The SFPD will be under scrutiny in the coming months for the fatal shooting of civilians, in this case two men who were possibly both homeless who were engaged in an altercation at Mariposa Park when officers arrived last week.
Disney-Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ will make Frameline history as the first Disney feature with a same-sex kiss, plus a Vinsantos documentary and two Margaret Cho features round out the just-announced LGBTQ+ film festival schedule.
On Tuesday, state officials approved a program to cut water usage across California by 10 to 20 percent, and this includes a blanket ban on the watering of ornamental lawns in communal areas of subdivisions and on all commercial properties.
San Jose police say they may have headed off a potential mass shooting, two people were shot in separate incidents in San Francisco, and the Bay Area's daily COVID case rate has risen 25 percent in the last week.
The death toll is up to 19 victims in the Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting, Warriors coach Steve Kerr gave a passionate sermon against the epidemic of U.S. gun violence, and closer to home, a Bayview woman was found shot in her home.
Multiple bomb threats and death threats have forced numerous evacuations at LGBTQQ youth nonprofit LYRIC, the most recent being Monday, and SFPD is considering these as possible hate crimes.
The controversial Tenderloin Linkage Center has been quietly renamed to simply the Tenderloin Center, and the SF Board of Supervisors just approved it staying at UN Plaza another six months, for the rest of 2022.
A mother raccoon who was reportedly trying to rescue her kits from the other side of a hole in a Santa Cruz home's roof got herself comically stuck, ass up, and a local animal shelter publicized the photo.
Craft beer has been booming in the Bay Area for over a decade, and many breweries are turning out excellent, incredibly interesting beer. SFist brings you the best of what we think SF, Oakland, and Berkeley have to offer, beer-wise.
Hoping to transform “an industrial wasteland” into the “next hot neighborhood of San Francisco,” there’s a $2 billion redevelopment underway at the Potrero Power Plant by Pier 70, with housing, hotels, hotels and office space.
The SF Board of Supervisors will be seeing two proposed amendments to the city charter introduced at their Tuesday meeting, both of which set up fights between the progressive bloc of supervisors and Mayor London Breed over housing.
San Francisco’s “More dogs than kids” stereotype just bought a few more years of relevance, as Census numbers show a still-declining family population, and only Bayview, Presidio, and Seacliff have more than 20% of the population under 18.
Hospitalizations of patients with COVID-19 — some of whom may have been hospitalized for another ailment and happened to be COVID-positive — have ticked back up across California as a result of the latest surge.
The first case of monkeypox in California has likely been found in Sacramento, the CDC is releasing some of its smallpox vaccine stockpiles, and Nancy Pelosi is publicly responding to the archbishop's abortion fight.
The Bay Area cycling community is mourning one of their own killed in Texas in an apparent love triangle, a grass fire near San Ramon spread to 25 acres, and a gas station in Menlo Park is charging $8/gallon for gas.
Gavin Newsom says that if local water agencies don’t crack down harder on water usage, he’s going to start levying mandatory water restrictions all over the state.
Director Christopher Nolan (Inception, The Dark Knight) and the cast and crew of the in-production film 'Oppenheimer' were on the UC Berkeley campus Friday, filming some exterior shots with vintage cars from the early 1940s.
State Attorney General Rob Bonta is investigating an alleged police shooting of two men last Thursday in Mariposa Park, and new reporting indicates that SFPD may have shot both the assailant and the victim in the incident.
Riding the wave of Andrew Wiggins' energy and his 27-point, 11-rebound performance last night, the Warriors took Game 3 109-100 for a 3-0 series lead.
A building that housed a longtime gay bar devoted to country music in SF's SoMa District, which was proposed for redevelopment as both a nightclub and a condo building going back a decade, has hit the market again at a reduced price.
New reporting on the DA's Office raid on a Tenderloin Quickly shop earlier this month alleges that police said “they were too busy” to assist in the bust, and that DA Boudin had to rent his own U-Haul to carry out the operation.
Food truck star Señor Sisig is planning a third brick-and-mortar location, and it promises to be the swankiest location to date for the brand in San Francisco's Ferry Building.
The owners of multiple hotels that were leased by the city for its pandemic housing program are reportedly filing or planning to file lawsuits over damages they claim were done to their buildings as a result of the program.
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Mayor Breed, the SF Police Officers Association, and the fire department all say they’ll refuse to appear in the SF Pride Parade, in response to a 2020 decision that barred police from marching in uniform at the event.
A tent fire spread to a commercial building on 15th Street in the Mission, a 28-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting in Santa Rosa, and the 135-acre Quail Fire in Solano County is now 90% contained.
