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.
An SF navigation center has seen an outbreak of nearly 50 COVID-19 cases, today may prove to be historically cold, and former Raiders coach and beloved NFL broadcaster John Madden has passed away.
The official New Year’s Eve fireworks display was abruptly canceled late Tuesday afternoon, and don’t be surprised if other planned New Year’s Eve parties start getting canceled en masse over the next 48 hours.
A federal appeals court has ruled that criminal charges can apply to a Bay Area man who emailed Mitch McConnell saying “the resistance is coming to DC to slash your throat,” and “You will die in the street,” along with some other choice profanities.
On Saturday, the new California law making to-go cocktails a fully legal and legit thing statewide will take effect — and it will stay in effect for five years, pending extensions.
Both Muni and Caltrain will offer free service on New Year's Eve, and while BART will not be free, they’re running an extra 1 a.m. train.
The delivery service DoorDash is requiring employees with cushy desk jobs to perform a couple deliveries every month. Some of the cushy-desk-job types are throwing fits about it.
The two people who tragically died last week when their car became submerged in rapidly rising floodwaters beneath a Caltrain overpass in Millbrae have been identified as a married couple who lived nearby.
The last four daily totals of new COVID infections from the San Francisco Department of Public Health are higher than any others previously in the pandemic, as Omicron rages across the region. But should we be as anxious about this as in previous surges?
Snow fell in Angwin and some other lowish-lying places around the Bay this morning, lots of people remain stranded in Tahoe due to snow, and some bars around the Castro have temporarily closed due to Omicron worries.
Oakland is beefing up police presence around Lake Merritt, Google will pay a $13 million settlement for stealing people's WiFi passwords, and the COVID-19 isolation period has been reduced to five days — but only if you’re asymptomatic.
The final redistricting maps are in, and the assembly district David Campos and Matt Haney are running for is slightly reconfigured, but not as whitewashed as originally proposed.
After chasing down a blue Subaru Outback early Sunday morning in Bay Point, two officers got out of their cruisers to arrest the suspect. The suspect promptly mowed them down and drove off.
Thanks to atmospheric rivers and cyclone remnants pummeling the NorCal coast since October 1, this is officially the wettest water year to date since 1983 — and this is great news for the drought.
In another sign of wealth absolutely not correlating with intelligence, multiple cruise ships are swimming in COVID-19, as outbreaks among passengers and crew have ships of fools unable to disembark at their destinations.
On Christmas Eve, a 31-year-old man was killed in an apparent shark attack while in the water in Morro Bay. It's the first fatal shark attack of 2021 in the U.S.
Thiebaud’s paintings of cakes, pinball machines, and cityscapes have fetched up to $40 million, and the painter who passed away on Christmas Day.
Some very cold air is descending on the Bay Area this week ahead of another storm system, and all signs point to Tuesday morning likely being the chilliest that San Francisco has seen in four years.
While the data from the city remains five days behind, San Francisco is experiencing a COVID surge right now that will likely eclipse last winter's in sheer numbers — but hopefully not in hospitalizations or deaths.
The Tahoe area continues to be mostly impassable due to snow, a power outage early this morning halted BART service to SFO, and airlines continue to cancel hundreds of flights per day due to COVID-related staffing shortages.
Late Saturday night and early Sunday morning saw snowflakes fall on some of the Bay Area's highest peaks. But even frozen precipitation is expected as soon as Tuesday, a good amount of that snow piling up in lower elevations, as well.
Continuing its decades-long tradition of serving free holiday feasts, volunteers dished out over 600 free Christmas morning meals at Glide Memorial Church yesterday — many of those meals enjoyed underneath tents set up along Ellis Street.
Hundreds of flights either leaving from or coming into the United States have already been canceled Sunday, the China Beach bathhouse is getting a $20M renovation, and a mixture of freezing temperatures and steady precipitation made for a snowy Christmas night in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Around 8:15 p.m. Friday, Oakland police responded to a cul-de-sac near Lake Merritt that has been the scene of multiple violent incidents this year, and found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
Rain is forecasted to keep pouring down today and into early next week, a few Bay Area holiday pop-up bars will open later today, and… merry Christmas!
