A shelter-in-place order was issued Tuesday afternoon after at least one large glass panel "became separated" from the 43rd floor of famed SF office tower 555 California Street, formerly known as Bank of America Center.
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Around 2,000 PG&E customers in San Francisco lost power on Tuesday, and around 273,000 others across the region are also in the dark as the Bay Area gets lashed with winds at the back side of this latest atmospheric river storm.
Bars, restaurants, and other businesses will have to pay permit fees for their “shared spaces” parklets starting April 1, but Supervisor Ahsha Safai wants to eliminate that few-thousand dollar fee before it goes into effect.
Today's SF Board of Supervisors meeting was making national headlines before it had even begun, and that is because SF is poised to become the first major city to grapple with the idea of paying reparations for historical wrongs to Black residents.
A man was killed early Saturday morning, possibly while sleeping, in a gang-style hit at a long-term care facility in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood, and two gunmen are being sought by police.
It’s another 10,000 layoffs at Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta, on top of the 11,000 layoffs from November, as their pandemic growth hangover collides with bad bets on Web3 and metaverse boondoggles.
A teenage boy was stabbed and seriously injured Monday afternoon in a fight onboard a Muni bus near Union Square, and several young suspects were detained.
Shares of First Republic Bank bounced back today; SFO is experiencing 80-minute delays due to this windy storm; and Palisades Tahoe says its snowfall for the season now totals 648 inches.
Some local startups were able to access their frozen accounts at Silicon Valley Bank today; a race is on to plug the breached levee in Monterey County; and local Asian communities celebrated Oscar wins for Michelle Yeoh and 'Everything Everywhere All at Once.'
The Jimmy Garoppolo era is officially over in San Francisco, and a cult-hit fan artist “Drawing Jimmy G every day until he gets traded” has also declared her project is drawing to a close.
Two cars collided Sunday evening in SF's Mission District, and in an apparent act of road rage, one driver shot the other driver before fleeing the scene.
Chef Christopher Kostow was sad to see his favorite, go-to Napa Valley restaurant go under last year, and while he thought about reviving the space as a new concept, he's decided instead to let it live on, much the way it was.
What was a suspected hostage incident Sunday night in Brentwood has left both the alleged hostage-taker and the victim hospitalized, after a confrontation led to gunfire exchange with the police.
A homeless man in his 40s who was found dead in his sleeping bag near Metson Lake in Golden Gate Park in 2021 has been positively ID'd through DNA and forensic genealogy.
The feared “contagion” from the Silicon Valley Bank collapse has now spread to banks whose branches and ATMs you see around San Francisco, as the SF-based First Republic Bank tanked in the markets over bank-run fears.
Flooding on the Salinas River was expected to crest Monday ahead of another round of rain, and ways of ingress and egress to the Monterey Peninsula were potentially all going to be cut off.
The Bay Lights were back on Sunday night due to a "glitch"; there were two fatal shootings in Oakland over the weekend; and President Biden gave a brief televised statement urging everyone to stop panicking about banks.
The National Weather Service has issued high wind warnings and flood warnings for many parts of the Bay Area, urging residents to have emergency plans in place.
This weekend’s rains have replenished local reservoirs, and many in the East Bay, North Bay, and South Bay have reached capacity.
The rains from Saturday night into Sunday morning flooded many lanes of northbound and southbound I-880; an overnight car chase involved CHP vehicles and an airplane in Oakland; and San Jose's History Park had a two-alarm fire Sunday morning.
The crematorium, Oceanview Cremations Corporation, had allegedly been operating on a suspended license for the past few years, and its owner wouldn't pick up the phone to tell families where their loved ones' remains were.
An 85-foot tree — about 10 stories tall — fell onto the Clubhouse around 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning, busting the roof and water system of one of the oldest buildings in the city.
Hundreds of Watsonville residents were evacuated following a levee breach in Monterey County; Tahoe's famous Emerald Bay froze over for the first time since the early 90s; and the St. Patrick's Day Parade is taking place Saturday.
SF opened a limited number of shelter beds for unhoused individuals amid the ongoing atmospheric river; OPD arrested a suspect in the murder of a member of the Oakland Gay Men's Chorus; and a Golden Girls restaurant pop-up is coming to SOMA in April.
The unfriendly skies during Thursday night’s atmospheric river storm limited arrivals at the San Francisco and San Jose airports, causing some impromptu detours to Oakland.
