CA Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing a school district over its policy surrounding trans students; Santa Clara police have made an arrest in a stabbing at an In-N-Out following a Niners-Raiders game; and a hotel investor is reopening three SoMa hotels that have been closed for three years.
It took the Vallejo Police Department 15 months to fire the officer who shot and killed 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa. But now less than ten months after that firing, the officer is getting his job back, and with back pay to boot.
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The much-ballyhooed “Doom Loop Walking Tour” unsurprisingly got called off shortly before it was supposed to happen Saturday, but by canceling it, the anonymous City Hall commissioner who posted the tour accidentally made his identity public.
Declaring it another victim of the pandemic's aftermath and the economic conditions in the Mission, the owners of Gracias Madre have shut the restaurant down for good.
The very made-for-'Dateline' saga that was Sherri Papini's 2016 hoax kidnapping and its aftermath wrapped up with her conviction on federal charges last year, and her sentence of 18 months behind bars. But she has apparently been released into some other form of custody already.
A recent rash of thefts at the house boats and sailboats at the 13 marinas in Alameda County is overwhelming the small number of maritime law enforcement personnel there, as thieves sometimes commandeer and steal entire boats.
In what would be one of the first big office-lease deals in San Francisco since the mad sublease sell-off wave began during the pandemic, AI pioneer OpenAI is said to be in "serious" talks to take one of Uber's four buildings next to the Chase Center in Mission Bay.
Vendors, organizers, and fans of the Heart of the City Farmers' Market will be staging a protest on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to change the city's mind about its plans to turn UN Plaza and its promenade near City Hall into an outdoor recreation area.
The Bay Street Emeryville mall was the scene of a large-scale teenage donnybrook starting late Sunday afternoon and lasting well into the evening, with a gunshot fired, and one juvenile stabbed and hospitalized.
Saying over the weekend that he can't bring himself to look at resumes on LinkedIn because "the cringe level is so high," Elon Musk rolled out a beta version of X Hiring, which will charge verified organizations a fee to post jobs.
An arrest was made in a hit-and-run that injured a dog walker in Santa Rosa; two women were killed in separate shootings in Oakland and Rodeo over the weekend; and Silicon Valley had its own Pride Parade.
The geothermally heated crevices of the deep-sea floor about 80 miles southeast of Monterey are home to nearly 20,000 octopus at once — who mainly use the site as a mating and nesting spot.
An armed gunman who fired a shot at SFPD officers during a chase surrendered after a 5-hour-long standoff, authorities say.
Two fatal car crashes took place in SF early Sunday morning, killing 3; two young people were hospitalized after being stabbed in Golden Gate Park, but injuries were not life-threatening; and a fight broke out in a Santa Clara In-N-Out between Raiders and 49ers fans that hospitalized two people.
Two men from Oakland were arrested after California Highway Patrol found stolen items from Victoria's Secret, Sephora, Sunglass Hut, Safeway, and Walgreens at a traffic stop.
A dramatic high-speed chase led authorities across the Bay Bridge twice before the teenage driver was arrested. No human injuries were reported but a K-9 officer was struck.
A judge decided that officers in the racist text scandal didn't need to take the stand this week, prompting criticism; Uber raises the age for drivers to 25; and an ultrarunner set a new speed record on the PCT.
The 49ers traded former rising star QB Trey Lance to the Cowboys for a 2024 fourth-round pick; Santos officially received prison time for embezzling, defrauding, and bribery; and there are a few adoption events for dog lovers to get new pets this weekend.
There’s no love lost between human rideshare drivers and the self-driving car companies that hope to replace them, but the rideshare drivers are quick to point out that the robotaxis are nowhere near up to the task yet.
It didn't take the New York Times very long to get to the bottom of the mystery that has been troubling Solano County officials for several years, namely the identity of the people behind a massive buy-up of farmland totaling over $800 million.
A 21-year-old Oakland woman was arrested in a Tenderloin drug bust that turned up more than three pounds of illegal narcotics, and, more shockingly, she had her two-year-old child with her when arrested.
We learned in April that the city was offering to pay pop-ups as much as $8,000 to occupy vacant retail spaces downtown. We now know the first batch will include Devil’s Teeth Bakery, KALW, and a flea market called Sucka Flea.
We've got another one of these controversies in which a Bay Area restaurant has made it a policy not to serve armed and uniformed police officers, and the SF Police Union is again up in arms.
The acclaimed chef behind Empress By Boon, Ho Chee Boon, is opening a new, casual restaurant in the Marina District, and it's opening soon.
A viral video has racked up nearly a million views claiming “Police Sit Back & Watch” in an Alamo Square theft case, but the video edits out the part where police gave chase, and the stolen items were all recovered.
