Women walking with cellphones and kids are reportedly being targeted for robberies in Noe Valley; a former Google exec is running for Feinstein's Senate seat; and the Supreme Court has, predictably, struck down affirmative action in college admissions.
SF drag star Peaches Christ is calling out Google for appearing to kowtow to conservatives and tone down their presence at an employee Pride event this year and pretend that the employees had gone rogue.
There was a small house fire this afternoon in the Lower Haight; SF DA Brooke Jenkins says there is not enough evidence for a murder charge in the shooting near Powell BART; and the Oakland Police Commission remains a bit of a mess.
What’s become a Pride Weekend tradition returned with the annual tagging of the former Stud, but this weekend’s taggery spready to a half-dozen adjacent buildings, and four cars were thoroughly vandalized.
Two controversial housing projects that have taken many incarnations over the years had appeals before the supervisors Tuesday, and the SF Board of Supervisors approved a 19-unit Castro conversion, but denied a 10-unit Nob Hill conversion.
Madonna's much-hyped Celebration Tour, which was set to kick off in two weeks in Vancouver, is on indefinite pause after she reportedly suffered a serious bacterial infection and was found unresponsive in her New York City home over the weekend.
Coming this weekend to the Presidio is a brand new Eastern Mediterranean restaurant from the talented opening chefs behind Noosh and the Mission District pop-up Istanbul Modern, and it's called Dalida.
A longtime SFist favorite and a stalwart on Third Street that's been there since the 1950s, HRD Coffee Shop, is closing up shop, and the owner says it's because he didn't get enough help from his landlord or the city.
An early Sunday morning car accident in the Santa Clara County town of Sunnyvale saw a car hit a Walgreens and burst into flames, but an anonymous good Samaritan was able to pull two people from the wreckage, both of whom survived.
Friday will be the last day for pho, imperial rolls, and lemongrass steak at the long standing family-owned Vietnamese restaurant Aux Delices, as the husband-and-wife team who’ve run the place for decades has decided to retire.
A male victim was shot Tuesday afternoon in the vicinity of the Potrero Terrace housing project, and as he drove himself to the hospital, he had an unfortunate encounter with police.
Two male suspects are in SFPD custody on suspicion of a raft of charges including armed robbery, assault, attempted murder, and car theft, following a crime spree that spanned 10 days in May.
Those "safe and sane" fireworks are out there for purchase again; the former CELLspace site will become the Indigenous Peoples Cultural Arts Healing Center next year; and the SFMTA just got a $30M federal grant for electric buses and charging stations.
Oakland police have released photos of two people of interest in a June 21 shooting that killed a flower delivery man; Cal/OSHA has cited the two farms where a mass shooting took place in January; and hate crimes were up 20% in California last year.
It is now illegal to so much as even watch a sideshow in Alameda County, and you could get a $1,000 fine or six months in jail for being within 200 feet. But what if you just happened to be there, and weren’t watching the sideshow?
The death of local drag icon Heklina won’t stop the Golden Girls from being a friend for your upcoming holiday season, as Miss Coco Peru has signed on to take Heklina’s traditional role of the garishly outfitted Dorothy Zbornak in this year’s production.
Could a different school step in and revive the historic San Francisco Art Institute campus on Chestnut Street? We shall now see, as the nearly century-old property has officially hit the market in a bankruptcy sale, for an unlisted sum.
A road-rage freeway shooting appears to have occurred Monday afternoon in San Francisco, though no one was injured, and the CHP is still investigating.
An SFPD officer is facing internal disciplinary proceedings and has been put on desk duty after it was discovered that she may have had an inappropriate relationship with a confidential informant.
An innocent bystander was killed in a late May SFPD car chase crash, and a child was nearly struck by an SFPD SUV in last week’s Lucca Ravioli crash, so the SF Police Commission thinks it’s high time to review the department’s pursuit policy.
It is actually dangerous and deserted in parts of St. Louis, and a Republican legislature in Missouri has tried its best to counter any progressive policy the city tries to enact, leading to unproductive political fights, as a Times opinion piece suggests.
A major heat wave is expected for the coming July 4 weekend, a bizarre and unidentified creature has been spotted in Lake Merritt, and Gavin Newsom has backtracked somewhat on slashing public transit funding.
SF office vacancy has hit an all-time record of 32%, more glass just fell from a downtown high-rise even in nice weather, and a bald Chinese Crested named Scooter just won the 2023 World’s Ugliest Dog Contest.
You've heard a lot of these stories by now, but we have yet another situation in which a robocar disrupted civil society in San Francisco and caused actual humans to have trouble getting where they need to go.
SF Pride was certainly back in full force this year, with BART noting that ridership on Sunday was even up about 20% higher than in 2022. And here are some photos from the parade itself.
