Chef Aaron London closed AL’s Place last August despite great reviews and big crowds, but now the location is slated to reopen as the Indian spot Dosa Corner.
The operators of Sutro Tower removed some panels without proper approval in 2019. City Hall retroactively approved their removal Thursday, but shot down a plan to let artists paint the removed panels, and instead they’ll be producing a “virtual tour” of the tower.
The results of Sonoma County's point-in-time homeless count from January have just been released, and the county says it has 22 percent fewer people experiencing homelessness compared to the previous year.
The man suspected of shooting and killing his pregnant ex-wife, and also injuring her current boyfriend in the shooting, has been on the run for two weeks. But U.S. Marshals arrested him in Seattle this week.
There was another dustup this week between some guerrilla gardeners and home-grown internet company Monkeybrains over the contested Parcel 36 in the Mission District, and this time a punch was thrown.
The Old Navy flagship store on Market Street at Fourth, which has been in that location since the 1990s, will close on July 1, adding to the deepening retail exodus crisis on mid-Market and in Union Square.
We figured there would be a lawsuit coming when the family of Banko Brown hired famed civil rights attorney John Burris over Brown’s fatal Walgreens shooting in late April, and that lawsuit is now here.
Newly released but heavily redacted FBI files reveal that Irish Republican Army members or sympathizers had plans to try to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to California with Prince Philip in 1983.
A road-rage incident on I-580 in Oakland Thursday led to shots being fired and a subsequent crash; an East Bay professor is entering the race for Barbara Lee's House seat; and the once gleaming white facade of SFMOMA's 2016 addition is looking pretty filthy these days.
Carnaval weekend is set to dazzle the Mission District, a 49ers corruption scandal continues to roil Santa Clara City Council, and we’re learning of a scary near-miss at SFO last week right on the eve of a holiday weekend Friday that’s expected to mob the airport.
Some of the creative team behind the hit, magic-filled play 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' have crafted a new stage adaptation of the 2008 Swedish horror film 'Let the Right One In,' and it has just arrived at Berkeley Repertory Theater.
A strong majority of California voters think nearly-90-year-old Senator Dianne Feinstein is “no longer fit to continue serving in the U.S. Senate,” though oddly, she’s actually gaining support among Republicans.
On Wednesday, a judge ruled that two of them will stand trial for murder, but the third was exonerated due to self-defense.
A fight among family members, and some perceived disrespect from a pastor toward Banko Brown's recently incarcerated mother, led to a fracas at Third Baptist Church Thursday morning. And the funeral was, as a result, quickly wrapped up with no family members getting to speak.
The Union Street Festival returns to the historic and charmingly cool Cow Hollow neighborhood on June 3-4 and this year may be the 45th rendition but it’s a new day for one of San Francisco’s longest running street fairs.
Newly released demographic data from the 2020 Census — which is, albeit, three pandemic years out of date already — shows that Asians now represent a plurality of Bay Area residents, overtaking white people for the first time as the largest racial group in the region.
Six-and-a-half years after the Ghost Ship fire took the lives of 36 people, the Ghost Ship building has finally been torn down. And a low-income housing nonprofit may be turning it into an affordable housing site.
The California Energy Commission says that this winter's downpours were enough of a boon to the state’s hydroelectric power plants and other new sources that we are supposedly unlikely to have power shortages and grid problems this summer.
After loads of media coverage for "vulgar fine dining" concept Hi Felicia, and just three weeks after chef-owner Imana announced a switch to an à la carte format, the Oakland restaurant is now closed for good.
A funeral for Banko Brown is happening at Third Baptist Church today; a chain-reaction crash on I-580 in Livermore left one person dead; and Gov. Gavin Newsom met with SF business leaders in Sacramento about downtown revitalization efforts.
A 57-year-old man has been arrested in connection with yesterday's fatal crash at 16th and Potrero; the next-door neighbors of that Sunset District explosion in February are suing; and that Twitter Spaces event for DeSantis's campaign launch was very glitchy.
Murder suspect Nima Momeni made another court appearance today, and agreed to schedule his preliminary hearing for May 30, the day after Memorial Day. And we now know that Momeni's attorney plans to argue this was a case of self-defense.
The family of slain brothers Suiti and Manase Mesui, both shot and killed in September 2021, are complaining to the press that the brothers’ shooter may be able to plead down to voluntary manslaughter charges instead of murder.
A man who's been charged with fencing stolen electronics out of a Larkin Street boba tea shop who drew the ire of former district attorneys Chesa Boudin and George Gascon has been arrested for the third time in four years for, you guessed it, fencing stolen electronics.
California State Attorney General Rob Bonta has agreed to review the evidence in the case of the shooting death of 24-year-old Banko Brown, and whether SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins made the right call in declining to press charges.
