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.
The promised lawsuit has been filed, and among other things, Twitter is accusing would-be buyer Elon Musk of "refus[ing] to honor his obligations to Twitter and its stockholders because the deal he signed no longer serves his personal interests."
The latest paint job to the beloved boulder at the base of Bernal Heights Park is a message of abortion rights determination and resistance, as women’s liberties feel like they’re hitting rock-bottom in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision.
In a positive story of ecosystem restoration and climate resilience in Marin County, a former golf course was purchased by the nonprofit Trust for Public Land and is in the process of being devolved into its former state as a floodplain and wildlife habitat.
It's the first week of District Attorney Brooke Jenkins's tenure in the SF DA's Office, and she has told the staff she wants to review all still-unclosed plea offers — and she says she may reconsider drug cases in particular, regardless of a defendant's immigration status.
Paula Brien was last seen alive outside a SoMa bar in June 2001. Now SFPD is reopening the cold case of her killing, and offering $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of her killer.
A 1992 cold case in which a 25-year-old woman, Laurie Houts, was strangled to death in Mountain View has now led to a re-arrest of a prime suspect who was already tried twice for the crime, and the suspect is a Bay Area tech CEO who has been living abroad.
The emergency room at the Kaiser hospital in Santa Clara was the scene of a tense situation this morning, containment of the Washburn Fire has gone down slightly, and the White House has reaffirmed legal protection for emergency abortions.
A fatal shooting in Potrero Hill on Saturday was SF's 26th homicide of 2022, kids have been vandalizing schools in Richmond on their summer break, and SF Supervisor Matt Dorsey has COVID.
Things really went downhill at the notorious annual Dolores Hill Bomb skater celebration Saturday, and while it appears there were no human injuries, a passing Waymo self-driving car got mobbed, jumped on, and tagged.
The SFPD could get the power to live-monitor private security cameras all over town, including residential Ring and Nest doorbells, under a contentious new surveillance policy working its way through the Board of Supervisors.
Peet's Coffee & Tea has decided to join the bubble tea game, and Chronicle critic Soleil Ho would like to know why.
Another abuse-of-an-incarcerated-person scandal at the beleaguered Santa Rita jail brings a new lawsuit against Alameda County, after they jailed a man for not wearing a mask on AC Transit, then allegedly denied him his medication and he died behind bars.
A chilling new development in the case of missing 24-year-old Oakley woman Alexis Gabe, as police have found a handwritten letter from her suspected killer detailing where he planned to hide her body.
A 22-year-old woman was stabbed by a man or relative with whom she lives in Livermore on Sunday night, and the suspect reportedly tried to harm himself before being peacefully arrested by police.
Another fire — at least the fourth in the last several months — has broken out at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland, involving multiple RVs.
A UCSF doctor is proposing a floating abortion clinic in the Gulf of Mexico to skirt state bans, California is anticipating a surge of abortion patients, and a third person in two weeks has drowned in Lake Berryessa.
The Washburn Fire in Yosemite National Park measures over 1,800 acres as of Sunday afternoon — more than doubling in size from the day prior — and remains completely uncontained, extending ever so slightly now closer to Mariposa Grove... where some 500 mature giant sequoias are rooted.
