Allegations of a horrible-sounding baseball bat attack against an Asian senior sound a little less horrible as we learn that the baseball bat was a plastic toy, and the alleged attackers were a disabled man in a wheelchair and an 11-year-old boy.
Alphabet's self-driving car arm is running up against a roadblock in its path to becoming a fully-fledged autonomous taxi service in California, and that is coming in the form of a legal battle over its crash data.
The CHP has determined that the big rig slammed into the vehicle causing that fiery crash Wednesday, the wildfire near Big Sur has reached 75% containment, and San Jose has had an especially bad year for traffic fatalities.
The Castro Theatre's new management speaks out about whether it will remain a movie theater, a fire broke out at a Pleasanton senior home, and Casa Sanchez will officially become a historical landmark.
The Powell Street BART station will have working bathrooms again on February 2, Oakland’s 19th Street will get them on February 25, and eventually, you’ll be able to relieve yourself at pretty much every station on the line.
The future of the Castro Theatre as an almost-full-time movie house is in question, but for the short term, the SFFILM Festival will still be screening there this year from April 21-May 1.
Splashy, upscale steakhouse chain STK, which for over a decade has had a pair of "high-energy" locations in New York City as well as others in LA, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Las Vegas, and more, is headed for a big restaurant space in downtown SF.
The reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of The Doodler, a San Francisco serial killer from the mid-1970s who targeted gay men, was doubled Thursday by the SFPD as they say they are "closer than ever" to solving the case.
There still seems to be plenty of Omicron to go around, but starting February 1, San Franciscans will again be able to take their face masks off at the gym and in vaccinated and boosted offices.
Lighthouse Real Estate bought a 14,000-square-foot San Francisco property in December 2021 with the plans to redevelop it into a life science lab site. The previous owner was developer Chris
An East Bay man who’d tried to get recruited by ISIS in 2016, but was dealing with undercover FBI instead, had his sentence reduced from 16 years to seven years, after an appeals court decided that his Twitter threats did not constitute actual terrorism.
Oakland's own Amy Schneider, who now stands second only to host and longstanding champion Ken Jennings after winning a streak of 40 games in a row, was taken out in Wednesday night's game, ending her historic run.
A fiery crash on the Richmond Bridge Wednesday night claimed one life and caused a massive traffic situation, a 76-year-old Colorado man will be arraigned today for a 1978 cold-case murder in SF, and the Moscone Center is hosting its first big conference in a long while.
An appeals court has sided with SF in a battle with PG&E, Omicron may not have peaked yet in some parts of the Bay Area, and the SF Board of Supervisors vote to offer a formal apology for past wrongs to the Chinese community.
This is not a test… the Tuesday noon emergency siren was supposed to return last month, but because of COVID-19 setbacks, will not wail again for nearly three years or longer.
A new and special variant of COVID, which is being called BA.2 Omicron for now, or "stealth" Omicron, has been detected in the Bay Area and across California, but word among experts is that it's not likely to behave much differently than regular Omicron.
The legal fight between the owner of the property at 250 Fourth Street in San Francisco's SoMa district and Virgin Hotels will go to trial in early February, and it remains to be seen whether a hotel will ultimately reopen in that building ever again.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott gave a joint press conference Wednesday to discuss 2021 crime statistics in the city, and while violent crime is up from 2020, other types of crime decreased.
The House Speaker announced she’s running for yet another term in Congress, but did not address whether she would run for Speaker again, and that’s a moot point anyway if Republicans win the chamber back.
Earlier this week there was talk of rain coming next week, maybe on Sunday, probably on Monday and Tuesday, but now the forecast is looking a whole lot dryer.
Media reports confirm that people are allowed to use drugs at the Tenderloin Linkage Center, which some recovery experts applaud, and others say is “like trying to have an AA meeting in a bar.”
The Colorado Fire, still burning since Friday in Monterey County, was sparked by an ember from a burn pile on a nearby residential property, according to Cal Fire.
A triple-stabbing suspect in San Jose got killed in oncoming traffic, the abducted French bulldog in Castro Valley has returned safely home, and SF supervisors approved a new 10-day notice law for evictions that allows for correction of the eviction cause.
Private security firms are facing greater scrutiny in the Bay as more individuals and corporations begin using their services in an increasingly turbulent atmosphere surrounding the area. [SPONSORED] There is already a local
Pfizer thinks they have an Omicron-specific vaccine up their sleeves, Pelosi says she’s running again, and the Giants’ famed steroids slugger Barry Bonds lost out on his last chance to make the Baseball Hall of Fame.
