Embattled Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price is facing new scrutiny over hiring her romantic partner to a position that was apparently never advertised, and which pays a reported salary of more than $115,000.
Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew overnight to San Francisco to have a public conversation with Elon Musk Monday morning about multiple subjects, including AI, antisemitism on Twitter/X, and the power of courts in a functioning democracy.
Two people were shot and critically injured at Seventh and Market streets in SF Saturday night; a young woman was shot while sleeping through the wall of an Oakland home early Monday; and construction begins to rebuild the historic wharf in Capitola.
California state filed a lawsuit this week against BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute, alleging they misled the public about the risks of burning fossil fuels and caused vast harm to the environment and communities in violation of state laws.
The once-famous tour boat, a replica 19th-century paddle-wheel riverboat that had been evicted from Long Beach around 2018, had apparently fallen into ruin before the blaze at its Vallejo anchorage Saturday.
The original soundstage and production facility in San Rafael formerly run by George Lucas is shutting down; the Oakland Roots soccer team has successfully crowdfunded almost $2M; and the Saturday was the Bay Area's annual Corgi Con.
One of the biggest demographic shifts in the city since the pandemic began has been the mass departure of residents 25+ who haven't attended college — which is leaving at a much higher rate than other demographics.
Oakland police arrested a man after an hours-long standoff around 11:30 p.m. Friday night, after he barricaded himself inside an East Oakland residence with a small child.
San Leandro's police chief was placed on leave due to "policy violations"; a new Takashi Murakami exhibition, his first-ever solo in SF, opened at the Asian Art Museum Friday; and the inaugural Sunset District Night Market drew massive crowds to the neighborhood.
Donna, the Oakland Zoo's 43-year-old African elephant, was relocated after the death of her long-time elephant friend earlier this year; SF's executive pay tax targeting high-earning CEOs has been lucrative; and there was a kidnapping in Oakland Thursday.
It’s technically the final weekend of the summer, and SF has free-admission culture fairs and festivals all over town, culminating with Sunday’s 44th annual Haight-Ashbury Street Fair.
The James Beard Award-winning chef behind the wildly acclaimed Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix is headed to the Bay Area to open his first restaurant here this fall.
A person was found "fully engulfed in flames" Thursday morning inside a car on fire in East Oakland, and Oakland police are seeking leads in the case.
Lloyd Canamore gained fame in 2020 over a campaign to save his uniquely decorated West Oakland “Warriors House,” but he passed away recently, and an Oakland shelter is trying to rehome his dogs.
Just three days after being admitted to Santa Rita Jail, an El Cerrito man suffering from schizophrenia was killed allegedly by his cellmate, in what’s shaping up to be another lawsuit against the often-troubled correctional facility.
A group of TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) is having their second annual conference in San Francisco for some reason, and local trans activists are planning to protest at the host hotel.
We have a real, honest-to-goodness, mysterious hermit in the Bay Area whom no one seems to have to photographed or seen alive. And his precarious and sublime cliffside dwelling, fashioned out of driftwood and tarps, has become a recent source of fascination due to some drone footage.
A just-published study led by a UCSF neurologist and psychiatrist shows MDMA is safe and effective for treatment of PTSD, and there are efforts underway to get the hallucinogen FDA approval for legal, medical use.
Apparently Dreamforce went well this week, and city efforts to clean up the area around the Moscone Center so that conventioneers didn't have to step over bodies or needles were a success.
Oakland lost out on a state grant to fight retail theft because of a missed deadline; about 300,000 local residents returned to offices last year; and Castro mainstay Badlands is about to reopen after three and a half years boarded up.
The Fillmore Street sinkhole may take up to six weeks to fix, someone’s throwing their hat in the ring for Aaron Peskin’s D3 seat, and Governor Gavin Newsom is rolling in the Brink’s truck to fight organized retail theft.
After the Chronicle broke a story that DA Brooke Jenkins’s office had been disqualified from a case involving her family member, Jenkins took to Twitter to excoriate the paper’s seemingly accurate reporting on the topic.
A wealthy ownership group looking to back a new baseball team in Oakland should make themselves known sooner rather than later, because according to high-ranking MLB executives, Oakland is high on the list for an expansion team in 2025.
California State Treasurer Fiona Ma had hoped to get charges against her dismissed in a sexual harassment suit that dates back to early 2020, calling the charges "baseless" when they were filed two years ago. But a judge in Sacramento has ruled that Ma will have to stand trial.
A 29-year-old SRO resident is in custody on charges of attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing employee Wednesday, and the employee is in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
