The man accused in Sunday's bizarre bomb-throwing spree and assault has been formally charged; a new mural honoring Bernal Heights native Sean Monterrosa, shot by police in 2020, is being completed for Dia de los Muertos; and a Sonoma sheriff's deputy was reportedly exposed to fentanyl.
Halloween festivities in the Castro were lively and without incident both Saturday and Tuesday; the City of SF is suing companies that sell illegal license-plate concealers; and DoorDash is going to start making you wait longer for your food if you don't tip.
An Afghan-born former SF police officer who allegedly endured more than a year of racial slurs, and says he was fired for speaking up about it, has been awarded a $455,000 settlement from the city.
Some mystery proponents have filed two proposed ballot measures for the November 2024 election that would again attempt to legalize on-site and online sports betting in California, restricting it to tribe-owned casinos.
A new report says Capitol Police security “lapsed for months” on Nancy Pelosi’s Pac Heights home before last year’s hammer attack on her husband Paul Pelosi, though there may also be some blame to assign for SFPD’s bureaucratic foot-dragging.
San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman has proposed an amendment to the city charter that would bolster the power of the mayor while also discouraging some of the ballot-measure battles that have gone on in recent years between the Board of Supervisors and the mayor.
Two Financial District chain retail businesses less than 500 feet from one another — both of which opened in 1994 — have announced their closures: a McDonald's and a 24-Hour Fitness, both shutting down due to the district’s offices being emptied out.
The much anticipated return of chefs David Fisher and Serena Chow Fisher, taking over a cozy Japantown space, arrives this week, but the new restaurant is not exactly Marlena part 2.
Halloween night went tragically wrong in the Contra Costa County community of Bay Point Tuesday night, with at least one person dead after an incident where neighbors reported hearing “30 to 40 gunshots.”
A bevy of protest groups with a range of agendas are likely to stage demonstrations within view of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit later this month, though San Francisco city leaders would probably prefer they did not.
65-year-old Richard May had overcome tremendous adversity to making his stage debut with the African-American Shakespeare Company, but he was killed by a driver Saturday morning while walking to a rehearsal for his first performance.
Several boats were on fire Wednesday morning at the Oyster Point Marina in South San Francisco; a seven-year-old boy was struck and injured in a hit-and-run in Berkeley; and some rain might be headed our way by Sunday.
A one-alarm electrical fire caused some trouble in the Castro, SFPD is seeking the public’s help in the case of a missing 11-year-old, and the 49ers have traded for 2020 Pro Bowl defensive lineman Chase Young.
A grisly discovery occurred Tuesday morning at Lake Merritt when a clean-up volunteer found a suitcase floating in the lake with the human remains of someone’s dead body inside.
Supervisor Matt Dorsey is dumping his own plan to bolster SFPD staffing after Supervisor Ahsha Safai inserted a so-called “poison pill” to the measure, so the two supes duked it out on Twitter and at a supervisors’ committee meeting that got personal.
You may have tasted, or heard about, the glories of a proper deep-fried turkey at Thanksgiving. But trying this yourself at home, without an experienced fry cook on hand and without some serious distance between the fry pot and your house, is not advised.
There is likely to be plenty of litigation ahead for the outfit funded by a group of tech billionaires known as Flannery Associates, as they navigate the nearly uncharted waters of trying to build a city out of whole cloth in hyper-political, 21st Century California.
Woods Beer & Wine Co. is expanding yet again, and the brewery is readying a seventh location in the middle of SF, in Cole Valley, at the site of the former Reverie Cafe (848 Cole Street).
The biggest lingering international question about San Francisco’s upcoming, high-profile APEC summit was whether President Biden would meet face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and the White House just announced Tuesday that “It’s happening.”
It's too soon to say whether the law enforcement crackdown on open-air drug dealing in the Tenderloin and SoMa, ongoing since this summer, has been a success or failure. But some impacts have been apparent, and anecdotally, there may be fewer dealers on the streets.
Cannabis-laced fruit chews that resemble Starburst candies somehow got into the mix at an Alameda elementary school Halloween event, and one child got sick, while at least three other children received the illicit candies in their bags.
The suspect has now been named in Sunday's bizarre incident that began in North Beach and led to a police chase across the Bay that included improvised explosives.
A SoCal wildfire grew to 2,200 acres overnight thanks to Santa Ana winds; Oakland saw its 107th homicide early this morning; and a large portion of I-680 in the East Bay will be shut down for roadwork this weekend.
Governor Gavin Newsom made a gaffe knocking down a child in China; state Sen. Scott Wiener has a new car break-in bill; and a full quarter of a city fund to revitalize downtown is going to Tyler Florence's Union Square project.
Something funny's going on in Visitacion Valley, where a new venue called Church of Clown is right on the nose with clown troupe performances, and clown classes for both youth and adults.
