Call it the Pineapple Express or an atmospheric river, but the pre-winter season of 2021 is really coming through so far in terms of some (potentially) drought-ending precipitation.
Tahoe got inundated with a thick dumping of snow on Monday and it is still snowing, a 14-year-old in Fairfield was arrested for threats to a high school, and the oldest living person in California resides in the East Bay.
Oakland had its 131st homicide today — tying a record from 2012 — BART says 91% of its workers are vaccinated, and SFO got almost 3 inches of rain in the last 24 hours.
The war over the SF Board of Education ramped up Monday as Mayor London Breed proposed a charter amendment that would limit the power of the board, and the recall movement is suing to halt a negative endorsement by the local Democratic Party.
The gang of thieves in the infamous November 20 Union Square flash-mob robbery apparently didn’t even know each other, as law enforcement officials now say the crew was recruited via the disappearing message app Snapchat.
A pair of separate weekend shootings in San Francisco left three people injured and one female victim dead.
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California is reimposing a broad indoor mask mandate this week as the Omicron variant continues spreading, holiday gatherings proliferate, and as COVID cases and hospitalizations tick upward across the state.
San Jose police arrested 15 suspects for stealing and selling catalytic converters, but more interestingly, they say three auto shops were “knowingly purchasing stolen catalytic converters from street criminals.”
A franchisee who operated multiple Burger King locations in San Francisco and has closed down or sold all of its locations in the last two years is on the hook for $1.9 million for a wage-theft citation involving over 200 employees.
Some claim pork prices could fatten up by 60% when a new California law takes effect January 1, but this may be industry trade groups just hoping to bring home more bacon.
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When the holiday season rolls around in the Bay Area, there’s one universal gift idea that makes sense for just about anyone: cannabis. From CBD tinctures to live resin concentrate, Eaze has
A woman sitting in a parklet outside Balboa Cafe with two friends last week had her purse snatched by a thief in a vehicle that pulled up beside the parklet — and the crime didn't end there.
Heavy rain and landslide potential have shut down a 40-mile stretch of Highway 1, today is the deadline for all BART employees to be vaccinated, and the 49ers eked out a messy win.
Organized by United Playaz — a violence prevention and youth development nonprofit — SF’s annual gun buyback event was held Saturday at 1038 Howard Street where more than two hundred firearms were surrendered.
A large storm system entered the North Bay Saturday night, beloved novelist Anne Rice has died due to complications following a sudden stroke, and SantaCon descended on SF Saturday — which seemed quieter than prior years.
Thursday afternoon, San Francisco firefighters pulled a man from the surf at Eagle's Point, the victim described as being in "critical condition." Fire officials later announced that the man had died from his sustained injuries.
Almost 500 SF students convened at City Hall Friday to advocate for more actions from the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) on sexual assault and harassment cases — noting that the school district's response to sexual misconduct is lacking.
There was yet another smash-and-grab car robbery recorded in SF, the Oakland Ballet Company will bring ‘The Nutcracker’ back to the stage next weekend, and a large fire broke out at 335 Barneveld at Newcomb avenues Saturday morning — but it's now contained.
Steph Curry urged lawmakers to pass the Freedom to Vote Act, longtime Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen has passed away at 59 years old, and a car robbery played out Monday afternoon on Lombard Street — with four family members inside.
Newsom told Whoopi, Joy, and the gang on ‘The View’ that “I don't mean this as a cheap shot,” but then proceeded to call out Governor Ron DeSantis over Florida’s COVID death toll.
Fans of the Bay Club San Francisco Tennis facility, a replacement for which was promised by the developer of the 88 Bluxome complex when the project was approved two years ago, scored a possible win at the Board of Appeals on Wednesday.
Plant-based imitation-meat darling Impossible Foods is getting into the ghost kitchen game, with an app delivery-only concept called the Impossible Food Shop, and an SF location inside the notorious 60 Morris Street ghost kitchen.
The April 19 death of 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez Arenales while being arrested by Alameda police has been ruled a homicide, however his health, methamphetamine use, and alcohol were also contributing factors, according to a newly released autopsy report.
Kristina Lawson, a former mayor of Walnut Creek, chief executive at a law firm, and president of the Medical Board of California, says she has been being stalked and harassed by an anti-vaccine misinformation group — several members of which cornered her in a parking garage to "interview" her.
Online marketplaces and illegal street vendors are where organized retail theft rings unload their ill-gotten goods, and two new laws before the SF Board of Supervisors would hope to squeeze those markets dry.
