The San Francisco federal bench just got its first openly gay judge, as odd as that is to say in 2023. On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Biden's nomination of SF labor lawyer P. Casey Pitts to be a judge in U.S District Court.
An early morning SUV crash closed off two lanes of traffic on I-680 near Warmsprings in San Jose Wednesday, and the driver did not survive after their SUV went off the highway and caught fire upon hitting trees.
This is such a weird story. But apparently, the skeletal human remains we first heard about in January that were discovered inside a building on UC Berkeley's Clark Kerr Campus were actually found almost two years ago, and no one told the police.
The Giants were on the road Tuesday night, but Oakland A's fans came out in force, packing both the Coliseum and BART trains in order to tell owner John Fisher to sell the team and let it stay in Oakland.
The much anticipated new Flour + Water Pizzeria in North Beach is opening in two weeks, and it will be the first new blood on a busy stretch of Columbus Avenue in many years.
City Hall’s answer to the Union Square retail exodus is to bring in new things that aren’t retail, and the Board of Supervisors just voted unanimously Tuesday to loosen zoning laws on Union Square and downtown commercial conversions.
One-and-a-half-year-old Nopa neighborhood restaurant Automat is changing things up, and will no longer be serving dinner after June 24.
Mayor London Breed's controversial new "Intoxication Detention program" was the subject of some back-and-forth at Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, with Supervisor Dean Preston asking some pointed questions, and Breed forcibly pushing back.
Thursday is the last day of screenings at the Century 9 theater in the Westfield San Francisco Centre, as another tenant is bailing on the shopping mall that owner Westfield Corporation is also walking away from.
Around 28,000 Oakland A's fans packed the stands in a "reverse boycott" Tuesday night; the A's stadium financing plan moved forward in the Nevada legislature; and apartment rents are down slightly across California.
Another batch of “Straight Pride” flyers turned up in Santa Rosa, two carjacking suspects died after a police chase in San Leandro, and City Hall just made wild parrots “the official animal of the City and County of San Francisco.”
Who says SF hotels can’t make money these days? The still-shuttered mid-Market Hotel Whitcomb was just awarded $19.5 million in a damage settlement over the facility’s use as a shelter-in-place hotel.
It was already going to be massively entertaining to watch Fox News wage legal war on Tucker Carlson over his Twitter show, but now add to the mix that Carlson’s attorney is former SF GOP chair Harmett Dhillon, who’s facing her own set of financial impropriety allegations.
San Francisco's LGBTQ film festival, Frameline, is the longest-running LGBTQ film fest in the world, having first launched in 1977. And it's back this year, with a bunch of programming at the still-seat-filled Castro Theatre, as well as other venues around SF and Oakland.
San Francisco's renowned North Beach neighborhood, also referred to as Little Italy, is preparing to celebrate its vibrant history and the cultural melting pot it is today at the 67th Annual North Beach Festival taking place on Father's Day weekend, June 17th and 18th.
It may still be a few years before the clearest picture of the pandemic's impact on our health emerges. But one new study focuses on the not-often-discussed group of people who never regained, or only partially regained their sense of smell and taste after having COVID.
An SF man was arrested for firing shots at police on two occasions in January, and the ongoing investigation led SFPD to the North Beach home of an alleged gun supplier, and boy did they find guns and drugs while searching his residence.
Somewhat predictably, since the suspect in the April 4 stabbing of CashApp founder Bob Lee has just recently obtained new legal counsel, the preliminary hearing in the case has been delayed another six weeks.
A Monday night stabbing at Broadway and Battery Street has left one man hospitalized, but the suspect was still at the scene when police arrived, and was taken into custody.
A person was fatally shot in the overnight hours last night, at the edge of the Tenderloin about a block away from BART's Powell Station and the cable car turnaround.
Gov. Gavin Newsom went on Fox News for the first time in 13 years to spar with Hannity; two men were seen in a shootout in Bernal Heights Monday; and a warming trend is slowly moving into the Bay Area
First Lady Jill Biden will be in SF on Tuesday; the CA Legislature has come up with $1.1B in the new budget to bail out transit agencies; and there is finally some movement on the burned-out building at 3300 Mission Street.
The elephant of Oakland Athletics fandom will roar Tuesday night, as an A’s-Rays game will see a “reverse boycott” intended to show Major League Baseball that Oakland has better fans than Las Vegas ever will.
The 1,400-pound metal planters seem to have done the job thus far at preventing encampments from returning after the large plant pots were installed after Carnaval, but have started another round of “hostile architecture” debate.
The parent company of the formerly Australian shopping center brand Westfield announced a year ago that it wanted to divest itself of its US mall properties. And following the Nordstrom closure announcement, they are walking away from their Market Street mall in SF and surrendering it to the lender.
