Caltrain struck and killed a pedestrian near the Palo Alto station Friday evening; more Dublin Prison guards have been charged and pled guilty to sex abuse of inmates; and a new plan could turn UN Plaza into a skateboarding hub.
The Financial District will host the "Bastille on Belden" block party with French food Friday evening; Highway 1 was closed Friday evening after a car went off the side; and wastewater shows COVID might be on the rise again in California.
Someone took the San Francisco “Batman” analogy to its full fruition, with a mask and everything in an attempt to deter car break-in culprits, but was arrested for allegedly brandishing a non-lethal firearm.
A woman was shot in the leg Friday afternoon while driving on Highway 101 southbound in San Francisco, just before the I-280 split.
The Mohammed Nuru scandal saw two more hammers come down Friday, as former Public Utilities Commission head Harlan Kelly was found guilty of fraud, and former Department of Building Inspection “Employee of the Quarter” Bernie Curran was sentenced to a year in prison.
With some summer weather finally hitting San Francisco, nearly a full month into official summertime, you may have a hankering for a frozen adult beverage to beat the (modest) heat.
The SFMTA says that dangerous incidents with self-driving robotaxis have increased exponentially in recent months, while Cruise, Waymo, and their associated venture capitalist types excoriate SF for not adequately loving the buggy self-driving cars.
A 16-year-old suspect is in custody in connection with the shooting death of an adult male in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood on the night of July 4th, after the juvenile suspect turned himself in.
“Otter 841” has quickly become a social media phenomenon for her brazen attacks on Santa Cruz surfers and kayakers, and moreover, both federal and state authorities are coming up empty in their attempts to capture her.
A highly controversial case that has been the source of considerable courtroom drama in Alameda County in recent months has ended with a sentence that is unlikely to feel like justice for the families of three murder victims.
There was a 10-car pileup near the Coliseum on I-880 early Friday following a fatal crash two hours earlier; Oakland's eviction moratorium ends Saturday; and the lasers on Coit Tower are going to come on tonight.
Friday will be 2023's second Spare the Air Day; a harbor seal pup needed rescue from a fishing line entanglement at Fort Mason’s Gashouse Cove Marina; a new documentary posits that there was no Zodiac Killer.
The first-ever highrise building on Treasure Island, the 250-unit apartment tower dubbed Tidal House, just "topped off" Wednesday with a final steel beam hoisted into place on the top, 22nd story of the structure.
Funnel cake sales may be off the charts at California county fairs, as Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a bill allowing county fairs to sell cannabis on-site, and allowing for "smoking sections" where fair attendees can blaze up.
The great polka-dot queen of contemporary art, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, will be featured in a year-long exhibition at SFMOMA that begins this October, and it will include her latest immersive "Infinity Mirror Room."
Sunday’s 30th Anniversary of the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market will feature a sneak preview of the former Marlena chefs’ upcoming restaurant 7 Adams, and a chance to pour one more out with the Anchor Brewing team, among 45 prominent Bay Area restaurants, food makers, and beverage companies.
In the span of 14 days, the San Francisco Police Department has seized more than one-third of the amount of fentanyl it seized in all of 2022, which is an indication of both the vast quantities being peddled and of stepped-up enforcement efforts.
Today, Thursday, at 2 p.m., the free tickets go live for Patti Smith's return to San Francisco, playing at the Stern Grove Festival next month with Bob Mould.
We’re all wishing a speedy recovery to UCSF’s cult-hit COVID sage Dr. Bob Wachter, who contracted the virus himself this week, then collapsed in the shower and suffered bleeding around the brain and a neck fracture.
The food hall that opened in the spring of 2021 on a beleaguered corner of the Tenderloin, the La Cocina Municipal Marketplace, never succeeded in drawing in enough customers to justify the expense for private security and other costs. And now it is set to close on September 1.
A pedestrian was killed early this morning on I-880 in Oakland; the heat dome has arrived which will bring excessive heat to many parts of California the next several days; and Atherton police are warning elderly residents about scam artists in their midst.
Alameda County DA Pamela Price is officially facing a recall campaign; UCSF is in talks to acquire St. Mary's and St. Francis Memorial hospitals; and the Postal Service is offering a reward for a suspect who assaulted a postal worker in SF and stole some postal keys.
A new report from top SF City Hall economists says that it’s troublesome how the city’s five largest taxpayers pay 25% of all the city’s business taxes, and that remote work changes by top taxpayers companies lowered SF tax revenue by $484 million in 2021.
Tuesday night’s MLB All-Star Game heard A’s fans chanting “Sell the team!,” but we’re also now learning of a secret meeting between Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred before the game, though Manfred balked at Thao’s case.
The former Broken Record space in Crocker-Amazon will be reborn this September as The Halfway Club, a new project from a pair of industry vets.
