The massive traffic nightmare Thursday morning that was caused by a pro-Gaza-ceasefire protest on the westbound Bay Bridge meant that several donated organs that were in transit to and from UCSF hospitals were delayed in getting transplanted into patients.
The lime-green tents offering the novelty of $5 cash to take a COVID-19 test have agreed to leave town after taking heat from City Attorney David Chiu, who claims the tents were fueling the local drug trade.
Embattled Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price and her supporters will be having a campaign launch party Thursday evening in Oakland as they try to fend off an attempt to get Price removed from office.
Country rapper Jelly Roll and mom-rock band Train were set to headline the Alice 97.3 holiday concert on December 1 in San Jose, but the show was just unexpectedly canceled.
The yuletide season in San Francisco is about to get a heavy dose of fabulousness and nostalgia combined, as the legendary punk cabaret duo, Kiki & Herb, waltz into the iconic Castro Theatre for an exhilarating holiday special on December 15th, 2023.
SFMOMA says that City College of San Francisco hasn't ponied up their share of the cash to move Diego Rivera's enormous 'Pan-American Unity' mural back across town. City College now says that they can't be blamed for the museum's "financial mismanagement."
In what was a fairly open-and-shut case, admitted Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape was convicted on federal charges Thursday morning after the jury had deliberated for just a matter of a few hours.
Plans have been submitted for what would be the third-tallest building in San Francisco if completed, a 71-story tower at 530 Howard Street that would utilize a new state law to bypass SF Board of Supervisors approval.
That VIP event for APEC week hosted by President Joe Biden happened at the Exploratorium on Wednesday evening, and you might have seen or heard the fireworks going off as it was winding down.
The grisly Halloween day discovery of a human body in a suitcase floating in Lake Merritt now has now resulted in the victim being identified as a 23-year-old man, but there’s not much information about him, and police are asking for help in that regard.
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A few dozen protesters stopped traffic on the Bay Bridge Thursday during the morning commute, locking arms and blocking all the westbound lanes just east of Treasure Island.
Elon Musk dropped off the bill of an APEC event he was supposed to speak at today; that GAYPEC event didn't seem to have a lot of actual APEC people at it; and team owners in the MLB unanimously approved the A's move to Las Vegas.
Demonstrators laid out hundreds of children's shoes to symbolize child deaths in Gaza outside the Ferry Building; Presidents Biden and Xi reach an agreement on fentanyl; and both presidents headed to San Francisco for dinner events.
Even restaurants far from the Moscone Center and the “security zone” say they're losing a ton of business because of APEC, with all of its unexpected parking-space removals, worsened traffic, and customers just not wanting to deal with the APEC disruptions.
A fellow in a suit got shoved and shouted at by some APEC protesters and then apparently cold-cocked one of them, while a nearby China-related protest has police busy preventing fights among demonstrators.
We have news of another local food business that's expanding to the big new mixed-used development at Mission Rock, across the cove from Oracle Park, and this time it's the cocktail-world-famous Trick Dog.
BART’s $90 million, four-year Holy Grail quest for an evasion-proof fare gate appears to be in its home stretch, as they’ve unveiled the “overall structure” of the current version of the new gates that are allegedly debuting by the end of the year.
Two dudes who sold an online gaming platform to a Nevada casino giant believe that they have the winning formula for a ballot measure that legalizes sports betting at tribal casinos in California, and they say they're willing the bankroll the whole thing.
The California Highway Patrol's Organized Retail Crime Task Force made a major bust last week of a fencing operation for stolen retail merchandise — the kinds of stuff taken in brazen robberies at Walgreens stores, Target, and the like.
The 21-year-old SFPD scandal FajitaGate is rearing its head again, as a new filing in an eviction lawsuit against the SoMa restaurant the Brixton says that the eviction is just retaliation against a co-owner who won a civil settlement against some cops.
Muni buses headed downtown were being turned back at Sixth Street and traffic was generally becoming extremely clogged Wednesday morning due to protesters attempting to disrupt the beginning of the APEC CEO summit and the leaders' summit.
A large protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza centered around Powell and Market streets Tuesday night; protesters attempted to block pedestrian routes into the APEC summit today; and a woman was stabbed at Sixth and Jessie streets Tuesday.
Twin Peaks is closed to cars for five days; APEC will make Warriors games a nightmare for fans; and the first Denny’s drive-thru in California has opened, though it’s about 180 miles from SF.
It’s getting real for high-stakes APEC summit talks, as President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping both touched down in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon, and they’ll meet Wednesday at the Woodside mansion Filoli, which served as a setting on the old prime-time soap opera ‘Dynasty.’
The prospect of Donald Trump tweeting again, with all his incoherently capitalized words and not-very-veiled threats against anyone and everyone, is getting closer to becoming a reality.
