Fasten your seat belts for a wild, 11-minute California Highway Patrol high-speed car chase video, which ends with the suspect absconding into the bay, but lo, this tactic proves unsuccessful.
KTVU anchor Frank Somerville was arrested Thursday night after allegedly rear-ending a car in a downtown Oakland intersection and then pushing that car into a pole.
With the new year comes a new hike in bridge tolls on seven state-owned bridges in the Bay Area. And this hike will put rush-hour tolls on the Bay Bridge at a whopping $8 per car — a 167% increase from the $3 we were paying in 2003.
Tensions are high between cannabis dispensaries and the SF police department, after cops seemingly watched a dispensary get robbed without taking action, but the Department of Police Accountability says it's launching a probe.
The search for missing Tahoe resident and Northstar employee Rory Angelotta has been suspended, Oakland police made a second arrest in a murder by Lake Merritt, and a 400-person NYE yacht party in the Bay has local experts worried.
Oakland's 'Jeopardy!' champ makes more history, Litquake's favorite laundromat has permanently closed, and an intentional Mission District hit-and-run has left a man seriously injured.
The Omicron surge has forced the cancellation of New Year’s festivities for Hard French at El Rio, the Melvins concert at Great American Musical Hall, and more.
This daring ski jump and flip nearly turned fatal at Palisades Tahoe, and the skier’s helmet cam video is both exhilarating and absolutely terrifying.
The delayed 20th anniversary of the comedy festival Sketchfest is delayed yet again, but organizers insist “Hang on to your tickets!” for a future rescheduling.
Seven-foot tides will start hitting shores Saturday, and continue through the weekend, as the King Tides will roar in the new year and perhaps bring a little flooding with them.
A smash-and-grab car burglar in San Francisco likely got a prize they didn't want last Monday in the form of a one-year-old tabby cat in a cat-carrier. Now, the cat's parents desperately want her back.
An optimistic but data-rich tweetstorm from UCSF Department of Medicine chair Dr. Bob Wachter lays out the case that we could be on the verge of finally subduing the COVID-19 menace, albeit after a very rough January.
A 33-year-old man from Stockton has been charged with the November 11 murder and attempted robbery of 22-year-old Devani Aleman Sanchez, on a street next to Lake Merritt — and he's been connected to multiple other armed robberies.
San Francisco's whitest neighborhood, the Marina, is experiencing its highest COVID case rate of the pandemic this month — and in a turnaround from last year's trends, it's currently seeing the city's lion's share of new cases.
A body found last week in the Napa River has been confirmed to be that of a missing Napa woman, the boogie-boarder in the fatal shark attack in Morro Bay has been identified, and the jury in the Elizabeth Holmes trial is now off until Jan. 3.
The New Year’s Eve event cancellations are rolling in, Tahoe is a mess but people keep driving there anyway, but the flip side is that snowpack levels are looking shockingly encouraging.
The sentence may have been for more than just selling meth, though, as 48-year-old Andrew Quintero also skipped bail with 28 grand in cash, a gun, and more meth.
The infamous sinking luxury tower is now tilting 26 inches, after a previous fix caused even more leaning, so engineers are instituting yet another controversial new fix.
Several New Year’s events with hundreds or even thousands of guests are still planning to pop the corks. Infectious disease experts worry this means we’ll drop the ball and ring in new superspreader-y times.
Apple is reportedly giving out unusually big bonuses in the form of stock to select groups of engineers in the company, in an effort to stop some attrition that is happening to Facebook/Meta.
Wednesday marks the official — very late — start to Dungeness crab fishing season for the coastal waters off the San Francisco Peninsula, Marin County, and Sonoma County. And that mean's today you'll also get to buy crab directly from crab fishermen at Fisherman's Wharf.
A 19-year-old Santa Rosa man accused of stabbing his rideshare driver in the neck and elbow on Christmas Day has been arrested after being apprehended walking along the Golden Gate Bridge.
A Bay Area man and his girlfriend took the really long way home after spending Christmas weekend in the Tahoe area, in order to avoid horrendous traffic and closed freeways due to the snow.
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You'll need to put your masks back on in gyms, offices, and places of worship in San Francisco and Contra Costa counties, and other counties with similar exceptions in place since October are signaling similar moves.
Extreme weather conditions have hampered a search for a missing skier in Tahoe, the SFPD is investigating a home-invasion robbery of a 90-year-old woman, and more venues cancel NYE events.
