There was a fatal shooting Thursday evening near the busy section of Market Street outside the Westfield Mall, a few blocks from Union Square, and it involved a store security guard armed with a gun and an alleged theft in progress.
Newsom's deployment of CHP officers to curb drug dealing in the Tenderloin starts Monday; Berkeley police are seeking catalytic converter thieves driving a Maserati; and COVID deaths in CA have dropped 65%.
The 2023 NFL Draft is underway (though the 49ers don’t pick until Friday night), 10% of SF’s housing stock for the homeless is just sitting empty, and the former SF fire commissioner didn’t show up in court today so his accused attacker is a free man.
Tesla attorneys have argued that Elon Musk can’t be responsible for video evidence of him touting “Full Self-Driving” mode because the videos might be deepfakes, so the judge in the trial of a man killed in a 2018 Tesla crash is ordering Musk to be deposed himself.
What may have been the largest ficus tree on all of 24th Street has bit the sawdust, as its branches were all chopped down Wednesday, and on Thursday it was removed entirely.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Wednesday tossed out a permit that had been granted to local internet business Monkeybrains to put up a fence on one side of a lot adjacent to their building at 22nd and Treat.
San Francisco artist Therese Lahaie has a new work that will be visible from a wide swath of the city this weekend, and starting Thursday night, on the illuminated crown of Salesforce Tower.
Twitter made a big announcement that they’ll allow cannabis ads on the platform, but surprise surprise, companies can only do so if they’ve bought a blue-check subscription.
Following a brief court appearance Tuesday at which his attorney indicated that Nima Momeni intends to plead not guilty at a rescheduled arraignment next week, a few more details have come out about Momeni's relationship with his sister and his lack of real connection to victim Bob Lee.
One of San Francisco's highest-profile, signature employers, Gap Inc., is once again shrinking its employee rolls, with many jobs getting cut at their Embarcadero headquarters.
The SF Board of Supervisors overturned their own 2016 ban on doing business with states who’ve passed anti-LGBTQ legislation, restrictive abortion laws, and engaged in voter suppression, concluding the ban did more harm than good.
An underground vault fire appears to be to blame for a power outage impacting the FiDi, North Beach, and Nob Hill; First Republic Bank remains in serious jeopardy; and the nonprofit Castro Theatre Conservancy has released an ambitious plan for how they would run the theater if given the chance.
Thursday is the first Spare the Air day of the season; Oakland police are investigating a downtown homicide; and a person was shot and gravely injured in SF's Oceanview neighborhood this afternoon.
Video of a Latino man who was not even suspected of a crime, yet received a thorough beatdown from Antioch police officers, is the latest dirty linen for a department already reeling from a racist text scandal and a federal investigation into their possible cocaine distribution.
SF Supervisor Rafael Mandelman proposed a new idea Tuesday to potentially crack down on and deter sideshows in the city, without putting police or participants in unnecessary danger while they're occurring.
You might be hearing some new voices on your BART station announcements this month, as a group of Bay Area youngsters with autism are the stars of a new series of BART public-address bits.
The reservations went fast, but the good news is that Dominique Crenn's cozy Hayes Valley restaurant, Petit Crenn, is coming back alive for the first time in three years.
A longtime commissioner on both the Planning Commission and the SFMTA board of directors, Gwyneth Borden, has decided to step down from the SFMTA board following her censure by the Ethics Commission over an undisclosed lobbying job.
A crash Wednesday morning in Solano County involving an Amtrak train and several vehicles has left one person dead, and multiple other people injured.
With few options left but one last legal reprieve available, Elizabeth Holmes has avoided having to report to prison tomorrow, but she likely won't avoid it for long.
Despite rebounding from last summer’s shock closure announcement, Haight Street jazz and swing nightclub Club Deluxe is apparently finished for good at its 1511 Haight Street location amidst an ongoing landlord dispute.
Saddled with $10 million in debt and with only 41 students currently enrolled, the San Francisco Art Institute has declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and the school appears to be liquidating all assets and calling it quits.
The family of former SF fire commissioner Don Carmignani claims that charges are going to be dropped against the man who hit him with a metal pipe earlier this month, and they say that Carmignani himself may face charges.
A ninth grade girl was stabbed Tuesday at Walnut Creek’s Northgate High School, and while another ninth-grader is in custody on attempted murder and mayhem charges, a vice principal at the school is being praised for his swift intervention.
A high-speed chase in Capitola ended in the arrest of four Bay Area men; another high-speed chase in Oakland ended in an arrest Tuesday; and Chief Justice John Roberts defends SCOTUS's ethics code in a letter to the Senate.
