There's no better way to end a successful night of bar hopping than taking a trip to Bob's Donuts — the 62-year-old fried dough institution that holds a special place in any San Franciscan's heart. For the first time, the celebrated donut shop is now opening two new locations outside of SF.
PG&E shutoffs around the Bay Area are still possible Saturday, a wayward sea lion decided to climb atop a CA State Parks car this week, and a thief made off with thousands of dollars in jewelry at Mabel Chong Jewelry in SF Wednesday.
Snap Inc. is closing its massive 33,000-square-foot office in San Francisco, a man was fatally struck Thursday afternoon by a freight train near Berkeley’s Aquatic Park, and Old Devil Moon will shutter for good in November.
A much-ballyhooed Instacart IPO has been put on the shelf, as tech companies that boomed during the pandemic are now suffering a cruel correction.
The Mercedes-Benz that was found buried on the property of the late Johnny Lew, an ex-felon whom neighbors knew as "a crook" when he lived there in the 1990s, was apparently reported stolen in Palo Alto exactly 30 years ago.
It must be almost Meowvember, because it's apparently time for another round of media attention to one of San Francisco's most beloved subspecies of pet: the corner store cat.
Musk’s Twitter takeover is largely financed by Saudi and Qatari money, and given Musk’s curious pro-Putin turn, national security officials are wondering what these international oligarchs might be getting in return here.
PG&E on Friday issued a heads-up that the power may be going out in parts of northern Napa and Sonoma counties, as well as nine other counties, due to some high winds in the forecast this weekend.
Some meth binges in the North Bay are going to have to be cut short because authorities just arrested a guy and seized a massive stash of crystal that was surely headed for the street.
A former contractor at San Quentin Prison used the personal information of multiple inmates to pull in $145,000 worth of fraudulent EDD benefits over a two-year period, and one of the identities she used was that of Scott Peterson.
Some serious intrigue began Thursday when some landscapers working at a property in Atherton unearthed a car buried four to five feet deep in the yard — and it's not yet clear whether there may be a body in it.
A school bus in San Jose struck and killed a man on an electric scooter, SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins walked out of a debate last night amid a protest, and Stockton serial killer Wesley Brownlee allegedly used a ghost gun in his killings.
Elon Musk is claiming he’s going to lay off 75% of Twitter staff, Stow Lake might get renamed, and the flagship Boba Guys shop fired nearly all of its employees over some apparent interpersonal drama.
Submitted for your approval… 13 spooky Halloween weekend attractions in SF and the grave beyond for haunted houses, fiendish drag queens, spooky nights out, and family-friendly pumpkin patch spirits.
A man was fatally shot Monday night near Powell Street Station and Union Square, in a rare incident for the popular area.
Did you know that there are actually tens of thousands of housing units, rentals included, that are sitting empty on any given day for one of a variety of reasons, and that putting even a fraction of these into service as supportive housing could solve the homeless problem overnight?
One of the most prominent funders of all three big recall campaigns is now the MAGA movement’s San Francisco money man, and David Sacks is also on a curious kick preaching that Ukraine needs to surrender to Putin.
MPX (monkeypox) cases are still being recorded in the city of San Francisco, but the rate is down to less than one per day — and the Department of Public Health seems pleased.
This has been a big week for tech conferences and celebrity sightings in San Francisco, and Wednesday brought both comedian-turned-venture-capitalist Kevin Hart and royal-turned-entrepreneur Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.
Your Thursday morning BART commute may have been disrupted for a noble cause, as the biggest earthquake drill of the year, the Great ShakeOut, is happening across California and the whole world.
Some people in SF and the East Bay heard the booming of fireworks, and some had the pleasure of watching an impromptu show over Treasure Island Wednesday night. But what holiday was this for?
UC Berkeley has hired private security to patrol around dorms following a shooting, California may be losing its share of IPOs and startups, and Mayor London Breed gave an apology for comments she made about Hondurans.
Servers at Noka Ramen in Jack London Square happened to be dressed as Power Rangers when they intervened in an attack last week, Noe Valley's public-restroom party was canceled, and SF is surprisingly not the city with the most dogs, or even close?
After January 6 footage leaked last week showing Nancy Pelosi vowing to punch Donald Trump on the day of the Capital riot, Pelosi pulled no punches in gleefully defending the remark.
Originally billed as a ‘meth sobering center’ and then simply as a ‘drug sobering center,’ the new facility SoMa Rise is raising tensions among neighbors who think it’s only making the area near Seventh and Howard Streets worse.
