A video that just surfaced, filmed at Bloomingdale's at SF's Westfield Mall, depicts a horrifying scene that brings up issues about SF's problem of untreated mental illness, and inexcusable violence committed in a misguided vigilante mindset.
A 69-year-old San Jose man who attends a lot of public meetings is facing a hearing over shooting threats he made at a VTA meeting, rattlesnakes are out early in the East Bay, and a man who entered Gavin Newsom's home in 2018 is not fit to stand trial according to an appeals court.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for new water restrictions on businesses, United Airlines is bringing back a bunch of non-stop flights at SFO, and Will Smith has offered a full apology to Chris Rock and everyone via Instagram.
The dirty air from wildfire smoke could occur two to three times more frequently a generation or two down the line, thanks to a vicious cycle that makes the smoky air itself cause more wildfires.
It makes perfect economic sense that the producers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child made the mid-pandemic decision that when the show returned to its multiple international stages in late 2021 and early 2022, it would do so as a slimmed down, one-night affair.
Friday Happy Hours remain on the rocks, but Thursdays are suddenly hopping, as hybrid work produces mixed results for SF bars’ economic recovery.
The Supreme Court has agreed to review a challenge to a California law that was set to take effect this year that was intended to curb animal cruelty by banning the sale of veal, pork, and eggs that were not humanely raised.
An injured sanitation worker who was "doored" by an Uber passenger five years ago has the right to sue the driver and Uber, an appellate court has ruled.
The Ruby Princess cruise ship, once known as the “Plague Ship” for its superspreading role early in the pandemic, arrived at the Port of San Francisco with positive cases Sunday, but left for Hawaii later in the day.
Around 250 people convened at SF's Harvey Milk Plaza Sunday to stand in solidarity with Cleve Jones — the celebrated 67-year-old gay rights activist — as he called attention to his own displacement and others' in the neighborhood.
A multi-vehicle crash on Sunday in Oakland's Fruitvale District looks to be the result of a fatal shooting in a different location, and now has become a homicide investigation.
The mother of the 8-year-old Hayward girl found dead in Merced is due in court today, hundreds gathered for a rally in support of Ukraine on Sunday in Crissy Field, and a shooting outside a Pinole bowling alley left two injured Sunday night.
SFPD reported that a group of filmmakers was robbed — in broad daylight — early Friday night at Twin Peaks. Video uploaded to social media shows one assailant pointing a gun at the victims as another criminal emptied the crew’s vehicle of equipment.
The wettest weather yet this year is expected to start coming down this afternoon, drones were used to locate a missing boy in Concord Saturday, and police are investigating a fatal shooting near San Jose State University.
On Friday, citing two recent whale entanglements caused by crab-fishing gear, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) said that April 8 will be the last day of Dungeness crab fishing for most of the state.
83-year-old Kenichi Horie, who's captaining the Mermaid III — a 19-foot-long sailboat — left the San Francisco Bay Saturday en route to Osaka, Japan. What's more impressive? He's doing the entire trip by himself.
A two-alarm apartment fire Friday night in Antioch displaced at least 21 people, this weekend’s March Madness and the SailGP Race events will bring swaths of tourists to SF, and Taylor Hawkins, the beloved drummer of the Foo Fighters, has died at 50 years old.
The Presidio Raptor Cam is back after a two-year hiatus, Cupertino’s new massive development project under construction will include 2,400 below-market-rate housing units, and BART recorded 138,794 riders yesterday—marking the single-busiest day for the rapid transit agency in two years.
Hoping to make the school board recall an ongoing wedge issue for progressive supervisors, a new PAC is targeting two supes who opposed it, and announced an ambitious fundraising goal for the Boudin recall.
Beer geeks the nation over have gotten it into their heads that Russian River Brewing's annually released, extra-piney triple IPA called Pliny the Younger is something that is worth standing in a long line for. And once again, that is what some local beer geeks are doing.
Scott Peterson, who has been back in a San Mateo County courtroom in recent weeks as his legal team continues trying to get his 2004 murder conviction overturned because of a single, allegedly biased juror, wants out of the county jail and back into San Quentin, and a judge is allowing it.
The Pioneer Tree, a massive and historic redwood within the Samuel P. Taylor State Park, fell Thursday morning following a small, isolated fire.
A weary San Francisco has learned to roll its eyes at any announcement of progress on the Van Ness bus lane construction project, but the Van Ness Improvement Project really will have its grand opening in less than a week.
It's a tale at least as old as the first dot-com boom in SF, as elderly renters face displacement or eviction due to the real estate pressures that make rent control precarious. And now one of the Castro's elder statesmen has fallen victim as well.
Two men, one of them residing in Daly City, pleaded guilty this week in a scheme caught by the feds that involved the creation and sale of fake driver accounts on rideshare and delivery apps that enabled foreign nationals to drive for these services in the U.S.
