Fans of the Google brand and mythology, as well as the architecturally curious, will be able to check out a new visitors' center at the company's "Gradient Canopy" office complex in Mountain View starting next week.
With smash-and-grab auto burglaries up a stunning 40% over the last year in Oakland, police claim their new crackdown is getting results, with seven car break-in suspects arrested in three separate incidents last Thursday.
It was seen as perhaps a stumble out of the gate when newly appointed California senator Laphonza Butler was revealed to have been living in Maryland the last two years, so she did a little clean-up on that in her first-day-on-the-job interview with the Chronicle.
The ostensibly conservative dude who was one of two school board members in the tiny East Bay school district of Sunol to vote against having any Pride or other flags on campus last month says he's been receiving death threats.
Late Senator Dianne Feinstein's remains arrived at San Francisco's City Hall rotunda Wednesday morning, flanked by members of the military, San Francisco firefighters, police, and SF sheriff's deputies all in dress uniform.
In what's clearly a petty move on the part of House Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry, Nancy Pelosi was informed Tuesday night that she had until Wednesday to vacate her office space in the Capitol building.
23,000 Kaiser employees in the Bay Area went on strike this morning; custodial and other staff at SF public schools are almost definitely headed for a strike as well; and SFO is hosting an airtaxi conference.
A big new heat wave arrives Wednesday, a 72-year-old woman was killed in an Oakland hit-and-run and her body wasn’t found until the next day, and social media is up in arms over a DPW worker’s treatment of a Fisherman’s Wharf hot dog vendor.
Berkeley’s Golden Gate Fields is still running races despite the July announcement of its permanent closure, but there are bound to be questions over how well they’re phasing out operations, as four horses have died there in the last two weeks.
The 59 Starbucks locations in San Francisco will be trimmed down later this month, with Starbucks telling managers that they are permanently closing seven SF stores on October 22, adding to the city's vacancy woes.
Today was a momentous day that should go down in infamy for the House of Representatives, as a predicted outcome of the Republican Party's narrow hold on the chamber has come to pass.
A Thursday memorial service for Senator Dianne Feinstein, originally scheduled to happen inside the War Memorial Building, in Herbst Theater, now will happen outside City Hall, with the public welcome to attend.
An early June shooting on the Lower Haight’s Rose Street took the life of 25-year-old Yeurra Blaylock III, but four San Francisco men have been arrested, charged, and are in custody for the killing.
There's a nationwide test scheduled for Wednesday at 11:20 a.m. Pacific Time (2:20 p.m. Eastern) of FEMA's Emergency Alert System, and it's being sent to all cellphones on all major carriers.
Self-proclaimed Queen of Christmas Mariah Carey is taking her Christmas spectacular on the road this year, and she'll be playing two dates in California — just none in Northern California.
An annual report detailing how many Californias were the victims of violence over the past year finds a slight dip in reported violence among most populations, but a sharp increase in reported violence against transgender people.
One of Elon Musk's baby mamas, Grimes, a.k.a. Claire Boucher, made a legal filing in San Francisco Superior Court Friday that may indicate all is not copacetic between the two parents, who now share three children together.
A pedestrian collision Monday night is likely to provide more fodder for the debate over autonomous vehicles and how they react to certain uncommon situations — and it has Cruise once again in aggressive defense mode.
Reps. Adam Schiff, Katie Porter, and Barbara Lee have all put out statements of support for Laphonza Butler; Monday's grass fire in East Oakland was contained; and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy might lose his job today.
Newsom's appointee to the Senate, Laphonza Butler, has apparently been living in Maryland since 2021; a brush fire was threatening homes in Oakland; and the Trader Joe's space in Hayes Valley has a new owner.
The feds already sentenced ex-DBI inspector Bernie Curran to a year and a day in prison back in July for taking bribes to grant permits, and now DA Brooke Jenkins has won another guilty plea on him, and got two more years added to his prison term.
Plans surfaced last week to tear down the 500 Brannan Street building that’s home to the decade-old bistro Marlowe, creating some uncertainty for Marlowe, which may have to become a pop-up or even move.
Mountain House in San Joaquin County serves as an example of how even in the best of circumstances, the process of placemaking can take a very long time.
A clerk at a store in El Sobrante is recovering from severe burns that he got in an altercation with a shoplifter two weeks ago.
San Francisco is one of seven California counties that begins Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court program today, a new system that can force mentally ill people into conservatorship and involuntary treatment.
