Newly installed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says that airports in sanctuary cities shouldn't have the privilege of processing international passengers, if they don't want to cooperate with ICE and Border Patrol.
There is probably an editor over at the Chronicle who thinks that making the Top 100 a ranked list is controversial and fun, sparking conversation and argument. But it's actually just deeply misguided and insulting to chefs. Period.
A five-year-old boy drowned in Lake Shasta Monday; a fuel spill shut down all southbound lanes of I-880 in Oakland this morning; and a 53-year-old suspect has pleaded not guilty to $225K in copper wire thefts on the Peninsula.
SF police are issuing citations to cyclists who blow red lights and such; the city is about to lose 450 shelter beds in the Tenderloin; and Trump escalated his war rhetoric against Iran even further today.
New details from last year’s fatal police chase in East Oakland revealed that police may have treated Marvin Boomer’s girlfriend Nina Woodruff, who was also a bystander seriously injured in the crash, as a suspect and failed to give her treatment at the scene.
SF Mayor Daniel Lurie began making layoffs this week, as promised, in order to address the city's ongoing budget woes, and over 100 workers across 18 departments got their layoff notices Monday.
The other festive, SF-specific Easter Sunday tradition besides the Hunky Jesus Contest in Dolores Park is of course the Bring Your Own Big Wheel race down the actual crookedest street, Vermont Street.
A historic streetcar got T-boned by a San Francisco fire truck Monday morning, and it's unclear how the crash happened or whether anyone was injured.
San Francisco police, looking to show off the drone technology that has been helping them to make arrests without engaging in unsafe chases, just released drone video of one recent pursuit and arrest.
The first three months of 2026 were significantly more murderous in San Francisco than the same three months a year earlier. There was, in fact, a 250% uptick in homicides, year over year, and SF Police Chief Derrick Lew is trying to emphasize that other types of crime remain down.
The family of Katherine Kerwood, a 21-year-old woman from the UK who landed at SFO for a solo tour of Northern California last Tuesday, are searching for her whereabouts after her phone went silent Friday and they learned she never checked into her hostel when she landed.
It was a warm and sunny Easter Sunday in San Francisco, and once again the northern half of Dolores Park was elbow-to-elbow and blanket-to-blanket with spectators for the annual Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contests.
BART had some delays Sunday night due to an equipment problem and smoke situation at Embarcadero Station; there were two non-fatal shootings in SF on Saturday; and Trump has endorsed Steve Hilton for CA Governor.
People are hiking two miles up Mount Tam for a pancake breakfast; a Berkeley High graduate is awaiting a heart transplant in LA; and a woman was convicted for assaulting two social workers serving free coffee at an SRO.
The historic Camron-Stanford House on Oakland’s Lake Merritt, which has been closed since its lease expired in 2024, was damaged in a fire early Saturday, but firefighters were able control the blaze in less than an hour.
A man dubbed the “Rideshare Rapist” was recently convicted on 11 felony counts by an SF jury in the assaults of four women from 2013 to 2018, in which prosecutors say he posed as their rideshare driver then kidnapped and raped them.
San Quentin is at risk of losing its arts programming; Senator Tammy Duckworth says travelers should be told to take their shoes off during security again after it was revealed TSA scanners can’t effectively screen shoes; and there’s a very fuzzy emotional support cow in Sebastopol.
A fifth dead whale has turned up in the bay in three weeks; a cargo fire broke out at SFO Friday; and Dolores Park is sure to be packed with fans enjoying Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s Easter festivities Sunday, most notably the famous Hunky Jesus Contest.
As San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder remains on a mental health leave from the Board of Supervisors, her office is reportedly at the center of an investigation into the leak of a confidential memo from the City Attorney's Office.
Mayor Lurie is set to visit two of San Francisco’s “sister cities,” Shanghai and Seoul, later this month as part of a tour promoting tourism through SF’s arts and culture, and he said there’s been talk of bringing pandas back to the SF Zoo.
The Mess Hall at the Presidio Tunnel Tops is nearing an opening; Parasol at Flore has softly opened in the Castro, at least for breakfast/lunch; and Causwells expands to the Peninsula, all in This Week in Food.
President Trump has, in fact, allocated $152 million in taxpayer money in his proposed budget to fund the first year of "project expenses" for his asinine, entirely impractical, and likely-to-be-abandoned plan to reopen Alcatraz as a prison, because he thinks it's a neat idea.
Clipper’s 2.0 upgrade in December went badly, and riders continue to face technical issues, with only 1.5 million users successfully transitioning to the new system so far out of 15 million.
Three arrests have been made and authorities are reportedly still looking for the criminal or criminals in charge of a crypto theft ring that allegedly plotted "wrench attacks" on multiple holders of cryptocurrency fortunes on the West Coast.
A new report by an avalanche education organization describes in detail the events of February 17, and the avalanche conditions that were present as a group of 11 skiers and four guides headed on a dangerous route out of the back country near Donner Summit.
