Lest we had any hope that new-fangled crab pots or some innovation might help the industry start the season earlier this year, state wildlife officials announced Friday that our local Dungeness crab season will be delayed, yet again.
Halloween is back in the Castro for the first time in 17 years, with storefront activations, movie screenings, drag shows, and a block party that will last all day and night Saturday — with a party for the kids happening on Sunday.
Two veteran flight attendants, both women of color, are suing United Airlines, saying they were demoted off of working L.A. Dodgers team charter flights because the airline prefers “white, young, thin women” for that assignment.
GM-owned Cruise is hitting the pause button on all of its driverless taxi operations in order to "rebuild public trust," the company says, a move that comes two days after the California DMV ordered the company to cease operating its vehicles in San Francisco without a driver present.
A 35-year-old woman is in stable condition after being shot multiple times, merely for honking at a driver who cut her off. But a 10-year-old girl who was in the car with her is thankfully unharmed.
An 'inside slider' weather system is set to bring Diablo winds to the North and East bays; SFPD are on the hunt for a suspect in yesterday's Western Addition shooting; and Larry Elder is ending his longshot presidential bid.
A double shooting in SF's Western Addition Thursday left one person dead; an East Bay man has been acquitted after giving a false confession to murder; and the on-the-market 115 Sansome building has drawn an unexpectedly large slew of offers to buy it.
Alaska Airlines pilot Joseph Emerson was arraigned in a Portland court on Thursday, and while he's essentially admitted to trying to interfere with a plane's engine amid an apparent mental breakdown, he has pleaded not guilty to 167 charges of attempted murder and reckless endangerment.
A Thursday morning confrontation between two men resulted in the stabbing and death of one of them, an unnamed 39-year-old male victim.
The SF Public Library’s new streaming music platform for Bay Area bands and musicians launches Saturday, and they’re celebrating with a Saturday afternoon live music bash on the Fulton Street steps of the library’s Main Branch.
Two enormous hotels in downtown SF, the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the Parc 55, will likely be bought up by a new owner or owners within a year, and they are now set to go into receivership shortly.
The saga of Hi Felicia, the ambitious, short-lived Oakland restaurant borne out of a pandemic pop-up, owned by one-named 26-year-old restaurateur Imana, continues this week with a report that the defunct business is now on the hook for $105,000 in back pay to former employees.
After a two-month contest and a week-long voting blitz, SF voters have elected their new “I Voted” sticker, which features parrots, a sea lion, Sutro Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, and of course Karl the Fog.
The elevation of an Alameda County Superior Court judge to the federal bench is being delayed by the fact that California Senator Alex Padilla was absent Thursday, depriving Democrats of their one-vote majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Hundreds of crab bandits have been illegally swarming a Half Moon Bay beach to poach Dungeness crab out of season. They not only risk a nearly $500 fine, they’re also screwing up the hatching season and threatening the crab population.
A condemned house that had been home to a confirmed meth- and bomb-making lab in San Jose has just hit the market for $1.55 million.
A brazen snatch-and-grab sunglasses theft operation that hit several stores in SF and the East Bay has brought three-year prison sentences for two Contra Costa County men in their early 20s.
A man in his 40s was killed by a hit-and-run collision involving a stolen SUV in Oakland; a woman was shot multiple times near the Coliseum BART station; and there was a mass shooting last night in Maine.
A shooting at a San Leandro barbershop left one man dead; downtown SF businesses are expressing concerns about the APEC security zone that's being set up; and that aggressive sea otter in Santa Cruz might have been acting oddly toward surfers because she was pregnant, and she now has a pup.
“I would like to seize as many hot dog carts as possible,” vows one city official in emails obtained by Bloomberg, as a crackdown on hot dog vendors is curiously one of the items on SF’s APEC preparations to-do list.
A puppeteer passing through San Francisco has been reunited with hundreds of Persian shadow puppets that were inside a U-Haul van stolen from Van Ness Avenue Sunday night.
Tuesday night’s Richmond City Council meeting went past 1 a.m. Wednesday morning, as the council passed a resolution “affirming Richmond's support and solidarity” for Gaza and Palestine, with a highly charged public comment session that went for almost five hours.
A 3 a.m. vandalism job on the Valencia Street ice cream shop Smitten left windows broken and “Free Palestine” graffiti on the storefront, and it may not be a coincidence that the store is Jewish-owned.
A brazen Monday morning robbery at Clooney’s Pub at Valencia and 25th streets ripped off their ATM and some liquor from the establishment, then the suspects crashed into an SFPD patrol car. They’re still at large, but the SFPD has a vehicle description.
The general squalor and drug use around the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building has one senator from Iowa now suggesting it ought to be "shuttered for the foreseeable future."
