The Marin teenager in prison for stealing Guy Fieri's Lamborghini among other crimes has parole revoked; San Jose sees second bicycle-related fatality in as many days; and Portola Music Festival woos secret raver Nicole Kidman.
One person was hospitalized after emergency personnel responded to hazardous materials incident in the Presidio; a federal judge extended the injunction stopping new mail voting restrictions from taking effect; and Diplo is once again caught in the mud at Burning Man.
Burning Man is having another less-than-great weather year, and Thursday brought news of the first death on the playa for 2026.
A new sushi takeout spot comes to the Fillmore, Tacos El Patron also debuts in the Fillmore, the Greek Food Festival is coming up, and more in This Week in Food.
The 49ers have arrived in Melbourne ahead of an historic NFL game against the Rams, next week, with Australian media having some fun with the Americans’ first impressions of life Down Under.
The 49-foot cabin cruiser that capsized and sank on July 14, killing four people, will not be raised from where it came to rest on the bottom of San Francisco Bay, police announced Friday.
Ken Kesey’s legendary “Furthur” bus will be on display at Golden Gate Park as part of a new Grateful Dead exhibit, and a restoration effort could eventually put the psychedelic relic on permanent display somewhere in the Bay Area.
Mayor Daniel Lurie's Whac-a-Mole method of dealing with unsavory street conditions succeeded in shifting a bunch of drug activity to 16th and Mission last year, and now a crackdown there has done little to change things.
Local crypto billionaire Chris Larsen has given half a million dollars to a group backing moderate District 10 supervisor candidate Theo Ellington, as two data centers quietly move forward near Bayview and Visitacion Valley.
After police were called to perform a mental health wellness check on a woman in an East Richmond apartment Thursday evening, the situation quickly turned chaotic with the woman shooting a gun at officers.
After years of efforts to unionize, more than 200 local and remote US workers from the San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation voted to join the Communication Workers of America labor union Thursday.
A Pittsburg police officer and a suspect were both shot when a gun went off in an altercation Thursday; the National Weather Service is warning of hazardous beach conditions all weekend; and Bethany Frankel is at Burning Man and hating it.
Supervisor Stephen Sherrill frets about whether SF can handle large Fleet Week crowds next month; NYC and LA are both restricting AI use in classrooms; and a 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck four miles north of Santa Rosa Thursday.
Does Chonkers have a brother? Did Chonkers start a trend among his Stellar sea lion bros? Whatever the case, we appear to have a rare second sighting of a second Stellar sea lion over by Fisherman's Wharf.
Burning Man officials say they kicked out a Christian-themed camp for repeatedly filming festivalgoers without consent, and some are speculating the group may have engineered the controversy to claim religious discrimination.
The US Postal Service is urging people to reconsider sending checks through the mail amid a surge in check-washing schemes, warning that its blue collection boxes are also being targeted by thieves.
SF supervisors scrutinized Lurie’s plan Wednesday to push through an contract with OpenGov for the city’s PermitSF platform while questioning the portal’s performance and the administration’s decision to bypass competitive bidding.
The annual release of the Burning Man census has arrived, and we have a picture of how the demographics of Black Rock City may be changing, at least as of the 2025 burn.
A wrongful death case is headed to trial in San Francisco in February, brought by the family of a man who overdosed on fentanyl and meth while sitting on a 9-San Bruno Muni bus, and was left there slumped over by the bus operator for hours.
Meta has been rolling out updates to its smart glasses in an ongoing effort to prevent users from filming people without consent, and the company has bricked the cameras of thousands of users who attempted to dismantle the LED.
Now that everyone is becoming too lazy to do old-fashioned Google searches and actual book research, park rangers in Northern California say they're starting to see the dangerous impacts of AI planning for hikers.
Journalist and personification of the women's movement Gloria Steinem has died; Hurricane Lowell could seriously impact Kauai; and Nick Bosa returned for his first full practice with the 49ers since his ACL injury.
Sausalito City Manager Elaine Forbes has resigned after that whole burglary arrest situation; the SF Zoo just lost a 24-year-old mandrill who died after surgery; and George Lucas's billion-dollar museum, once slated for SF, is getting ready to open in Los Angeles.
The new waterfront plaza, in the wharf space where Alioto's restaurant once stood, had its ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, with Mayor Daniel Lurie calling it "a new reason to return" to Fisherman's Wharf.
The local entrepreneur behind San Bruno’s Hangry Planet, billed as North America’s first fully plant-based gas-station convenience store, has sold the property and business for more than $12 million.
