Aziza Graves, the woman arrested on 128 counts of stealing from the Stonestown Target, was arrested again for theft; Contra Costa County has a lot of complaints about restaurants not checking vaccines; the drive-thru Dickens Fair was a mess over the weekend.
More parklet regulation enforcement is coming in SF, a missing toddler was found accompanied by a service dog in the East Bay, and both the Chase and SAP centers are requiring negative COVID tests for entry for kids under 5 and all kids who aren't vaccinated.
California Congressman Devin Nunes has served a reliably Republican district in Tulare County for 19 years, but that was likely coming to an end with redistricting, so he's jumping onboard the Trump train.
The latest ‘Elon con’ involves a Twitter stunt where his followers supposedly made the decision for him to sell his Tesla shares. But Musk is actually on a buying spree, buying shares for “well below 1% of Tesla's current share price.”
Veteran journalist Stanley Roberts broke the story of a North Beach cafe refusing to seat on-duty police. The right-wing blogosphere wrongly reported Roberts actually owned the restaurant, and he’s been served heaping helpings of online harassment ever since.
The allure of brunch knows no bounds, and popular SF brunch spots Sweet Maple and Kitchen Story — with their deep-fried French toast and Millionaire's Bacon — are spinning off more new locations in the coming year.
Oakland-based Jeopardy! contestant Amy Schneider remains undefeated as the show launches its first-ever Professors Tournament on Monday, and she got a break from shooting as a result.
More than 200 Dickens Fair cast members, and thousands of attendees from years past say that the annual holiday festival has been a bleak house of racist behavior toward performers of color.
This year's La Niña fall/winter is proving a fair bit wetter than last year's, which is terrific news. And a pair of weather systems will be dampening the Bay Area in the coming days.
The Christmas tree in Jack London Square was torched early Monday, but may have been saved from being a total loss — though it's not clear if it will be able to be restrung with lights and used for a tree-lighting ceremony on Saturday.
An outbreak at a San Anselmo school was the fault of parents whose child tested positive for COVID-19, but then they ignored that test and sent the kid to school anyway.
The owners of Hilda and Jesse in North Beach have apologized for turning away SFPD officers, a Black couple is suing a Marin appraisal firm, and Omicron might cause less severe illness (on average) than Delta.
King tides — which average two feet higher than normal tides — flooded parts of San Francisco this weekend. And by doing so, they gave us a glimpse into how the city might look in the future with rising sea levels.
On Friday, the new brunch spot Hilda and Jesse in North Beach asked three uniformed, armed SF police officers to leave the establishment shortly after they were seated; employees were cited as being "uncomfortable with the presence of their multiple weapons."
Holiday shopping busied at Union Square over the weekend, many NorCal Planned Parenthood locations are preparing for an influx of out-of-state abortions, and new research shows that the Omicron variant was likely in the U.S. before it was first recorded.
The long-reigning Chief of San Francisco Protocol and unofficial aide to ten City mayors, Charlotte Mailliard Shultz passed away Friday at 88 years old due to complications from cancer.
One of San Francisco's oldest statues — a marbled Greek sculpture at Legion of Honor — was found without several parts this week, sparking calls for the return of the missing pieces by curators.
Perhaps Shakespeare's most playful — and musical — comedy, Twelfth Night is ripe for modern adaptation, though it has not been as often put to film as some other Shakespeare. And with its themes of attraction, hedonism, deception, and gender fluidity, what's not to like?
Nearly a foot of snow is expected in parts of Hawaii over the weekend, “pudgy” cookies are now a thing in Cupertino, and five cases of the Omicron variant have been reported in Alameda County — each case described as "mildly symptomatic."
A fatal shooting Friday around 4 a.m. in downtown Oakland became the city's 129th homicide for 2021, the world's largest toy train returns to the Bay Area this weekend, and ICYMI: Tesla has officially moved its HQ to Austin, Texas.
Standing in front of a CVS in Burlingame, the attorney general announced guilty pleas in what is supposedly one of the largest theft-ring arrests in California history.
More than 200 people remain incarcerated with their trials months past the legal deadline here in San Francisco, and Sup. Ronen is on a warpath to speed up getting these cases heard.
You cannot get tickets to the U.S. premiere of 'The Matrix Resurrections’ at the Castro, but you may be able to snap pictures of Keanu, Carrie-Anne, and NPH from some sort of “fan zone” outside the Castro Theatre.
Color me unsurprised. San Francisco's homophobic gem of a Catholic Archbishop, who's more concerned with making abortion and gay marriage illegal again than with a silly pandemic, claims that his personal physician has told him he doesn't need a COVID vaccine.
The bad news coming out of South Africa Friday is that researchers are now able to say that Omicron appears to be quickly taking over as a dominant strain, and it appears to have an Rt that's 2.5 higher than the Delta variant.
