Though she won't officially start her tenure as SF Symphony Music Director until next year, Elim Chan conducted her first two concerts at Davies Symphony Hall over the weekend in her capacity as Music Director Designate.
SF General Hospital received its steepest fine on record from Cal/OSHA, which found the hospital did not take the proper measures to prevent violent workplace incidents prior to the fatal stabbing of a social worker in December.
A stolen SUV that was speeding and driving recklessly on the streets of East Oakland Monday reportedly crashed into an Oakland Police Department SUV, killing two passengers in the stolen vehicle and injuring an Oakland officer.
At his final World Wide Developers Conference as Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook unveiled a slate of new AI features Monday, including a standalone Siri chatbot app, based on models Apple created in collaboration with Google.
A man and a woman were reportedly shot and critically injured Monday morning in what police are calling an isolated incident at a Kaiser medical office building in San Jose.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris could have a serious uphill climb, even within her own party and among Democratic donors, should she decide to run for president once again in 2028.
All eyes will be on SFUSD Superintendent Maria Su and two other school figures from Chicago and Virginia who are set to speak before a GOP-led committee in DC this week on “inappropriate content” and “legal abuses” in public schools.
We're having an early kickoff to fire season this year and/or there is no distinct fire "season" anymore, with an offshore wind event expected to raise wildfire risks across Northern California this week.
The 17-year-old boy killed in a May 30 freeway crash in SF has been identified; a 7.8M earthquake in the Philippines created no tsunami danger for the US coast; and thieves stole a bunch of rare Pokemon cards from a Brentwood store.
The Golden State Valkyries welcomed a face familiar to Bay Area college sports fans by signing former Stanford center Nadia Fingall to a rest-of-season contract on Sunday. The team also waived forward Ndjakalenga Mwenentanda in a corresponding move.
The death of San Francisco firefighter Ken Jones has renewed calls to reform Blue Shield, the city's designated insurance provider. The late firefighter’s battle to treat his stage 4 lung cancer first gained attention in January, with advocates now blaming delays in care for his premature passing.
East Bay jolted by a preliminary magnitude 3.6 earthquake on Sunday morning; teenager injured in I-580 shooting; and SF tasting menu restaurant Anomaly SF slated to close.
A one-year-old boy was hospitalized in critical condition after a truck smashed into the side of his family's Oakland apartment building earlier today.
A mother-daughter daycare team convicted of three felony child endangerment charges stemming from a 2023 double drowning at the pair's Happy Happy Daycare facility in San Jose were sentenced to sizable prison stints on Friday.
Democrat Xavier Becerra has officially qualified to run for governor in California's general election this fall; Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks was spotted shopping for analog treasures at Berkeley Typewriter; and the former home of Cal Shakes in Orinda reopens as music venue Siesta Valley Bowl.
A 73-year-old Black man is suing Alameda County and its District Attorney's Office for what he argues was an unconstitutional jury selection process that helped to ensure his conviction 35 years ago.
Stern Grove is going to be doing free concerts at SFO this summer, by Gate B4; Anthropic is in support of taking an industry-wide "pause" to ensure AI safety; and CA is part of a coalition of states suing over the Warner Brothers-Paramount deal.
Bar Malone's has softly opened in the former District space on Townsend Street, Goop Kitchen is opening a second location in SoMa, and there may be some movement, finally, over at Anchor Brewing, all in This Week in Food.
In a push to boost the export of coal to other countries, Trump invoked a wartime order to fund the development of 13 plants across the US, including Oakland, which is expected to be one of the largest facilities on the West Coast.
Nopa, the bustling restaurant at the corner of Divisadero and Hayes in the Western Addition sub-neighborhood that came to be known as NoPa two decades ago, is celebrating 20 years in business this week, and they had a big bash to mark the occasion on Thursday night.
Just when Californians thought the airwaves would be free of those mind-numbing Kars 4 Kids jingles, a court ruled that the company can continue running its ads during the appeals process.
After one person was killed and three others injured in a shooting outside a continuation school's graduation ceremony at Fairfield High School, Fairfield High announced its own graduation ceremony will be moved to a different location.
Oakland officials and law enforcement are bolstering security for tonight's First Fridays event, after several post-event incidents in which violence has broken out near the event area.
Four people were hospitalized with minor to moderate injuries after a three-wheeled vehicle crashed into a car that allegedly ran a red light in San Francisco’s Western Addition, ejecting a passenger.
After the latest ballot count on Thursday, Hilton and Becerra remain neck and neck and Steyer still trails; voters in the North Bay continue to support the SMART train; and a new report says Super Bowl LX generated $720M in local economic activity.
