SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said some pointed things Thursday aimed squarely at Elon Musk and others who took to bashing San Francisco immediately in the wake of a tech executive's stabbing death last week.
A yet-unidentified driver of a Toyota Tacoma died after being shot and colliding with another vehicle just before midnight Wednesday night, in a shooting that happened on I-580 but whose aftermath spilled into a gas station on Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland.
We can expect many of the San Francisco doomsayers and friends of Elon Musk to either stay silent or turn defensive following the revelation that a fellow tech entrepreneur is the prime suspect in Bob Lee's stabbing.
Calvary Chapel in San Jose continues to spend a lot of time and energy fighting Santa Clara County in court over pandemic-era public health rules that it openly defied. And a Superior Court judge has just ordered the evangelical church to pay $1.2 million in fines to the county.
We’re learning there had been a fatal overdose in September at the Whole Foods at Eighth and Market Street that was closed down early this week, with someone who had OD’ed on fentanyl and methamphetamine while in the grocery store’s restroom.
After attention fell this week on the impacts of her extended absence on votes on judicial nominees before the Senate, Senator Dianne Feinstein said she had asked Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to temporarily fill her seat on the Judiciary Committee.
San Francisco police on Wednesday made an arrest in Emeryville of a suspect they say may have murdered Bob Lee on April 4, ending a week and a half of widespread speculation and lamentations about the level of crime in SF.
The California state Senate evacuated the Capitol this morning due to a "credible threat"; Caltrans has been hard at work filling potholes; and service on the K and M train lines in SF will be impacted this weekend by tunnel work.
Salesforce is fully abandoning the 30-story Salesforce East; Rep. Ro Khanna and others are openly calling for Sen. Dianne Feinstein to resign; and morale is reportedly sinking lower at Meta in Menlo Park.
What started as a proposed 309-unit condo tower at Market and Oak Streets, and was turned into a proposed 460 rental units at the same location, will now perhaps be zero units, as the developer has surrendered the property to their lending bank.
Tensions are heating up again at City Hall, as Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin says that he wants to drag Mayor London Breed out to U.N. Plaza for some political theater.
A bar/nightclub in SoMa has used an AI chatbot to design a new cocktail, and they are using this to market themselves on local television. Maybe San Francisco *is* doomed.
A subplot of Oakland PD chief LeRonne Armstrong’s February firing has spawned another subplot, as a former captain who lost his job over a seemingly botched internal affairs investigation insists he’s not the one who botched the investigation.
Nine days after the death of SF drag legend Heklina in London, we have word of a big memorial tribute set to happen at the Castro Theatre next month — but wouldn't you know it, the free tickets disappeared fast and it is sold out.
A suspect who had allegedly been groping and assaulting women on two sides of the Bay was arrested Tuesday in Berkeley, ending a week in which women at the UC Berkeley campus were on high alert after three separate incidents.
A combination of fresh precipitation and a resurgence in the population of zooplankton has Lake Tahoe appearing bluer than it has since the 1980s, according to UC Davis researchers who measure the lake’s water clarity levels.
Since Twitter currently lacks a communications or PR department, it's not surprising that a BBC reporter just showed up at Twitter HQ after a casual and likely insincere invitation and corralled Elon Musk into a new interview.
A combination of inflation, high interest rates, and tech layoffs have some economists worried that a nasty California recession is brewing, though the downturn may be limited to commercial real estate landlords and people who made bank during the pandemic.
A woman acting erratically onboard an Alaska Airlines flight from SFO to Chicago on Friday ended up causing the flight to divert to Kansas City out of concern for the safety of the plane's passengers.
Accused Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape was supposed to get a trial date but did not; NPR has quit Twitter over being labeled "state-affiliated media" by Musk; and PG&E is being blamed for cost overruns at affordable housing developments in SF.
Salesforce is now trying to offload all of its office space at Salesforce East, ousted post-recall school board member Ann Hsu is starting her own private school, and the SF Board of Supervisors couldn't meet today because someone chopped their SFGovTV fiber-optic cables.
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A U-Haul truck appears to have been the culprit in a crash Tuesday that killed a pedestrian in the Tenderloin, and led to some streets being temporarily blocked.
The seven U.S. states (including California) that get their water from the Colorado River could be looking at severe water supply cuts, as the Colorado River is shrinking prodigiously, potentially setting up both a water crisis and an electricity crisis.
One of San Francisco's first celebrity chefs, Jeremiah Tower, who came up during a time when "celebrity" and "chef" weren't often said together, still has a few things to say food and restaurants. And at age 81, he has just launched a Substack newsletter.
There was a major traffic snarl in the East Bay Tuesday as CHP investigators shut down all southbound lanes of I-880 in the area of the Fremont-Milpitas border, looking for evidence in Saturday's fatal shooting of a five-year-old girl.
