Recall-mania is back! San Mateo Mayor Amourence Lee was just elected in December, but already faces a recall effort, one which seems entirely about rehashing the circumstances of her election.
This storm system has been no joke, and while much of the Bay Area saw significant rainfall in the last 24 hours, many spots that don't usually see snow accumulation saw plenty between Thursday and Friday, leading to some surprises on local roads.
Highway 17 was closed in both directions Friday in the Santa Cruz Mountains due to heavy snow and downed trees; last night's storm knocked out power in most of Calistoga; and a man in Altadena is claiming that the man who claimed the $2B Powerball jackpot stole the ticket from him.
SFPD has arrested a serial convenience store robbery suspect who is (!) 60 years old, we have our first poll in the four-way race for Feinstein’s Senate seat, and Highway 101 was a mess all afternoon when it was shut down over a downed tree.
An English teacher at Hayward’s Mt. Eden High School may have gone a little too Kanye West, adding to the curriculum a pamphlet that accuses Jewish people of a “Well-outlined Plan for World Dictatorship.”
The San Francisco Zoo community is mourning the loss of Sukari, the zoo's 20-year-old African lioness who had given birth to multiple cubs in captivity as part of a conservation program.
BART Police say “We are going to saturate every train and hit every train in Oakland and San Francisco” as the BART board of directors is on the verge of agreeing to more than double the presence of officers.
In a Los Angeles trial in which Governor Gavin Newsom's wife was a star witness, convicted super-predator Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 16 years for rape and sexual assault charges.
A 71-year-old woman who was out foraging for mushrooms in a Northern California forest earlier this month and got separated from her husband and daughter was found dead last week after being missing for two weeks.
A five-year-old scandal over improperly billing $15,000 of taxpayer money, and lying on a resume, is complicating the prospects for Breed’s nominee for the homelessness oversight commission, Vikrum Aiyer.
Hide your kids if you see Cookie Monster coming at you near the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk — he is not the cute and kindly Sesame Street character he appears to be.
A death in an Oakland homeless camp has been deemed a homicide; the suspect in the synagogue blanks-shooting incident earlier this month may have his guns taken from him permanently; and the high temperature in SF broke a record for coldness on Wednesday.
Elon Musk and Gov. Gavin Newsom shared some awkward words at an event celebrating a new Tesla facility in Palo Alto; a man was shot and injured in McLaren Park; and Rep. Barbara Lee has made her Senate candidacy official.
A vacant lot on Treat Avenue near 22nd Street has no owner, but has a community group who’ve occupied the space with a garden, and a new next-door owner in Monkeybrains who are effectively doing the same with parking. Their conflict is quickly growing like a weed.
In a sign that the market for new restaurants in San Francisco may not be as ravenous as it was a few years back, a high-end seafood restaurant that opened last summer on Valencia Street is already calling it quits.
Whale watching season is here a little early in 2023, as the Marine Mammal Center spotted this whale tail February 9, and SF Bay Ferry riders say they’ve seen a few more since.
A 60-year-old San Francisco man is being charged with a hate crime after allegedly chasing and yelling threats at a woman of color in Dolores Park on Sunday.
San Francisco voters approved the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing oversight commission in November over Mayor Breed’s objections, but she still gets to pick most of the commission, which she did Tuesday.
The elderly man killed in a Sunday morning hit-and-run while out for his daily walk near Oakland's Lake Merritt has been identified, and his daughter says he was very health conscious and loved his walks.
Amidst Tuesday afternoon’s wind gusts of nearly 65 miles per hour, two metal panels came flying off the SFPUC building near Civic Center, while downed trees and ripped-off roofs kept public employees busy all day.
Three people in a car that was reported as stolen in a Vallejo carjacking Tuesday night were killed in a crash following a high-speed chase with CHP officers on I-80 in Fairfield.
A one-year-old boy is in critical condition after a tree fell on his family's house in the Santa Cruz Mountains; one person died after a collision at the MacArthur Maze; and snow is likely to fall in multiple spots over the next two days including Santa Rosa.
A Richmond District Dungeness crab favorite is moving, the Bay Bridge lanes shut down by a fallen tree in today’s storms are mostly reopen, but the number of Bay Area households without power has grown to more than 100,000.
Angry parents have taken to Facebook to condemn a handful of books carried in San Ramon Valley Unified School District libraries, and the pitchforks are coming out for an upcoming school board meeting at which the board is set to discuss banned books.
The National Weather Service wasn’t kidding about that wind advisory, as a couple hours into it, winds have topped 60 miles per hour, an estimated 70,000 in the Bay Area are without power, and PG&E and the fire department are playing whack-a-mole with downed trees and lines.
