A real meltdown in the Placer County city of Colfax, as a semi-truck carrying 40,000 pounds of chocolate burst into flames early this morning on I-80, and that 40,000 pounds of chocolate is still sitting there in the sun.
Monday's preliminary hearing in the trial of Bob Lee's accused killer Nima Momeni saw his new defense team questioning a key piece of evidence, the kitchen knife that prosecutors say was the murder weapon and that Momeni disposed of near the crime scene.
The defiance of Elon Musk seems to have some limits, as the X on top of what I guess we're now supposed to refer to as the X Building was removed on Monday morning, after a weekend of neighbor complaints.
An unusual run of people abandoning domesticated rabbits in parks has Bay Area shelters hopping to get creative, and SF Animal Care & Control is waiving rabbit adoption fees for the month of August.
Sunday marked the first Up Your Alley fair day on Folsom Street since the pandemic that looked and felt just like the old days, rampant nudity and all.
There was a deadly domestic violence stabbing in Redwood City on Sunday; a car fire sparked an 87-acre brush fire near I-580 outside LIvermore; and Anchor Brewing's taproom officially shut down Sunday.
Several separate incidents left two dead and six others injured from gunfire throughout Oakland over the weekend, amid recent outcry from residents about crime.
San Francisco opened a complaint and launched an investigation into the installation, but city workers say they were denied access to the roof on-site to inspect it on Friday and Saturday.
The quake hit Morgan Hill, southeast of San Jose, at 6:49 a.m.; Taylor Swift fans brought the VTA's ridership to historic highs over the weekend; and a man stabbed two women on Sunday, one fatally.
The burger chain said in a memo earlier this month that it wants to "emphasize the importance of customer service” and “smiles," but the ban on employee masking won't happen in California.
Authorities are investigating after a warehouse in Reedley City, owned by a company operating under the name "Prestige Biotech," turned to house infectious agents and biohazardous materials.
Taylor Swift's Friday show brought droves of Swifties to Santa Clara via BART; Dave Chapelle came back for a surprise show in SF Friday that went better than the last one; and an SF woman is speaking out after her car was destroyed in an encampment fire in NoPa this week.
The backup Uber driver in the first death by a fully autonomous car pled guilty; Anchor Steam employees say Sapporo won't give them a fair chance to buy it before it closes; and mega-rich real estate tycoon and briber Zhang Li still faces a lawsuit and broken deals in San Francisco.
Both Lou’s Fish Shack and Pompei’s Grotto have been closed the whole the pandemic, and they won’t reopen, as they’re both taking exit deals to relinquish their properties to the Port of San Francisco.
Former DA Chesa Boudin probably would have been crucified for this, but DA Brooke Jenkins has dropped all charges and released the two suspects in last Saturday’s alleged carjacking gone wrong that resulted in the car flying off the Sanchez Street stairway hill.
A group of unionized employees at Anchor Brewing Co. were pleading with Sapporo to keep the brewery open an extra month so that they could secure financing for their purchase bid and go over the company's financials. But Sapporo is going ahead with their bankruptcy receivership.
As an East Bay crime wave continues, Alameda County DA Pamela Price and Oakland PD top brass faced the music at a Thursday night community meeting, where people largely just shouted the speakers (and each other) down.
While a spate of robberies and carjackings by multiple crews still may not be over, Oakland police say they've arrested three individuals who they believe were working together on a spree of carjackings, including an attempted one earlier this week that was caught on dashcam video.
Minnie Bell's Soul Movement, the five-year-old soul-food stall at Emeryville's Public Market, is expanding to San Francisco, and it's a homecoming for chef-owner Fernay McPherson, who's a third-generation resident of the Fillmore District.
This is by no means the end of the legal recriminations in the fatal shooting of Banko Brown by a Walgreens security guard, but the guard in question has been fined $1,500 by the state’s Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.
A two-alarm residential fire in the Sunset left two injured Thursday night; Sen. Dianne Feinstein flies home today for the August recess; and Taylor Swift fans are likely to be lining up when the parking lot at Levi's opens today at 2 p.m.
Senator Dianne Feinstein had another embarrassing memory loss episode, the city of Hayward says they’ve restored their hacked computer network, and Brock Purdy was seen throwing a football for the first time since tearing an elbow ligament in the playoffs.
Cocktail and snack spot The Snug in Pacific Heights is getting a sister seafood restaurant, Little Shucker, which opens to the public next week, on August 3.
The one-time SF Bay Tennis Club has been razed to the ground, and after a new developer promised and then backed out of a promise to put tennis courts on their forthcoming project, the SF Planning commission approved the no-tennis-court version Thursday.
Drug suspects in a stunning 82 SF cases have already received “Get out of jail free” cards courtesy an SFPD officer accused of having an inappropriate relationship with an informant, including one suspect busted with 11 pounds of fentanyl, and more may yet walk.
