The retail and entertainment complex known as 6x6, on Market Street between 5th and 6th streets, which is soon to be home to a small-format IKEA store, might also be home to an SF location of mini-golf chain The Puttery.
A full 10% of small businesses in Oakland’s Chinatown have closed permanently during the pandemic, and the lingering threat of street violence is hampering any sort of comeback.
Much lauded bar-restaurant Bar Agricole is reopening this week, after some pandemic-related delays, in the base of the tower at 1550 Mission Street — and the place has recruited a talented chef in Nick Balla, who's been largely away from the SF scene for several years.
A chaotic, scary scene unfolded at a Pop Warner football game on Sunday at Oakland Technical High School, when shots rang out and a child was hit with a bullet, and parents and kids ran screaming.
More than 300 visitors have accessed the new SoMa Rise sobering center in its first month open, but it’s still unclear whether it's producing any good outcomes, or justifying its $4.2 million-a-year price tag.
We're getting some of that rare summer precipitation in San Francisco and elsewhere around NorCal, thanks to monsoonal moisture drifting our way from the desert Southwest.
Dave Chappelle did his ornery best to get everyone back on stage and to keep the party going past 10 p.m. on Sunday night, during the closing moments of the inaugural Napa Valley iteration of the Blue Note Jazz Festival, in spite of a local noise ordinance.
The monkeypox vaccine clinic at SF General is back open, two bodies were found in a car in a driveway in the McKinney Fire zone, and one person was shot and wounded near Civic Center on Sunday afternoon.
One of the most decorated athletes in American sports history and a key player in the civil rights movement, Bill Russell, passed away over the weekend. He was 88 years old.
There are arguments over whether the “California exodus” as it’s been called are accurate. Some argue it’s been exaggerated, and that the number of people moving out only somewhat outpaces what
Around 2 p.m. Friday, a wildfire was reported to have started near Highway 96 and McKinney Creek Road, southwest of Klamath River in Siskiyou County. Now burning more than 51,000 acres — with 0% of the wildfire contained — the McKinney Fire is the largest fire to burn in CA this year.
A person was injured after being struck by a Caltrain train in Santa Clara Saturday afternoon, one of the most popular “Little Miss” meme accounts is based in SF, and President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 — again.
It’s no secret that San Francisco has sky-high rents. But that unaffordability is extending outside the Bay Area too these days. [SPONSORED] The federal poverty line is $12,140 for an
While most tech companies are downsizing — or outright eliminating — their corporate headquarters in San Francisco, the work management platform Asana is actually increasing its physical presence in the city by leasing a new office space near its South of Market headquarters.
Noe Valley's shuttered Mahila eatery will be reimagined as Azalina's in the TL this fall, CA's inflation relief checks are expected to start hitting bank accounts in October, and it’s officially Up Your Alley street fair weekend — though anxieties around monkeypox hover.
A young boy was arrested for starting a fire in Pacifica this week, another Bay Area resident was pistol-whipped and robbed of their watch, and a San Francisco law that allowed noncitizen parents to cast their votes in local school board elections was overturned by a judge.
Information is scarce, and we don’t even know if the victim was a suspect, but Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputies shot someone fatally in an incident near Franz Creek Ranch Friday morning.
The not-often-performed Sondheim musical that brought us such timelessly classic songs as "Broadway Baby" and "I'm Still Here" is being staged this summer by the always nimble and impressive SF Playhouse, and it's a joy to behold.
San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman held a special hearing Thursday on the mental health crisis in the city, discussing ways it might be addressed with representatives from the Department of Public Health, the police, and others.
San Francisco's Shelter-in-Place Hotel program is roughly 75% finished, with the remaining 25% to expire in the weeks to come. Let’s check in on the statistics — and people — who can say whether it was effective.
The block-sized property in SoMa that became home to the temporary Transbay Transit Center in the last decade will become a three-tower complex with the tallest tower around 40 stories.
One Bay Area transit agency is acknowledging that COVID-19 is still very much with us, as the BART board voted Thursday night to reinstate the mask mandate until at least October 1.
An East Bay man is in custody following the brazen theft of an unmarked police vehicle at Union Square on Thursday, which ultimately led to a chase through SoMa and a crash at Mission and Duboce.
A 28-year-old Pittsburg man and a 30-year-old Vallejo woman were arrested following Wednesday's crash in downtown SF, the White House is promising BA.5 boosters by fall, and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has COVID again.
We have yet another Great Highway opening/closure proposal being bandied about, Outside Lands released its schedule and set times, and the tragic Laguna Honda patient relocation plan has finally been brought to a halt.
