BART has had two major train issues during rush hour in the last day; a wealthy benefactor in LA kicked Eric Swalwell out of his house; and Snap Inc. is laying off 1,000 employees.
When SF’s organizers disavowed SantaCon in 2014 due to the chaos it brought the city every Christmas, one of the event’s organizers in NYC leaned into the chaos by forming a charity — at first to appease officials and then later to allegedly collect and divert funds for personal use.
It's hard to understand where Philz CEO Mahesh Sadarangani is coming from other than a place of fear and Trump-inspired bigotry, but in a confidential memo to employees he's apparently digging in on this Pride flag issue, controversy be damned.
Video that was posted to Reddit appears to show the moments before, during, and after a woman was killed near the intersection of Mission and South Van Ness on Monday.
Several California gubernatorial candidates attended two forums in Sacramento Tuesday where they discussed issues affecting Latino and Hispanic communities throughout the state. While one forum heavily discussed the Swalwell scandal, the other left him out of the discussion entirely.
An infant in San Francisco has contracted the measles virus and is infectious, according to the SF Department of Public Health, in the first known measles case in the city since 2019.
Anthropic's latest AI model, named Claude Mythos Preview, is capable of hacking into major banking systems, perhaps many at once, and doing massive damage if it fell into the wrong hands. Banks are being encouraged to test it out.
Well that's what you'd call a pivot. Allbirds, the once buzzy Silicon Valley shoe brand, is not going to make shoes anymore (though the brand may live on?), and instead it's going to become an AI company.
Eric Swalwell's seat in Congress, which he officially vacated on Tuesday, will remain empty until late summer, and now a special election date has been set.
BART had an early morning service disruption due to a disabled train in SF; the parents of the 20-year-old man who allegedly tried to firebomb Sam Altman's house speak out; and San Jose authorities begin clearing out "The Jungle" once again.
Billionaires Michael Moritz and Chris Larsen have donated $4 million to Mayor Lurie’s city charter reform measures; JD Vance says the pope should be more mindful when he discusses theology; and Contra Costa College in the East Bay is forgiving up to $1,000 in student debt.
A new episode of NBC’s ‘Dateline’ covers the case of Mountain View resident Alice Ku who disappeared while traveling in Taiwan in 2019 with her husband — the prime suspect, but loopholes surrounding his Canadian citizenship enabled him to avoid trial in the US and extradition to Taiwan.
Caltrans is doing ongoing construction on a section of I-80 through the middle of San Francisco, and a portion of eastbound I-80 will be completely closed for 55 hours this weekend, forcing motorists onto surface streets to get to the Bay Bridge.
It's another adult scavenger hunt, kids, and the prizes this time are worth a grand total of $50,000, if you're the first to solve the riddles and find the coins.
The Walnut Creek driver who’s accused of fatally striking a two-year-old child in a Mission Bay crosswalk in February was charged with vehicular manslaughter, and the city recently installed safety improvements at the intersection.
A fifth accuser has come forward with potential criminal charges against former Congressman Eric Swalwell, one day after he announced his resignation from the House, and two days after he suspended his bid for California governor.
The man who allegedly tossed a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's Russian Hill home last Friday was scheduled to make his first court appearance Tuesday on attempted murder and other charges.
A local startup that tests AI agents during real-world applications assigned an agent to create, stock, and staff a brick-and-mortar store in SF’s Cow Hollow on its own for under $100,000, and while it got the business up and running for opening day, it forgot to schedule staff.
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While it was initially believed that the driver of a pickup truck was the suspect who fatally struck a woman at Mission and South Van Ness in SF Monday, police later arrested the driver of a Mercedes who allegedly fled the scene with others in the car, including a child in a car seat.
Pac Heights just saw its most expensive home sale since 2024; one person died in a high-speed chase that ended in Gilroy; and this massive typhoon in the Pacific could be a sign of things to come this El Nino season.
Michael Moritz may be leasing the former Barney's building for his family foundation; a big rig overturned blocking southbound I-238 near Hayward; and Trump refuses to acknowledge that the AI image he posted depicts him as Jesus.
The implosion of the political career of Eric Swalwell, following 13 years in Congress, took only three days, and as of Monday afternoon he had announced his resignation from Congress.
A male pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle Monday in the busy area of South Van Ness and Mission Street, which led to a large police response and the disruption of vehicle and transit traffic.
As a state investigation into the matter continues, more individuals have been caught on film paying people $5 to forge signatures on petitions for various counter-measures to the Billionaire Tax initiative, and they’re now wearing ski masks and taking swings at reporters.
The notorious skateboard hill-bomb event that used to happen on Dolores Street next to Dolores Park, and which last year became a smaller, city-sanctioned event on Twin Peaks, inspired a new version at another location this past weekend.
