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.
Moonsoonal moisture is on its way over California this week, which will bring the possibility of some light rain, and also, more ominously, lightning in some already fire-prone areas.
At some point the Coast Guard has to be like "This guy again?", but a French-born kayaker with a custom-made vessel and an irrepressible desire to put himself in harm's way is attempting a solo journey across the Pacific for a second time.
BART saw around 200,000 riders for Monday's Warriors festivities, residents of 33 Tehama still have not been allowed home following flooding, and firefighters quickly tamped down a brush fire in Hunters Point Monday night.
There were a bunch of heat-related first-aid calls during the Warriors parade, a Spare the Air day has been declared for Tuesday, and North Beach now has its own El Farolito.
The annual Glide auction of a lunch with legendary investor Warren Buffett just finished its last-ever bidding, and it goes out on a high note of raising $19 million for poverty and hunger programs.
Public Works will be cleaning up that blue and gold confetti for weeks, after a million fans came and were showered with about a million pounds of the stuff, alongside the Golden State Warriors and the team brass.
The “risk professionals” at a recent SF security conference may not have factored in the risk of a largely maskless event at the height of an Omicron surge, as hundreds of attendees say they caught the virus while networking to battle computer viruses.
A shooting that apparently occurred in the middle of the street claimed one life Sunday night in the Marina District, just steps away from busy Chestnut Street.
“Take public transit to the Warriors’ championship parade,” they said, “It will be easier,” they said. But then BART trains quit stopping at Embarcadero and Montgomery Street, and the Clipper Card app was on the fritz for many users.
Before the Warriors and their busses slowly creeped their way up a crowded Market Street on Monday for their NBA Championship victory parade, the team and their coaches were assembled on a stage at the foot of Market Street, and few of them were asked to speak.
It’s hats off to your Golden State Warriors for their championship parade today, but Klay Thompson saw his 2022 championship hat fly into the Bay Monday morning as his yacht rocked to the parade.
A crash early Sunday on the Bay Bridge claimed the life of a 22-year-old man and injured four others, and led to all westbound lanes on the bridge being temporarily closed.
SF has been cleaning up Market Street in preparation for the Warriors' victory parade, huge and chaotic sideshows shook up Santa Rosa on Saturday, and around 200,000 baby salmon were just released in to the Bay.
For the first time since the fall of 2019, hundreds of stubby-legged bundles of joy gathered at Ocean Beach Saturday afternoon for the first Corgi Con held since the COVID-19 pandemic began. And yes: the day's events were as cute and serotonin-soaked as you'd imagine they were.
A small earthquake struck near Morgan Hill yesterday, CHP reported a fatal crash early Sunday morning on the Bay Bridge, and a large blaze burning near Covington Street and Marlow Drive in the East Oakland hills was contained this morning.
San Francisco police blocked off an area near Lombard and Fillmore streets Saturday after a vehicle going, per eye-witness accounts, between "60mph to 80mph" collided with a Muni bus — hitting it with such force that the public transport vehicle made a 180-degree twist.
A man wielding a "sharp-edged weapon" assaulted three people inside an SFO terminal on Friday evening around 6 p.m. — leaving each with injuries.
Saturday morning BART delays continue, a new Indian restaurant debuted on the Divisadero corridor, and SF's animal care center on 16th Street is now waiving adoption fees for dogs and cats seven years or older.
Grand Coffee opened a new Mission District cafe today, a 120-acre vegetation fire in Pittsburg is now contained, and Pacifica police are investigating the burning of a Pride Flag at Sunset Ridge Elementary School as a possible hate crime.
