With Muni at risk of slashing 20 lines and BART threatening to eliminate weekend service, state Senator Scott Wiener hopes to eliminate their deficits with a $1.50 toll increase on seven Bay Area bridges.
Four East Bay residents — three adults and a juvenile — were taken into custody Friday following a heist of LEGOs worth $3,500. And the crew was easily caught because they were in a car they rented through a third-party app.
SF has approved barely eight new housing units per month since the city passed its ambitious Housing Element plan, but the reality is that developers haven’t been applying for many permits.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, the accused suspect in the November 2022 shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs that left five people dead, entered a guilty plea Monday and will serve a life sentence in prison.
The San Francisco Chronicle is standing like a kid who cried "Fire!" amid a rush of sirens and chaos asking what all the fuss is about, as it has a front-page story today about the ramifications of the "doom loop" narrative the paper itself amplified.
No one was injured in the early Friday morning armed robbery of the Colonial Donuts on Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland, but four employees were held at gunpoint, and the three suspects are still at large.
Pride meant BART was very busy on Sunday, and so was the Castro; a suspected drunk driver drove off a Santa Cruz cliff; and a mother suspects her toddler was sickened by contaminated sand at Stinson Beach.
You can expect more weekend trips between Tiburon ad San Francisco and improved connections with Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit starting June 26, and a 25-cent rate increase on July 1.
The app, with 6,000 users in the past four months, has pictures and prompts like other dating apps — but the first messages after matching are invites to meet in-person.
The pride parade took an extra weight this year amid rising anti-LGBT legislation; the Dyke March also continued its historic tradition of taking to the streets; and Petaluma is the home of the newly-crowned world's ugliest dog.
A new agreement for BART police officers gives them substantial pay bumps of 20% and mandates at least half of the transit police department's officers patrol trains, amid the transit system's fiscal deficit.
Bay Area deep sea engineer Liz Taylor said she warned OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush years ago against using carbon fiber in the Titan submersible, which imploded and killed five in the deep ocean pressure.
Hundreds of participants gathered for the Trans March, where organizers honored Banko Brown; BART's ridership has the lowest return of any major mass transit system in the U.S.; and the National Women's Soccer League team coming to the Bay in 2024 doesn't know what city it's going to yet.
250 queer couples got married at SF City Hall on Friday to celebrate Pride weekend; State data says anyone living alone in SF, San Mateo, and Marin counties is low-income with $104K salaries; and a goat herder found human remains in the hills near the Oakland Zoo.
The fourth annual People’s March and Rally is set for Sunday, right at the same time as the more commercialized larger Pride Parade, to “offer an alternative for those who prefer the harder edge of protest.”
A new generation of winemakers, wine sellers, and advocates are trying to raise awareness among consumers about where their wine comes from, and to push for more representation in an industry with a longstanding reputation of being cis, white, and male.
A 19-year-old San Francisco man has been arrested and charged in the February 6 death of Oakland bakery owner Jen Angel, who was dragged to her death after getting caught in the door of a car being driven by thieves who snatched her belongings.
Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry, who has been making fewer movies in recent years than earlier, says she is ready for her "second act" and second career as a comms executive at a biotech startup in San Francisco.
San Francisco Fire Department Chief Jeanine Nicholson notes there have been 39 incidents of Cruise and Waymo robotaxis blocking first responders this year alone, and says the robot cars are “not ready for prime time.”
The SFPD announced Friday that an arrest was made almost immediately after a deadly shooting Thursday night that occurred at Powell and Market streets, either in or near Hallidie Plaza and the BART station entrance.
The only suspect arrested so far in the Father's Day gun battle that began near Pier 39 and continued for a mile down the Embarcadero will not be charged with any crime, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins says.
Here’s an out-of-left-field solution to the highly uncertain future of Union Square’s Westfield San Francisco Centre shopping mall — Mayor Breed pitched the idea Thursday that it could become “a whole new soccer stadium.”
Yvette Mattern, a visual artist, created a rainbow laser installation over a decade ago in New York City, and she has brought it to over a dozen cities since then. She says that Illuminate the Arts plagiarized her work in creating their similar Market Street installation for Pride last year.
The pushback continues over Ron DeSantis’s Tenderloin video, two Oakland twins were drafted consecutively in the NBA Draft, and a man was shot and killed Thursday night near the Powell Street BART station.
The SF Fire Department chief is up in arms over the self-driving robotaxis obstructing emergency vehicles, Mayor Breed moved to make office-to-housing conversions easier, and the Warriors just traded Jordan Poole for twelve-time all-star Chris Paul.
