It's the second time in three years that we've been told to "say goodbye" to paper tickets on the BART system. But after re-introducing them last year, the paper tickets are really going away this time.
With the 41st annual Sandcastle Classic falling on Halloween weekend, you’d better believe that monsters, jack-o-lanterns, and skeletons got their heads out of the sand for Northern California’s largest sandcastle competition.
An Oakland Police Commission report seems to confirm the allegation that two officers lied about a June 2022 high-speed chase of a suspected sideshow participant they conducted with no headlights or sirens on, a chase that killed an innocent bystander.
We now know what six of the food concessions will be in the new Saluhall food court being opened by IKEA affiliate Ingka Centres in the downtown San Francisco Meeting Place complex.
It was not a completely quiet weekend for the North Bay during this past weekend's Red Flag Warning, but the reported fires were fairly quickly contained.
A 21-year-old preschool teacher was killed last week in a tragic hit-and-run collision at a busy South San Jose intersection, and police say they have now arrested the 15-year-old boy responsible, who was driving a stolen car at the time.
As has been expected for months, the Biden Administration on Monday issued an executive order laying out standards and basic regulations for safety and security around artificial intelligence.
An interesting twist in the August prison attack on Kristin Smart’s convicted killer Paul Flores: It turns out his attacker is the same prisoner who strangled and killed his cellmate in 2021, a cellmate who was the notorious “I-5 Strangler.”
A wacky story involving a chase from San Francisco deep into Contra Costa County began unfolding Sunday evening in North Beach, when a suspect allegedly assaulted a parishioner at Saints Peter and Paul Church on Filbert Street.
An as-yet-unidentified 34-year-old man was shot and killed just after 3 a.m. Sunday morning near 19th Street and Broadway, marking Oakland’s 106th homicide of the year.
Two people were stabbed and injured Sunday near SF's Bernal Heights; Oakland police launched and canceled a social media program to combat auto burglaries; and it's going to be another dry, sunny day around the Bay.
Two separate sideshows in Contra Costa County led to small brush fires, one in Antioch and one in Brentwood that burned about four acres.
The Oakland Police Department set up accounts called @OaklandAutoBurg on Instagram and X for people to DM about car break-ins in real-time, but shut them down after less than a day.
The Castro hosted its first Halloween celebration in 17 years; 15 people who staged a sit-in at the Cal-USC football game delayed it and were arrested; and 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy completed concussion protocol and will start on Sunday.
A protest march against the Israeli invasion of Gaza and in support of the Palestinian people proceeded up an on-ramp to a major freeway interchange in San Francisco on Saturday.
Activists planned a demonstration in support of Palestinians near the Harry Bridges Plaza and San Francisco Ferry Building starting at 1 p.m. Saturday.
A female guest alleges that a Ritz-Carlton employee ejaculated into a water bottle that she was served —and that the hotel was negligent and won't comply with authorities.
A 3.7-magnitude earthquake rattled San Francisco around 6:45 p.m. Friday, but no damage was reported; a TikTok about Mountain View's Diddams Party & Toy Store went viral; and Alameda County DA's work laptop was stolen in a car break-in.
The suspect, 41-year-old Paul Durden, was arrested about 6 hours after the stabbing; the ex-MLB pitcher accused of fatally stabbing his father-in-law in Tahoe in 2021 has been extradited to California ahead of being arraigned; and a new Chinatown night market is set for November 10th and 11th.
Whatever Elon Musk's ultimate vision for the platform he and almost no one else calls X may be, it is still slow to take shape, and one year into his tenure at the company, the results of his leadership aren't great.
In announcing a new joint task force between the state and the City of San Francisco, Governor Newsom and Mayor Breed vow that they’ll start having fentanyl dealers charged with murder when a user dies from an accidental overdose.
You've got one month left to go have some hearty Oktoberfest fun at Rosamunde Sausage Grill in the Mission. The restaurant announced today that it is closing for good in late November.
Valencia Street’s new center bike lanes are likely to remain the center of controversy after yet another accident, this time a driver making a U-turn and colliding with someone riding a scooter in that center lane.
It's been an extremely — thankfully! — quiet fire season for our local area, but some serious fire danger is headed our way this weekend with a weather system that promises dry, offshore winds that often present wildfire hazards.
An experiment in 2020s incentivizing the workplace as a dot-com-era adult playground where work also occurs has ended with a whimper in downtown SF. Tech company Expensify is shutting down its bar, which it opened earlier this year, after six months.
