You can call it “selective admissions” or you can call it “segregation,” but the school board voted 4-3 to reinstate merit-based admissions at Lowell, with all four Yes votes being London Breed appointees.
A rollover crash on Highway 101 near Cesar Chavez Street in San Francisco was snarling traffic in both the northbound and southbound directions Thursday afternoon.
Apparently Salesforce is confident enough that COVID-19 will be a non-factor three months from now that they’re bringing back a large-scale Dreamforce, but they’re being a little vague on whether they’ll allow 170,000 people again.
After a rough start to the year and a severe drop-off in subscribers after pandemic binge-watching ended — and after pulling out of Russia — Netflix is doing more belt-tightening, with layoffs hitting 3% of its staff on Thursday.
The formerly SF-based Juul has been ordered by the FDA to pull all of its products off U.S. shelves, as regulatory scrutiny of the vaping industry starts to kick in.
The original Flour + Water Pizzeria on Valencia has rebranded as Yellow Moto Pizzeria following an ownership split, but that doesn't mean that Flour + Water Pizzeria as a concept is dead.
It's been an extra-long pandemic hiatus for Frances, chef Melissa Perello's twelve-year-old Castro restaurant that has remained a perennial favorite for many. And that ends tonight.
The SFPD released a photo of a person of interest Wednesday night in the fatal shooting on board a Muni train bound for Castro Station that occurred Wednesday morning.
The Supreme Court struck down a New York gun-control law in a ruling that could affect California, the man accused of stalking Justice Brett Kavanaugh pleaded not guilty, and delays continue on BART's Concord line.
A 100-acre wildfire is burning near the edge of Solano County in Winters, the Edgewood Fire in San Mateo County has reached 42% containment, and one person was critically injured in a house fire in SF's Mission District today.
City Hall is enjoying an unprecedented $108 million budget surplus, which rather than making budgeting easier, is setting off all-out-wars between various special interests who think that the “fiscal cliff reserve” money really ought to be set aside for them.
A city-sponsored drug sobering center has been in the works in SF for more than two years, and it’s unclear whether drug use will be allowed on-site, or whether people will even access it. But it opens Monday as an 18-month pilot program.
In just seven weeks' time, the two little fluffy peregrine falcon chicks in the UC Berkeley Campanile nest have become fully fledged juveniles — and over the last weekend, they both took their first flights.
Paul Pelosi's DUI arrest over Memorial Day Weekend in Napa has become major fodder for right-wing loons who have been misinformed that he's skirting any charges, but society doyenne Dede Wilsey says it's a shame he was arrested at all.
An inaugural Pride celebration in a small town roughly 150 miles northeast of SF would have been this past Saturday, but didn’t happen after Nevada City’s negative response to the Pride flags set off some red flags.
Mayor London Breed has tested positive for COVID, like nearly every elected official in the last couple of months, and this means she will be quarantining on Pride Weekend.
There’s a very heavy police presence at Castro and Market Streets, as two people were reportedly shot on a Muni train between Forest Hill and Castro Stations, but Muni service has now been restored in that tunnel.
A BART train partially derailed in Concord Tuesday due to heat-caused warping of a train track, a grass fire continues burning in San Mateo County, and permits have been revoked for a Pink Saturday event in the Castro just days ahead of it occurring.
A Mission District man was killed in a 4:30 a.m. hit-and-run at 16th and South Van Ness, and Bay Area grass fires are causing trouble, as today's summer solstice brought the hottest day in nearly two years.
An alleged identity fraud scammer managed to get two different East Bay dealerships to sell him BMWs with fake ID, but promptly crashed one of the two.
A man was fatally shot Tuesday at the sprawling, multi-block Wood Street homeless encampment in West Oakland — and it's the second shooting to occur there in two months.
A temporary hotel restaurant hiatus in Union Square just came to our attention via an announcement of a pop-up happening there — which will feature Michelin newcomer of last year Marlena, the Bernal Heights home of which is undergoing a remodel.
The rollout of the street vending “crackdown” hit the 24th and Mission Street corner bazaar last week, and while there’s been a bit of enforcement, the portal for vendor permit applications is reportedly not even working yet anyway.
Without specifying any details about the injuries — and oddly we're only hearing about them five days later — the SFPD's Mission Station tweeted about multiple officers being injured during the hoopla in the Mission on June 16.
California’s giant sequoia trees were once considered practically immune to wildfires. But after several thousand were killed by wildfires in recent years, a new bill in Washington hopes to protect and preserve the mighty sequoias.
