Man Knocked From San Francisco Garbage Truck Can Sue Uber, Court Says
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.
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.
Posey and his wife just sold their mansion in the Happy Valley neighborhood of Lafayette
A wrong-way car chase had both Oakland police and BART police in hot pursuit Thursday evening, and news chopper video shows a BART police SUV and three other vehicles taking damage before the suspect was nabbed.
A new study from the University of Michigan says self-driving trucks could be the solution to the trucker shortage, replacing as many as 500,000 long-haul trucking jobs. Last-mile delivery, like local SF movers, might follow suit, too. [SPONSORED]
Local media interviewed a lot of tourists who came to see Duke and Gonzaga play at the Chase Center, the suspect in two stabbings in Guerneville was found dead, and admissions policy changes for SF's Lowell High School means a lot more kids apply there.
Tomorrow is the last day to register for next week’s Burning Man ticket sale, that tiny-house fire in Oakland is raising serious safety questions for the company that built them, and the SF Zoo is mourning the loss of 18-year-old Sumatran tiger Leanne.
Fnnch, the local "street" artist whose honey bears long ago overstayed their welcome and who should maybe, I dunno, try something new art-wise, has made a yellow-and-blue honey bear as a fundraiser for Ukraine, and it all just feels like more self-promotion.
Since the Sweet 16 brings blue-chip tournament teams Duke and Gonzaga to town, ticket prices are off the charts for today's games in SF, and could double again by Saturday.