Santa Clara County has its first case of parents being charged in the fentanyl-related death of a small child; the SFPD is stepping up its presence in Union Square; and Taylor Swift's Eras Tour movie is screening at the Castro Theatre next month.
Despite its building being decimated by a fire and red-tagged, the hit West Oakland restaurant Horn Barbecue was still handing out free turkeys to those in need Wednesday afternoon. Chef Tyler Florence was on hand helping, while a GoFundMe campaign seeks to rebuild the place.
One of San Francisco's oldest bars, the 123-year-old Bus Stop Saloon in Cow Hollow, gains a swanky upstairs neighbor tonight, and it's called Left Door.
There will once again be a few thousand Indigenous people and allies on Alcatraz for the Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Thursday, and while Colin Kaepernick may or may not be attending, he’s providing food from a renowned Native American chef.
The bankruptcy and closure of SF’s own Anchor Brewing Company is now in the inevitable auctioning-off-its-parts phase, with the brewery, its equipment, and its intellectual property all being sold separately, but some local beer preservationists are in the hunt.
A suspect has now been arrested and charged in connection with a body that was found at the Crissy Field parking lot two weeks ago. And surveillance footage suggests it was a calculated hit.
Storytelling, in the way of ancient bards around a fire, has been a dead art for centuries. And yet we occasionally see glimpses of it in the talents of certain performers, because as humans, we have always held this power, and held it in high regard when it's done impeccably well.
The kitschy white letters declaring “South San Francisco The Industrial City” are celebrating their 100th birthday today, and it turns out you can hike right up to those letters and wish them a happy birthday.
A little over four days after being ousted as one of the most highly visible CEOs in the Bay Area tech scene, Sam Altman has been reinstated as the top exec at OpenAI. And the board that ousted him has mostly resigned.
A woman was killed in a three-way DUI crash on a Sonoma highway; a Hayward woman has been charged with a murder plot that killed her husband; and BART says shorter trains have made things safer.
A mom started a brawl at a children's basketball game in Concord; three teens stand accused of trying to rob a Union City dispensary; and the California Academy of Sciences’ Rainforest sphere has just reopened after a three-month closure.
Performers of color said the Great Dickens Christmas Fair had become a bleak house of racism and groping incidents, and instituted a boycott of the fair the last two years, but they now have great expectations that fair organizers have addressed those concerns adequately.
Longtime Peninsula Congresswoman Anna Eshoo is planning to retire from the House next year, and she announced Tuesday that she will not be seeking reelection.
The January mass shooting in Half Moon Bay exposed a secret underbelly of immigrant farm workers living in squalid on-farm housing, but a million-dollar donation from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s foundation will go to improving those workers’ living conditions.
The concert promoter of the Rolling Stones suggested four years ago that the band would be skipping Levi's Stadium on future tours, due to all of the hassles and last-minute rules it said the City of Santa Clara imposed on them. But they're coming back next year, anyway.
Less than two days after the celebrated Horn Barbecue was thoroughly tagged with graffiti, the building is now effectively ruined for the time being after an early Tuesday morning fire has left the West Oakland building red-tagged.
Another deadline looms that could mean the difference between San Francisco officials maintaining planning controls or allowing a free-for-all of development, and it's happening because state housing officials are exerting serious pressure on the city to build more housing.
Can you undo a coup? Freshly fired OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in talks to return to the company that canned him just five days ago, as the corporate infighting continues at the chaotic but red-hot AI startup.
Elon Musk is extremely mad at Media Matters, a nonprofit watchdog group that has been calling out hate speech on X/Twitter, and now he's filed a lawsuit against them.
A speeding car hit two parked cars and flipped over on Golden Gate Avenue Monday night; a man was shot walking to his car at West Oakland BART; and gas prices in California have fallen below $5 for the first time since July.
Jose Solano Landaeta was convicted Monday in the Sept. 2022 beheading murder of ex-girlfriend Karina Castro; two men have been arrested in a stray-bullet homicide in Oakland; and a longtime SF novelist dies at age 99.
One week out from the Mission Street vending ban, Supervisor Hillary Ronen insists she won’t delay the ban, and revealed the alternative sites where vending will be allowed.
While Draymond Green serves his five-game suspension for headlocking an opponent in a chokehold, Saturday Night Live’s ‘Weekend Update’ lampooned Green in a segment mocking Green’s history of below-the-belt blows.
Golden Gate Park’s famed gardens may be getting a new light-up show starting in November 2024, but the $28-$40 entrance fee has already garnered criticism, and there may be some opposition from wildlife advocates.
After a year in which there was hardly a news outlet in the country that didn't pile on with a story about San Francisco circling the drain and facing an economic "doom loop," Mayor London Breed just gave another national news interview to discuss the actual situation on the ground.
