SF’s low-turnout, off-year local school board race is still generating national coverage as a revolt against the “woke left,” and Mayor London Breed hit ‘Meet the Press’ on Sunday to ride that narrative.
On Friday, San Francisco police were called around 6:33 a.m. to assist on-site paramedics in a possible drug overdose on the 600 block of Minna Street. Upon arriving, the victim — a 16-year-old female — was found dead, and the death has been deemed suspicious.
A 36-year-old man was found shot dead in a car in the Mission District, a bomb scare disrupted the exit from a San Jose Sharks game Sunday night, and protests are continuing in Oakland over planned school closures.
The pandemic forced the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to move their Easter festivities away from Dolores Park... and onto the internet. But for the first time in two years, the Sisters are expected to bring their Easter Sunday shenanigans back to the Mission District park on April 17.
San Francisco was alive with the sounds of beat drums and ignited firecrackers as the city's 163rd Chinese New Year Parade — which remains one of the largest of its kind outside of Asia — weaved around Chinatown Saturday night, offering a glimpse into a familiar post-pandemic future.
Massive delays were reported early Sunday along I-880 in Oakland after CHP responded to a fatal crash, a small 2.8M earthquake struck near Gilroy this morning, and Queen Elizabeth II has tested positive for COVID-19.
San Francisco police responded to a shooting on San Jose Avenue near 23rd Street Friday night. Per an eyewitness account, shots were fired between two cars before ending with at least one victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
At least one local rally will be held this weekend in support of Ukraine, the Outer Richmond could see a new non-alcoholic bar open soon, and the Oakland Unified School District board voted against delaying school closures during a virtual meeting Friday.
McDonald's recently launched its "McPlant" burger in the Bay Area, an estimated 73% of all Americans now have some immune protection against Omicron, and Muni is offering free rides for the Lunar New Year weekend.
Former Department of Building Inspection “Employee of the Quarter” Bernard Curran was arrested Friday, and charged with perjury and violating conflict of interest laws, in the latest batch of tentacles spawned by the Mohammed Nuru scandal.
An internal document from the Federal Transit Administration says the BART to San Jose project will take four years longer — and cost twice as much to complete — as Bay Area transit authorities had once estimated.
California is home to the largest share of the United States’ billionaires. Soon, lawmakers say they could have to pay up.
After a very dry January and a crazily dry February, chances of rain coming to the Bay Area remain slim going into the last week of the month.
The three school board members all have their say over being ousted in Tuesday’s recall vote, and soon-to-be-former board president Gabriela Lopez is saying the recall targeted “people of color, primarily women of color.”
Apparently the lawyer who negotiated a settlement in a wrongful death suit brought by the mother of Keith Green might not have been officially representing Chinese real estate heiress Tiffany Li, and now that settlement is being delayed and possibly renegotiated.
The Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office managed to access the text messages on the phone of the pair who died mysteriously with their infant and dog on a hike, texts that never went through, and show the couple knew they were in deep trouble.
Mike Pence's appearance on the Stanford University campus on Thursday evening was not as raucously protested as, say, Ann Coulter's late 2019 appearance at UC Berkeley. But it was protested!
Pleasanton police fatally shot a domestic violence suspect holding a kitchen knife on Thursday, the search continues for a missing Oakley woman, and Oakland's city council just signed off on the EIR for the A's Howard Terminal stadium development.
The MLB lockout is now cutting into Spring Training, the recalled school board members are getting all manner of racist trolling online, and Sonoma County just solved a 1996 murder, albeit too late to deliver justice.
Someone apparently dumped an adult ball python in Chabot Regional Park in Castro Valley, and park officials are scrambling to find it, because the cold-blooded critter is unlikely to survive the chilly nighttime temperatures.
If you don't live in a low-lying beach town in California or know anyone who does, you'd be forgiven for never having heard the term "managed retreat." 'This American Life' tackles the term in a new episode about "apocalypse creep."
Faux Real is a new high-end mocktails shop with no booze, as the alcohol-free, mocktail trend spawns ever more ways to recreate the spirit of drinking without the spirits.
A Tuesday afternoon fight, reportedly among a group of juveniles, in the parking lot of the Castro Safeway, led to shots fired and two minor injuries — including one bullet that went through the glass of a restaurant window across the street.
Kids walked out of class in one school district near Sacramento to protest the mask mandate, while other districts are just refusing to enforce mask-wearing, as tension grows over California dropping mask mandates in general — but not for schools.
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who would have gone down in history as one of the most complicit patsies ever to hold high office were it not for a very last-minute act of defiance, is visiting the Bay Area today.
