A wildfire grew to 22 acres near the Altamont Pass Sunday afternoon; there were multiple big sideshows around San Jose Saturday night; and World Cup fans swarmed Levi's Stadium for the first match there between Qatar and Switzerland.
On Friday, a rare joint release from two California counties confirmed that 31-year-old Myung Jin Kim was arrested in Laos and extradited back to California earlier this week to face prosecution in Santa Clara and Orange County in relation to two unsolved fatal shootings from the past decade.
On Saturday morning, 49ers All-Pro pass rusher Aldon Smith was found unresponsive in the front passenger seat of his pickup truck by a friend in Los Gatos. Less than an hour later, the former No. 7 overall NFL draft pick in 2011 was declared dead at San Jose's Good Samaritan Hospital. He was 36.
A car crash in San Jose left one dead and three injured after the driver reportedly ran a red trying to evade police, Vallejo's Six Flags Discovery Kingdom suffers power outage, and beloved film critic Gene Shalit dies at 100.
On Friday, a vigil was held at the Castro's Jane Warner Plaza in remembrance of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida that left 49 people dead a decade ago.
Officials with the SJPD’s Homicide Unit released a statement following a fatal stabbing at a North San Jose apartment complex late Thursday night that left one woman dead and another man injured. Authorities now allege that the unidentified male at the scene was responsible and knew the victim.
SFFD mounts a daring overnight rescue of hiker trapped at Land's End; baby penguins arrive at SF Zoo; and SF Giants pitcher Landen Roupp reps a bible verse for Pride.
UC Berkeley gardeners discover body in bushes on campus; SFPD fears a rise in Pokemon card robberies; and "Last Black Man in San Francisco" director Joe Talbot drops a new ad for his favorite city.
A-list actor Colman Domingo recently reflected on meeting his husband through a rom-com–worthy “Missed Connections” encounter in Berkeley, as well as on his younger days living in SF in the 90s.
It's a week that has seen three high-profile closure announcements as well as fire-caused closure at Che Fico, but on the brighter side, Esme is now softly open on Divis, and we have more in This Week In Food.
A month after Trump told China's leader that Americans were spying “like hell” on the country, a scholar at UC Berkeley, who fled Myanmar in the '90s, was arrested in China on suspicion of espionage.
A more compact and pleasant-sounding alternative to the ear-splitting vuvuzela has arrived, thanks to a group of enterprising engineering students at Diablo Valley College in the East Bay.
One person died and four others were injured in a fiery crash Thursday night just after midnight, in between SF's Dogpatch and Potrero Hill neighborhoods.
Chef-owner David Nayfeld said in a social media video Friday morning that Divisadero hot spot Che Fico, which had a fire in a chimney flue Thursday, suffered some damage and will have to close for an indeterminate period of time.
Fortunately no one was injured when a one-million-square-foot Tracy warehouse owned by a medical supply distributor was rapidly engulfed in flames Thursday, after a fire broke out on the roof and caused it to collapse.
![[Update] Suspect Killed, Two SF Police Officers Injured After Being Struck By Vehicle on Nob Hill](https://img.sfist.com/2026/06/sfpd-cruiser-car-side-union-sq-getty-1.jpg)
A strange incident was being reported on Nob Hill Friday morning in which three pedestrians, including two SFPD officers, were struck by a Lexus, and one person was reportedly pinned under the vehicle.
Two people were shot and wounded near Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda Thursday night; two women who were likely sleeping on a Santa Cruz beach were swept into the ocean by a rising tide; and more women describe sexual harassment and worse inside Cesar Chavez's farmworker movement.
A giant Musk inflatable flew over NYC’s Times Square Thursday; a local nurse and TikTok creator was identified as the victim in a fatal shooting in downtown Oakland; and free Wi-Fi is now available at all of SF’s BART stations ahead of the World Cup.
After putting the larger BUILD Act proposal on hold, which would have cut transfer taxes in half on property sales above $10 million, Mayor Lurie and Supervisor Mahmood are pursuing a commercial foreclosure tax that’s initially expected to generate $67 million a year.
![[Update] One-Alarm Fire In Chimney Flue Damages Che Fico](https://img.sfist.com/2026/06/che-fico-bldg-fire.jpg)
San Francisco firefighters were battling a one-alarm blaze Thursday afternoon which broke out just before 4 pm, with black smoke seen billowing from the vicinity of the restaurants Che Fico and Foghorn Taproom.
Jollibee's much-anticipated Market Street location was nearing the end of San Francisco's years-long, draconian permitting process when a noise compliance issue surfaced, throwing yet another wrench into the company's already delayed opening plans.
The leader of a cultish religious group partly based in Oroville, in Butte County, was recently convicted of eight counts of child molestation and three counts of rape, and he's now been sentenced to 225 years to life — though he will be eligible for "elder parole."
Following legislation signed by Mayor Daniel Lurie, the city accepted $14.5 million in private funding from SF’s Downtown Development Corporation to push forward the long overdue revitalization of the Powell Street corridor.
There are many ways you can watch the World Cup matches at home or with friends, with the first matches being played today in Mexico, and Team USA playing its first match against Paraguay in Los Angeles on Friday.
A search is underway for an unidentified young woman who called to request a late checkout for the suspect in the OpenAI firebomb attack in April, and the SFPD thinks she may be a co-conspirator.
