The BART system, which was already dealing with delays from an equipment issue in the East Bay Monday morning, was hit with multiple problems this morning including a disabled train, and police and fire activity at Civic Center.
Drug money made in the open-air markets of the Tenderloin and South of Market has fueled a "housing boom" in one impoverished area of Honduras. The Chronicle traveled there and conducted an 18-month investigation into this source of one of the dominant groups running SF's drug trade.
A 22-year-old woman was reportedly shot in the early morning hours of Monday near Lake Merritt in Oakland. Her injuries are not life-threatening.
BART was having major issues on its Green Line Monday morning; dozens of protesters marched on SFPD's Mission Station over the police response to Saturday's Dolores Hill Bomb skateboarding event; and the Ruby Princess finally set sail for Alaska with 600 fewer passengers.
Hundreds of police officers in riot gear shut down the notorious Dolores Hill Bomb event Saturday night, arresting and detaining dozens of adults and teenagers in a chaotic scene.
Around 8 p.m. Saturday night, an underground PG&E vault in Pacific Heights spontaneously caught on fire, causing an explosion through a manhole that damaged a vehicle and nearby windows, but caused no injuries.
At least 12 people had to be rescued from extra choppy waters on Saturday, including kayakers and kite surfers; Higher minimum wages went into effect in many Bay Area cities; and the Ruby Princess cruise ship can finally set sail Sunday after crashing into Pier 27 four days ago.
In two separate incidents this week, women staying at a resort near Lake Tahoe said they woke up to a prowler in their room touching their feet in the middle of the night.
Dr. Dharmesh Patel originally said that he drove his Tesla with his wife and children inside off Devil's Slide due to tire issues, but in court Friday his lawyers say he has major depressive disorder and should get mental health treatment.
A tractor-trailer crash has shut down eastbound I-580 near the Altamont Pass in Livermore "indefinitely;" The Twitter-banned account tracking Elon Musk's private jet is now on Meta's Threads; and Calif. Rep. Adam Schiff raised $8.1M in the second quarter after a Congressional rebuke.
The dachshund head sculptures were taken out of the SF park at the end of June for repairs after an arsonist lit one on fire; California state saw its first fentanyl murder conviction on Friday in Placer County; and get ready for more heat coming next week.
It seems unlikely some blue-ribbon commission would change the trajectory of gun injuries, up 180% in the East Bay compared to pre-pandemic, but some congressional representatives say a Surgeon General report could turn the tide like it did with cigarettes.
A viral video this week made the curious claim that self-driving robotaxis on SF streets can be brought to a halt with the placement of an orange cone on the vehicle’s hood. Cruise and Waymo have both responded that the jokers doing this need to knock it off.
On Saturday, the Homeless World Cup kicks off in Sacramento, with formerly homeless players from dozens of countries competing in a small-scale soccer tournament over a week.
The local and national news media has loved to declare San Francisco in a state of decline and/or crisis on many occasions in the last five or so decades, so this is just a primer for everyone who wasn't aware of that and bought into the "failed city" and "doom loop" narratives too hard.
Cow Hollow’s high-end wine bar Bar Crenn, like sister restaurant Atelier Crenn, stopped serving meat a few years back, but started again on Saturday — though it was lab-grown chicken made from animal cells, and it’s initially only going to be served once a month.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling this week that upholds an earlier precedent that precludes city governments from punishing homeless people for sleeping on streets if they lack alternative shelter to offer them.
What started as a PG&E outage turned into a hobbled 911 system for the city of Oakland, and the city’s 911 call center had trouble routing calls throughout Thursday afternoon and evening.
The San Francisco Police Department is seeking the public's help in identifying a suspect who was seen on surveillance video violently pushing an 83-year-old man to the ground on Tuesday.
The Ruby Princess, which crashed into the dock at Pier 27 on Thursday, remains in port with new passengers onboard; a hiker found dead on a peak in Modoc County has been ID'd as an Oakland man; and police are warning people about robberies at ATMs in Oakland.
The local FBI office is sounding the alarm about child sexual predators in video game chat rooms, Nyum Bai chef Nite Yun is working on a cookbook, and two Caltrain collisions in an 11-hour period have left two pedestrians dead.
Elon Musk’s lawyer sent Mark Zuckerberg a quasi-cease-and-desist letter complaining that Meta poached “dozens of Twitter employees” (whom Musk had fired!) to create the Twitter knock-off Threads, and even implies that Zuckerberg played a role in Twitter’s recent glitches.
The acclaimed musical by Michael R. Jackson that took Broadway by storm last year, 'A Strange Loop,' will be coming to San Francisco next season directly from engagements on Broadway and London's West End.
Continuing their mea culpa over all that "doom loop" coverage they've done for several months, the San Francisco Chronicle has a piece today where they — finally! — get SF's own Chief Economist Ted Egan to weigh in with his sober opinion on the matter.
A flight attendant on a Southwest Airlines flight received an AirDrop image that appeared to be a bomb threat earlier this week, so the Vegas-to-Maui flight was forced to make a brief stop in Oakland. No bombs were found, but passengers recorded some scary TikToks.
