The Texas man who carjacked an Oakland man Tuesday also had his young daughter with him, a Bay Area teacher was charged by Contra Costa County prosecutors Friday with 29 counts of child molestation, and Arinell Pizza is in danger of closing.
The Dolan Fire that killed a firefighter and 12 California condors was started intentionally, and the 31-year-old illegal marijuana grower who started it was found guilty of arson on Thursday.
Alioto's, the quintessential Fisherman's Wharf seafood spot with a giant number 8 on its facade commemorating the fish stall that Sicilian immigrant Nunzio Alioto Sr. once ran nearby, is giving up the ghost after temporarily closing two years ago.
Tucked away next to a McDonald's on Route 12 at the edge of the town of Sonoma, a short drive from the town square, is a new restaurant focused on Basque-style, wood-fired meat and fish, from a former New York City ramen chef.
Bathhouses were ordered closed at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s, but they’re on the way back, as the SF Planning Commission just approved “adult sex venue” zoning legislation.
SFMOMA is putting on a fun-for-the-people event in McLaren Park that was first and last held in the 1970s, and it's all about artists creating kooky contraptions in which to roll down a hill.
The Alameda police officers implicated in the April 2021 death of Mario Arenales Gonzalez will not face criminal charges, after the Alameda County District Attorney's Office announced a decision Thursday.
Your San Francisco Giants have their Home Opener Friday afternoon, and while the defending NL West champions are given little chance to repeat last year’s stunning success, Kapler and the Captain have other ideas.
A three-alarm fire on Noe Street in Duboce Triangle early this morning displaced five people, a grass fire broke out Thursday by Baker Beach, and an elderly woman was held at gunpoint in an Ingleside home invasion.
San Francisco had its hottest day in more than six months, there's a naming contest on for the new male Berkeley Campanile falcon, and the city’s Department of the Environment director is out after soliciting a $25,000 Recology donation.
The SF Planning Commission spent Thursday afternoon debating a “housing element” plan on which billions in state aid is contingent, but so far, state authorities have rejected 97% of other cities’ housing plans.
The day after playing at Bottom of the Hill, Venezuelan band Zeta was robbed of their passports and gear in Oakland, but their tour is still trucking thanks to a GoFundMe outpouring.
San Francisco has a supply of the two antiviral drugs approved for treating cases of COVID-19, but they may have to return thousands of doses if they don't get used — and thousands have already been returned to the federal government.
A different high-end Indian restaurant will take up where Dosa left off in the former bank space it called home for over a decade on Lower Fillmore, at the edge of Japantown.
After a week-long search for a missing couple merely found an empty RV in Nevada, the couple was located, but 72-year-old Ronnie Barker was already dead.
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A homicide occurred early this morning a block away from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
A Napa-based naturopathic doctor took matters a little too far in her homeopathic advice to patients about COVID-19, both discouraging them from getting "toxic" vaccines and duping them into taking pellets she claimed would provide lifelong immunity from the virus.
The SF Redistricting Task Force kept redrawing supervisor districts in another raucous meeting that went ‘til nearly 3:30 Thursday morning, but now three members of the commission might be kicked off, and mind you this three days before their deadline.
In what is becoming a pattern in the debate over a car-free JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park, District 1 supervisor Connie Chan introduces a rival plan to the plan around which consensus is otherwise forming.
It's going to be quite hot all over the Bay today, with thermometers hitting 90 degrees and above in multiple spots. But the National Weather Service notes that this may not be a record-breaker of a day for most locales, because the records around here for April 7 are pretty high.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the latest top government official to test positive for COVID, another fatal shooting took place on a cul de sac by Lake Merritt that has been the frequent scene of violence, and Napa's school board has voted down a ban on "all future mask mandates."
Some local leaders say that crime plaguing Oakland's cannabis delivery and dispensary industry over the past few years puts minority business owners at greater risk of closure.
A former Uber employee is suing the company and claiming they violated federal law, an armed 63-year-old man was arrested for making criminal threats after barricading himself in an SF building, and the Mavericks surf contest is getting revived.
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday took a largely performative stand against a proposed Native American-owned casino project in Windsor, voting a resolution to oppose the project.
