BART saw two hours of delays on Monday due to someone on the tracks at Lake Merritt, Oakland is poised to let rent-controlled rents rise 6.7%, and a new report by KTVU looks at K-9 bite incidents across 25 law enforcement agencies.
The homeless population around the Bay Area rose 8% overall since 2019 with the biggest rises in the East Bay, the mayor of Antioch is again talking tough on sideshows, and popular Cambodian spot Nyum Bai is relocating, but where?
Former supervisor Matt Haney proposed the Department of Sanitation and Streets to break that duty away from Public Works. The supervisors will vote to make it a reality on Tuesday, though ironically, it will now be a department within Public Works.
If you work for a tech startup — or even if you work for Uber or Twitter — you may be having the layoff blues right now, or the arguably worse layoff anxieties that come with weeks upon weeks of bad news, rising tensions, and inter-office innuendo.
SF police are seeking information on a number of violent crimes from over the weekend, including an early Saturday morning homicide on Balmy Alley, and a set of human remains found on rail tracks near Visitacion Valley.
A Tamalpais High senior got to jam with Pearl Jam at Saturday night’s Oakland Arena show, and even flowed right in after the band's drummer tested positive for COVID-19.
Eight months after a kerfuffle over a Dave Chappelle special and some other subsequent internal conflicts, Netflix took a stand and told its employees last week that they can bugger right off if they have personal objections to content being hosted on the streaming platform.
At least 18,000 booze bags, costumed loons, and even the occasional serious jogger turned out for the first bay to Breakers since 2019 Sunday, and SFist captured a trove of images of the day’s prime silliness.
The data from San Francisco's latest point-in-time homeless "census," taken one night in February 2022, shows the first decline in the number of homeless individuals in the city in seven years — countering the age-old narrative that homelessness is "worse than it's ever been."
The SFPD didn't seem too concerned with the usual shenanigans of Bay to Breakers, at least when it came to people carrying around Trulys and bottles of Champagne. But a private security firm was hired to police any and all booze mid-way up Hayes Hill, and they meant business.
SF's high COVID case rate right now is likely due to how cautious the city has been up to now, police are investigating a double shooting in San Jose, and McDonald's announced that it is fully pulling out of Russia after 30 years.
Just after 9:30 a.m. Sunday morning, two cars collided with a Muni bus at 24th and Guerrero streets; four people were injured, and all were taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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.
![[Update] Building Fire at Ellis and Laguna Sends Smoke Over Western Addition, Injures Five, Displaces 18](https://img.sfist.com/2022/05/1355-ellis-fire.jpg)
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.
