You may know someone with COVID right now, or you may have it yourself, as San Francisco is a couple of weeks into a surge being driven by the highly contagious BA.2 subvariant of Omicron.
America remains the nation with the highest COVID-19 death toll in the world, and regrettably, this week, the country suffered its millionth COVID death.
Authorities have not said that alcohol or Cinco de Mayo partying had anything to do with it, but a car with four adults in it missed a bend in the road or something and went off a cliff near San Francisco's Ocean Beach.
Sideshow events erupted in the East and North Bay on Thursday night, as revelers came out to celebrate Cinco de Mayo in full force — and a massive sideshow in Santa Rosa ended with one man getting shot multiple times.
Four people have been arrested in connection with a March fatal stabbing in the Mission, the VTA has approved the first construction contract for Phase II of BART's San Jose extension, and fish are dying around Clear Lake due to the drought.
SFPD may end up firing 23 officers for refusing to get vaccinated, Valencia-style street light strings could come to more commercial corridors, and the reincarnated Stork Club has an opening date with John Waters himself on the bill.
Washoe County commissioners are in discussions to add an extra fee onto Burning Man tickets to maintain a stretch of road that 70,000 Burners tromp across every Labor Day weekend.
If you're not trying to do Cinco de Drinko after work, maybe you'd like to celebrate more maturely in the spirit of Cinco de Mayo by taking in a free concert of Latin music at the bandshell in Golden Gate Park.
The new CEO of Twitter under Elon Musk will be Elon Musk, according to people familiar with his investor briefings, though he says for now that he will only be an interim CEO.
The last three offspring of Annie with her falcon mate of five years Grinnell look to have been successfully incubated, despite concerns they might not be following Grinnell's untimely death in late March.
Combining the trends of upcycling food waste and natural wine, along with pizza which never goes out of style, Shuggie's Trash Pie & Natural Wine has opened its doors in the Mission District.
A new report details multiple injuries among middle-schoolers at an increasingly violent Everett Middle School, including a 13-year-old “with life-threatening injuries.”
A new City Hall report shows more than 300 below-market-rate housing units are sitting empty, thanks to red tape and a pandemic market where market-rate housing has gotten cheaper.
A major traffic situation unfolded Wednesday evening on the upper, westbound deck of the Bay Bridge, caused by a man illegally walking eastbound from San Francisco in a traffic lane.
A review of the Mario Gonzalez death case commissioned by the city of Alameda has (sort of) cleared officers of wrongdoing, a man having a mental health crisis caused an hours-long traffic nightmare in the East Bay, and that Meta store opens next week.
An Oakland city councilmember is pushing to turn part of the old army base into a 1,000-bed homeless shelter, a new summer forecast predicts more dry lighting (and fire), and Charles Phan's Pier 3 bar Hard Water has officially closed for good.
Apparently the name alone is creating harassment issues for the East Bay caviar company with an outpost at the SF Ferry Building, which has to keep reminding people that they are not a Russian company or affiliated with Russia in any way.
Your mail-in ballots will start arriving next week (!) as yet another election looms, with primary elections for Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi and Alex Padilla, plus eight SF ballot measures, including a DA recall you may have heard about.
A young male black bear has been causing a big stir in Vacaville this week, and prompting multiple warnings from local police to avoid the animal.
Much as BART has seen a return of riders a bit moreso on weekends than during commuting hours on weekdays, the SFMTA is reporting a similar pattern on Muni buses and trains — though one bus line is now at 133% of its pre-pandemic riders.
In light of text messages becoming public, San Jose and VTA officials are now doing an about-face, calling for scrutiny into cost overruns they’d previously disputed.
Memphis took Game 2 106-100 to tie the Western Conference semi finals at 1-1. Game 3 is on Saturday at Chase Center in San Francisco.
Permit applications have been submitted to bring legal cannabis sales to Carnaval SF on May 28-29, and there’s a high likelihood that Carnaval will be the first California street fair with legal, regulated cannabis use.
A 24-year-old alleged thief who police say was keeping storage lockers packed with millions of dollars worth of stolen property that he was selling online is now in the custody of San Jose police.
Chappelle was talking onstage Tuesday at the Hollywood Bowl about how he needs extra security now that the LGBTQ community despises him. And then a guy rushed the stage in an apparent attempt to physically assault or harm him.
