Muni basically stopped enforcing fare violations during the pandemic, issuing merely 325 citations during a two-year period. Yet they still employed 43 fare inspectors full-time, which seems perhaps a waste of money?
What looks to be a brazen stolen goods fencing operation, with items that sure appear straight lifted from shelves of Walgreens and CVS, was allegedly netting one San Francisco man $500,000 a year as he just resold the stolen loot online.
According to wastewater testing in the Bay Area, the amount of COVID virus in circulation in July is up at levels not seen since January — the numbers just aren't being reflected in official case counts because no one is getting PCR-tested.
A Muni bus and a pickup truck were in a crash on Haight Street this morning, a San Francisco firefighter was injured falling down an elevator shaft in Sea Cliff, and the SF school board is holding a special meeting this weekend.
A brush fire shut down BART’s Antioch trains for an hour and half today, a speeding driver perished in an accident they caused in Antioch this morning, but the East Bay love was in full effect as Raising Cane’s opened in Oakland to hours-long lines.
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A persistent and often problematic encampment community in West Oakland is starting to be aggressively cleared this week, but the operation seems heavier on law enforcement and bulldozing than transitional housing services.
A new suit just filed in SF County Superior Court has 550 women claiming they were “kidnapped, sexually assaulted, sexually battered, raped, falsely imprisoned, stalked, harassed, or otherwise attacked” by their Uber drivers, and the law firm claims another 150 more women may join the suit.
There was much talk in the restaurant industry throughout the pandemic about how the restaurant business was broken, how kitchen staff in particular have historically been mistreated and underpaid, and how things would need to change if restaurants wanted to staff up again.
Realtors are popping a little less Champagne, and buyers are no longer offering hundreds of thousands over asking price, as home prices are dropping notably in SF, Oakland, and especially San Jose.
A double-decker tour bus went up in flames Wednesday night, apparently while traveling south on 101 out of the city, and when CHP arrived on the scene the driver was nowhere to be found.
A woman was shot and injured early Thursday morning while sitting near the intersection of 16th and Mission streets.
Netflix has now committed to an ad-supported, lower-cost subscription package with Microsoft handling the ads, in an effort to boost the company's bottom line and lure back some customers.
A vegetation fire that broke out Wednesday evening in Benicia grew to 100 acres before being contained, Twitter saw a brief outage this morning, and experts are saying the BA.5 wave could get much bigger.
The SF Dept. of Public Health has closed its vaccination clinic at SF General until new monkeypox supplies arrive, Elizabeth Holmes's sentencing has been delayed, and the SF Board of Supervisors has expanded a Bayview park project.
The 14 "liveaboard" residents of the South San Francisco Oyster Cove Marina were offered a $10,000 relocation fee — but only if they agreed to leave within two weeks.
Fans of the board game Ticket to Ride who are also residents of/fans of San Francisco will likely be excited by the new SF edition, which comes complete with cable-car and ferry routes.
A vehicle fire in Cloverdale caused a bit of panic Wednesday afternoon as Sonoma County braces for another dramatic fire season still ahead.
Hospitalizations continue rising, driven by the May and June surge of Omicron variants in the Bay Area and beyond. And case counts, though unreliable, still paint a picture of continued or accelerating surging.
A bizarre alcohol-themed amusement park proposal called Voodoo Ranger IPA Action Park claims it’s “Coming Soon to Napa,” and residents are already organizing against it, though the whole thing may just be a sudsy publicity stunt.
Town Fare Cafe, the restaurant at the Oakland Museum of California, isn't exactly new. But it's been remade twice now under different chefs, and the latest iteration debuts today with a menu of Southern classics and new-school cocktails, and a brand new patio.
An Oakland man celebrating his birthday near 19th Street and Telegraph Avenue had his evening end tragically, and was fatally shot at about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
229 Bay Area Tesla workers are getting laid off, new SF DA Brooke Jenkins took a walking tour of the Tenderloin and vowed a crackdown, and the Upper Haight is found to be the neighborhood with the highest concentration of Airbnbs.
City Attorney David Chiu has won a $58 million settlement from opioid manufacturers, Gavin Newsom is off to Washington, D.C. to build his national profile, and regulatory trouble is forcing Laguna Honda to cut more than 100 beds.
The monkeypox developments are coming in disturbingly quickly, so the SF AIDS Foundation is holding a virtual town hall tonight to unpack the new landscape, and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman has had it with the CDC foot-dragging.
Senator Josh Hawley thought he had a gotcha question for Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges, but he ended up getting got, as her rhetorical savvy left him speechless and embarrassed.
