The California Department of Justice has launched a “fact-finding mission” into the Oakland Unified School District over its plan to close seven schools and merge two others, as the closures may violate students’ rights to equal access to education.
San Francisco is one of two West Coast cities that will, for the first time, be naming its first Drag Laureate — a local drag queen to serve as a city ambassador to and promoter of SF drag culture. And the Mayor's Office officially opened up applications for the position on Thursday.
Investigators in the East Bay city of Concord suspect foul play in the death of a person whose remains were found in a house that was likely set on fire Thursday evening.
One of the preeminent Bay Area sex work activists for nearly 50 years and the originator of the term “sex work” Carol Leigh, a.k.a. Scarlot Harlot, died of cancer Wednesday.
Thursday was another day of chaos at Twitter as Elon Musk continues his master class in how not to take over a company. And of course someone began projecting a scroll of insults directed at Musk on the side of Twitter headquarters.
The health officer in Los Angeles County is "strongly recommending" indoor masking as COVID surges again, Lisa Gillmor has won the Santa Clara mayor's race, and a very ill bear cub has come to the Oakland Zoo.
Elizabeth Holmes’s lawyers continue to beg for leniency, Ticketmaster is canceling Friday’s public sale of Taylor Swift tickets at Levi’s Stadium, and sex work activist Carol Leigh, popularly known as “Scarlot Harlot,” has died.
San Francisco got short shrift the last couple years when it's come to the James Beard Foundation Awards and Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants lists, but Esquire is still paying attention to our food scene.
A controversy over a postal worker killing a turkey that attacked delivery workers has gobbled up Sacramento Nextdoor, as a “drumstick gang” of wild turkeys has had tensions marinating for months.
The initially much-ballyhooed Tenderloin Center will be closing almost a month earlier than planned, and the first rigorous study on its effects found it did some good, but maybe not $22 million worth of good.
Elon Musk's erratic behavior and flippant comments since taking the helm as Chief Twit two weeks ago have some Twitter employees worried that he might be setting them up to fail — or that he might not follow through on his severance offer.
London Breed-appointed school board member Ann Hsu will be the only Breed appointee not reelected in last week’s election, as anti-recall candidate Alida Fisher has sealed the win with a more than 3,500-vote advantage.
A former Alameda County sheriff's deputy, one of two officers seen on video in San Francisco brutally beating a suspect with their batons in a widely publicized 2015 incident, saw the charges against him dismissed Thursday morning.
In what’s being criticized as a “deeply irresponsible and contemptible” publishing decision, the SF Examiner Wednesday front page depicted Supervisor Dean Preston with a bullseye target over his face, and the paper is now apologizing.
With only 479 more votes as of Wednesday's tabulation, District 4 supervisor candidate Joel Engardio has defeated incumbent Gordon Mar in an upset— signaling a potential shift in the balance of power on the SF Board of Supervisors.
In relatively brief remarks, but with some fanfare, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday to announce her retirement from leadership — but not from the House.
A wrong-way crash on Highway 4 in Pittsburg killed all five people involved, the Berkeley police union president is now on leave over a text scandal, and Nancy Pelosi is announcing "future plans" today in the House.
Seven people were injured when two Muni Metro trains collided in South Beach Wednesday, Matt Mahan is officially the new mayor of San Jose, and Kara Swisher says Elon Musk is... complicated.
It’s not surprising that the SF Board of Supervisors spent nearly five hours debating a state-mandated housing requirement that the city build 82,000 new housing units by 2031. What is surprising is that we might actually achieve the goal.
On Tuesday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed officially launched a first-of-its-kind program offering guaranteed monthly income to low-income trans residents of the city.
Did you lose money in the collapse of cryptocurrency firm FTX? Maybe you can get some of it back by suing Steph Curry and the Warriors, because there’s a class action lawsuit against them and other sports stars like Tom Brady who endorsed the now-worthless digital currency exchange.
You've got to be a special sort of cynic to want to represent Harvey Weinstein in court, and one shining gem of an attorney asked the wife of California's governor to fake an orgasm on the stand on Tuesday.
The suspected hitman who stands accused of pulling the trigger on Oakland dentist Lili Xu pleaded not guilty Wednesday, but prosecutors appear to be seeking a life sentence with no parole for the 33-year-old alleged killer Hasheem Bason.
An elderly property owner in Vallejo who was close to evicting some squatters got into an altercation with those squatters early Sunday morning in which he ended up with a sword through his chest and one of the squatters was fatally shot.
The state's property at the tip of the Panhandle in SF, currently home to the city's busy DMV field office, is a prime development site that's been discussed before — and Supervisor Dean Preston says the state should step up and "partner" with the city to allow it to become affordable housing.
