It’s probably not going to change our city’s reputational stereotypes, but Sacramento now has a larger homelessness problem than SF, and a higher percentage of unsheltered people living there.
Three semi-major Muni routes that have been on mothballs for nearly two and a half years will return Saturday, with many other lines being extended back to pre-pandemic levels, and transit lovers are planning a 21-Hayes party.
The Oakland City Council has voted not to put the A's Howard Terminal stadium project on the November ballot, a San Pablo man drowned while trying to save his son in Lake Berryessa, and Carlos Santana collapsed during a concert last night.
There’s more fallout from Monday night’s Mission fireworks mayhem, an Oakland man has been charged with human trafficking and holding a woman hostage, and ‘Stranger Things’ has sent a 36-year-old Metallica song to the top of the charts.
We’ve always thought that fully vaccinated and recently infected had a “hybrid immunity” that shielded people from reinfections, but the BA.5 Omicron sub-variant is so infectious that its throwing that adage out the window.
The Giants have fallen to third place in the NL West, now behind the San Diego Padres and — gag — the Dodgers; San Francisco is 9.5 games behind LA. The Giants have lost five games in a row, and 11 out of the last 14. Just two weeks ago, they were 10 games over .500, but are now 40 and 38.
Three days after an Amtrak train ran into a Honda sedan at an unmarked railway crossing in Brentwood, a nine-year-old boy has succumbed to his injuries and became the fourth person to die from the crash.
A sudden wildfire in Amador County forced nearly 100 July 4th beachgoers to coop up inside a PG&E power plant for safety on Monday afternoon and evening, and the fire has since grown exponentially in size.
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As an outbreak of monkeypox infections grips the gay communities of Germany and the UK, there are increasing reports of cases here in the U.S. and in the Bay Area — also primarily among gay and bisexual men.
At least three people were injured by gunfire in San Francisco on the July 4th holiday, and one of those was a 14-year-old girl who was watching a fireworks display.
Hundreds of fires caused by illegal fireworks (and illegal bonfires in the middle of streets) peppered the entire Bay Area Monday night, leading to some very busy firefighters across the region.
In an echo of an incident reported after the Warriors' NBA Championship celebrations in the Mission District three weeks ago, the SFPD says that a dozen officers sustained injuries from a hostile crowd shooting off fireworks and continuing to party after midnight Tuesday morning.
A car crash at the intersection of 9th Avenue and Lincoln Boulevard on Monday evening sent one vehicle careening into a bus shelter where four people were waiting for a Muni bus.
An injury crash involving at least four vehicles caused a major backup for anyone trying to drive from the North Bay into the city via 101 Tuesday morning.
A two-acre grass fire that seems likely caused by illegal fireworks smoked up much of Twin Peaks Monday evening, the official fireworks show at the piers was predictably fogged in, and a three-year-old boy was shot and wounded sitting in a car in East Oakland Monday night.
Early Monday morning, five adults were involved in a shooting that left four of them injured and one dead near the State Capitol Building in Sacramento; the shooting occurred less than three months after a gang-related shooting in downtown Sacramento killed six people and wounded twelve others.
The team behind SF's firework show is putting together the last details this afternoon, a man was arrested on Friday for taking a sledgehammer to several cars in SF, and Kaisen Sushi at 71 5th Street suddenly closed for good after five years of serving fresh and cheap rolls.
San Francisco police have arrested a suspect in a Bayview shooting that left a 38-year-old man with life-threatening injuries Friday night; the victim was promptly taken to a nearby hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
The Castro will have a new specialty grocery shop soon, an Oakland man was charged with dealing fentanyl in the Tenderloin, and less than a tenth of an inch of rain was recorded in downtown SF Saturday — but it was still enough to beat the record for that day.
On Thursday, a collision between two boats in the San Francisco Bay — about a mile southwest of Angel Island — left one ship spinning out of control and a man dead. The man has been identified as 65-year-old Contra Costa County resident Michael Wells.
SoMa's newest pizza joint is also serving up great Tiki drinks, Oakland will again open cooling and clean air sites this summer, and a San Francisco couple that's been parking in their driveway for almost four decades was recently fined over $1.5K by the City for doing so.
The Castro's newest plant shop officially opened today, a new Spanish taverna is coming to the Mission District, and a drag show in Yolo County was disrupted by a group of possible Proud Boys making homophobic and transphobic remarks Thursday night.
Fans of queer punk, 90s riot grrrls, garage rock, and the like should be aware that Kim Gordon, Bikini Kill, Shannon Shaw, and the Pansy Division are all playing at this weekend's Mosswood Meltdown, with John Waters hosting, and there are still tickets.
Is the COVID-19 era really the best time for a cruise-ship themed hotel and condo project? Perhaps the Warriors are having second thoughts, as they just announced this very strange Chase Center add-on is “indefinitely delayed.”
A hawk who has been given the name Pac-Man is patrolling the area around the El Cerrito del Norte Station, thanks to a contract with a falconer in what's sort of a last-ditch effort — after many failed attempts — to control the pigeon population there.
