San Francisco resident Min Jin Zhao, 60, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison and has to pay nearly $1.9 million in restitution to two swindled investors from separate schemes he ran.
Snowmelt season is here, and the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, particularly the southern Sierra, is at high risk of flooding, as are San Joaquin Valley and the Tulare Lake regions.
The shooting, which was reported around 1:45 a.m., was believed to be targeted between two parties, at a hookah lounge that had recently been shut down for being a neighborhood nuisance;
Gavin Newsom announced the in California National Guard and California Highway Patrol will join a task force with SFPD tackling fentanyl trafficking; Lyft announces layoffs of about 30% of their staff; and the Supreme Court protects the abortion pill (for now).
After a landlord dispute cost them their longtime home on Commercial Street, Chinatown dim sum favorite City View restaurant has reopened at a new location just a few blocks away.
Another goat mob escaped their confines and ran wild through the streets near Francisco Park Tuesday afternoon, though they were eventually corralled using SFPD and a tasty bale of hay.
In the last nine months, Fort Point Beer Co.'s Valencia Street brewpub — which opened pre-pandemic, then closed for most of it — has ramped up its food offerings and become more of a full-fledged restaurant.
As the Antioch Police Department faces a slew of allegations of wrongdoing from distributing cocaine, to accepting bribes, to having a trove of racist text messages recently exposed, two Bay Area congressional reps are calling for a Department of Justice investigation.
The apparently troubled woman at the heart of a sensational case in the South Bay, Shannon O'Connor, was back in court Friday, and she was made to hear directly from some teenage victims.
That 27-story residential tower on a Nordstrom parking lot that the SF supervisors infamously rejected in October 2021 had its revised plans approved Thursday, along with plans for a controversial six-story development near Dolores Park.
Elon Musk's plan to remove "Verified" blue checkmarks from all the celebrities who've had them for a decade unless they coughed up $8 likely wasn't that well thought-out.
Erykah Badu hit high notes at the most entertaining 4:20 countdown yet at Hippie Hill, as what appeared to be 20,000 happy stoners blazed up a gargantuan cloud of marijuana smoke for a blissed-out 4/20 celebration.
The SFPD's Community Ambassador Program, in which retired, civilian officers are deployed to do foot patrols and deter crime, is expanding by 50 percent, as Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott announced Friday.
One person was injured in the Bayview when an oven caught fire inside an RV; BART may have had one of its best ridership weeks in years; and Larry Elder is running for president.
Police were investigating near Haight and Cole whether shots were fired Thursday afternoon; the suspect in the Pleasanton Home Depot shooting was allegedly trying to steal a toolbox; and the president of the Oakland A's is trying to explain the team's move to Vegas.
Reporters around the Bay are trying to dig up whatever they can to continue reporting on the murder of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, and the latest tidbits came from Emeryville police.
We still can't say what they will become or what they will serve, but the wheels of the federal government and National Park Service are turning ever so slowly to get new restaurant tenants into The Cliff House and Louis' Diner spaces, both closed since 2020.
The SF Board of Supervisors approved a nearly 11% salary increase for SFPD officers over the next three years, which will hopefully do something to encourage new officers to join the department, and encourage existing officers to solve more crimes.
Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, the 57-year-old former COO of Theranos who was convicted last year — like his former business partner Elizabeth Holmes — of defrauding investors in their blood-testing startup, is set to enter prison today.
It was never California police code for marijuana, and it had nothing to do with the date of April 20th. But the origins of "420" as the codeword of stoner culture lie here in the Bay Area, with a group of five teenagers — now men in their 60s — living in Marin.
The Oakland Police Department (OPD) says that they are getting an increased number of reports about armed robberies and carjackings that follow a similar pattern, and they were urging drivers to be "vigilant" and take steps to reduce their risk of being a crime victim.
A wild Wednesday night of developments loaded the bases for the Oakland A’s to move to Las Vegas, as the A’s organization bought land for a stadium, Major League Baseball blessed the deal, and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao declared she was done negotiating with team executives.
20,000 people are expected to descend on Hippie Hill for 4/20; Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe says he fears for his safety amid a police scandal; and this morning's SpaceX Starship launch was a failure, but not an abject failure.
Newsom made a surprise visit to the Tenderloin today; an on-duty BART employee has been arrested in a fatal hit-and-run; and BART's new elevator at 16th & Mission somehow is costing $5 million.
Vice chair of the SFMTA Board of Directors Gwyneth Borden took an undisclosed $12,500 to help a Sunset District Italian restaurant, and worked the Planning Commission she used to be a member of to help the restaurant get permits for a roof deck.
