The much publicized Tenderloin emergency declaration will fizzle out Thursday, and the Board of Supervisors spent four hours debating its effectiveness Tuesday, concluding it merely pushed the urban blight to other parts of the city.
There were a couple more salvos in both directions this week from the campaign to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and those who support him, with each side trying to use arguably shaky numbers to bolster their cases.
BART service this morning between Dublin and Pleasanton was disrupted by a death on the tracks, those Uber/Lyft gas surcharges kick in, and a powerful earthquake near Fukushima in Japan is prompting tsuami warnings — but not for us.
Michael Mina is launching a new boutique restaurant development group, the “food desert” Bayview may have a Lucky Supermarket on the way, and Vice President Harris’ husband has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
Two or three people are still taking their lives on the bridge each month, but the completion date for a long-sought suicide detrerrent net is finally on the horizon.
Merced authorities confirmed on Tuesday that the remains of a girl found at a residence in the city last week are those of eight-year-old Sophia Mason, who was reported missing by family members in the East Bay.
After two disappointing seasons of missing the playoffs, as well as injuries among all of Golden State's superstar veterans, after last night the Warriors are another step closer to being whole and in form again.
The Project Homekey bonanza has San Mateo County officials talking as if they will solve homelessness in their county in 2022, though their homeless population is a fraction of San Francisco’s.
The suspect has been identified in that brazen and ill-conceived theft of an expensive bottle of Remy Martin Louis XIII Cognac from a steakhouse on Mt. Hamilton last week, and she's very, very sorry.
The majority of residents and businesses in the state of California appear to have ignored calls for voluntary reductions in water usage during the current drought emergency. The Bay Area is the only exception, but even we only decreased usage by less than 2%.
The public is getting its first look at a burglary crew suspected of making short work of a string of wealthy Silicon Valley homes, and authorities say they are professional "burglary tourists" from South America.
The University of San Francisco Dons have made the Men’s NCAA Tournament for the first time in 24 years, and while the Sweet 16 will be played at the Chase Center, the Dons are bracketed to a different region.
Over 100 employees with the San Francisco Unified School District protested outside the district’s headquarters Monday, demanding missed or incorrect checks be rectified and paid out — and around two dozen of them spent the night outside the downtown district office.
The legislature passed — and Newsom signed — a quick fix to CEQA to let UC Berkeley keep its enrollment number, lawmakers are pushing to suspend California's gas tax, and the jury has been seated in the Sunny Balwani fraud trial.
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.
