![[Updated] Oakland Police Officer Shot and Killed In 'Ambush' Near Jack London Square](https://img.sfist.com/2023/12/oakland-police-car-getty.jpg)
Details are starting to emerge in an early Friday confrontation near Oakland's Jack London Square, which ended in a crashed pickup truck and one Oakland police officer shot and critically wounded.
A man who was shot five times by the SFPD in August in a widely covered incident in the Tenderloin is going free after being jailed for the last four months, after the cops in the case declined to testify.
A city parking-enforcement worker was struck and injured by a fleeing suspect in SoMa; a 63-year-old woman was beaten by teens in a SoMa garage; and California's secretary of state is allowing Trump on the ballot.
Thursday’s high tidal surges caused evacuations in Marin County, inundated Santa Cruz and Capitola with floods, and nearly cost the life of a daredevil surfer in Pacifica, while eyewitnesses caught much of this on video.
BART’s four-year, $90 million quest for an “evasion-proof” fare gate is now a working reality, at one station at least, as the West Oakland station is now the first out of the gate with the new gates that will soon be installed systemwide.
General Motors, the parent company of autonomous taxi outfit Cruise, has filed suit against the City of San Francisco over a $108 million tax bill that it says was incorrectly charged. And this may be some sort of revenge for the city and state's treatment of the company.
A terrifying accident came with a miraculous result Wednesday afternoon, as a car rolled over and plowed 150 feet down a Glen Park Canyon embankment, but both of the passengers were rescued and emerged with just minor injuries.
The most dangerous surfing conditions of the year are also the most beloved surfing conditions of the year for the world’s most elite surfers, who’ve descended on Half Moon Bay for the legendary, unscheduled Mavericks surfing festivities.
The latest drama in the long fight between the mayor and the police commission came with the mayor's rejection of a slate of three finalist candidates for the next chief of police that the commission sent to her desk earlier this month.
How soft of a rapper are you if you record a diss track about Mayor Breed, and then immediately apologize when her PR people complain? More importantly, why are pro-Breed PR forces coming after this obscure rapper with everything they’ve got?
Santa Cruz is under an evacuation warning and the entire Bay Area coast is under high-surf and flood warnings; Oakland airport was a mess this a.m.; and Dungeness crab fishing season can begin January 5.
A man was shot and possibly killed in the Tenderloin Wednesday morning; Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has rejected a list of three candidates for police chief; and there was a fire at the San Leandro Marina.
Effective January 1, the old urine test for marijuana use will be pretty much outlawed in California, and employers in the state won’t be able to enquire about your off-the-clock cannabis use.
In a city with thousands of unhoused people, it’s pretty aggravating that housing intended for them is just sitting empty. But there’s some comfort in the fact that SF has cut the vacancy rate at supportive housing sites nearly in half.
The owner of the beleaguered Best Western hotel at Eddy and Polk streets in SF's Tenderloin would really like the city to just buy the place already and turn it into homeless housing, because he says it's not doing much business as a hotel.
No need to dump your Christmas tree illegally, as Recology will simply take it for free and turn it into mulch if you put it with your curbside trash and recycling, as they have done for 30 years.
In what may prove a pivotal legal moment for the artificial intelligence industry, the New York Times has filed suit against OpenAI over the unauthorized use of years of journalistic content in the training of its generative AI models.
On Wednesday morning, an estimated 7,050 households and businesses lost electricity in the center of San Francisco, and as of late morning, over 1,000 customers were still without power.
After downpours and mud floods led to a fair amount of abandoned matter on the playa after Burning Man 2023, the clean-up effort just barely managed to pass its federal inspection, and the event has the go-ahead to return to the Black Rock Desert next year.
A hit-and-run suspect who was fleeing from San Francisco police on Tuesday allegedly struck a car and a pedestrian as he tried to escape arrest, leading to multiple injuries.
BART service was temporarily disrupted Tuesday evening after a body was discovered at Embarcadero Station; a car fire in the Caldecott Tunnel caused some evening traffic; and the Michigan Supreme Court is letting Trump stay on the primary ballot.
The rain is expected to return Wednesday morning; a Los Altos strip mall is in danger of collapsing after a Christmas Day fire; and Pizza Hut is laying off California delivery drivers as a new state wage law is about to take effect.
We have an update on the beleaguered, mostly empty NorthPoint Centre near Fisherman's Wharf, at the edge of North Beach, and its adjacent apartment complex, and it's good news for those in the neighborhood who miss having a full-service grocery store.
Barely two years after the last seat redesign, the new Muni light-rail fleet is getting another redesign for its seats, with more double-seating and the butt dimples intact to comfort your ‘back door.’
New geological research indicates that the West Napa Fault, which caused the destructive and deadly 2014 Napa quake, may be nine miles longer and potentially much deadlier than previously thought.
