A Monday morning mishap with what appears to be a tech bus smashed up at least four cars on Castro Street near 20th Street, with pictures and video starting to emerge on social media.
Ready or not, San Francisco’s moment in the spotlight starts this weekend as the APEC Summit begins Saturday, and the highly visible issue of encampments in public view has City Hall officials fretting over how that’s all going to play out.
November 18 will be the last day you can ride one of those blue Revel rental mopeds, as the company is discontinuing moped service in SF and New York City, but they’re staying in business and pivoting to some sort of EV charging model concept.
The rain that arrived Sunday night may continue through Monday, a police chase ended in a multi-car crash that also hit a Waymo, and the sign for the newly renamed Tupac Shakur Way was unveiled near Lake Merritt.
The most common items that millions of visitors leave behind at the national park include food wrappers, cigarette butts, cleaning wipes, plastic wrapping, and straws.
A fight between two groups at the 24th Street BART plaza on Saturday afternoon resulted in an apparent stabbing injury and train delays.
An SF homeowner found a wild coyote on their porch; a SamTrans bus that collided with a building in San Francisco near Third Street and Marin Street caused a gas leak; and California's top arts official is stepping down.
An Arab-Muslim student said that a driver screamed “fuck you people" after hitting them with a car on campus.
The 24-year-old suspected of killing a relative in Santa Rosa and taking her severed head was arrested Saturday morning; a car chase across the Bay Bridge caused a multi-car pileup that included a Waymo; and Oakland First Fridays are facing a revenue shortfall.
Three passengers are claiming emotional distress after the disrupted Alaska Airlines flight; an unconscious surfer was rescued at Ocean Beach Thursday; and another Bay Area police department is facing a racist text scandal.
A 24-year-old man is believed to have killed a relative and absconded with her severed head in Santa Rosa, and the suspect remains at large and is considered dangerous.
Add two more former SF Department of Building Inspection engineers to the long list of employees of that department to face federal bribery charges, as the feds say both engineers accepted lavish gifts from construction companies in exchange for permits.
Starting at 9 p.m. Friday night, a nine-mile stretch of I-680 southbound will be closed for pavement repairs all weekend long, and the detours will reverberate for drivers on roads all over the East Bay.
A demonstration of some 200 protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza is attempting to block a ship at the Port of Oakland that they say is carrying military supplies to Israel, though longshoremen say there’s nothing on the ship.
A drug test of a toddler experiencing a medical emergency revealed meth in their system, allegedly left out by the baby's caretaker in their home.
The name “Cliff House” is trademarked by the owners of the restaurant who ran it until its 2020 closure, but the incoming new operator seems to want to use the name, and there could be a trademark fight.
The guy who put up the “Free fentanyl” sign outside a school has been sent to jail, the downtown Target had to be evacuated because of a pepper spray incident, and SFUSD is contemplating another round of sure-to-be contentious changes to Lowell High School admissions policies.
Japantown’s Geary Street pedestrian overpass has been gussied up, the Capp Street bar Uptown is closing permanently, and disgraced FTX crypto baron Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on all counts in his fraud trial.
A 70-year-old man suffered a cardiac episode Sunday next to the de Young Museum, and while the museum is facing tough questions after staff allegedly refused to lend their defibrillator as he died, the museum says an ambulance was already there.
SF Day of the Dead celebrations in the Mission District and beyond have already started, with the annual procession at 7 p.m., and Thursday night’s Festival of the Altars scheduled to be livestreamed.
There is a good deal of trauma, passion, and magical mystery in Eisa Davis's play Bulrusher, which opened Wednesday night at Berkeley Repertory Theater. And it's play that manages to touch on many themes at once, while telling a fairly quaint period tale set in 1955 in Mendocino County.
A now-fired teller at a Tenderloin check cashing joint has been charged by the feds for laundering money under the table to Mexico for at least one known drug dealer.
There's been some financial drama at one of North Beach's biggest restaurants in recent weeks, and only five months into a long-awaited reopening, the restaurant was served an eviction notice this week.
Some jokers in Alameda were just handing out fast-food condiment packages as trick-or-treat candy, according to one puzzled father’s Facebook post.
One of three individuals arrested in a drug bust in Berkeley last November has pleaded guilty to six federal counts of drug possession and intent to distribute, and could face a lengthy prison term.
