The Bay Bridge has doubled as a stage for many odd scenes as of late, including a traffic jam caused by a detached mobile restroom that looked like one of SF's Painted Ladies. And this week, the 4.5-mile bridge saw a motorcycle fly off it, sinking somewhere in the SF Bay.
Grizzly bears in California have been locally extinct for now almost a century, the Castro's decades-old "The Hope For The World Cure" mural was recently restored, and enjoy this two-day spat of mild weather — because temperatures will grow hotter starting Monday.
SF's largest Filipino night market will come back in October, East Oakland got a new Black-owned graphic design business, and an extension that would connect a bullet train link between SF and the Central Valley was approved by California’s High-Speed Rail Authority board Thursday.
A newly discovered security exploit is already taking over iPhones, iPads, and other Apple devices in the wild, and Apple people should drop everything and get the latest software update.
One internment camp specifically for "enemy aliens" was on San Francisco property, set up in 1942 next to a municipal golf course just south of the city proper.
Disgraced former SF Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru is set to be sentenced next week, and in newly filed court documents, federal prosecutors refer to him as a "quintessential grifter" whose schemes as a city employee amount to a "tale of greed as old as time."
Fans of good cocktails in cozy spaces can rejoice, at long last, over the reopening of Dalva's Hideout, the separate, semi-secret bar back behind Dalva on 16th Street that hasn't welcomed guests since early 2020.
A 21-year-old San Francisco man is in custody at the Martinez Detention Facility after a Wednesday incident in which he’s accused of groping a woman on an East Bay BART train — and when she told him to stop, he allegedly punched her several times in the face.
Chef Aaron London is pulling the plug on his much lauded, vegetable-focused restaurant AL's Place in order to focus more on his young family, despite the restaurant still being packed every night. The last night of service will be Sunday, August 28.
In today’s SF installment of “Police Did Nothing,” police catch an alleged catalytic converter thief red-handed in the Richmond, learn he is on probation for property theft, then kindly dismiss him while giving him directions so he could get home.
A 23-year-old man who was arrested last weekend for the double murder of his father and stepmother inside a home in San Francisco's Bayview district has given a jailhouse confession to a local TV station — but says he will plead not guilty to premeditated murder.
Two men were wounded in a shooting in Emeryville Friday morning, an Oakland nonprofit's building was damaged by street-racing vehicles crashing into it, and Gov. Gavin Newsom's office sent a scathing letter to the city of Oakland over the handling of the Wood Street encampment.
Club Deluxe is applying for Legacy Business Status in hopes of avoiding closure, Apple is urging people to update their devices because of a security exploit, and a plane accident in Watsonville has left three people dead.
The Tony Award-winning revival production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opened this week in its tour stop at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theater, and while almost entirely loyal to the original text it exists worlds away from the 1943 musical that begat it.
With a statewide youth suicide rate that’s spiked by 20% during the pandemic, Newsom a announced a new plan Thursday to double the number of school counselors in the state, and add 40,000 more behavioral health professionals.
A new addendum to this year’s Homeless Point-In-Time Count paints a much starker picture than we’d realized, as it estimates that an astonishing 20,000 people in San Francisco will experience homelessness at some point this year.
The same lawyer who previously sued the San Francisco school board and the school district over a decision to rename dozens of city schools is now threatening to sue again, this time over a vote to close schools on two Muslim holy days.
A man suspected in an early July homicide in SF's Potrero Hill neighborhood has been located and arrested six weeks later.
With voter fraud investigation referrals to both the District Attorney and City Attorney, District 4 supervisor candidate Leanna Louie is at risk of being pulled off the ballot over residency issues, and it appears she has a fourth District 11 address to answer for as well.
A kooky church in Oakland that believes in the spiritual power of hallucinogens has now filed suit against the city and the Oakland Police Department over a raid two years ago in which police took cash, cannabis, and mushrooms.
A 20-year-old woman called 911 and got an SFFD geo-locating rescue at Fort Funston, an Oakland woman was shot multiple times inside her home, and Chronicle critic Soleil Ho pans Little Saint in Healdsburg.
It’s no secret that people have been moving out of the San Francisco en masse. SFist reported back in July that the people leaving are mostly white folks in their twenties. But
The Secret Service apparently withheld information about a threat on Nancy Pelosi's life two days before January 6th, Airbnb is rolling out a new party-rental-detection system, and two local dog owners have been reunited with their stolen pups.
The alleged January NFC Championship Game attack at SoFi Stadium saw its arraignment of defendant Bryan Cifuentes in an Inglewood courtroom Wednesday morning, and he pleaded not guilty to the one count of battery.
Displaced tenants of the flooded 33 Tehama say that items are being stolen from their rooms — including, allegedly, $1,500 in stolen checks — as their saga drags on into its third month.
