The Antioch Police Dept. is facing a scandal involving 16 officers; Twitter Blue-Check D-Day is April 1; and Donald Trump is now the first president in U.S. history to be brought up on criminal charges after leaving office.
The Board of Supervisors apparently approved a liquor license transfer for the big-box booze retailer Total Wine & More to move into the now-vacated Office Max at 14th and Harrison Streets, though the state ABC has not approved the license yet.
It's become a complicated and perhaps pointless exercise for the State of California to enforce a ban on funding travel to 23 states with anti-LGBTQ laws now in effect, and a lesbian lawmaker is hoping to lift the ban soon.
The dazzling LED forest titled Entwined at Peacock Meadow is still up well past its original March 12 removal date, but it’s coming down after a Sunday night closing party with the Extra Action Marching Band.
Tulare Lake, which used to have ferries going across it and was reportedly four times the size of Lake Tahoe, reemerged this winter in Tulare and Kings Counties, swamping farmland that has been in use for decades.
As Major League Baseball tries to redefine itself and draw more viewership by speeding up the game, the Giants are, once again, a superstar-less team hoping to catch lighting in a bottle.
Here’s a twist in the law enforcement narrative about the fentanyl trade, as the 20-year executive director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association has been criminally charged for importing and distributing “thousands of opioid and other pills” including fentanyl.
Wildlife officials are bracing for more human-bear encounters than ever as this snow-covered spring in the Tahoe area is going to make for more challenging foraging for the hungry animals.
The great San Francisco exodus of 2020 was, as observed by many of us, followed by a slow returning of humans in mid-2021 and 2022. And now, some official numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau, albeit estimates, suggest that the city's population about leveled off by last summer.
A 78-year-old woman who was out walking her dog last Friday in Berkeley managed to knock a gun — what turned out to be a BB gun — out of the hand of a 16-year-old who was allegedly trying to rob her.
A coalition of founders, CEOs and professors (Elon Musk among them) says artificial intelligence companies should “immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems,” though some may just want to sideline the competition so they can launch their own AI products.
A man was found riddled with multiple gunshot wounds in a freeway shooting in Oakland; a collapsed hillside has cut off Benecia's fresh water supply; and track work will cause BART delays in the East Bay this weekend.
The 4 Star, Balboa, and Vogue theaters successfully hit their $100k crowdfunding goal, Matt Horn’s Oakland burger joint Matty’s Old Fashioned will be opening soon, and your San Francisco Giants play ball for Opening Day Thursday morning at 10 a.m. PT.
Crime and conviction rates under District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’s first eight months are being seen as a glass half-full for both her supporters and critics, as more people are being arrested and convicted, though more people are being murdered and dying of drug overdoses.
Disgraced former KTVU anchorman Frank Somerville just gave his first full, on-camera interview since the events of 2021 that both tanked his news career and put him in serious legal hot water.
A 20-year-old man from Vallejo has been charged with murder after an allegedly stolen SUV he was driving crashed into a woman's car in Rodeo last week, killing her and one of her twin sons, and injuring the other.
San Francisco isn't so well represented on this year's James Beard Award roster of finalists, but a couple of local stars have gotten nods, including Healdsburg's Michelin three-starred SingleThread.
The old-school bowling alley and arcade with old-school prices, Sea Bowl in Pacifica, has announced it is closing permanently in two months, so schedule a visit if you want one more trip down its memory lanes.
Now in his second season doing 'The Problem With Jon Stewart' podcast that also has a video component on Apple TV+, the comedian just had SF Mayor London Breed come on for an extended conversation on what he calls San Francisco's "complicated soup of problems."
Oakland police aren't saying much about the “suspicious death” of a victim found Monday in the city's Uptown neighborhood, but a mother has come forward and said it was her 33-year-old daughter, and that the body was found wrapped in plastic and rolled in a carpet.
Twitter has restricted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's account over comments about the Nashville shooter; the feds have charged two more alleged Tenderloin drug dealers; and state economists have put a price tag on statewide reparations.
Today’s storms wreaked havoc on NorCal roads from Napa County to Lake Tahoe, the scandal-scarred Lefty O’Doul’s restaurant in Fisherman’s Wharf will reopen as a candy emporium, and the 49ers are trying to bring the Super Bowl back to Santa Clara in 2026.
At least six people say they were roofied at a Game Developers Conference afterparty in San Francisco last week, while other assault reports are trickling in, and the primarily male-attended conference is suffering some serious reputational damage.
Another storm has brought another set of broken windows to 350 Mission Street, the high-rise otherwise known as Salesforce East, in a story that’s becoming frighteningly common this month.
According to a running tally on the city's website, San Francisco has lost more than a thousand trees and tree limbs in the last couple of months, thanks to a battering parade of wet and windy storms. Reaching the city's tree-planting goal just got a whole lot harder.
