San Mateo County has just seen another gruesome murder that sounds like a domestic violence incident, this time involving a woman being stabbed live on Facebook.
A new report shows that both Oakland and Los Angeles have higher rates of homelessness than San Francisco, but it's still telling that California has the top five highest homelessness rates among major U.S. cities.
While Elon Musk can order all the graphics and signs swapped out that he likes, he actually doesn't have the power to erase a verb and a noun from our contemporary vocabulary.
As the multiply delayed preliminary hearing in the Bob Lee murder case is finally set to begin Monday, we learn there may be some new evidence from the prosecution — perhaps about motive — that will be made public.
Graphic video of SFPD shooting a man in Bayview Wednesday afternoon has been posted to social media, and it does appear the victim was pointing a gun at officers. He’s since been identified as a 41-year-old San Francisco man.
A woman who is nine months pregnant was shot Wednesday night in Oakland; SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto talks about the fentanyl crackdown; and the SF Unified School District is being sued over a sex abuse claim from 2004.
There was a fatal police shooting Wednesday afternoon in the Bayview District; a woman in the Oakland hills narrowly escaped being carjacked and it was caught on camera; and SF Mayor London Breed just signed the city's two-year budget.
After a bout with COVID and a nasty collapse onto a trash can, UCSF COVID sage Dr. Bob Wachter is almost as good as new, and yukking it up over the whole ordeal on a new podcast.
There are two new housing developments for teachers in the SF housing pipeline, including the highly tagged, dilapidated abandoned property at 18th and Mission Streets.
It's been just four days, and the SFPD has made two arrests in that carjacking and subsequent spectacular, coocoo-crazy car crash over the Sanchez Street steps in the Castro.
The Detroit-style pizza and craft beer of Cellarmaker is making its way to the East Bay, as the brewer recently opened its Berkeley beer garden, and its anticipated Oakland brewery and taproom is coming next month.
Senator Dianne Feinstein (or one of her aides) penned a letter this week to the owners of Golden Gate Fields, the 80-year-old horse racing track on the Berkeley-Albany border that announced its closure last week.
While there are still many, many acts yet to be announced, the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2023 festival teased its first ten artist announcements, highlighted by former Drive-By Truckers guitarist Jason Isbell.
A San Francisco man has been indicted on federal fraud charges for a scheme in which he allegedly received Section 8 housing payments for years while concealing his actual income from the feds.
A mentally ill Oakland man who was previously convicted for a 2021 assault on Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce leader Carl Chan has now been charged in an attack on an elderly Asian woman that took place in SF last week.
After the striking writers and actors picketed Netflix headquarters in Los Gatos last week, now they’re coming to San Francisco City Hall for a 5 p.m. Wednesday rally where all are welcome to come raise heck.
We have yet another story involving a Bay Area bridge, someone going through something, and a major traffic backup resulting from the situation.
There's a push to name a cable car after Tony Bennett; smoke from a wildfire burning in Oregon is likely to cause some haze around the Bay; and Rudy Giuliani has admitted to defaming two election workers in 2020.
Supervisor Dorsey wants to require that local pharmacies carry Narcan, the SF supervisors just softened affordable housing rules in hopes of enticing developers, and 49ers training camp opened Tuesday but Nick Bosa’s holding out for a new contract.
Fire up your conspiracy theories, as the men-only rich guy retreat Bohemian Grove is now happening up in Sonoma. We don't know if Clarence Thomas went there, but House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reportedly did.
The choice was basically more freedom or less death after COVID arrived three years ago. Places like Florida and Texas chose freedom, California chose less death. And San Francisco in particular spared a lot of lives.
The block of Hayes Street between Gough and Octavia Streets will stay car-free on weekends for at least another month, as merchants successfully lobby the city to back off a hastily announced cancellation.
The reviews are decidedly mixed for the new Valencia center bike lane, with some saying it’s safer, and others alarmed that it “sandwiches” bicyclists between two lanes of moving cars.
Two recent, violent carjackings — one of which ended shortly thereafter in a spectacular crash in a normally quiet part of San Francisco's Castro District — are examples of what seems to be an uptick in these types of crimes, many of which appear to be committed by juveniles.
What do we even call a tweet now?
