Three tech “pranksters” are holding a contest — deadline April 7 — for a public art project that will transform a barren alley in SF’s Sunset District into a 1,280-piece art quilt. The friends recently purchased the alley from a couple who mistakenly thought they were buying a nearby duplex.
The revamp of the Clay Theater has cleared a key hurdle with Historic Preservation; the SFPD just welcomed its largest recruit class in a decade; and K-Pop group NMIXX is throwing out the first pitch at the Giants' game Monday.
Embattled former City Hall figure Sheryl Davis has delayed her arraignment; a rabid bat was found in Fremont; and Sunday Streets has made it halfway to its fundraising goal.
To celebrate the label's 30th birthday, Om Records is having both a free Day Party and a ticketed Night Party on Saturday, May 9, and the daytime event will, like several other EDM parties before it, happen at Embarcadero Plaza.
A Washington homicide suspect with prior warrants in the East Bay was arrested in Missouri this week after he was mistakenly released in October from Contra Costa County’s Martinez Jail while waiting to be extradited to Washington state.
In an opinion piece in the New York Times this week, Craig Newmark of Craigslist fame wrote about his decision to sign the “Giving Pledge” last year with the goal of giving up to $1 billion to nonprofits, and he’s been encouraging other wealthy people to do the same.
Questions remain about what, exactly, was said the night of October 22 when San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie got on the phone with President Trump to encourage him to call off his federal agent surge. But the mayor's office says there's nothing being kept from the public.
The winning mascot chosen to serve as the crew’s official zero-gravity indicator aboard the Artemis II on its trip to the moon Wednesday was created by eight-year-old Lucas Ye of Mountain View, who beat out more than 2,600 other contestants internationally, including adults and kids.
Taking the guesswork out of how early you need to be at the airport, United Airlines has added a very helpful feature to its app, in the midst of an ongoing congressional impasse over the funding that keeps TSA operating.
An allegedly stolen vehicle that San Francisco police spotted and tried to pull over in SoMa Wednesday evening ended up being at the center of a chase that ended on the Bay Bridge.
Attorney General Pam Bondi today becomes the second high-profile firing of the second Trump administration, and the second woman fired from the cabinet, after months in which her handling of the Epstein affair created further political liabilities for President Trump.
A group of residents gathered outside the Marina Safeway Wednesday in protest of the proposed redevelopment of the property into a 25-story mixed-use tower, which they say would unfavorably impact the neighborhood, and the city is required to finalize the design review by August 1.
If you took a Waymo anywhere on Wednesday, you were likely treated to a little April Fool's prank. Isn't it cute when the robots try to have fun with us?
There was an overnight earthquake in the Santa Cruz Mountains that may have jolted you awake; the 17-year-old victim in Tuesday's stabbing in Milpitas has been identified; and a Chinatown nonprofit has bought the Empress of China building.
Trump is building a high-rise presidential library in Miami; San Francisco’s current projected two-year deficit is $644 million, $234 million less than last month’s projected number; and nonprofits supporting the trans community are preparing for impending city and federal budget cuts.
A San Francisco jury has convicted Lisa Gonzales of the 2018 murder of her roommate Margaret Mamer, in a gruesome case in which police found Mamer's body dismembered and decomposing in a plastic bin.
Apple celebrated 50 years in business in high style, on a Tuesday, at Apple Park in Cupertino, with none other than Sir Paul McCartney performing live in the rainbow bandshell.
The Walnut Creek man who was arrested and charged in the September 2025 double murder of his wife and mother-in-law is now being charged with a third murder that took place over a year prior.
CHP’s investigation into an incident involving San Leandro Police Chief Angela Averiett, who’s accused of clipping a car on I-580 — knocking its side mirror with hers, found that the damage was consistent on both cars’ mirrors, but no charges were ever filed.
An apparent domestic violence homicide in Sunnyvale in January has been made political by Trump's Department of Homeland Security, as the agency is seizing on the fact that the suspects arrested were both Honduran nationals who had previously been deported.
History, as we all know, never gets tired of its own repeats, and much like Trump and his ilk want to say the 14th Amendment doesn't apply to brown people, government officials tried to say it didn't apply to Chinese Americans either, over a century ago.
A Richmond man charged in a 2024 fatal hit-and-run in San Pablo failed to appear in court in January after the judge reduced his bail last year, and a $1 million bench warrant was issued for his arrest.
The 25-year-old man who was arrested last week for the killing of his 22-year-old girlfriend in the Sunset District reportedly told police that he was dry-firing his gun when he accidentally fired the fatal shot, apparently not knowing the gun was loaded.
A 17-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in a chaotic fight involving ten teens in Milpitas; Allbirds just sold for $39 million; and Trump made the unprecedented move of attending oral arguments for the birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court.
A 60-year-old cold case was solved using DNA analysis in San Rafael; an American journalist was kidnapped in Iran; and the top three candidates running for Nancy Pelosi's seat in the House of Representatives are debating in Hayes Valley Tuesday night.
