A highly unpleasant odor is causing a stink in the Lower Haight, as a sewer repair effort permeates a chemical odor throughout the neighborhood, but the SFPUC insists there’s no public health hazard.
Coming up this September, British rock sensations The 1975 are coming to California, and it's a homecoming you won't want to miss. With their evocative lyrics intersecting seamlessly with a plethora of musical styles, there are few bands with such a transformative yet definitive sonic identity.
Expect more smoky skies again Thursday, beleaguered mega-landlord Veritas found someone to buy up their properties, and Beyonce’s Levi’s Stadium show went 30 minutes past curfew, even though it was given an hour-long extension.
The man accused in the gruesome killing of an ex-girlfriend in San Carlos last September is heading to trial; CHP arrested a driver following a 20-mile chase into Lafayette and a rollover crash; and Mitch McConnell froze up again during a press conference.
Can Alemany Boulevard handle two specialty Asian grocery stores within a mile of each other? The Filipino grocery chain Island Pacific Market thinks so, and has submitted applications to move into a vacant spot not far from the wildly popular H Mart.
A current city grant program director and a former city employee who’s now a consultant stand accused of the grant director funneling projects to the consultant, who in return allegedly kicked back more than $200,000 in checks to the director and her family.
A petition circulated last weekend by a Presidio Heights resident has been a source of much hilarity after pickleball players linked it to a real estate listing for a home with its own backyard pickleball court.
Well, this is Trump-y. Displeased with legal rulings blocking encampment sweeps, a testy Gavin Newsom declared he wanted to post “a big sign with the judge’s phone number saying, ‘Call the judge.’”
One of SF's main, acclaimed, go-to croissant bakeries, Arsicault, is set to open a third location in San Francisco next year in one of the new developments on the former ballpark parking lot property in Mission Bay/Mission Rock.
A 2021 homicide case that was tried by then-Assistant District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, which she cited as a final straw in her disagreements with former boss Chesa Boudin, has come back to haunt Jenkins again.
The annual Dreamforce convention is still set to begin less than two weeks from now, but Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is threatening to move the whole shebang elsewhere if he thinks drug use and homelessness disrupt this year’s event.
We are learning a couple more details about the plan by a group of mega-wealthy Silicon Valley investors to create a whole new city — or potentially more than one town — in Solano County, and hearing more about the political and legal misery that awaits them.
After the cashier at an Outer Richmond convenience store was struck with a bat in an alleged shoplifting incident last Thursday, that 60-year-old cashier Yowhannes “John” Tewelde died from his injuries Tuesday afternoon.
Senate candidate Katie Porter did a merchant walk in the Mission District Tuesday; 30-year-old Cafe International in the Lower Haight is temporarily closed due to neighborhood crime; and Beyonce was in fact made honorary mayor of Santa Clara.
A beloved Outer Richmond corner store clerk has died from a beating allegedly by a shoplifter, permanent school closures may be discussed at tonight’s SFUSD board meeting, while Flower Piano returns to Golden Gate Park next weekend and the schedule has been posted.
A July 2021 sideshow produced a notorious image of a woman hanging out of the window of a Cadillac brandishing an AK-47. And now, after a two-year investigation, federal prosecutors have finally found and arrested the alleged driver.
What could end up being a very significant legal battle over homeless encampments and cities' ability to address them is playing out at the Ninth Circuit, and in legal filings by the plaintiff in the case, the Coalition on Homelessness, and the City of San Francisco.
A Rockridge elementary school was forced to close Tuesday after a bomb threat police described as having “a racial undertone,” the day after a prominent right-wing social media account made the inaccurate claim the school had an event that excluded white students.
A group of activists representing the groups Extinction Rebellion, Rave Revolution, and Scientist Rebellion decided to stage a protest that caused an hourlong backup of traffic on the two-lane highway leading to the Black Rock Desert, and drew the wrath of frustrated Burners and local rangers alike.
People struggling with meth or cocaine addiction can earn up to $599 in gift cards to stay away from the stuff under a news state program, and San Francisco is one of the participating counties.
In the ongoing, Sisyphian effort to curb illegal vending and other illegal activity outside the 24th and Mission BART Station, BART Police put up a 15-foot watch tower on Monday. Then they took it down.
A swath of the North Bay and much of the Sacramento Valley are under a Red Flag Warning starting Tuesday night and lasting through Wednesday evening, as the first bout of threatening fire winds arrives this season.
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The longtime cashier at the Outer Richmond corner store Richmond Market has reportedly died after an alleged baseball bat attack at the hands of a shoplifter who made off with a bottle of water and two beers, and is still at large.
A man with what appeared to be a machete or long knife was shot by San Francisco police Monday night on Jones Street in the Tenderloin, and the incident was widely captured on cellphone video by bystanders.
There were two homicides in Oakland on Monday evening; the Sunday teen brawl at Emeryville's Bay Street is linked to National Cinema Day, which led to brawls elsewhere in the US; and a teen boy was struck by a car fleeing a bank robbery.
