After losing a court battle as well as a previous government appeal, the “No Slums in the Sunset” crowd is back with another appeal of an affordable housing project, this time claiming concerns over “soil vapor.”
A 55-year-old Dutch man who was visiting San Francisco earlier this month has died from injuries he sustained after being struck by a scooter on Market Street.
For two days (and two Midnights), Taylor Swift will be the honorary mayor of Santa Clara, and the city ceremonially renamed “Swiftie Clara,” under a proposal that will be considered tonight by Santa Clara City Council.
Following Monday's announcement that 80-year-old East Bay racetrack Golden Gate Fields plans to shut down racing for good this fall, the talk has already begun about could be done with the 140-acre property.
The latest proposal to roll out speed-limit detection cameras in the largest California cities is picking up the pace in the state legislature, and drivers in Oakland, SF, and San Jose could get automated speeding tickets for going 11 or more miles per hour over the speed limit.
A Friday carjacking of a delivery driver in SoMa was followed by a Saturday shooting of an Amazon driver in Potrero Hill, making a rough weekend for delivery drivers in San Francisco.
We haven't heard about too many rattlesnake incidents around the Bay so far this year. But there are plenty of the venomous snakes up in the North Bay, and a 13-year-old boy had an encounter with one over the weekend.
An RV driving recklessly Monday on I-580 on the Altamont Pass, in Livermore, caused damage to multiple vehicles as it tried to plow past and through some traffic.
An 80-year-old man selling ice cream was the victim of an armed robbery in Oakland's Fruitvale; California is again facing a shortage of firefighters for fire season; and Donald Trump says he is officially a target of the Jan. 6th investigation.
An 8-year-old boy is fighting for his life after being hit by crossfire in a freeway shooting Friday; two Santa Clara Co. sheriff's deputies have died in the last week; and a new poll finds Rep. Katie Porter leading in the race for Feinstein's Senate seat.
After her last pick for the Homelessness Oversight Commission was tripped up over an accounting scandal, Breed’s newest pick has hit a hurdle over some Nextdoor comments opposing an RV homeless shelter.
The victim is in stable condition, but four male suspects are still at large after fleeing in a Hyundai sedan after an attempted robbery at the San Pablo Avenue Bank of America in Emeryville.
'A Chorus Line,' while dated in its treatment of a few of its characters, remains an easily enjoyable slice of classic Broadway song-and-dance, and it's currently getting a solid revival at SF Playhouse.
Nearly 50 “tri-pawed dogs” took to Duboce Park Sunday for the 12th annual three-legged dog picnic, and we’ve got pup-arazzi pictures and video of these canines who’ve bounced back from some ruff encounters.
The final concerts by Grateful Dead spinoff band Dead & Company took place over the weekend at Oracle Park, and they came with some spectacular drone light shows hovering over the stadium, in a fitting farewell.
The announced death of Anchor Brewing Co. last week was met with some immediate optimism that the brand, and the historic brewery, could maybe see some new life under a new owner at some point. And some potential takers are lining up.
Longtime Chronicle staffer Heather Knight, who has been the paper's most-noted weekly columnist on San Francisco's foibles, politics, and more for the last five years, has landed a job as San Francisco bureau chief for the New York Times.
Golden Gate Fields, which is the only thoroughbred horse-racing track in Northern California, is set to close at the end of this racing season, with the owner saying that it will shift its priorities to its other racetracks.
A roommate dispute turned fatal for both a man and his dog, and a 65-year-old man is being held without bail for allegedly shooting and killing both in a Friday incident.
A Marin County man just received a $1.3M judgement for being a COVID-restriction whistleblower and getting fired; Alameda County DA Pamela Price has doubled down on some controversial comments; and SF Supervisor Shamann Walton tried his hand at standup.
June saw the second-lowest number of fatal overdoses by month this year, but as fentanyl infiltrates street drugs, San Francisco could still hit a record number of drug-related ODs by the end of the year.
San Mateo resident, 29-year-old Monica De Leon Barba, was kidnapped while walking her dog last year in Tepatitlán, Mexico, but has been found safe, though no arrests have been made yet.
The Pika Fire broke out on June 29 after a lightning strike and has accelerated amid the past week's heat wave, complicating firefighting efforts.
Inland regions of the North, East, and South Bay will likely reach the upper 90s to low 100s Sunday but SF will stay in the 70s; It's Dead & Co.'s final SF tour date of the band's final tour; and a man was shot Saturday night in an attempted robbery in Potrero Hill.
The video shows a 1,000-square-foot San Rafael office converted into a condo — but owners seemingly made minimal changes, only adding a kitchen against one wall and a shower in the bathroom but leaving the industrial carpet and stained ceiling tiles intact.
