San Francisco police announced the arrest of two individuals, both men in their 30s, for a series of armed robberies in recent weeks that targeted businesses in the Mission District.
Just a week after Governor Newsom’s CARE Courts started up to compel severely mentally ill people into treatment even if they don’t want it, Newsom has signed a new law that allows a broader interpretation of who can be forced into what they call conservatorship.
It was time again for the Chronicle to update their bizarrely unhelpful Top 25 Restaurants list for Fall 2023, and it remains like a less informative version of the Eater 38, but with 13 fewer restaurants, representing a region which deserves far better coverage.
Information about the suspect shot and killed by police and his motivations are not being released quickly, the SFPD says, because Monday's crash is being treated as an international incident.
A vehicle fire and its aftermath caused a significant traffic backup east of Treasure Island on the Bay Bridge Tuesday morning.
23-year-old Berkeley native Hersh Goldberg-Polin was at the Saturday music festival near the Gaza Strip that was invaded by Hamas militants, and he is believed to have been taken hostage.
A big rig crashed into the tollbooth plaza of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Monday night; a woman was carjacked near the UC Berkeley campus; and the Oakland Police Commission remains divided amid search for new chief.
A car crashed into the Chinese consulate at Geary and Laguna and shots were fired; Newsom vetoed a bill that would have outlawed caste-based discrimination; and a beloved pumpkin patch in Morgan Hill was vandalized.
A tent fire that broke out Saturday afternoon at an encampment in Hayes Valley has angered neighbors who have given multiple warnings to the city, especially when it was very near an August 1 fire that burned down a building under construction.
The popular 11-year-old Tex-Mex restaurant and bar West of Pecos has apparently suffered a drop in business since the pandemic, as so many restaurants have, and has announced its final day in business will be Saturday, October 28.
A report of a man with a gun inside a Chase Bank in the NoPa neighborhood prompted SFPD officers to evacuate a Lucky supermarket Monday afternoon.
The 2,500-pound largest pumpkin ever grown in California still wasn't big enough to win the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Pumpkin Weigh-Off, as a farmer from Minnesota drove in a pumpkin that won the contest and set a new world record at 2,749 pounds.
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A San Francisco cable car had to make a hard stop to avoid colliding with another vehicle Monday afternoon, resulting in some passenger injuries.
Two groundbreaking drug bills from SF's state legislators went to pot on Gavin Newsom’s desk, as he’s vetoed state Senator Scott Wiener’s bill to decriminalize plant-based psychedelics, and Assemblymember Matt Haney’s bill for Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes.
Four shootings occurred across Oakland Saturday night, including three in a 30-minute span, leaving four people hospitalized, among them a 16-year-old girl. But none of the victims have life-threatening injuries.
Following a major outbreak of violence in Israel and Gaza over the weekend, pro-Palestinian rallies occurred Sunday in multiple U.S. cities which were met by groups supporting Israel, leading in some cases to skirmishes.
A man was fatally shot just before 2 a.m. Saturday in the Mission District; Mission cafe owner and SFTMA board member Manny Yekutiel details his experience from Israel over the weekend; and Sonoma County was rocked by two small earthquakes Sunday.
Michael Chiarello, a celebrity of food TV and a long-established Bay Area chef and restaurateur, died Friday at the age of 61.
A woman died Saturday afternoon after a fall from a roof in Russian Hill, and details about the circumstances leading up to the fall have not been released.
A United flight from SFO to Tel Aviv turned around mid-flight following the outbreak of attacks by Hamas; the SFPD arrested nine shoplifters in a 'blitz' operation at the SF Centre; and a winning $1.3M Powerball ticket was sold in San Francisco.
This is your last beach day, SF, with cooler temperatures on the way Sunday; a Tenderloin hotel is removing some anti-homeless sprinklers it installed; and a judge has denied a bid by Tesla to reduce a jury award in a case of workplace racism.
The Santa Rosa resident operated an "obscene" website that ran stories about the rape, torture, and murder of children; the Martinez Refining Company apparently released (more) coke dust Friday morning; and social media platforms X and Meta haven't banned fake AI political ads.
The seemingly flimsy street barriers on Capp Street have done well enough at preventing late-night chaos on the street that they’ll be made permanent, though a different design will be utilized.
Late 1960s women’s basketball star Denise Long had three 100-point games in high school, and became the first woman ever drafted by an NBA team, who just happened to be your Golden State Warriors.
President Joe Biden left open the possibility Friday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping may have a sideline meeting of some sort in November while both are in San Francisco for APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders's Summit.
