BART's mask mandate expires today, a small plane crash in Napa killed two onboard and caused a vegetation fire Sunday, and Elon Musk is looking to delay his Twitter trial until February.
Saturday saw throngs of eager park-goers sitting atop the wooden benches — which were made from fallen cypress trees — at Presidio Tunnel Tops, sponging up views of the Golden Gate Bridge as Karl the Fog rolled into the SF Bay.
One person was killed in a bowling alley shooting in Livermore Saturday, you'll no longer have to wear a mask when riding BART starting tomorrow, and a shooting on 6th Street Saturday left two people with gunshot wounds.
An officer from the Mountain View Police Department was injured in a shooting Saturday shortly after midnight when the patrol officer pulled over a car at Villa Street and Wild Cherry Lane; the shooter is still at large Saturday afternoon.
A UCSF doctor has said this "could be our second worst surge in terms of numbers of cases,” the Washburn Fire has now burned 4,822 acres, and the executive director of SF's Ella Hill Hutch Community Center was attacked outside the building Friday afternoon.
SFPD first learned of a potential bomb threat at the San Francisco International Airport Friday night around 8:15 p.m., which prompted passengers to be evacuated from the international terminal.
A new lawsuit filed with the California federal court is claiming Skittles are toxic, SFMOMA’s "Diego Rivera’s America" exhibit opens tomorrow, and the Contra Costa DA confirmed this week that prosecutors dropped criminal charges for at least 40 cases due to untrustworthy police officers.
Brooke Jenkins put her stamp on the office she was appointed to with four new women hired as top staffers, but she fired a bunch of women too, yet more importantly, may have eliminated a future rival by hiring Nancy Tung.
After breaking ground nearly three years ago, the pandemic-delayed Presidio Tunnel Tops park is making its big debut on Saturday and Sunday, with special events — and hopefully pretty decent weather.
After demand has soared for monkeypox vaccinations in the Bay Area and elsewhere, and as low existing supplies have been used up, the Centers for Disease Control assures us that more vaccine is coming, possibly by next week.
The insolvent, 151-year-old San Francisco Art Institute once again looks to be out of options, after a merger deal brought by the University of San Francisco has fallen through.
The last two drought-y winters in California have been La Niña winters, and if a third one is taking shape, that is almost certainly bad news for the state's drought
Muni basically stopped enforcing fare violations during the pandemic, issuing merely 325 citations during a two-year period. Yet they still employed 43 fare inspectors full-time, which seems perhaps a waste of money?
What looks to be a brazen stolen goods fencing operation, with items that sure appear straight lifted from shelves of Walgreens and CVS, was allegedly netting one San Francisco man $500,000 a year as he just resold the stolen loot online.
According to wastewater testing in the Bay Area, the amount of COVID virus in circulation in July is up at levels not seen since January — the numbers just aren't being reflected in official case counts because no one is getting PCR-tested.
A Muni bus and a pickup truck were in a crash on Haight Street this morning, a San Francisco firefighter was injured falling down an elevator shaft in Sea Cliff, and the SF school board is holding a special meeting this weekend.
A brush fire shut down BART’s Antioch trains for an hour and half today, a speeding driver perished in an accident they caused in Antioch this morning, but the East Bay love was in full effect as Raising Cane’s opened in Oakland to hours-long lines.
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A persistent and often problematic encampment community in West Oakland is starting to be aggressively cleared this week, but the operation seems heavier on law enforcement and bulldozing than transitional housing services.
A new suit just filed in SF County Superior Court has 550 women claiming they were “kidnapped, sexually assaulted, sexually battered, raped, falsely imprisoned, stalked, harassed, or otherwise attacked” by their Uber drivers, and the law firm claims another 150 more women may join the suit.
There was much talk in the restaurant industry throughout the pandemic about how the restaurant business was broken, how kitchen staff in particular have historically been mistreated and underpaid, and how things would need to change if restaurants wanted to staff up again.
Realtors are popping a little less Champagne, and buyers are no longer offering hundreds of thousands over asking price, as home prices are dropping notably in SF, Oakland, and especially San Jose.
A double-decker tour bus went up in flames Wednesday night, apparently while traveling south on 101 out of the city, and when CHP arrived on the scene the driver was nowhere to be found.
A woman was shot and injured early Thursday morning while sitting near the intersection of 16th and Mission streets.
Netflix has now committed to an ad-supported, lower-cost subscription package with Microsoft handling the ads, in an effort to boost the company's bottom line and lure back some customers.
A vegetation fire that broke out Wednesday evening in Benicia grew to 100 acres before being contained, Twitter saw a brief outage this morning, and experts are saying the BA.5 wave could get much bigger.
