Saturday saw hundreds at Market and Powell streets supporting abortion rights, an adorable fox was rescued in Oracle Park, and Jill Biden paid Ukraine a surprise visit on Sunday — spending part of Mother's Day in Uzhhorod, a small war-torn city in the far southwestern corner of the country.
While it's not exactly a surprise nowadays, it's still wild to think that because California's out-of-date power grid is so incompetent, residents of the state expect scheduled power outages and random blackouts regularly — which, for this summer, might affect some 1.3 million.
Bartenders at Cow Hollow's The Blue Light watering hole recently extinguished a fire inside its parklet, Local Take in the Castro is moving locations, and FYI: Xanath Ice Cream on Valencia Street is, in fact, not permanently closed, after all.
Chinatown's massive Tiger Dragon mural was recently defaced, a small plane crashed in the Marin Headlands this afternoon — killing two people — and the 48-year-old flea market at the BART station parking lot on Ashby Avenue is being forced to move.
The same concept from “the mess on Van Ness” is being applied to 16th Street, and is expected to take more than a year to complete, but in this case at least Phase 1 of the project was pretty much completed on time.
A new smoothie-swinging robot is bringing the Metreon into the Age of Ultron, but oddly, the Stepford smoothie robot asks to be tipped for its services.
A 20-year-old Berkeley man is in custody following the shooting death of his roommate on Tuesday, which police say happened in the course of an altercation in the home that was witnessed by the suspect's grandmother, who also lives there.
An Ed Lee statue now sits outside the Chase Center, an homage to the mayor who shepherded the arena’s approval and construction, and considered it his legacy project.
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.
