Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate has pleaded guilty to federal gun charges in connection with the 2015 shooting of Kate Steinle, BART lost about 2% of its workforce last year to early retirement and the vaccine mandate, and three SF employees are suing over the city's vaccine mandate.
The wildly popular local Twitter celebrity Officer Edith, the SF Animal Care & Control officer who’s ruled the roost on Twitter for nearly seven years, is leaving the organization. But she’s not giving up the Twitter account, and will still tweet!
Eight lucky winners have been awarded decommissioned BART cars, as BART announced these retired cars will be transformed into a retro video game arcade, a bike repair shop, and a beer garden at The Oakland A’s stadium.
A group of 10 people who were dining last week at at an upscale steakhouse in San Jose appears to have wanted to take a special souvenir with them — and it was a very expensive bottle of booze.
Meta made a Putin-specific change to its policy on calling for the assassination of world leaders late last week, then backtracked today for ill-explained reasons.
A program of outdoor festivities at multiple locations around downtown SF is being planned for the last week of March, and city officials really hope that someone is there to attend them.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed and officials from San Francisco International Airport and the San Francisco Travel Association are headed out on a 10-day tour of the Continent in an effort to combat negative press about SF becoming a hellhole.
They’re calling the new fee “temporary fuel assistance for drivers,” but whatever the name, starting Wednesday you will be paying anywhere between 35 and 55 cents extra for any Uber ride or Uber Eats order.
The remains of an eight-year-old girl who may have gone missing as long as three months ago were discovered in a Merced home Friday that belongs to the boyfriend of the girl's mother, and he has since gone on the run.
A little more rain is on the way late tonight and into tomorrow, BART's Red Line is still down and you have transfer to get to Berkeley or Richmond, and an early morning fire displaced five in SF's Oceanview.
San Francisco resident Le Chao has been an avid Scratchers game player for some time — and the odds were really in her favor when she recently scuffed through a Plus the Money card that revealed she'd won $1M.
Caltrain said Sunday that the wreckage from the Thursday collision is all cleared, Contra Costa County firefighters extinguished a two-alarm fire Sunday that affected an Antioch church, and a smattering of light rain has finally fallen in SF.
A new report released by the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) shows that between March 17, 2020, and March 17, 2021, more than twice the average number of deaths among residents experiencing homelessness in the city were recorded. But not because of fatal COVID infections, mind you.
People are actually holding on to their "pandemic pets,” eBay — which is based in San Jose — announced it will ban transactions to Russian addresses, and the SF whiskey bar Hard Water allegedly owes over $400K in past-due rent.
Downtown SF will again be alive with Irish step dances and played bagpipes Saturday when the city's St. Patrick Day Parade begins, coming off a three-year hiatus — which also means a few streets will close to traffic for a few hours.
A man was shot during an attempted robbery in SoMa, there’s a $700M superyacht docked in Italy that might be associated with Putin, and at least one "omicron-delta hybrid" COVID-19 infection has been detected in California.
A Thursday afternoon encampment fire claimed the lives of two dogs and displaced five people, less than a half-mile from the site of a separate encampment fire just ten days ago.
It’s not just San Francisco where law enforcement is unhappy with their DA, as the Contra Costa County Sheriff blasts his DA for pursuing (and winning) a conviction against a deputy in a fatal on-duty shooting.
Legislators in Sacramento are working to craft a quick solution to the University of California's legal battle with a citizens' group in Berkeley, in order that they may be able to admit 2,000 more students this month. And it entails a small revision to CEQA.
The proposed redistricting of the SF Board of Supervisors map has been released, and early reviews from current and former supervisors describe it as ‘horrifying,’ ‘a joke,’ and ‘on crack.’
A Bay Area legend in her own right, Sally Schmitt will be remembered as a pioneer of California Cuisine, before such a thing was even being talked about. Schmitt died at her home in Philo on Saturday at the age of 90.
After a year in which the county's board of supervisors mounted pressure to oust her, Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith announced Thursday that she plans to retire in January and not run for re-election.
The only Black member on the BART board, who had to move because of racial harassment, has been kicked off the board for moving “a stone’s throw” outside of her district. But she says she has the receipts showing BART officials said it was OK for her to move there.
SF Mayor London Breed is announcing her three picks for the school board Friday, and one of them was instrumental in helping to recall the three school board members who were ousted in last month's special election.
The story of the mummified body discovered inside a wall at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland has taken a turn for the less dramatic, and perhaps more tragic.
