Sadly, San Francisco's gayborhood is preparing for the worst this New Year's Eve following a deadly mass-shooting in Colorado Springs — the second mass shooting in the U.S. in six years to target the LGBTQ community specifically.
We are now learning that a Thanksgiving Day multi-car crash that injured nine people is being blamed on a Tesla in “full self-driving” mode, as the Tesla reportedly came to an abrupt stop after a lane change, causing a chain-reaction pileup in the Yerba Buena tunnel.
An assault that allegedly took place last week on Haight Street has been deemed a hate crime by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, and the suspect has now been charged.
Hoping to “bank” another victory in the annual SF Fire station holiday decorations contests, a Potrero Hill fire station hauled in 15 cubic yards of snow from the Sierra mountains to embellish their display and give local kids a real white Christmas.
It's that time of year again, when the high tides are extra high and the low tides are extra low around the Bay Area, and this weekend is when you'll see the water splashing higher than it usually does in many spots.
There have only been a few handfuls of flight cancellations so far at Bay Area airports due to the Midwest storm, a 3.3M earthquake in the East Bay caused BART delays Wednesday night, and a Fremont carjacking leads to a serious injury crash.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a powerful speech before Congress; Oakland has reinstated its mask mandate for government buildings; and Tesla is reportedly planning layoffs.
Retiring Alameda County DA Nancy O’Malley tried to direct $20 million out incoming DA Pamela Price’s budget and into a set of her own pet nonprofits and projects, but she’s withdrawn that request after blowback.
The six-episode docuseries about the father-and-daughter team behind House of Nanking and Fang is coming to the Food Network next week, as ‘Chef Dynasty: House of Fang’ goes behind the scenes with one of SF’s premier Chinese food families.
In the Bay Area, there's growing support, both among developers and consumers, for a new generation of mom-and-pop eateries as opposed to ubiquitous corporate chains. Chase Center might exemplify this trend.
SF Giants fans are getting a lump of free agency coal this holiday season, as the team backed out of its blockbuster $350 million deal with All-Star shortstop Carlos Correa, and then Correa promptly bolted to the Mets.
There’s another mountain lion rescue and hopeful recovery underway at the Oakland Zoo, as a young mountain lion cub found abandoned in freezing temperatures is recovering at the zoo from hypothermia.
At some point in 2023, the iconic Transamerica Pyramid is set to emerge from a $250 million renovation, with new public amenities at its base, including restaurants and a revamped redwood park.
A provision in the government funding package working its way through Congress ahead of a December 23 deadline would provide added security to former Speakers of the House — just in time for Nancy Pelosi to step down from the speakership.
A two-alarm fire burned through a three-story residential building in Noe Valley early Wednesday, causing significant damage and displacing five adults, two children, and two family pets — though no one was injured in the blaze.
The lights are still off for thousands of homes and businesses in Humboldt County after Tuesday's quake; Elon Musk's security team is sought for questioning in SoCal incident; and the Oakland chapter of NAACP still wants the city to pay for a mayor's race recount.
Prominent SF landlord Victor Makras managed to avoid jail time for bank fraud, Oakland college Holy Names University is closing after 154 years, and North Beach’s Condor Club is officially the first strip club on the SF Legacy Business Registry.
The 259th pick of the 2022 NFL Draft is now “the miracle worker” phenom Brock Purdy, and as such, the 49ers team shop is fresh out of his No. 13 jersey for which the team did not anticipate such overwhelming demand.
This six-month-old pupper Polaris was abandoned at SFO back in September, but an airline pilot and his family have taken the dog in, after dozens of United Airlines employees clamored to adopt the puppy.
A judge on Tuesday denied convicted wife-murderer Scott Peterson a new trial, so pending any further appeals, we may not need to hear from Peterson again, at least for a while.
An $8.1 billion investment every year for the next 12 years could end homelessness in California, according to a new analysis that says pandemic-era levels of spending sustained over more than a decade would house everyone who needs housing.
After 57% of respondents in a Twitter poll on Sunday told Elon Musk he should step down as Chief Twit, he seems to be following through — though how quickly a new CEO could be in place is anyone's guess.
Two adults were killed and three people were injured Monday night, including two children, when a Jeep carrying the group plummeted 300 feet down a ravine off a dirt road near Cazadero, in west Sonoma County.
A community meeting in the Western Addition addressed growing issues on the street, a local food bank is seeking donations this week, and California is facing a $24 billion budget shortfall next year.
![[UPDATE] 6.4M Earthquake Rocks Humboldt County, Injuring 11, Leading to Two Deaths and Widespread Damages](https://img.sfist.com/2022/12/ferndale-earthquake-12-22.jpg)
A significant earthquake jolted the community of Ferndale in Humboldt County early Tuesday — one year to the day of a similar-sized quake in the area — and damages are still being assessed as at least 100,000 residents are in the dark without power.
