Saturday afternoon saw an estimated 200-plus people organize at Lake Merritt to show their support of reproductive rights and to denounce the possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned.
Hundreds of people marched at the Women's March in San Francisco Saturday, a Sunday garage fire in Excelsior left at least one person injured and displaced seven, and downtown SF was a shitshow this morning with road closures from Bay to Breakers.
It wasn't the prettiest series. It was full of chippiness and accusations about "breaking the code." There were ejections, suspensions and injuries. After the Golden State Warriors were demolished in Game 5, the series had an "anything-is-possible" feeling, but not in a good way.
Alexis Gabe was first reported missing on January 25 by her family. The ensuing months have led to search efforts and an active investigation into the 24-year-old’s disappearance — with the recent recovery of her phone case becoming a "key piece of evidence," according to police.
Get ready for many road closures tomorrow for Bay to Breakers, BART and Muni are offering more services to meet the inevitable influx of race-day riders, and a mass shooting in Milwaukee Friday night left at least 17 people injured.
Someone riding an e-scooter in Lower Nob Hill was robbed Thursday, the CA Historical Society at 678 Mission Street is waiving entrance fees this weekend, and you can still register as "non-binary" for Sunday's big SF race — which will now give out awards to non-binary winners.
There are plenty of questions about the legal process on a suspect just charged with running a fencing operation from a Tenderloin Quickly storefront, as it turns out the suspect was already arrested and still awaiting trial for a 2019 case with the same charges.
San Francisco police have released photos of a man who they say attacked and strangled a woman randomly on the street last Saturday, and they're seeking the public's help to identify him.
A department already reeling from police scandals involving a meth pipe and drinking on the job has an even more unsavory situation, as an officer is accused of indecent exposure toward a young woman and her mother while responding to a call.
There are a couple of more developments in the disturbing case of a three-year-old girl who was allegedly murdered last fall by her mother, grandfather, and uncle in an "exorcism-like ritual" in a back-room San Jose church.
The erratic billionaire may be trying to back out of his stunning bid to take over Twitter, now claiming he is concerned about “spam/fake accounts,” but analysts suspect he's just getting cold feet and that he may not actually be able to line up the money.
COVID hospitalizations in the Bay Area ticked above the 500 mark for the first time since early March on Thursday, and daily new case counts continue to be high in San Francisco and elsewhere around the region amid the BA.2 surge.
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A two-alarm fire broke out around 10:20 a.m. Friday at a residential building in the Western Addition, sending smoke up over the middle of San Francisco that could be seen from around the Bay.
An underground wall could pose a problem for the ongoing Millennium Tower fix, SFO had a computer meltdown this morning, and Newsom's office is discussing "inflation relief" checks and a higher minimum wage.
A bicyclist is in rough shape after getting into a crash near the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park Thursday afternoon.
The 49ers just released their full 2022 season schedule, the VTA has razed the building where a shooter killed nine of his colleagues last year, and the SF Unified School District has plucked Hayward’s superintendent Matt Wayne to serve in the same position here.
An internal SFPD document obtained by VICE News shows that not only can the SF Police Department pull the camera video from autonomous Waymo and Cruise cars, but more chillingly, that they have “already done this several times.”
SF wastewater data indicate COVID-19 infections may have doubled in the last two weeks, as new variant “sublineages” are finding ever-new ways to evade the antibodies.
A creepy-sounding Pentecostal church in San Jose that police apparently linked to the recent kidnapping of a three-month-old boy is also connected to a previously unreported death of a three-year-old in September — a death that occurred during an attempt at exorcism.
After a majorly ambitious, six-year renovation project, the company formerly known as Restoration Hardware is ready to unveil perhaps its grandest showroom-restaurant combo to date in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, at Pier 70.
Last night in Memphis was, to put it lightly, brutal. I needed to consult a thesaurus for synonyms of "demolished." (Routed, crushed, obliterated, walloped, destroyed, etc.) It was one of the roughest games of the season that this writer can remember.
Our downloadable, smartphone-friendly Bay to Breakers liquor store locator is back, though COVID-19 closures have claimed several legacy corner stores, particularly in the Sunset.
In what may be a bid to right the ship after a disappointing quarter, or a gesture toward trying to hold on to his job when Musk's purchase of the company closes, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal fired two top executives and laid out cost-cutting measures in a memo to employees this week.
The Bay Area is setting records once again, but not for anything good. On a list of the ten cities in the United States with the most expensive commutes, half of the list is taken up by cities in California, and four of the ten are in the Bay Area.
The first California Starbucks shops to unionize are both in Santa Cruz, after two separate Starbucks locations’ employees voted overwhelmingly to unionize on Wednesday.
