A house fire in the Oakland hills on Thursday turned into a three-alarm blaze that damaged at least two other homes; PG&E will be giving bill credits soon; and the forecast for the weekend includes a fair bit of rain.
That Tina Fey should be able to write for the stage, and should keep writing for the stage and screen and wherever she pleases, goes without saying.
It looks like rain for Saturday’s Lunar New Year Parade, a man fired shots in an SF synagogue but they ended up being blanks, and Friends of the Urban Forest are having a fruit tree giveaway.
A Lyon Street house that made for a very depressing segment on A&E’s ‘Hoarders’ just sold for $1.2 million ($500,000 over its asking price), even though it still very much looked and smelled like a house that had been featured on ‘Hoarders.’
A 28-year-old Turlock woman who was killed on I-580 earlier this week while traveling home from a spontaneous trip to San Francisco leaves behind three children, and her family is seeking help with funeral expenses and money for the kids.
There was some breaking news Thursday via a source with insider IKEA knowledge that the mall complex on SF's Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets is going to come alive sooner than we'd last heard.
PG&E had tried to get out of any criminal charges over four deaths in the 2020 Zogg Fire, but a Shasta County judge has just ruled that the utility can be taken to trial for involuntary manslaughter and a slew of other charges.
Reminding us again of how close we are to the countryside, a member of the livestock community in Pleasanton got loose Wednesday night and wandered onto some busy streets in the city, at one point having a "cow-llision" with a Tesla.
A Wednesday night cable car derailment appears to have left two Muni operators injured, and while details are scarce, the derailment may have been caused by a hit-and-run motorist.
Nancy Pelosi has made a rare endorsement in a Democrat v. Democrat race; there was a second major crash on southbound 101 in SF last night; and a former reality TV star has filed suit against Windsor's former mayor for sexual assault and battery.
VP Kamala Harris spoke today at the funeral for Tyre Nichols in Memphis, federal regulators have once again granted a reprieve to Laguna Honda Hospital from having to move patients, and one SF property owner tried to use that 'builder's remedy' clause but it didn't actual kick in.
Trouble for Another Planet Entertainment, as the SF Historic Preservation Commission just recommended landmark designation protections for the Castro Theatre’s seats, at a six-hour meeting where both “Save the Seats” and “Change the Seats” factions turned out in force.
After a vocal critic of DA Brooke Jenkins was disinvited at the last minute from speaking at a Wednesday City Hall vigil to honor Tyre Nichols, the apparent stage-management attempt went wrong, and spurned activists shouted Breed down.
Even in a national landscape littered with creative cocktail bars, with a new-school cocktail culture that is now two decades old and spawning still newer schools, San Francisco's Trick Dog remains a singular thing, and place.
Today, February 1, is the state's deadline for cities to have their Housing Elements — the planning documents that dictate overall housing construction goals which serve as contracts with the state — certified. And guess what! Hundreds of towns and cities have blown the deadline.
A five-year-long federal murder investigation into the Sonoma County Hells Angels is also prosecuting several Angels on other lesser charges, like the two just sentenced for a series of beatings and the robbery of a marijuana grow.
While the migrating monarch butterfly population is still down 80% over the last 30 years, it’s estimated there are nearly 100,000 more of the winged critters in California right now compared to their numbers in last year’s annual trek.
A man was found with a fatal gunshot wound, sitting in a parked car on Tuesday in the Little Hollywood section of the Bayview.
As expected, Beyoncé has announced her latest world tour in connection with her stellar and multiply Grammy-nominated 2022 album Renaissance, and she will be swinging through the Bay Area on August 30.
A traffic nightmare unfolded on southbound 101 in San Francisco Wednesday morning following an initial collision that snowballed into multiple collisions and a 19-car pileup.
A boy was bitten and minorly injured by a mountain lion in rural San Mateo County, the Chronicle's Heather Knight is once again calling out the SFPD for doing nothing after a burglary, and rumor has it former Apple design guy Jony Ive just bought a building in Jackson Square.
49ers defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans has been poached for a head coaching job, mid-Market vegetarian spot Ananda Fuara is closing, and Glen Park is in a huff after youngsters commandeered a park for a ‘Wolf of Wall Street’-themed keg party.
Alameda County's new progressive district attorney is using a similar playbook to SF's former DA Chesa Boudin in announcing possible prosecutions of police officers in her first weeks on the job.
The permitting dustup over unsanctioned beds and bedrooms at Twitter’s SF headquarters just might end peacefully, as the SF Department of Building Inspection is giving them a path to keep the beds, though the larger problem remains that Twitter is simply not paying rent.
California could become the first state in the nation to require gun owners to carry liability insurance for negligent or accidental use of the firearms they own, under a new bill just introduced in the state Senate.
