Two women were shot and one was seriously injured on 23rd Street in the Mission Monday evening, the Valero refinery in Benicia will be flaring this week, and a van crashed through a CVS store in downtown Oakland.
SF's school board may not make two Muslim holidays no-school days after all, UCSF's Dr. Peter Chin-Hong says the pandemic is not over just because Biden says so, and ACT's Geary Theater has been renamed after longtime board member Toni Rembe.
The old “marijuana pee test” will soon be effectively a thing of the past in California, as Gavin Newsom just signed a law saying cannabis users cannot be fired from their jobs over enjoying their marijuana off-the-clock.
The longtime proprietor of a free-to-the-public, extra-hot hot tub behind a home on Essex Street in Berkeley was found dead by a hot tub patron over the weekend, and it appears he died doing what he loved, soaking in the tub.
All traffic court late fees from before July 1, 2022 have just been wiped out, and capped at $100 for any fees since then, as a new state law just eliminated tons of late fees on traffic fines.
There has been some dramatic testimony in the ongoing trial of Paul and Ruben Flores, who stand accused in the 1996 murder of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, including from two women who say they were assaulted by Paul Flores in the last 15 years.
There were two homicides in San Francisco between Sunday night and early Monday morning in two separate incidents in the Fillmore and in the Tenderloin.
Barring further, unforeseen variants, COVID-19 may finally be relegated to still-sometimes-deadly seasonal nuisance — now that President Biden proclaimed that "the pandemic is over," and now that our own UCSF soothsayer Dr. Bob Wachter is ready to go back to indoor dining.
The “Dateline”-y saga of Sherri Papini came to a close in a U.S. District Court Monday morning, as her 2016 kidnapping hoax netted her a year and a half behind bars, which is more than twice the sentence the prosecutors were seeking.
We are officially back in the Jimmy Garoppolo era, as quarterback of the future Trey Lance is done for the year with a broken ankle, and Jimmy G was in playoff form as the Niners beat Seattle by 20 points.
There were massive delays and a fair bit of chaos in the BART system on Sunday, with some "equipment failures" that happened to coincide with the first rain storm to hit the Bay Area in months.
A Sunday homicide in the East Bay was likely linked to road rage, President Biden declares the "pandemic is over," and rain is going to continue sporadically around the Bay Area the next couple of days.
Rallying together to advocate for better pay, a group of food workers at SFO convened outside Terminal 3 on Friday afternoon, where they were joined by SF and state politicians; many of them were arrested later for blocking traffic.
While downtown San Francisco probably won't beat its daily record for rainfall today — 2.01" of rain fell on September 18th in 1959 — many parts of the SF Bay Area will receive precipitation totals that far exceed their historical averages for this month.
Dog Eared Books' 30th birthday celebration is today, San Francisco has (again) struck down a plan to repurpose an empty parking lot into housing units, and the Mosquito Fire is now 34% contained — a massive improvement from yesterday.
BART acknowledged that the massive delays Friday in downtown Oakland were due to a person being struck on the railroad tracks. It was later confirmed a motorcyclist was involved in a crash and then fell onto the tracks — before being hit by an oncoming train.
The Mosquito Fire in Placer County has burned over 71,000 acres as of Saturday morning, SF is getting 10,000 more monkeypox vaccines, and three people were rescued from the surf at China Beach Friday.
A four-alarm vegetation fire caused home damage along I-580 this afternoon, someone was struck by a BART train today, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held yesterday at the reopened (and upgraded) Castro-Mission Health Center.
Nancy Pelosi had agreed to step down as Speaker of the House in 2022, a promise she’s since backed off from. But some top Democrats say she doesn’t have the votes to stay on, even if Democrats manage to keep the House.
Ray of Light Theatre’s new production of the Tony-winning “Kinky Boots” is one of the best shows the Victoria Theatre has had in years, with boot-strapped but ambitious sets that take that stage to new heights.
You SF taxpayers paid big money for those sleek new stainless steel (and very pricey) trash can prototypes, so you might as well get your money’s worth and try ‘em all in these final seven days of the feedback period.
This weekend’s great gig in the sky is “The Dark Side of the Circus,” which mashes “The Wizard of Oz” into Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon,” but with juggling, acrobats, and pole dancing.
A June electrical fire inside the long-delayed Central Subway system was a lot more dangerous than we’d realized at the time, and its aftermath may push the Central Subway’s opening out to 2023 — a full five years past its original opening date.
The body of 33-year-old chef and restaurant owner Joette Marie Smith was found floating, caught on a tree limb in the San Lorenzo River in Ben Lomond, in Santa Cruz County, on March 29, 1983.
Local meteorologists are getting very jazzed about this rare September rain system coming our way, thanks to Typhoon Merbok, and this won't be any mere sprinkling.
