The last time Lake Oroville neared capacity was four years ago, and very quickly it plunged into drought territory and has seen low water levels until this winter. And now that billion-dollar, renovated spillway is back in use as the reservoir is back at 99% of its capacity.
There was a fatal shooting Monday evening on a residential block in the Lower Haight where another fatal shooting occurred almost exactly 11 months earlier.
An Air India flight with an unknown number of Americans onboard had to make an emergency landing in Russia on Tuesday, and this could very easily become an international crisis.
25-year-old Monroe Lace has been crowned the first trans Miss San Francisco in the pageant's 99-year history, and she will now compete for the title of Miss California, and possibly even Miss America.
The pink triangle atop Twin Peaks may be going back to analog this year, but the laser-beam rainbow up Market Street will return for Pride Weekend, and maybe you'll even be able to see it if the fog cooperates.
Republicans are making a habit of disinviting drag nuns The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from Pride events, but they couldn’t stop Monday’s honoring of Sister Roma at the California State Capitol, where Sister Roma ended up getting a standing ovation.
The sad, all-too-public unraveling of former KTVU anchor Frank Somerville appears to be continuing, as he was arrested not once but twice overnight in Berkeley, both times outside a home where his brother lives.
The death of a Marin County man is being investigated as suspicious but may have come from a horse kick; the Oakland A's Vegas stadium remains in flux with Nevada legislature; and another person has been charged with bribing Mohammed Nuru.
A woman and two kids were found dead Monday in a home in Fremont; a jury has found one of the FCI Dublin officers guilty of sex abuse; and the Supreme Court has rejected oil companies' appeal to start fracking off the CA coast.
Assemblymember Matt Haney’s bill to allow Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes in California was approved by the state Assembly with high numbers, though we may not see many of them in SF because of a possibly impending dispensary moratorium.
A newly obtained document on the April 4 death of champion cyclist Ethan Boyes indicates the driver who struck and killed him on a Presidio roadway may have been intoxicated — though authorities are releasing very little information about the investigation.
It was interesting that, in the days following his death at the hands of an apparent serial killer in the quiet college town of Davis, residents were reluctant to refer to David Breaux as "homeless." Now, a posthumous profile tries to explain.
At the annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook got to do one of those famous "One more thing..." product drops, this time with Apple's biggest new piece of hardware since the Apple Watch.
About two weeks after Mayor Breed’s declaration about arresting people who are high, Supervisor Matt Dorsey says that a few people have been arrested, but admits there’s no visible difference in street conditions.
In the second such politically motivated stunt in three days, a second group of migrants arrived via private jet in Sacramento on Monday — and while Florida Governor Ron DeSantis hasn't publicly taken credit, he's likely about to, and the move appears to have his fingerprints all over it.
In some good news especially for older Millennials and Gen Xers who still listen to FM radio, the station is dropping the 105.3 Dave FM "random" format it's had the last couple of years, and going back to the original.
A suspect who was threatening neighbors in a Tenderloin/Union Square hotel with a knife caused a block of Taylor Street to be cordoned off by the SFPD for several hours on Sunday.
An alarming high-speed car chase through the streets of downtown Oakland Sunday afternoon ended with an Acura SUV hitting a fire hydrant and crashing through the front of Wise Sons Deli, though the shop was closed and no one was injured.
Another bit of bad news for downtown San Francisco arrived Monday morning with the revelation that the investment firm that owns the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 hotels is walking away from its debts and giving up hope on a return of SF's convention market.
Linda Yaccarino takes over as CEO at Twitter today, and we'll see how that goes; hundreds marched on the Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday to protest gun violence; and Sup. Stefani may be the swing vote on the Castro Theatre seats.
Someone — possibly a certain governor from Florida — arranged to have sixteen immigrants bussed from Texas to New Mexico and then flown by private jet to Sacramento, where they were dropped off outside a church Friday not knowing where they were.
Protesters staged mock funerals for BART and Muni on Saturday; more rain is headed our way on Monday; and Apple is set to unveil its long-rumored VR headset.
That tech-money-funded advocacy group TogetherSF, as part of its bizarre ad campaign to convince us of a drug-crisis problem we're all well aware of, has put out some misinformation about the Heart of the City Farmers' Market. They were called out on it, now they're apologizing.
One person was injured in a shooting outside a nightclub on Fourth Street in SoMa; Oakland police are searching for a 19-year-old man connected to young girl who was shot in the leg at home; and San Mateo County is going to have its first Pride Parade.
A man was injured in a shooting in the Tenderloin Friday afternoon; the annual Pride Flag raising happened at SF City Hall today; and a new report suggests that AI has already replaced 4,000 jobs.
