Elon Musk failed in an attempt to get a trial moved out of the Bay Area, and now he will face a lawsuit here brought by Tesla investors who are still sore about tweets he published four years ago claiming he was about to take the car company private.
A 31-year-old Brentwood man is in Contra Costa County Jail and charged with a shooting spree, albeit a BB gun shooting spree — and he is suspected of shooting at at least seven cars in a 20-hour period.
The latest San Francisco driverless car mishap involves an autonomous Waymo vehicle driving upon a construction site, stopping in front of a trench in the ground, then having no idea what to do as construction workers have a good laugh at the robot car’s confused state.
A mudslide Monday morning prompted a warning to avoid an area near the Clark Kerr Campus at UC Berkeley, and an evacuation warning was issued for residents near a second mudslide near Tilden Park.
Don't place any big bets on it but we are forecast to have a pretty dry week except for a stormy Wednesday night; the body of a fisherman missing since Christmas was found in San Pablo Bay; and new SF Board of Supes Prez Aaron Peskin broke his phone.
Not long after the National Weather Service had issued a warning about high winds near the Golden Gate on Saturday, a gust toppled a semi truck on the bridge, leading to a traffic headache that lasted hours.
While none of the major reservoirs are at capacity – most are still less than 50% full – many are at or beating their historical averages for this point in the year.
The SFFD says that an unidentified body was discovered near the Ferry Building; Highway 37 near Novato is closed until Monday due to flooding; and bottlenose dolphins might start calling the Bay home because of climate change.
The woman was jogging near Lindley Meadow in Golden Gate Park when she was struck by a large branch, and authorities pronounced her dead on the scene.
The Niners handily beat the Seattle Seahawks 41-23 and advanced to the divisional round in Saturday's wild-card game.
A CHP officer helped calm and extricate a trio from a car on a Los Gatos roadside cliff Friday; a Mountain View man who had been trying a stab a family member held police in a 5-hour long standoff; and the Bay Area had one winning Mega Millions lotto ticket.
A two-alarm fire started at a Mission District residence around 7 p.m. Friday, and spread to the building next door, but all residents were safely evacuated, with no injuries reported according to the SFFD. The fire was contained by 9 p.m.
A mudslide hit Fairfax apartment buildings, displacing several residents; California Attorney General is taking on drugmakers and pharmacies over too-high insulin prices; and 49ers tight end George Kittle says he hasn't had electricty for the better part of a week.
The former head of the SF Department of Building Inspection Commission might be looking at life behind bars, as Rodrigo Santos just pleaded guilty Friday to a slew of bank fraud, wire fraud, and tax evasion charges that, all combined, could total a prison sentence of more than 300 years.
Businesses and households in all nine Bay Area counties are now classified as “storm victims,” so the IRS and California Franchise Tax Board are cutting us an extra month of slack to blow off filing our taxes.
Human remains — basically just a skeleton — were found in a building on the UC Berkeley campus earlier this week, and so far there's no explanation or identification of the remains.
A San Jose woman whose apparent web of lies led her to mastermind a kidnapping last spring is now claiming innocence in the case, months after pleading no contest and waiving her right to a trial.
More sinkhole trouble, this time on State Route 92, which is currently closed both directions in a stretch near Half Moon Bay. Fortunately no one was hurt, but there is eye-popping video and wild photos from Caltrans and CHP.
Now that we are finally (finally!) in Dungeness crab season, it's time to take advantage of the new policy that lets you go down to Fisherman's Wharf and buy crab directly from crab fishermen, right off the boat.
San Francisco police on Wednesday arrested a suspect who apparently ran up to a Muni bus that was stopped at a red light, jumped into the driver's side window, and attacked the driver, spraying the driver with a fire extinguisher.
Four people were shot and one of them killed in an early-morning shooting last summer at 19th and Mission Streets, but police have finally arrested a Daly City man and a Colma man who they think are responsible.
We are in for three more days of rain with a few breaks in between, an SF man is fighting against the release of a mentally ill man who attacked him, and restaurant owners in Oakland's Temescal district are tired of paying for costly vandalism repairs.
The public defender for Troy McAlister is looking to get DA Brooke Jenkins and her staff disqualified from the high-profile case; SF's biggest landlord has defaulted on a loan; and a previously rejected condo project is back on deck in SoMa.
Three-year-old Andrea Flores went missing from Millbrae on January 1, but was just found in Mexico, and authorities believe her father Victor Flores-Enriquez abducted her and absconded to south of the border.
A huge portion of San Francisco's annual budget gets paid to nonprofit partners that perform much of the work that certain city departments are responsible for. And it looks like it's been a while since anyone has audited where this money is going.
