The prevalence of GPS-tracking devices on cars, in cellphones, and attached to various objects including car keys and wallets, means that victims of petty crime don't have to rely on the police to find out where a thief has gone off to with their belongings. But that's not necessarily a good thing.
Some progress in the troubling rash of freeway shootings in recent years, as the California Highway Patrol feels they’ve solved the cases of two separate freeway shootings, one near Lake Merritt, the other near Mount Diablo.
Being a San Francisco-basher gets you a lot of cred on Twitter (and Fox News) these days, as an Examiner columnist points out. But lots of people have been at this game for many years.
A 35-year-old San Francisco man was killed in a hit-and-run at about 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon, and an Oakland woman is in custody on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.
Officers from the SFPD's Taraval Station raided the home of a suspected meth dealer this week, arresting two individuals and seizing seven pounds of assorted narcotics and pills.
New and updated COVID vaccine boosters are coming in September, Moderna is now suing Pfizer for stealing its mRNA vaccine technology, and protesters continue to fight a plan to cull 100 geese from a flock in Foster City.
Paul Pelosi’s DUI Porsche is up for auction, the Castro Theatre's conversion into a concert hall took another hit, and 24,000 PG&E customers in the East Bay lost power in the late morning and early afternoon Thursday.
Berkeley Rep likely has another hit on its hands with a world-premiere musical that it has helped nurture since the pre-pandemic times, and Goddess seems assured to be another Broadway-bound show the theater can take credit for launching on its way.
Disgraced former SF Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday afternoon, with prosecutors saying, “Mr. Nuru can still be Mr. Clean on the outside” but “deeply corrupt on the inside.”
More than 50 units of housing have sat empty for two years on property that used to be the home of Hemlock Tavern, but they can now be occupied, as the Board of Appeals rules on a developer who said they were building apartments and then switched to condos.
Sausalito managed to clear a sprawling encampment in Marinship Park this month that had been growing more unsanitary and problematic over the last two years, but they did it via a court settlement that included cash payments.
A recent lawsuit highlighted the seemingly outrageous non-consensual use of sedatives on a protester. Turns out this is an everyday practice, and the SF Fire Department apparently does it two or three times a day.
After more than two years in which problems of vagrancy, vandalism, and petty crime have gotten only worse, Castro merchants say they're going to withhold taxes from the City of San Francisco if it doesn't address their concerns.
Longtime California statehouse and now Congressional figure Tom McClintock’s wife Lori died in December, and newly acquired coroner’s report findings suggest an odd mulberry leaf remedy was likely to blame, bringing scrutiny on the highly unregulated dietary supplement industry.
Say what you will about state Senator Senator Scott Wiener, he has been indisputably steadfast in his commitment to passing a bill extending last call at bars and nightclubs to 4 a.m. — even if it's just in SF and a couple of other cities.
A police chase tore through several parking lots and pedestrian walkways in the Western Addition yesterday afternoon, a paving patch on a Presidio Heights Slow Street is a hazard to cyclists, and another study has found SF's downtown recovery is the slowest in the country.
The SF Fire Department is investigating a string of dumpster fire arsons in SoMa and the Western Addition, Dreamforce is kicking off in a month and might be large-ish, and Senor Sisig's Ferry Building outpost opens Friday.
Five officers have already been charged with lurid sexual misconduct charges for exploiting incarcerated women at the Dublin federal correctional facility, and the ex-warden was just indicted on charges involving two more victims.
There's finally some movement over at The LINE hotel, in the condo-hotel building known also as Serif, and 950-974 Market Street — and we have some vague details about the rooftop bar/restaurant going in about a block away from Charmaine's.
The number of new monkeypox infections has been steadily declining for three weeks in San Francisco, leading the city's health officer to say she's "cautiously optimistic" that the city has turned a corner on the outbreak.
Some investigative reporting into District 4 supervisor candidate Leanna Louie prompted her to call a Jewish reporter “NAZI” on social media, which her opponent Gordon Mar says is “shockingly anti-Semitic.”
California is set to become the first state in the nation, and the first jurisdiction on the planet, to officially ban the sale of new gas-powered cars, starting in 2035 — thanks to a new rule from the California Air Resources Board.
For the first time in three years, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass will return to the western meadows of Golden Gate Park the weekend of September 30, and we now have the full lineup of artists and "Out of the Park" night shows.
A routine wellness check produced a grisly discovery in Petaluma Tuesday, as police found a woman had been living with her mother’s dead body in the house for more than a year.
Five suspects including to teens from San Francisco were arrested following alleged robberies and a pursuit in Petaluma, a VTA driver who threatened "shooting" is being forced to retire, and Biden is forgiving $10K in student loans!
