Flood advisories are extended through Saturday afternoon on Bay Area, Santa Cruz County, and Monterey coasts; filmmakers have been at Mavericks this week, catching surfers catching the waves; and a 63-year-old woman was critically injured after an attack by teens in a downtown SF parking garage.
San Francisco is under dual flood and wind advisories all day Friday amid the stormy weather; the Haight's Blue Front Cafe is closing; and San Jose arrested five people in connection with an illegal gambling and prostitution operation.
We still don’t know the identity of the undercover Oakland police officer who was shot and killed this morning, but at a Friday press conference, we learned he was shot by suspects who robbed an Oakland cannabis dispensary for the second time in one night.
The corner of Eddy and Leavenworth streets was mobbed with police cars for hours Friday morning, as a man reportedly attacked a woman, and then barricaded himself inside his residence for nearly eight hours.
The 22-year-old man who was arrested in connection with three stabbings in Davis last spring, two of them fatal, who has been in mental health treatment since shortly after his arrest, has been deemed mentally competent to stand trial.
The FBI says that the Israel-Hamas war has “created a heightened threat environment” for domestic terrorist attacks in multiple U.S. cities, and San Francisco is listed as one of those cities that is an “attractive target.”
In another blow to Elon Musk's quest for absolute free speech, a federal judge has rejected Musk and his attorneys' argument that a California law requiring social media companies to disclose their content-moderation policies and procedures.
SFPD is investigating an early Thursday morning stabbing at Mission and Washburn streets that left one man dead and another woman hospitalized.
