While it would only be a one-day strike, faculty at SF State and three other California State University schools are planning to go on strike in early December as salary negotiations have stalled and potential job cuts loom.
As we transition into the dark and moody months of the year, ahead of the brief spurt of holiday cheer in early December, things in the local restaurant scene continue looking up, with plenty of new spots to try during your abundant, sunless, evening hours.
Castro nightclub Beaux will be hosting a one-of-a-kind event during the APEC leaders summit next week, giving a safe space to attendees of the conference and members of the media who may hail from countries that are hostile to LGTBQ people.
After a Muslim student was injured in a hit-and-run on the Stanford campus last Friday, the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office has released a suspect sketch and a vehicle description in the incident they’re calling a hate crime.
The protests are beginning, and even though Chinese President Xi Jinping isn't even in town yet, and the APEC leaders summit doesn't even kick off until Saturday, a pro-Tibet group is already getting their messaging out there.
The San Francisco District Attorney's Office is calling attention to a case in which one woman suspected of participating in a rampant spree of retail thefts has been arrested and charged.
There are more federal charges in the SF Department of Building Inspection bribery scandal, this time against three design and engineering executives accused of bribing DBI inspector Bernie Curran as well as two other department employees.
It doesn't exactly bode well for Elon Musk that the director of 'Requiem for a Dream' has secured the rights to his recent biography, and the forthcoming film will likely be less glowing portrayal and more existential nightmare.
The annual Glide auction for lunch with Warren Buffett will now be an auction for lunch with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, as Benioff is taking over the annual charity auction that has fed San Francisco’s neediest residents to the tune of $53 million.
A man ended up in the cold Bay waters early Friday in Islais Creak, and San Francisco Fire Department rescue swimmers were on hand to rescue him.
A Belmont man has been charged with making threats against a judge who ordered his guns be taken away; Scott Wiener is pushing to get the state to save BART; and Heather Knight describes SF's manic cleanup effort for the Times.
Four Sonoma County schools were put on lockdown over a shooting threat Thursday, Noise Pop announced the first batch of bands playing its 2024 schedule, and the Macy’s Great Tree at Union Square will be lit Thursday night, albeit without an official ceremony.
“Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear bike helmets,” declared Potrero Hill live music venue Bottom of the Hill, after a good samaritan on a bike somehow prevented hammer-wielding thieves from stealing the gear from a band’s touring van.
Twelve laser beams are going to shine up much of the length of Market Street next week like they did over the past two Pride Weekends — but they probably won't just be rainbow-colored this time.
The great burrito wars of San Francisco may never come to any satisfying conclusion. But in a town as blessed as ours is with burrito riches, we probably shouldn't complain and just enjoy that everyone has their passionate preferences.
A very small car-free street plan just got smaller, as the SFMTA voted this week to keep one block of Hayes Street car-free on the weekends, but with much more limited car-free hours.
One of only three three-star restaurants in San Francisco, Quince, is reopening later this month following a renovation that was billed as lasting six months, but has stretched on for nearly eleven.
With a who’s-who of global leaders about to converge on San Francisco for the APEC summit, the Secret Service will be blanketing the city, along with officers from at least eight other outside law enforcement agencies to beef up the number of cops in town for the event.
The first of two trials for David DePape begins with opening statements today in federal court in San Francisco, as the man seen on video holding Paul Pelosi hostage last fall and hitting him with a hammer gets his first day in court.
A 32-year-old motorcyclist died Wednesday afternoon in a fiery collision with an SUV on Oakland’s International Boulevard, while a mother and three teens in the SUV were hospitalized.
Predictably, the city is stepping up efforts to clear people off the streets in and around the security zone being set for the APEC leaders summit next week, and some of those being told to move are being told it's because of the summit.
A San Jose developer is trying to use the "builder's remedy" to downsize a major project; Cruise is laying off vehicle maintenance workers; and Bay Area resident Tracy Chapman made history at the CMAs last night.
An 89-year-old woman was injured in a hit-and-run in SF's Cow Hollow; a banner went up ahead of the APEC conference protesting fossil fuels on the Bay Bridge; and apparently some Russians will be attending APEC as well.
In a matter of weeks, crews from the SF Rec & Parks Department transformed UN Plaza from the nexus of black-market chaos that it has been for at least a decade into a clean and lively skateboarding and table-tennis destination.
Don’t expect to be invited unless you’ve got ten grand laying around to spend, but Gavin Newsom is throwing a fundraising “super event” in SF for the Biden-Harris reelection campaign at some point during the APEC summit.
