California’s Hispanic population is getting a lot more Dominican and Venezuelan; a Daly City music teacher has been charged with having a relationship with a 14-year-old student; and CVS has reversed course and said they will not close their Lower Haight store.
The good news is that SFUSD is scrapping its wildly ineffective EmPower payroll system. The bad news is that they're also likely to scrap 900 job positions too, but at least it means they probably won’t shut down any schools.
Epic Games, the maker of popular mobile game Fortnite, has prevailed in a federal lawsuit brought in San Francisco against Google over anticompetitive practices relating to the company's app store for Android phones.
What used to be the 3300 Club, El Taco Loco, and a Mission-Bernal SRO is now slated to become 35 units of all-affordable housing, and we now have new renderings of plans for what has just been a burnt-out eyesore for seven and a half years.
A mysterious man carrying both Russian and Israeli IDs, believed to be a Russian citizen, landed at LAX last month and seemed to be pretty evasive after he was detained by Customs & Border Patrol agents and subsequently questioned by the FBI.
The pop-up event that turned part of Stockton Street near Union Square into a traffic-free, pedestrian-only zone in December during five years of Central Subway construction is coming back, and ten days of holiday fun and events kick off on Friday.
An 18-year-old Chinese exchange student managed to break into Steph Curry’s Atherton mansion, and we’re only learning of it nearly two months after the fact because the suspect failed to show up for his court date.
Mayor London Breed is again putting out the message that the city needs to enforce laws about camping in public spaces, ahead of a potential Supreme Court decision on the issue next year.
Meta’s Menlo Park headquarters will be the site of a Tuesday afternoon protest, as supporters of Palestine say Facebook and Instagram are 'shadow-banning' or removing their posts about the Israel-Gaza conflict.
The bizarre sidebar story to the Bob Lee murder trial, in which the sister of the prime suspect was arrested for a DUI last month in the Tenderloin that allegedly involved plowing into several parked cars and might have involved whip-its at 11 a.m. on a Monday, is in a holding pattern.
The pedestrian death on Monday in SoMa appears to have happened in the Rainbow Grocery parking lot; a 64-year-old Santa Rosa man was found with an illegal cache of weapons; and thieves are getting more brazen in stealing whole ATMs.
A pedestrian was killed in a private parking lot in SoMa on Monday; a Clipper Card app meltdown stymied commuters; and X/Twitter now seems to be encouraging people to follow Alex Jones and other conspiracists.
The one-time SF fire commissioner who was allegedly assaulted by a homeless man, but faces counter-accusations that he bear-sprayed that man, will refuse to testify in that assault trial. And his attorney admitted his client is “not an angel.”
We now have some details on the timeline of the Castro Theatre's upcoming closure and renovation at the hands of Another Planet Entertainment — renovations that will include the controversial removal of seats.
There’s a new version of the old ‘speedball’ that now substitutes fentanyl for heroin, and the upper/downer mix now accounts for most SF overdose deaths, though many of those victims may just not have known there was fentanyl in their product.
The demise of Park Tavern, which was one of the bigger restaurant-closure stories of recent months, looks like it could potentially take other dominoes with it, as owner Anna Weinberg faces a major financial judgment against her from a former business partner.
The folks at Muttville are seeing unprecedented rates of senior dogs being euthanized at other shelters, and they’re responding with a huge push to take in and find homes for 100 of those adorable mutts.
Following his arrest last week, 29-year-old Scott Fisher has now been formally charged with the murder of girlfriend Kimberly Wong, and Fisher's arraignment was set for Monday afternoon.
It is a very San Francisco problem to have a 12-story, 109-unit residential building just completely vacant for nearly three years because its owner got popped in the Mohammed Nuru scandal. But there may be new life for the empty building known as The Oak.
Around one hundred San Francisco firefighters were on the scene of a residential fire in the Western Addition/NoPa neighborhood Monday morning, and one person was hospitalized with injuries after jumping from the burning building.
SFPD is offering a $25K reward for information on the August 3 killing of Relando Bell; BART ridership hit another high on Saturday; and the Supreme Court let stand a ruling that upholds a ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy for minors.
A driver led California Highway Patrol on a 45-minute-long late-night chase Saturday, apparently speeding up to 120 mph while crossing the Bay Bridge.
No injuries were reported from a 1-alarm fire on the 600 block of Judah St. in San Francisco early Sunday morning; SantaCon brought love, light, and day drinking to the city Saturday; and a pro-Palestine protest shut down a Disney Land entrance for a few hours Saturday.
A long standoff with a retired Pittsburgh Police detective who allegedly shot his wife Thursday and at a police car early Saturday morning ended when he was taken into custody.
More details have emerged in the case of the 20-year-old sex worker charged with the murder of a client whose body was found in a Crissy Field parking lot — she alleges that she shot him in self-defense after he discovered she was transgender and wanted a refund.
