As sidewalk bazaars of items that “fell off a truck” crowd Mission Street and Civic Center, the Board of Supervisors just passed a bill to regulate and permit vendors to keep the stolen stuff out.
The judge in the trial of SFPD Officer Terrance Stangel, a trial which ended Monday in a near complete acquittal, sounded less than patient with the District Attorney's Office on Tuesday when a request was made for a new court date.
San Francisco has no shortage of pop-up events to attend, but Potion Putt — which is currently occupying the indoor space at SVN West in SoMa — has brought something novel to the city: a reimagining of mini-golf with a magical twist.
While the “Shared Spaces” program is spawning permanent, lovely parklets in SF and the greater Bay Area, a quagmire of new permits, regulations, and costs will be kicking in soon.
The owner of a Hayward sports bar that was featured on the show Bar Rescue a few years back has been in some major trouble with the feds, and he was just found guilty of smuggling cocaine via SFO.
It does not make sense to drive too far out of your way to fill up your tank, but with gas prices as crazy as they are in California right now, apps and websites that track gas prices are your friend.
Newsom will give his third State of the State address today at 5 p.m., two workers had to be rescued after a 75-foot fall off an Oakland hills home on Monday, and problems continue after an electrical issue on BART's Richmond line.
The mayor of Vallejo has made a public statement about a death that he says should not have been ruled a suicide, Newsom's CARE Court idea probably needs a lot more funding, and Joe Rogan has chimed in about the South Bay MMA vigilante case.
Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s fourplex legislation is not a done deal yet, and the expedited review process could still be yanked from the recent SB-9 legislation
The NIMBY group Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods won a court battle and trimmed UC Berkeley’s enrollment by 3,000. Now they’re offering a new deal to cut it by only 2,000, but the school says ‘No thanks, we’ll keep fighting you.’
The largest, nationwide legal marijuana retailer San Francisco has seen yet, MedMen, just opened a Cow Hollow outpost. But the former high-flying Green Rush “unicorn” arrives in SF awash in red ink and restructuring after a high-profile flame-out.
As the U.S. death toll from the pandemic nears one million people and the worldwide death toll hits six million, new data suggests that the recent Omicron wave was much deadlier for the elderly, whether they were vaccinated or not, than previously understood.
![[Update] Jury Reaches Verdict, Acquits SFPD Officer on Three Counts for Use of Force, Deadlocked on One Count](https://img.sfist.com/2022/03/sfpd-squad-car-back-getty.jpg)
The jury in the historic trial of a San Francisco police officer for the excessive use of force used to detain a suspect reached verdicts on three of four counts on Monday, acquitting Terrance Stangel of the charges, but they remained deadlocked on a final count.
The cheapest deal in Bay Area public transit takes you ten miles for a measly dollar, as a little-known Caltrans shuttle offers $1 dollar trips between Pier 30 and MacArthur BART, and it’s been quietly running for almost 45 years.
A new report from the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department strongly recommends that the city make JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park permanently free of vehicle traffic, and following a hearing on the proposal Thursday, the ball is in the Board of Supervisors' court.
Following public pleas last week on social media by his brother to help locate him, 21-year-old Christopher Liang appears to have met a tragic end while on an "erratic" road trip from the Bay Area.
San Francisco Animal Care & Control put out a warning over the weekend to be on the lookout for animals like coyotes and foxes appearing disoriented, because there have been recent instances of canine distemper.
A dead body was found near the Harrison Street off-ramp from the Bay Bridge on Sunday, a 61-year-old woman was killed in a hit-and-run on International Blvd. in Oakland, and Netflix and TikTok are shutting down in Russia.
San Francisco's only Ukrainian restaurant, Pushkin, and One House Bakery — an artisanal bakeshop located in Benicia — recently held separate fundraising events to aid humanitarian efforts spurred by the war ravaging Ukraine, which has left more than 1.5 million people to flee the country.
![[Update] Three Identified In Saturday Morning Drug Overdose Deaths In Mission District](https://img.sfist.com/2022/03/GettyImages-926719206.jpeg)
San Francisco police responded to a report of three unresponsive individuals on the 3400 block of 19th Street Saturday around 7:52 a.m.; though emergency responders were on-site to offer medical aid, all three were pronounced dead on the scene.
Three men were shot near the Oakland airport Friday, Bay Area COVID-19 cases continue falling (though might not hit rock bottom for a few more weeks), and it looks like we can expect overnight delays on the Bay Bridge until at least March 23.
ABC 7's Dion Lim, who at this point is essentially the station's Walgreens theft beat reporter, brings us another video of a brazen shoplifting incident that devolves into food being thrown.
Maki — the SF zoo lemur that captured hearts around the world after he was kidnapped (and then recovered) in October of 2020 — has passed away at the ripe old age of twenty-two, according to San Francisco Zoo & Gardens officials.
Only 16% of renters who applied for rent relief from CA have received their payments, a small 3.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded near Pinnacles Park this morning, and USF student Christopher Liang hasn't been heard from since going on an "impulsive" trip Monday from SF to Irvine.
Highway 50 near South Lake Tahoe is back open, Bay Area rent prices continue inching closer to pre-pandemic levels, and a local couple — with the help of their friends — has raised nearly $200K in funds to help people fleeing Ukraine.
