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.
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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.
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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.
District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s office released an annual report on SF convictions and prosecutions, giving both sides grist on whether he’s prosecuting hard, or hardly prosecuting.
Apple has "paused" the sale of its products in Russia in protest of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and Apple Pay has been disabled or "limited" in the country as well.
The Department of Homeland Security just returned a trove of artifacts deemed to be the property of the French government, and five gold ingots that were likely smuggled to the U.S. decades ago and which landed in a Bay Area auction house, were among them.
Just four days after suggesting it would be extending the mask mandate for San Francisco students beyond the state's recommended date, San Francisco Unified School District announced Friday that the masks will, in fact, be optional starting March 12 at middle and high schools.
The longtime home of Scala's Bistro at the hotel formerly known as the Sir Francis Drake will be reborn shortly as a French brasserie from the Left Bank Brasserie team, possibly called Left Bank.
After President Volodymyr Zelenskyy put out a call for Ukrainian-Americans to come home and fight — complete with a handy QR code to register — around 1,400 Bay Area Ukrainians are trying to do just that.
It has happened. Russia's war on Ukraine has pushed gas prices north of $5 for much of the Bay Area and California. And for people who are suddenly commuting back to work... maybe this will bolster BART ridership?
Two people were shot in the Fillmore District Thursday night, "cabin-sized" boulders fell and blocked Highway 50 in both directions near South Lake Tahoe, and Apple sets a return-to-the-office date of April 11 with everyone expected three days per week by May 23.
A Ukrainian nuclear power plant is reportedly on fire after a Russian attack, a new sobriety meetup group is catering to SF food and beverage industry workers, and Elon Musk is daring the United Auto Workers to just come and try to unionize his Tesla plants.
It's been over five years since a 34-year-old mother of two suddenly disappeared while on a morning jog near her Redding-area home and then turned up, bruised and "branded," by the side of a road 22 days later. The story always seemed fishy, and it was, the feds say!
San Francisco could be a two Pride Parade town this year, as the upstart People’s March on Polk Street is planning to return — on the same day as the SF Pride Parade, and possibly even the same time.
