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.
Ousted school board member Faauuga Moliga has just abruptly resigned, Marin County has lifted its water-use restrictions, and Assemblymember Phil Ting has introduced legislation to decriminalize jaywalking.
SF DA Chesa Boudin is dismissing charges against a woman who was ID'd using DNA from an old rape kit, London Breed says she'll start interviewing school board candidates soon, and Off the Grid Fort Mason returns in April.
Wind advisories in effect left the Sierra's often already dangerous roads even more treacherous, as a trucker was killed due to high winds on a Sierra Nevada highway on Tuesday.
The SF Department of Public Health gave pot dispensary lounges the “smoke ‘em if you got ‘em” signal on Tuesday, and you’d better believe that some of those lounges were firing up come Wednesday morning.
It's got to be hard when you move to a new town and get tasked with critiquing its sacred cows. And this week finds Chronicle food critic Soleil Ho getting back to that business with a review of Michael Mina's whole local empire.
Stealing whole ATMs full of cash may sound like a deviously brazen scheme, but when the suspect also steals an American Legion Hall’s donation box of eyeglasses for veterans, well, that’s where we draw the line.
Mayor London Breed’s office and the SF Board of Supervisors recently announced the completion of a deal between housing developer Crescent Heights and Maximus Real Estate Partners that will lead to an affordable housing project of 330 low-income units at 1979 Mission Street.
Rosie the French bulldog puppy was returned to her humans not long after a violent robbery on New Year's Day, and six weeks later police say they have arrested a suspect.
Mark your calendar for the final weekend in June, as SF Pride says the whole Pride Weekend-long lineup is back on for an in-person celebration June 25-26, 2022.
SFMTA is confident enough that they’ll finally finish the Van Ness Transit Project by April 1 that they’re already scheduling the ribbon-cutting and party ceremony, and after nearly 18 years of red tape, the red lanes will finally have buses cruising through them.
SF Supervisor Matt Haney and former Supervisor David Campos are heading for a runoff election in April, after neither received more than 50% of the vote on Tuesday in the race for David Chiu's former Assembly seat.
This election, with eyes on it from around the country, proved to be a clear referendum on the school board, despite relatively low voter turnout.
The masks come off (mostly) in SF today yet again, that mystery tattooed patient in Oakland has been ID'd, and there was a shooting in the parking lot of the Castro Safeway that injured one person.
The first ever Latina judge has been nominated to the California Supreme Court, Oscar winner Mahershala Ali just bought a sweet Oakland Hills bungalow, and your June 7 Recall Chesa Boudin ballot will also contain a measure to reign in all these recalls.
