TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance admits it spied on two Buzzfeed journalists, though the journalists say at least four people were spied on and tracked after breaking stories about the seemingly innocuous app’s surveillance of U.S. users.
New videos from the Oakland Zoo show that the mountain cub hobbled by hypothermia that they took in last week is eating again and pulling a lovely recovery, while the zoo’s animals got Christmas presents to rip open, or faux gingerbread houses to play with.
A teenage suspect having a verbal altercation with one other individual on a BART car Saturday, as it sat at Coliseum Station, can be seen on video spraying the car full of fire-extinguisher discharge as he backs out of the door — and those caught in the cloud included a baby and a small dog.
The ACLU and Coalition on Homelessness’s lawsuit against the city of San Francisco has brought an emergency order to temporarily halt all encampment sweeps in the city, and Mayor Breed and her allies are furious with the decision.
Five people were hospitalized, two of them in critical condition, after they all apparently suffered accidental overdoses inside a residence on Japantown's main drag on Christmas Day.
This atmospheric river is going to continue bringing rain to the greater Bay Area, and snow to the Sierra, for most of Tuesday — and the rainfall totals are already looking impressive.
This morning's storm winds were causing the Golden Gate Bridge to "sing" again, an arrest was made in the In-N-Out hate-crime incident caught on video, and a man was arrested on Christmas after allegedly stealing a car in Mountain View with two girls still inside.
A very ferocious two-on-one pummeling in front of the Foot Locker at the Westfield Centre has gone viral in a Reddit video, and while Westfield management confirms the incident happened, the victim is declining to file any charges.
A creepy, scary, racist suspect is being sought in an incident that occurred in a San Ramon In-N-Out on Christmas Eve, and most of the incident — at least the audio — was captured in a TikTok video.
The Bay Area will see the first rainfall from the coming Pineapple Express storm tonight, flood watches have been issued for multiple cities including SF, and flight cancellations continued today at SFO.
On Saturday evening, three busloads of migrants from the southern U.S. border were reportedly bused to Vice President (and former California Senator) Kamala Harris’ home in Washington, DC, reportedly showing up on one of the coldest Christmas Eves on record in just t-shirts.
Two hikers were picked up by a helicopter from a Marin beach after getting stuck during high tide; a small plane crashed in Livermore and its pilot is reportedly injured; and South Bay elementary schooler Jaden Williams whose dancing went viral stole the show again at the Christmas Eve 49ers game.
There's only so much pixie dust to go around. In a game where analysts were talking about parallels between yesterday's two unlikely starting quarterbacks, Brock Purdy wrestled the glass slipper from Taylor Heinicke and led the 49ers to a 37-20 win.
Two children were found dead inside a home in the Hunters Point neighborhood Friday, and a woman was arrested in connection with the deaths.
A hectic holiday travel season marked by days of severe weather nationwide is calming down in the Bay Area; an Oakland motorcyclist dies in a crash on the way to his father's funeral; and a person was allegedly stabbed by a nude attacker in Berkeley.
Because there wasn't the usual, annual round of year-end best-of lists last December, with the world still barely emerging from a pandemic — and with Omicron rearing its ugly head — it feels appropriate now to just do a list rounding up both 2021 and 2022, as far the local food scene goes.
It’s probably not the jolt in morale the Giants clubhouse could use after the Carlos Correa debacle, but they added an outfielder who was an All-Star four years ago, and the twin brother of reliever Tyler Rogers, an All-Star in 2021.
Eldest unemployable Trump kid Donald Trump Jr. ran afoul of Twitter’s content policy, with a tweet that Twitter took down photoshopping a nude Hunter Biden next to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
It's going to be unseasonably warm this Christmas weekend all over the Bay. And while no records are likely to be broken, temperature-wise, those of us who didn't leave town will all be sitting pretty in some lovely weather.
Russian Hill mainstay Nick’s Crispy Tacos just abruptly announced its closure with less than a week’s notice, but they say “We are in the process of finding a new home.”
A father of three and one of his young sons died in a crash Monday evening when the Jeep they were traveling in went off a dirt road on private property in Sonoma County, and three others, including two children, were injured in an effort to rescue them.
Around 400 workers at Macy's Union Square are on strike today and tomorrow, another tech conference has decamped from SF to Vegas, and an ice storm in the Pacific Northwest has shut down Seattle's runways and further complicated holiday travel.
A carjacking at Ocean View Park left a man shot, run over, and in critical condition, the Castro Indian restaurant Bhoga is soon to close permanently, and Spare The Air days are in effect through the weekend, so no wood fires for your Christmas.
A pricey bureaucratic process that’s littered the national press with San Francisco jokes has come to an end, as a survey and pilot program has led SF Public Works to choose the Slim Silhouette as the city’s new public trash can design.
SFist held court with the royal tannenbaums known as the Tree Twins, and these two “firries” will be out enlightening San Francisco every night through December 24.
