Another office space haircut for a downtown SF tech firm, as Pinterest is bailing on 505 Brannan Street ten years before the lease is up, following rounds of layoffs in both December and February.
Just seven days before it was set to host its final show, the Elbo Room Jack London has announced new buyers. The club will still have its final show Friday night, but is scheduled to reopen under the new owners in June.
Supporters of crackdowns on open-air drug dealing in SF might be glad to know that two low- or mid-level drug dealers were recently put on trial. But the DA's office dropped the charges against them after both trials ended in hung juries.
Three relatively small earthquakes, the largest a 3.4M, jolted Pacifica and nearby parts of the Peninsula Tuesday morning, but most of San Francisco likely slept through it.
Expect the rain to start fading by 2 p.m. in SF; an 11-year-old girl has died from injuries sustained after an alleged DUI collision outside her Solano Co. middle school; and a skydiver miraculously survived a crash into some power lines.
There are tornadoes being forecast as possible along Highway 1 Tuesday and Wednesday; First Republic Bank shares rebounded a bit; and that proposed, NFT-backed sushi restaurant atop the Transit Center appears to be stalled.
Former Giants pitcher Sergio Romo will end his 15-year career on a quickie contract with the Giants Monday night, and it looks like he may see more action than just a ceremonial first pitch in the Giants-A’s exhibition game at Oracle Park.
Welp, one likely candidate in next year's race for California's soon-to-open-up Senate seat has taken himself out of the running, and that's South Bay Congressman Ro Khanna.
Some stunning local food industry gossip is now spilling publicly into the headlines, as the sprawling upscale food court China Live is allegedly $4.2 million in arrears on unpaid rent, but it seems there’s a whole lot more backstory to this nasty landlord-tenant feud.
Since we learned last week that billionaire conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch had taken a new fiancée with Bay Area roots, a few more details about her past divorces have emerged. And it looks like she's none too ashamed to be seen as a gold digger!
The Oakland Zoo over the weekend successfully recaptured five out of six exotic birds that escaped their damaged enclosure last week, after a big eucalyptus tree came crashing down and tore the netting.
What’s left of the bankrupt and taken-over-by-the-government Silicon Valley Bank has been bought up by North Carolina-based First Citizens Bank, and while we don’t know the price, First Citizens got a hefty discount of at least $16.5 billion.
Twitter executives were scrambling late last week after the revelation that the platform's source code had been live and publicly available for download on the developer collaboration platform GitHub.
Our next storm system is knocking at the door; longtime Oakland BBQ spot Everett & Jones was burglarized on two successive nights last week; and a portion of Highway 101 in Novato has reopened following a landslide.
When deputies tried to perform a wellness check on a Gilroy man, he responded by pulling out a gun and firing at them, and the crisis negotiations team has been tryinng to de-escalate.
The days-long search for a missing 7-year-old boy concluded when divers found his body in the water near Moss Landing Harbor, after his mother was also found dead in a suspected drowning Wednesday.
There was a fatal shooting at Tahoe's popular Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Saturday morning; A parade Saturday afternoon celebrated Market Street's beloved Larry “Bucket Man” Hunt; and the Bay Area's MLB teams are playing a two-game set, though the rivalry game won't count in the standings.
The driver reportedly suffered a medical emergency when they drove off the bridge, taking out a 50-foot chunk of the fence, but was not injured in the accident.
After this winter's storms, about 65% of California is out of drought conditions — compared to almost 100% of the state under some form of drought or dry conditions about three months ago.
An autonomous Saildrone boat found an underwater mountain likely formed from seismic activity; A 3.1-M earthquake rattled Humboldt County Saturday morning; and a Berkeley man has been charged with getting drunk off church wine.
CHP's local Organized Retail Crime Task Force found about 600 stolen retail items and nearly $90,000 in cash at a Home Depot employee's house; three Oakland Zoo birds have returned after escaping during the storm this week; and a 77-year-old man is missing in Potrero Hill.
Despite so-called “fiscal cliff” concerns, BART is embarking on a $90 million project to replace all their fare gates with new jump-proof “next generation” models, and got a recommendation to move ahead on the first $47 million phase of this at Thursday’s board meeting.
News arrived Thursday that Robert Downey Jr. and Paramount have acquired the rights to do a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. And the Twitterverse et al have had plenty to say about Hollywood lacking imagination and taste.
If it’s Boichik Bagels, you know there’s going to be plenty of hype and long lines involved, and that’s what happened at 7:30 a.m. in Berkeley Friday morning as the runaway blockbuster bagel brand opened its 18,000-square-foot production plant and cafe.
While open briefly during the pandemic, North Beach's once bustling brasserie Park Tavern has been closed for more than a year and a half. But that is about to change — and there's a new executive chef in the kitchen.
