A pedestrian was fatally struck by a driver in San Francisco's South of Market District Wednesday, and another person was found dead in the street in the Excelsior less than an hour later.
The latest governor's race numbers still have Steyer trailing; SF firefighter Ken Jones has lost his cancer battle, after his drawn-out battle with Blue Shield; and a Richmond couple says their new landlord is hiking their rent 90%.
The San Francisco DA has filed a litany of felony charges against the Oakland man suspected of shooting and injuring an SFPD officer; a body was found at a Waste Management facility in San Leandro; and BART's new fare gates are getting ads.
Ahead of her three shows at Oakaland Arena this weekend and next week, pop singer Ariana Grande and her team have opened a pop-up merch shop in Union Square, which will be open for the next week.
Following a ruling from UK regulators, Google announced it plans to allow website owners to opt out of appearing in AI searches, and it’s also agreed to add clearer attributions and links to sources in its AI overviews.
The early front-runner in the primary for Eric Swalwell's former East Bay congressional seat next term appears to be State Senator Aisha Wahab, who currently represents roughly half the district, with former Dublin mayor and BART director Melissa Hernandez trailing behind.
Saikat Chakrabarti is the subject of many headlines today calling out the massive amount of personal money he spent coming in a distant third in Tuesday's primary for California's District 11 House seat. And rather than wait for more numbers to come in, he is bowing out of the race today.
A new 145-unit affordable housing development was completed in a fraction of the typical time for half the cost in SF’s Mission District near the Bernal Heights border, and officials hope to use it as a model for future projects.
Mid-year special elections and primaries aren't often huge draws when it comes to voter turnout, but San Francisco has a major decision to make about a Congressional seat that could be held by the same person for decades. Was that not enough of a motivator?
There were two earthquakes early Wednesday morning with magnitudes over 5.0 that rumbled under the Pacific Ocean off the Northern California coast.
A man from San Francisco died at the hospital two days after he was found unresponsive at Santa Rita Jail, and an autopsy is being conducted to determine the cause of death.
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We will still be getting updated vote counts over the coming days and the final tally is not yet in, but as of election night, state Senator Scott Wiener and SF Supervisor Connie Chan were in solid first and second places in the race to succeed Nancy Pelosi.
Becerra and Hilton hold the leads in the governor's race but Steyer may still be alive with millions of votes still to count; SF's props C and D both look to be failing; and incumbent supervisors Alan Wong and Stephen Sherrill hold solid leads so far in their ranked-choice contests.
The SF Giants hired a new third-base coach; a 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected near Cloverdale; and a local couple died at a waterfall in Fresno when the woman fell in, and her husband tried to save her.
SF Chinese Hospital has renamed its outpatient center after philanthropist Charles Huang, honoring his $7 million donation in 2020 that funded infrastructure upgrades to the wing, which helped pave the way for a forthcoming cancer clinic.
A restaurateur with several recent hits under his belt has teamed up with a chef with SF fine dining cred to open a new Oakland restaurant focused on Korean comfort food and home-style cooking.
A preschooler was safely rescued and uninjured after becoming stuck inside a 10-inch irrigation pipe for about 15 minutes outside a Fairfield preschool, prompting a response from firefighters.
Sonoma County authorities want the public, especially the elderly, to be aware of a spate of scams involving couriers and demands for cash withdrawals under false pretenses. But in one recent case, an arrest has been made.
A local nonprofit rented an SFUSD high school for an ethnic studies conference for educators, featuring a workshop about “adultism” and power dynamics in the classroom, which has drawn predictable criticism, largely due to the mistaken belief that city funds paid for it.
In addition to the two bigger primary fights on the ballot today in San Francisco, for governor and for Nancy Pelosi's Congressional seat, two moderate incumbent SF supervisors are fighting to hold on to their seats.
Ahead of the July 4th maelstrom of illegal fireworks lighting up SF’s foggy skies, Supervisor Alan Wong introduced legislation that would strengthen enforcement by allowing police to issue fines and pursue misdemeanor charges against repeat offenders.
The San Francisco police officer who was critically injured Sunday in the line of duty has been identified, and so has the suspect who allegedly shot at police, who is a convicted felon out on parole.
Early voting turnout is at a fairly low 17%, but a surge of ballots is expected; Los Gatos is flying its first-ever Pride Flag on the town square; and a Senate bill seeks to limit how the military can use AI.
Team Australia has landed in the Bay, which will be its training home base for the World Cup; Adam Sandler and his wife took in a Valkyries game on Saturday; and Florida is now suing OpenAI.
Ahead of the World Cup's opening matches in Santa Clara, the SF LGBT Center in the Castro has launched SF Pride House, a hub for LGBTQ+ soccer fans featuring watch parties, community events, and other programming throughout the tournament.
