A major injury crash in Sonoma County briefly shut down 101 today, Gov. Gavin Newsom was in SF signing a package of laws aimed at boosting housing production, and SF is dealing with a backlog of COVID rent-relief applications and is stopping taking new ones.
Gavin Newsom is happy to rub Elon Musk’s face in how many billions of dollars Tesla has taken in state subsidies, declaring there is “no Tesla without California.”
There was a school shooting Wednesday in the Eastmont Hills neighborhood of Oakland, the details of which are still coming in — but we know that at least six students or staff were injured.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent trips to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Armenia are being seen as a “swan song” among prognosticators, potentially capping a historic four congressional terms as Speaker of the House.
The white plastic has come down and the renovated Japanese Tea Garden debuted Wednesday in Golden Gate Park, though there’s still another year of stonemason and landscaping work until the job is complete.
SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is taking another tough-on-drug-crime stance ahead of the November election that will determine if she keeps the job, stating that her office will pursue murder charges if and when they link a fentanyl dealer to an overdose death.
A Chico man has been charged with forgery and identity theft after prosecutors determined he had been impersonating his dead roommate in order to collect his U.S. Navy retirement benefit checks.
A coalition of the Coalition on Homelessness, the ACLU, and a handful of unsheltered people have brought a U.S. District Court lawsuit against San Francisco, hoping to halt encampment sweeps under the claim that they are unconstitutional on several levels.
A smallish Wednesday morning earthquake rattled the area of the Alameda-Santa Clara county border, and it was measured at 3.4-magnitude by the USGS.
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A standoff ensued Tuesday evening and into Wednesday at a Nordstrom Rack in Pleasant Hill after police pursued a wanted rape suspect to the area, and he managed to keep himself hidden in the store for over 12 hours.
Police are seeking a suspect who allegedly swung an axe at a Muni driver near Van Ness and California, a carjacking suspect tried to carjack an off-duty SFPD officer's car, and Elizabeth Holmes may succeed in getting her sentencing delayed.
A Tuesday morning shooting in Oakland’s Brookfield Village left one man dead and another injured, we have a video tour from inside the infamous Painted Lady fixer-upper, and the trove of city officials Mayor Breed demanded undated resignation letters from has become public.
Eight-year-old restaurant Causwells in the Marina District just closed for a two-week remodel and a revamp of its entire menu, and while there is still that popular cheeseburger, there's some more adult stuff to find there as they reopen Tuesday night.
An unexpected snag straight from a Looney Tunes cartoon has held up the renewed clearing of West Oakland's Wood Street encampment, as Caltrans reportedly managed to hit a moving Amtrak train while bagging and tagging unsheltered people’s tents and structures.
Meta/Facebook says that it has discovered and removed "the largest and most complex Russian-origin operation" to influence social media users since the war in Ukraine began, as well as a separate, smaller, more inept campaign out of China.
A 19-year-old whose reckless driving was implicated in the death of a 28-year-old Oakland man and injuries to his family members has been charged with felony vehicular manslaughter.
Security video indicates it may have been the same group of thieves who hit a Marina District garage three times in one night last week, and on the third trip, they made off with a car.
Local tourism industry officials are crowing over the most lucrative week they’ve had in a couple years, and while every weekend won’t have this many events, there is optimism for a booming holiday season.
If you're trying to make sense of the state of American politics right now, I don't suggest trying to square this with your understanding of who plays for what team.
A car fire along I-580 near Edwards Avenue quickly spread to nearby brush and grew to four alarms Monday evening, an SFFD truck caused some damage to parked cars, and Hurricane Ian is bearing down on western Florida.
One arrest has been made in a double homicide in Hayward, federal officials have seized a PG&E utility pole where the Mosquito Fire began, and Supervisor Aaron Peskin is apologizing for some "inelegant" comments about supervisor candidate Honey Mahogany.
It was surely the wrong call for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s advance bookers to schedule her giving a speech to a crowd that was waiting to see Metallica, and the expected chorus of boos rained down on her as a result.
Marlena, the Bernal Heights restaurant that won over Michelin inspectors after making a mid-pandemic debut in the summer of 2020, has just reopened after closing earlier this year for a remodel.
Apparently being appointed to a city commission by Mayor London Breed required you to sign an advance letter of resignation, should she ever become displeased with you. She says she’ll end the practice, now that it has leaked and investigations are underway.
San Francisco's homicide count just rose by two following an assault that proved deadly on Third Street in the Bayview, and a fatal stabbing in Hallidie Plaza.
