The restaurateur behind the former Colibri Mexican Bistro near Union Square, as well as Zazil Cocina Mexicana and El Jardin at San Jose's Santana Row, has signed a deal to take over two spaces at the Presidio, including the former Arguello space at the Presidio Officers' Club.
A candlelight vigil is planned for Tuesday evening in San Francisco's Chinatown to mourn the death of 40-year-old Michelle Go, a native of the East Bay who was killed Saturday when she was pushed in front of an oncoming subway train in New York's Times Square.
San Mateo County left $7 million in PPE out to get soaked in the rain, Kaiser workers protest the fact that they don't get MLK Day as a paid holiday, and a video has gone viral of a FedEx package being hurled at a door in SF.
A woman who was fatally pushed in front of a NY subway grew up in Fremont, some high school students in Oakland are planning to boycott school over COVID safety concerns, and Warriors minority owner Chamath Palihapitiya once again proved himself a charmer saying "nobody cares" about the Uyghurs.
A full-page ad in Sunday’s New York Times declares “We did not sign up our families to be crash test dummies for thousands of Tesla cars,” but the ad is affiliated with a rival self-driving software company.
People lined up as early as 7 a.m. on opening day and the lines continued through the weekend at chef Matt Horn’s ballyhooed new chicken sandwich spot Kowbird.
It has been a tense two days in the aftermath of the volcanic eruption near Tonga on Saturday, because an undersea cable that provides the island with all of its phone and internet service was severed, and communications with islanders have been slim to none.
Google has a little Easter egg in the search engine today to honor Betty White on what would have been her 100th birthday — had she not been taken from us *too soon* on New Year's Eve.
A grandmother attempted to battle off armed suspects with her cane, but they stole a purse and a French bulldog anyway, and then found her daughter's house and stole her Mercedes-Benz.
Mission Street revelry returned to SF Sunday night, after the 49ers survived a bizarre ending to upset the Dallas Cowboys and position themselves for another possible Super Bowl run.
As signs point to the Omicron peak already having passed in San Francisco — with case counts falling, as predicted, after a post-holiday surge — we look to the endemic phase of COVID with some trepidation about future variants.
One Southern California couple's beloved pet, who joined their house during the pandemic, has been found safe and returned to her family.
There's a car caravan marking MLK Day in Oakland, a suspected DUI driver was arrested in Sonoma after a crash that killed a 16-year-old boy, and the Chronicle has a photo essay about Dr. King's last big Bay Area speech at UC Berkeley.
Before today's game against the Dallas Cowboys, various San Francisco structures glowed red and gold last night to show the city’s collective support of the 49ers going into Sunday's playoff game.
SF firefighters were deployed to Kelly's Cove after a group of surfers was spotted in distress, there's a startup that will pay Bay Area residents in cryptocurrency to monitor air quality readings, and a growing number of local companies are requiring employees to receive booster shots.
After an explosion at Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano triggered a global tsunami warning — the blast likely the most violent eruption ever captured by satellite — deep waves of displaced water began traveling toward the Bay Area in what was the region's most threatening tsunamic event in a decade.
Just when things were looking up for local commerce, Omicron made its way into San Francisco — taking the city more than a few steps back in its financial recovery from the pandemic. Fast forward over a month later, and car and foot traffic in downtown SF are still anemic.
The impacts of a tsunami stemming from the underwater eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano on Saturday morning are expected to go on for several hours around the Bay Area, with some of the first harbor flooding seen in Santa Cruz.
The National Weather Service issued a Tsunami Advisory for various parts of NorCal Saturday morning, SF Symphony’s performance schedule next week is TBD after members of the orchestra tested positive for COVID-19, and… the world’s oceans are hotter than they’ve ever been in recent history.
“Weird Al” is coming to SF in June, the Prop I high-end real estate tax hike is expected to bring in an extra $170 million a year, and a dispensary-owning Vallejo city councilmember has been blazing off profane emails to constituents.
One dad’s vision has turned into a pedal-powered Critical Mass for kids, as the second iteration drew more than triple the number than last month’s morning bike meetup.
The history of the grand Victorian greenhouse in Golden Gate Park that has served as the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers since 1879 is kind of crazy, and it's had to be rebuilt three times already.
It’s beginning to feel a lot like 2020 again, as more shows cancel and postpone, and several MLK Day celebrations Monday are cancelled too.
San Francisco has just launched a first-of-its kind program that allows car owners — in certain illegal parking situations — to avoid costly tows via a text warning. But some warnings might only come a few minutes before the car gets towed.
Now in its 24th year, SF IndieFest recently announced its 2022 lineup of 42 short and 26 feature films — cinema collected from ten counties — that will show both in-person at the Roxie Theater and online from February 3rd to the 13th.
