The female victim and unknown male suspect allegedly got into a verbal altercation before he deliberately drove into her, and she's now recovering from non-life threatening injuries.
The vacancy tax was approved by 54.5% of voters last year to start in 2024 to direct money to adorable housing, but landlords and property owners are calling it "unconstitutional."
Navy Lieutenant Commander Calli Zimmerman, who grew up in San Jose, will be in this Super Bowl's flyover; SF wants to make parking meter hours much longer; and evictions have returned to pre-pandemic levels in four out of five Bay Area counties.
After publishing a story about the statue’s history last week, Mercury News reporter Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler says he found it "hours" later inside the headquarters of a scrapyard that's had many police citations.
The troubled organization United Council of Human Services faces a new lawsuit about the misuse of funds; Davis is California's most "college-y" town with the highest proportion of the population students; and a cybersecurity attack has hit Oakland's systems.
Police arrested a 53-year-old San Francisco man Friday on suspicion of manslaughter, drug manufacturing, and child endangerment, in connection with the deadly explosion in the Sunset District on Thursday that destroyed two homes and damaged several others.
The canister was being transported by police when it started hissing potentially hazardous gas on the freeway; the Half Moon Bay mass shooting suspect broke down in tears in court; and nearly 152,000 Californian schoolchildren are missing from the system after the pandemic.
The uncorked variety show “Champagne Cabaret” bubbles up at Chinatown's Great Star Theater with a sparkling blend of graceful aerial acrobatics and gross-out gags.
It may be days or weeks before we get anything more definitive about the cause of yesterday's massive home explosion on 22nd Avenue, but with speculation running rampant in the last 24 hours, we at least now have a clue.
A young woman's brief plea to TikTok about her parents' empty Vietnamese restaurant in Santa Rosa was apparently immediately successful, and business is back up.
The old flash-mob-style Valentine’s Day pillow fight is back this year, but on a down note, some group is trying to hawk paid registrations for this event that remains absolutely free.
A new hotel restaurant is coming soon to the ground-floor space at the Four Seasons Embarcadero — the hotel formerly known as the Loews Regency which is not actually on the Embarcadero, but at 222 Sansome.
The swan song of the 22-year-old Irish bar, The Phoenix, arrives on Super Bowl Sunday, and the owner has permits to demolish the single-story building and construct an 18-unit apartment building in its place.
An apparent butane or propane leak that seems unrelated to BART shut down a few BART stations Friday morning, and it sounds like all traffic on several Daly City thoroughfares is completely shut down as well.
DA Brooke Jenkins has decided she’s dropping the charges against a former SFPD officer who shot and killed unarmed Keita O’Neil in 2017, but says AG Rob Bonta is free to prosecute it if he wants to.
There is still no explanation for a dramatic explosion that occurred at a single-family home on 22nd Avenue in the Sunset District Thursday morning, but rumors of a fatality were confirmed when a body was recovered Thursday night.
Oakland baker and activist Jen Angel has died from injuries sustained while trying to chase down thieves; UCSF is seeking help identifying a patient; and a Calistoga man is suing the Napa hotel whose water was found to have high levels of the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease last summer.
The Warriors brought back fan favorite Gary Payton II, some 100,000 San Franciscans are about to get their CalFresh food benefits slashed, and a new batch of renderings of the affordable housing project coming to the Haight Street McDonald’s site have been revealed.
San Francisco Beer Week has very much become Northern California Beer Week over the years, with breweries from as far north as Mendocino and the Sierra joining in, and as far south as Carmel. And this year they're dividing up the kickoff events by subregion.
One of the many who participated in the infamous November 2021 Union Square smash-and-grab spree has reportedly received a three-year prison sentence, larger than the other sentences by magnitudes, but that’s likely because the suspect busted off his ankle monitor and committed more burglaries.
We’re now getting some specifics on the so-called crackdown coming to the Capp Street sex work trade, with an SFMTA map of the barriers that Supervisor Ronen’s office tells us will be “up by Friday,” and SFPD teasing some enforcement details.
In her State of the City address Thursday, SF Mayor London Breed announced a multipart plan aimed at revitalizing the city's beleaguered, seemingly half-empty downtown, and it involves some Twitter tax-break-style tax breaks.
An organized retail theft ring that netted around $1 million in stolen Apple products over the last six months has been busted following an investigation by the CHP's retail theft unit.
A new advertising-fail from Uber tries to localize to SF, but the campaign uses an image from the wrong city, showing Sausalito in a shot that purports to be the Marina District.
![[Update] Oakland Bakery Owner Dies After Attempted Robbery Gone Wrong](https://img.sfist.com/2023/02/jen-angel.jpg)
Popular Oakland baker Jennifer Angel, the 48-year-old owner of Angel Cakes in the historic Gingerbread House, is in critical condition after a Monday incident in which she apparently tried to chase down thieves who stole something from her.
