SF’s map of “ghost signs” recently gained a new addition following the partial demolition of the Verdi building in North Beach, which revealed a large, hand-painted ad for “Carnation Mush” dating back to at least 1914.
We now have some dismal news from the local restaurant world, as a well established and seemingly successful restaurant group is ceasing operations and citing the "challenging operating environment" around the Bay.
ABC 7 has put out a call to viewers to make their voices heard to the FCC as the Trump administration continues its unconstitutional and baldly fascist war on ABC, all because Whoopi Goldberg and Jimmy Kimmel have been mean to him.
The average delay for flights at SFO quadrupled — from 5 minutes in 2025 to 20 minutes currently — after the FAA prohibited parallel landings in April, right as the airport began a repaving project that runs until early October.
A new laser installation was turned on Sunday in Civic Center, with a 7x7 grid of 49 vertical laser beams aimed at the sky just in front of City Hall, which will remain there through the July 4th holiday weekend.
A juvenile female coyote got herself stuck in a San Francisco backyard last week and apparently "shut down" after not being able to manage an escape, all while the homeowner was away on vacation.
Albany police arrested a driver whom they allegedly saw inhaling nitrous oxide in a car idling in the middle of the street, where officers also found 85 large canisters, as California advances a ban on retail sales of oversized canisters.
BART is providing after-midnight service at select stations for Monday's World Cup match in Santa Clara; a statue of a Vietnamese soldier was vandalized in San Jose; and 'Toy Story 5' officially had the biggest box office opening of the year.
California Highway Patrol officers engaged in a 90-minute chase to apprehend a suspect they allege shot two people to death at a Pomona apartment complex on Thursday afternoon. The victims included 24-year-old former professional skateboarder and devoted San Francisco 49ers fan Veronica Lopez.
The victim of an attempted kidnapping on Friday afternoon in Hayward told authorities that the man responsible shares a striking resemblance to a certain pop star. Hayward police are now searching for a Justin Bieber lookalike in connection with the crime.
Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office identifies woman who was killed by train in February, figure skating gold medalist and Oakland hero Alysa Liu hits Ballhalla, and a big-rig crash on the 210 kills one and injures 32 in Los Angeles.
Global gaming company Ubisoft, maker of 'Assassin’s Creed,' is mourning the loss of co-founder Claude Guillemot after authorities confirmed that he and flight instructor Marc Guillet were both killed in a plane crash on Friday in western France. An investigation into the crash is now underway.
Former Dublin mayor Melissa Hernandez has officially advanced to face state Senator Aisha Wahab in a special election to fill the state congress seat vacated by Eric Swalwell, who resigned in April following allegations of sexual assault. A final vote to decide the outcome is set for Aug. 18.
A 75-year-old woman with Alzheimer's is found safe in SF a day after being reported missing, Iran is once again closing the Strait of Hormuz, and the U.S. men's squad earns a date in Santa Clara as top team in World Cup's Group D.
New lawsuit alleges ex-employee of Fremont speech and therapy center of sexually assaulting two-year-old boy, the U.S. is on to the knockout round in the World Cup with a big win over Australia, and DOJ opens new investigation into MLB over SF Giants Pride night protest.
Following dozens of complaints that a private tennis group was dominating access to the Rossi Park tennis courts by exploiting the first-come, first-served system, SF Rec and Park has rolled out weekend morning reservations for all the park’s courts.
Bar Brucato calls it quits — though the distillery lives on — Causwells opens a next door Martini Room, and Millennium reopens a month after closing in Rockridge, all in This Week in Food.
A man convicted of second-degree murder in a fatal BART stabbing over a stolen shoe will either face a retrial or receive a reduced conviction of voluntary manslaughter after an appeals judge found the jury had not been properly instructed on how to evaluate his self-defense claim.
Here we are, in 2026, over a decade after the launch of Apartment Sadness as a column on SFist. And while some things have changed, not a lot has changed except that everything costs more than it did 10 years ago.
A large law enforcement presence, including two tactical vehicles, descended on a Mission District alley Thursday evening as part of a raid that neighbors say was likely targeting illegal gambling machines.
Brittany Taylor, the SFPD officer who was shot and critically wounded by a robbery suspect on the night of May 31 following a chase into the Bayview neighborhood, has been released from the hospital.
An Oakland man with a pro-Charlie Kirk message emblazoned on his vehicle was arrested and has now been charged with multiple felonies, including assault with a deadly weapon.
Bystanders and first responders rescued a woman and her preteen daughter after a sneaker wave swept them offshore at Baker Beach Thursday, as the NWS warns of sneaker waves and dangerous rip currents along the coast through Sunday.
Public transit in the Bay is getting close to pre-pandemic levels of ridership (but not BART); Oakland police are seeking help finding a missing teen; and Christian Pulisic is out for today's Australia match due to injury.
Jeannette Etheredge, the longtime impresario of Tosca, has died at age 85; the backers of the billionaire tax tell Newsom they're willing to negotiate to pull the measure; and former President Barack Obama spoke at the dedication of his new presidential center/library in Chicago today.
