Amid the chaos at Burning Man, the Pershing County Sheriff's Office confirmed that a person has died and their family has been notified, but details about the victim and the circumstances haven't been released.
The autonomous vehicle company says that its driverless cars didn't block an ambulance's response to an emergency incident, which contributed to a person's death, and that it's cooperating with authorities.
The celebrities made a harrowing escape from the rain-soaked chaos at Burning Man, but 70,000 other festival-goers are still trapped; 3 Santa Rosa men were arrested with armor-piercing ammo; and a home strip club in San Jose is angering neighbors.
Residents of the affluent bayside Marina Boulevard say that a lack of proper wastewater infrastructure made their homes flood with sewage in a new lawsuit against the city of SF.
Organizers shut down the festival's entrance gate and airport on Friday night amid stormy weather, effectively isolating everyone within the playa, who they urged to "shelter in place" and ration resources.
San Francisco’s 14th Annual Giant Race will take place Sunday, closing streets in the area; Google is moving its 2024 tech conference from SF to Vegas; and the Muni operator affectionately known as Mr. Boston has died.
The women are facing felony charges after their tropical fruit was seized, some of which was home to invasive flies; A teenager was allegedly sexually assaulted in an Excelsior park Thursday night; and remains discovered in Folsom Lake last month were ID'ed as an SF woman.
As the Heart of the City Farmers’ Market is set to be displaced to the next block over this weekend, two supervisors are proposing legislation to relitigate that decision, and maybe move the proposed skate park instead.
An incident report made by the fire department on August 14 suggests that an ambulance was briefly prevented from transporting a patient who was bleeding out following a collision in SoMa.
This year’s scaled-back, three-day Burning Man webcast is now live and running, and you can tune in to watch the spectacular Burn happen live on Saturday night, should you so desire.
A Bay Area slaying that has gone without any justice for nearly 30 years was back in the news this week, as the case against longtime suspect John Kevin Woodward was dismissed by a judge on double-jeopardy grounds.
The crackdown on Tenderloin and SoMa drug dealing and drug use is having an impact, at least according to some numbers released by Mayor London Breed on Friday — though the effectiveness of the strategy to throw users in jail for public intoxication or possession remains to be proven.
A new cocktail and snack spot from a team of industry vets has just debuted in the corner space that was formerly home to Black Sands Brewery, and, briefly, Fort Point's Lower Haight outpost.
Oakland is seeing another tragic week of fatal shootings — and it is feeling like a repeat of last year, with the homicide count rapidly approaching the deadly toll of 2022.
The Cal Bears and Stanford Cardinal just Transfer Portaled themselves to the Atlantic Coast Conference, effective in 2024, which was the best outcome possible for the two schools as the PAC-12 has turned into a dying husk over the last month.
The coming-out-from-the-shadows process of Flannery Associates, the VC-backed group hoping to build a new city in Solano County continues with a new, fairly surface-level website for the project, the parent company of which we now know is called California Forever.
We might get a drizzle of rainfall over Labor Day weekend, Marc Benioff is suddenly back to saying wonderful things about San Francisco, and somebody won $2 million on an instant scratcher lottery ticket purchased at a Hayward Chevron.
Fast-growing AI firm Anthropic is subleasing Slack's former HQ at 500 Howard; the feds are considering moving marijuana out of the list of Schedule I drugs; and westbound I-80 will be closed around the Carquinez Bridge for five days starting tonight.
It always helps to have a gimmick when you're opening something new in this town, and the minds behind Holbrook House — the grand new restaurant opening September 6 in the old bank building at One Sansome — have come up with a clever one.
The disease formerly known as monkeypox is making a troubling little comeback in SF, and while case counts are low, we’ve seen a nearly seven-fold increase in positive mpox cases in the last five weeks.
Thursday morning brought the latest encampment sweep on Willow Street, one of several alleys off of Van Ness near Polk Gulch that have been perennially popular campout spots for the city's homeless.
Newsom has a nebulous plan to transform San Quentin State Prison into a correctional facility that’s more like a college campus, but the $360 million price tag and lack of transparency is making some people wary.
Following the announcement of this year's Down in the Valley music festival, anticipation is building among indie-folk fans as they prepare to descend on the stunning vineyards of Napa, California for a weekend of unforgettable musical experiences.
Back in 2017, the small East Bay town of Albany was roiled by the discovery of a wildly racist "finsta" account that posted memes as well as doctored photos of students of color at Albany High School. The aftermath was violent, lengthy, and litigious.
The annual Black Rock City Census data is out for 2022, and it paints a picture of the desert festival getting marginally more diverse than it was a decade ago, and a fair bit less traditionally heterosexual.
