Everyone's favorite nanny state is back at it making international headlines, as there's a bill before the California legislature that would ban products containing Red No. 3, a.k.a erythrosine, which is used in making everything from marshmallow Peeps to cocktail cherries.
The biggest free cannabis event in California gets its biggest star yet, and this year’s 4/20 Hippie Hill celebration will feature four-time Grammy winner Erykah Badu, plus D’wayne Wiggins from Tony! Toni! Toné!, though legal cannabis sales are not yet confirmed.
Some Big Divorce Energy coming from movie star Brad Pitt, as he’s bought a “historic, castle-like oceanside home” in Monterey County’s Carmel Highlands, but he also bought Aileen Getty’s SoCal house for the occasional L.A. work trip or hook-up.
Long before the game, I realized that I was going to have some kind of existential crisis. I was going to wonder what it's all for, and why I'm so invested in this team.
Six years after purchasing the storied Cal Neva Resort & Casino property on Lake Tahoe's north shore, billionaire Larry Ellison is reselling it at a tidy profit to a hotel group who will now, finally, renovate and reopen the place.
A Tuesday afternoon accident on Arguello Boulevard in the Presidio took the life of two-time USA Cycling Masters Track National Champion Ethan Boyes, who was struck by a car under circumstances the U.S. Park Police continue to investigate.
The British tabloid the Daily Mail has gotten ahold of the surveillance video from the Portside condominium building, outside of which CashApp founder and crypto exec Bob Lee was frantically trying to find help after being brutally stabbed early Tuesday morning.
We’re seeing another major flare-up for a reform-minded district attorney, as Alameda County DA Pamela Price says she’s “reviewing” murder charges in the shooting of toddler Jasper Wu, but also says the “racist messages" she’s received are “unprecedented.”
An incident in which a Cruise robotaxi made a booboo and "tapped" the back of a Muni bus in the Haight last month has prompted General Motors to do a "recall" — which in the days of internet-connected vehicles just amounted to a software update.
A former SF fire commissioner was brutally assaulted in the Marina Wednesday; Sunny Balwani's appeal to delay his prison term has failed; and the Giants' home opener is today, hopefully after the rain stops.
Registration for Burning Man ticket sales ends Friday at noon, the Alameda DA is doing battle with the judge who rejected her plea deal, and Placer County’s Roseville had a hostage situation that left one victim dead.
On the heels of last year’s Kaiyo Rooftop opening in SoMa, sister restaurant Kaiyo Cow Hollow just added a weekend brunch menu with eye-popping ube pancakes, uni egg toast, and ramen topped with shrimp, mussels, and octopus.
Some funny-shaped putting greens appeared at Thrive City outside the Chase Center on Thursday.
There was an update Thursday afternoon from Peaches Christ, who posted to Facebook from London that an initial post-mortem examination of Heklina found no sign of assault or foul play.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has tried to cultivate a public persona of down-home simpleness. But a new exposé by ProPublica finds that he's been accepting, and not disclosing, lavish yacht trips, vacations, and private jet flights from a conservative billionaire pal for years.
Comedian Ali Wong may have made her name with standup, specifically a couple of standup specials on Netflix, but she's been branching out into acting. And now she's taken on her most dramatic role yet in the Netflix series 'Beef.'
That $6 billion Treasure Island development promising to house 20,000 people is looking awfully uncertain at the moment, as the developers are hauling each other to court and making nasty charges.
You may already think there are too many self-driving robocars on the streets of SF, roaming creepily around with names like "Mocha" and "Juice." But the cars are actually pretty restricted in what they can do and where they can go right now. That may soon change.
The long-delayed Trader Joe’s at 555 Fulton was held up by the Mohammed Nuru scandal and the arrest of a Chinese real estate tycoon, but Supervisor Dean Preston’s office says the building is being sold to “a new owner enthusiastic about bringing in Trader Joe’s.”
All eastbound lanes of the Bay Bridge were blocked for about 90 minutes early Thursday after a fatal collision; some more rain is on the way tonight; and KRON4 puts a 'Focus on Fentanyl'
A pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run in South San Francisco; BART Police Chief Ed Alvarez is retiring; and London Police are involved in the investigation into SF drag legend Heklina's sudden death.
The Twitter account for NPR has been labeled with the “state-affiliated media” designation used for Russian and Chinese propaganda, but Musk’s critics point out that his companies get a hell of a lot more federal subsidies than NPR does.
People have been seeing smoke rising off Angel Island on and they're tweeting about it, but it's all okay and it's not a wildfire. They're just burning piles of brush and dead trees to avoid the chance of wildfires later.
It still seems unfair to pass judgment on restaurants, or a restaurant scene as a whole, when it feels like just a minute ago we were all wondering if the world was ending or if we'd ever get to eat inside a restaurant again.
SFPD issued a missing person alert for 33-year-old Alaina Marie Adams Tuesday when she didn’t show up for a scheduled cruise ship boarding, but just issued an alert that she was found near Fisherman's Wharf and “appeared to be in good health.”
