Paradise, California is getting a wildfire alert siren system; another wildfire near the Oregon border has grown to 1,000 acres; and Cruise is now blaming a Friday incident on human interference with its cars.
At least two big brands, Adobe and Gilead, have suspended their ads on Twitter/X over Nazi content; Twitter apparently did give up some of Donald Trump's DMs; and another Cruise car drove into a construction site in SF.
What self-satisfying San Franciscan wouldn’t want this masturbatory aid called the Coitus Tower? It of course pays homage to the SF’s Coit Tower that was ‘erected’ in 1933.
There are shortages across the SF Unified School District as students return to classroom Wednesday, but few as pronounced as at Lincoln High School, where they're lacking teachers for five academic subjects.
A new Italian restaurant from the restaurant group behind hit spots like Beretta, A Mano, and The Tailor's Son, called Corzetti, has taken over the space at the corner of Geary and Mason, in the rebranded Hotel G.
After 17 months of turmoil, decertification, and attempts to close Laguna Honda Hospital, the hospital is now largely out of the woods after a full reinstatement by the state’s Medi-Cal program.
It’s now almost a foregone conclusion that 2023 will be the deadliest year on record for San Francisco overdoses, as a brief decline in accidental overdoses in SF has unfortunately reversed with 71 overdose deaths recorded in the month of July.
The formerly Michelin-starred Lord Stanley on upper Polk Street will be reborn this fall with a new chef in the kitchen, and a slightly different concept from the one it had before shuttering during the pandemic two years ago.
The largest of over a dozen lightning-caused wildfires in far northern California has now prompted an evacuation order for 325 square miles, in an area of Klamath National Forest, west of Yreka.
The hot-tempered otter summer continues, this time in the northern Sierra Nevada region, as river otters bit people in two separate incidents, one involving an actor who was on “Succession.”
A tragic connection has emerged between a violent vehicle collision that occurred last week in Calaveras County and a case of mistaken identity that led to a gang killing of a man and his two sons in San Francisco 15 years ago.
BART was experiencing serious delays in all directions due to a person who was walking on the tracks in downtown SF; Alameda County law enforcement are looking for five carjackers; and the Maui fire death toll hits 106.
A family visiting from out of town was crossing the intersection at Fourth and King streets in San Francisco Tuesday when an SUV making a turn struck a child being pushed in a stroller.
Some manner of police activity is snarling traffic in Rincon Hill, SF City Hall corruption has produced another resignation and a sizable fine, and we just got plenty more new information about the bar replacing Harvey’s in the Castro.
A San Francisco woman beat the rap on a felony assault charge, as the jury was shown evidence that the fellow she stabbed had secretly recorded the two of them having sex, and then sent the video to her teenage children.
The annual salary report on how much money each San Francisco public employee makes has just been released, and SF police and sheriff’s office employees are pulling hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime pay.
After taking a summer hiatus, Off the Grid returns to the Fort Mason Center on eight Friday nights in September and October — and there's a new VIP-esque option that lets you reserve tables and get table service.
Six suspects were arrested for a Thursday robbery of a Lower Pacific Heights retailer, and in the continuation of a troubling trend in teen crime, some of the suspects are 13, 14, and 15 years old.
A fatal shooting last week outside the Lake Merritt BART station was apparently the result of a fight over an e-scooter, according to BART Police.
It's hard to know who to believe more in the unfolding family dispute involving the estate of Senator Dianne Feinstein's late husband, Richard Blum. But what's clear is there's no love lost between Feinstein, her daughter from a previous marriage, and the senator's three stepdaughters.
The current owner of longtime Union Square retail emporium Gump's took out a full-page ad in Sunday’s Chronicle, an open letter to Governor Newsom, Mayor Breed, and the SF Board of Supervisors about the evils of remote work and the conditions of SF streets.
A viral video from last summer made by a San Francisco-based TikToker accused the Mission location of Wag Hotels of allowing dogs in their care to wallow in filth, among other things. Now a Chronicle investigation has yielded many more disturbing stories.
The scheduling fallout from Madonna's early July health crisis is now yielding some new concert dates for the Chase Center in SF — and a third date that had been earlier added in January is getting canceled.
Laguna Honda Hospital has applied for readmission into the Medi-Cal program; Trump and his cronies have all been indicted in Georgia; and a lawsuit implicates Hawaiian Electric, the utility on Maui, for not shutting off power lines amid high winds.
Construction has halted at Hayes Point, the large mixed-use tower going up the foot of Van Ness; former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong has filed a legal claim against the mayor; and a Montana judge has ruled in favor of some environmentally conscious kids who sued the state.
