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.
A law allowing employees up to 80 hours of paid leave for COVID-19 expired at the end of September, but with unprecedented numbers out sick, California lawmakers may bring it back.
The two long-awaited new park areas being constructed atop the Presidio Parkway tunnels, near the Golden Gate Bridge, are set to open to the public this spring, and we have a preview.
Just two weeks after postponing Sketchfest 2022 indefinitely, the two-week comedy festival announced Friday morning that they’re not trying this again until next year, and waiting it out for 2023.
The teachers' union got what they wanted and SF schools will stay open, Newsom commuted the sentence of a Pulitzer-nominated podcaster at San Quentin, and Sephora just inked a big office lease in downtown SF.
The SF Symphony canceled a Thursday performance due to COVID in the orchestra, a sewage test in the South Bay suggests the Omicron wave has crested, and Gavin Newsom declined to parole Sirhan Sirhan.
The mayor defended her Tenderloin emergency plan on a popular national podcast, but her joke that she "would remove the Board of Supervisors" and critique that they’re mostly white will surely stoke hostilities.
Kicking off the new year at the Golden Gate Theatre is the delayed arrival of The Band's Visit, the touring production of the 2018 Tony Award winner for Best Musical as well as three top acting prizes and a slew of others.
A small but enticingly affordable piece of land over on Telegraph Hill just hit the market for the fifth time in 15 years, with the biggest question being whether it will ever be useful to anyone, for anything.
The odd-numbered-year “homeless census” did not happen at all in 2021, and its delayed return has been pushed out a month in pretty much every Bay Area county, with SF likely making that call Friday.
A proposal to bring three attractions in Golden Gate Park under the same umbrella and nonprofit management is moving forward with help from SF Mayor London Breed — and it would mean that SF residents could visit all three free of charge.
The police union and SFPD Chief Bill Scott are up in arms that charges were dropped in an alleged stabbing of an officer, but the suspect certainly took more of the beating, and details may have been too flimsy for a guilty verdict.
San Francisco’s housing market has seen some unprecedented sales over the past year.
Things may have peaked, but San Francisco's daily average case rate per 100,000 residents has risen above that of Santa Clara and Alameda counties — and above any other in Northern California — for the first time in the pandemic.
Police were called to the area of Congdon Street and Alemany Boulevard around 6:50 a.m. Thursday after a collision created major congestion in San Francisco. The incident took place near 280
