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.
The six-acre Armsby Fire is now almost completely contained, Contra Costa fire crews are responding to a vegetation fire burning in Pittsburg, and plans to expand Castilleja School — an all-girls school in Palo Alto — have gotten city approval.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) reported it has administered 600 monkeypox vaccines to eligible residents who had close contact with someone who has monkeypox (suspected or confirmed) or working in proximity to the virus in a lab setting.
Several local high-end eateries have noticed an increase in one-star reviews being left online from different, often faceless accounts — which has greatly affected their ratings on Google — and some owners have even been emailed by online trolls, demanding money to stop posting the one-star reviews.
Newly appointed SF DA Brooke Jenkins's first meeting with staffers was allegedly quite "icy," Sunday Streets is coming to Valencia Street this weekend, and a 72-year-old Pittsburg woman with dementia and diabetes was safely found by local police.
CAL FIRE officials ordered evacuations Friday afternoon after a vegetation fire broke out off Armsby and Sleep Valley roads, SF's largest landlord is threatening to evict tenants organizing around new tenants' rights, and the Washburn Fire in Yosemite continues burning.
GM Cruise snafus have blocked SF streets with suddenly immobilized self-driving cars at least three times in the last two months, with one incident where almost 60 vehicles stopped, and another where Cruise “lost touch with its entire fleet.”
Cannabis culture is doubling down on the magic of 4/20 with its stoner sequel, the July 10th celebration 7/10 that concentrates on hash oil, extracts, shatter, and wax.
Elon Musk made his desire to withdraw from his bid to buy Twitter official Friday, sending a letter to the company's board and filing his intent to back out with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
San Francisco's queer community is following a trajectory similar to what unfolded a month ago in Berlin, with experts fearing that a wider outbreak of monkeypox could be afoot. But where are the vaccine supplies?
The famous clarity and blueness of Lake Tahoe has been slowly changing in recent years, thanks to a combination of erosion, litter, and of course wildfire smoke and ash.
Newly installed SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins will have her work cut out for her managing a transitional DA's Office, being perceived as tougher on crime than her predecessor, and also sticking to progressive ideals about incarceration. But she is starting to explain how she'll do that.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated, Breed’s newly appointed DA gave her first press conference, and the King Tides return to Bay Area shores on Monday.
Carlos Santana is recovering nicely after his onstage collapse, SFUSD spent $500,000 set aside for school improvements on that mural lawsuit, and the oldest surviving Magellanic penguin at the SF Zoo has passed away.
It’s a win for diversity in the DA’s office, but certainly raises quid quo pro questions, as Mayor London Breed will reportedly appoint the star of many anti-Boudin ads Brooke Jenkins as the new district attorney.
We've lost some LGBTQ spaces in recent years in SF, but now one bar that closed a full seven years ago is making a comeback — at least temporarily.
The latest Elon Musk drama shows he had two more babies with an executive at his company Neuralink, two weeks before the second Grimes baby arrived, and the executive who had his twins could now reportedly be in line to be CEO of Twitter.
The San Jose jury in the federal trial of former Theranos President Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani found Balwani guilty of 12 counts of fraud and conspiracy Thursday morning.
As you probably could have guessed without the census data to back it up, most of the people who fled San Francisco almost immediately after the pandemic began in 2020 were white people in their 20s.
Stop lighting San Francisco on fire please! The last thing we need this fire season is wildfire on our actual doorstep in SF proper, but we've had two of them, likely both caused by fireworks, in just the last two days.
