Two hikers were struck by lightning Thursday at the nearly 9,000-foot summit of Half Dome, and were confronted with the task of making it down after bouts with singed hair, charred clothing, and memory loss.
"SF is a city of compassion, but we also need accountability," Mayor London Breed said on Tuesday, announcing a new proposed policy of withholding cash assistance payments to addicts unless they agree to undergo drug treatment.
The 36-year-old man who was arrested for the fatal stabbing of his mother on Saturday, as well as stabbings that injured two others, has a long and troubled past with law enforcement, and he appears to have begun having psychiatric problems around age 18.
Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie is positioning himself as an "outsider" candidate for San Francisco mayor as he makes his 2024 candidacy official today. And he's promising, among other things, to compel more mentally ill people into treatment even if it's against their will.
The freaky tiki bar Trad’r Sam is by all accounts the oldest continuously operating tiki bar in SF, but it’s currently “closed until further notice,” and court records show a hurricane of a legal battle is underway for control of the establishment.
Oakland businesses are planning a "strike" today to protest public safety issues and crime; a study funds that Alameda County has one of the highest violent-crime rates in the state; and SFUSD custodians are planning a strike in the coming weeks.
An SFPD officer is facing felony DUI charges relating to a December crash in Hillsborough; all schools in California will have to install gender-neutral bathrooms by 2026; and SF-based Anthropic just struck a huge deal with Amazon.
Biden’s back in the Bay Area Tuesday, and is scheduled to swing into San Francisco on Wednesday, in what appears to largely be a fundraising swing with a smattering of technology policy thrown in.
Confirming fears by planning experts that the billionaire group behind an imagined, utopian city built on arid agricultural land in Solano County will be retrograde in concept, visionary developer Jan Sramek said as much in an interview with KQED today.
It’s a small but sure sign that the California condor population is rebounding after near-extinction, as six California condors were recently tracked in Contra Costa County, the first flock of these birds to fly through the county in 100 years.
Mayor London Breed says that new appeals-court guidance allows SF to resume homeless encampment sweeps, based on language about the meaning of "involuntary" homelessness, and a memo Monday announced plans to restart the sweeps.
It was a year ago last week that we learned of the death of Deward Hastings, a man whose name was not widely known but whose property has been visited by thousands of in-the-know East Bay residents for nearly 50 years.
Heather Knight's first byline as San Francisco Bureau Chief for the New York Times is a story about how everyone in the country — including self-satisfied New Yorkers who haven't been here in years — has bought into the narrative that SF is a hellhole now.
A new buyer has emerged for the nearly $1 billion in defaulted properties for the city’s biggest residential landlord Veritas Investments, and its Brookfield Properties, a partner that just walked away from the Westfield Centre shopping mall.
Gorgeous weather welcomed the 40th Folsom Street Fair to South of Market Sunday, and the leather, furry, and fetish party whipped up a crowd of hundreds of thousands.
A high-speed collision Sunday morning in East Oakland left two people dead and another injured, and the 25-year-old driver who was allegedly responsible tried to flee the scene.
Air quality is back to normal and there's a chance of rain in the North Bay; gas prices have gone up 14 cents in CA in the last week; and Hollywood writers may be headed back to work soon.
An unlikely alliance could be an ace up the sleeve of A’s fans hoping to keep the team in Oakland, as they’re teaming up with the Nevada State Educators Association teachers’ union to push a ballot measure to block the new Las Vegas stadium.
A weekend shooting left a two-year-old dead in Vallejo, Betty Reid Soskin turned 102 years old, and street fairs will blanket SF Sunday with the Autumn Moon Festival, Folsom Street Fair, and Cole Valley Fair.
A 60-year-old woman was stabbed in an apparent family conflict at a Berkeley hills home on Saturday, and two other people were injured in the attack, which police say was not random.
Levi Strauss heir and former anti-poverty group Tipping Point Community CEO Daniel Lurie just submitted preliminary filings to run for SF mayor in 2024, and he’s expected to officially announce on Tuesday.
ABC 7 stumbled on a curious story Friday involving a San Francisco man who had tracked his own stolen camera equipment to a spot on Leavenworth Street that is apparently already known to police.
One person was killed in a shooting near Oakland's Lake Temescal on Friday evening; two Santa Rosa teens were arrested following a tip they were going to bring a gun to school; and the Embarcadero Center Banana Republic closes today.
All signs point to COVID cases declining in the Bay Area and CA; Gov. Newsom announced new sweeping home-insurance regulations; and Justice Elena Kagan is calling for an ethics code for SCOTUS.
Is it a blessing or a curse when perhaps the most widely loathed and cartoonish CEO in tech vows he’ll spend $100,000 to defeat you in an election? Supervisor Dean Preston will find out, as Elon Musk claimed in a tweet that he’ll pledge a hundred grand to beat the District 5 supervisor.
