Following a year-long investigation and sting operation, Fremont police say that a recycling outfit called Arrow Recovery has been purchasing obviously stolen catalytic converters from thieves and recycling the rare and precious metals inside for profit.
The monkeypox vaccine supply has been refreshed in SF and the drop-in clinic is back open, state Sen. Scott Wiener is chairing a select committee hearing today on the crisis, and Hazie's is getting ready to open in Hayes Valley.
New Belgium Brewing has finally admitted that their proposed water park gambit in Napa was just a prank and publicity stunt, SF DA Brooke Jenkins made her candidacy official for November, and a protest over monkeypox vaccination delays and slow testing was happening at the SF federal building.
A 20-year East Bay favorite known for their all-day breakfast and sticker-covered bathrooms, retro diner Rudy’s Can't Fail Cafe suddenly announced Monday that they’re closing for good, without citing a reason.
On September 17, Hunter Pence will be honored on the Giant's Wall of Fame outside Oracle Park on King Street. Pence will be celebrated in an on-field ceremony during a series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Bay Area Book Festival scored a pretty big get with 40-time Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider hosting a Literary Pub Trivia night Tuesday, and there’s still time for you to register to compete.
A significant, 4.4M earthquake struck an area south of Topaz Lake Monday afternoon, with an epicenter very near that of a 5.9M quake that hit in July 2021.
There’s sure to be much gnashing of teeth at Thursday night’s first community meeting on the overhaul of the Castro Theatre, with the fate of its lower-floor seats, and whether the venue’s programming will still be LGBTQ-themed enough, still very unresolved issues.
The SFPD arrested three teenagers and one 20-year-old, all of whom were allegedly in possession of weapons, and seized seven guns, including one ghost-gun rifle in a raid last week.
A group of what appeared to be teenagers on bicycles, numbering around 200, took over the lower deck of the Bay Bridge on Saturday afternoon and biked their way into Oakland. A short while later, some East Oakland businesses reported that they were burglarized by a gang of about 200 bicyclists.
As the city now has nearly 450 confirmed monkeypox cases, we learn that the SFDPH is only contact tracing for a fraction of those cases, with one department email saying “Don’t want to say too much, or beg more questions.”
Coming off a sort of lackluster Saturday lineup, the final — extremely sunny — day of Outside Lands 2022 closed out the beloved Bay Area music festival with radiant performances from the likes of Amber Mark, Kim Petras, and Mitski, as well as a surprisingly decent set by Post Malone.
A pair of shootings came after a night of First Friday partying in Oakland's Uptown District, and one of the shootings, a drive-by on Broadway in the early morning hours of Saturday, left one person dead.
The drop-in monkeypox vaccination clinic at SF General reopens Tuesday, an arrest was made following an August 2 assault in SoMa on a well-known Asian community leader, and Congress is set to pass the nation's first climate-action bill.
A more low-key version of Niku Steakhouse is expected to open at 1725 Alameda Street, today’s the final day of OSL 2022, and large crowds gathered at Pacifica's Linda Mar Beach yesterday morning for the World Dog Surfing Championship.
In a needed jolt of excitement (and display of actual talent) after Jack Harlow's mediocre, tepid set, East Bay music royalty Green Day gave a thunderous performance that included pop-punk homages to hit songs, as well as unapologetic stances on hot-button political issues.
On the first day of Outside Lands 2022, a youngish crowd — made up of twentysomethings dressed in Coachella-appropriate regalia — convened at Golden Gate Park... where friendships were tested when choosing between the conflicting set times from SZA, Phoebe Bridgers, and Disclosure.
Is it weird or kind of nice that a music festival themes one of its cocktail concessions after LGBTQ civil rights and queer-bar nostalgia?
Over $60 rideshares are back for Outside Lands weekend, Santa Clara receives over 2,000 monkeypox vaccine units, and the San Francisco Zoo's resident female bald eagle, Sureshot, passed away earlier this week.
Stubhub will close its SF headquarters, don’t forget that SZA will grace the Lands End stage at Outside Lands tonight at 8:45 p.m., and the proposed Liberation Park Market Hall might come to East Oakland in the coming years — and include mostly Black and Brown businesses.
A 32-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two very young Ukiah boys went missing Wednesday, and the body of one of them was found dead on a set of train tracks.
It was 15 years ago this week when this image brought scandal onto then-Mayor Gavin Newsom's reelection campaign. SFist investigates whether the image is even real, and who might have been behind its release.
The bureaucracy of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the likely profit motives of one management company are once again running head-first into San Francisco politics and this city's chronic housing shortage.
A very Berkeley problem in Berkeley, as protesters have occupied People's Park to halt a development project, but the Alameda County Sheriff's Department is refusing to help clear them out, because the city of Berkeley won’t let them use tear gas.
Well, the fun hasn't stopped in Delaware's Chancery Court this week, with Elon Musk filing a fraud countersuit against Twitter, Twitter delaying its unsealing so they could respond and redact things.
