The California Highway Patrol started a pursuit of a reported Oakland homicide suspect in Redwood City Thursday, and the chase didn’t end until the suspect crashed his white van into the wall of the Moscone Center parking lot.
Supervisor Dean Preston proposed a new ordinance earlier this year that would bar armed security guards from drawing their weapons in response to a property crime in progress — following the widespread outrage over the April killing of Banko Brown.
The SFPD made multiple arrests last week in connection with organized retail thefts in the city, but two incidents happened at the same store, the Lululemon at 2040 Fillmore Street.
The waist-high barriers meant to curb illegal street vending at 24th and Mission streets have now also popped up at the 16th and Mission Street BART Plaza too, though they may be deterring sidewalk access more than they deter street vending.
While we still may be years out before we see lots of residential units hit the market in former downtown office buildings, at least eight landlords of downtown buildings are putting out feelers about converting — and the developer behind 100 Van Ness is eyeing a big building on Spear Street.
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Some sort of sidewalk collapse occurred Thursday morning over a utility trench near the Lower Haight neighborhood, trapping one person underground.
Two more historic Fisherman's Wharf seafood restaurants may be biting the dust, as the 88-year-old Fishermen’s Grotto No. 9 and the 77-year-old Tarantino’s have both received eviction notices for unpaid back rent.
The Oakland Police Commission is holding a town hall tonight on the search for a new chief; two collisions led to a major backup on the Dumbarton Bridge; and the Powerball jackpot has swelled to $925M.
A man was shot by Fairfield police for allegedly having a gun near a school; Berkeley murder suspect Jonah Roper failed to appear in court today; and two women have been charged with a brazen retail theft in Pacific Heights.
Bad news for Fleet Week fans, but good news for dogs, as the looming federal government shutdown could end up scaling back next week’s Fleet Week activities.
The 400-year-old Austrian beer Trumer Pils is opening its first-ever US taproom in Berkeley next weekend, and celebrating with an Oktoberfest party that will feature some of their other Bavarian-inspired lagers (and costume contests).
San Francisco architect Mark Hogan, founder of OpenScope Studio, has thrown out an idea for filling the vacant former Nordstrom space in the mall formerly called the Westfield Centre on SF's Market Street, and it makes a lot more sense than a soccer stadium.
The Bay Area's own 40-game 'Jeopardy!' champion Amy Schneider has been at work on a book in the 20 months since her historic run on the game show ended, and it is set to land in stores on October 3.
While both the victim and the wrongly accused are now deceased, Solano County prosecutors have identified and arrested a suspect in the 1987 kidnapping and murder of a six-year-old boy thanks to new DNA evidence.
Today in unsurprising news: The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection has launched an investigation into those $700/mo sleeping pods on Mint Plaza, which may not be permitted.
The WNBA is looking to add expansion teams as the popularity of women's basketball grows, and SF could be the next city up as the league hopes to add two more teams by 2025.
Organizers of the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival just announced a new and welcome feature at this year's event: a 'General Store' selling a variety of picnic supplies and more.
Public comment at Tuesday’s SF Board of Supervisors veered into a cesspool of racist ant anti-semitic comments, in a pattern we’re seeing proliferate across the Bay Area, and really, the whole country.
Democrats in multiple western states are making strange bedfellows with Republicans in a push to get the conservative-majority Supreme Court to settle the legal dispute over whether homeless people should be allowed to camp on public property without penalty.
The vandalism problem for SF restaurants is huge and costly; Berkeley police chased armed robbery suspects into Oakland, where they crashed a car; and two Oakland residents were arrested in Fresno County with $600K worth of meth and fentanyl.
California schools superintendent Tony Thurmond declared he’s running for governor, two men committed an Oakland carjacking in a just-carjacked car, and there’s an effort afoot to make a block of Hayes Street permanently car-free.
The combined standup talents of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey will double-team SF and Oakland in late January, as the two just announced new dates for their first-ever tour together.
Big-box retailer Target announced the closures of nine stores nationwide on Tuesday, and one of them is the Target at Folsom and 13th Streets, while two of the others are in the East Bay.
The man who was behind the wheel of the white van out of which former Air Force Sergeant Steven Carrillo fatally shot a federal security guard during a night of George Floyd protests in downtown Oakland in late May 2020 has been found guilty of murder.
There will be some street closures and Muni interruptions on SF's Nob Hill through Wednesday due to a "VIP visit" which is obviously President Biden.
