California's beleaguered high-speed rail project hasn't been abandoned yet, but its ballooning costs and ever-extending timeline are enough to make anyone wonder if any of us will be alive to see this thing up and running.
A two-year-old story involving an Oakland oral surgeon who pleaded guilty to child pornography and attempted child sex trafficking charges has an update, and it involves a group of Bay Area suspects with whom he allegedly negotiated the use of children for his sexual pleasure.
The new show in the former ‘Beach Blanket Babylon’ venue opened at long last Tuesday night, with cameos from Breed and Sup. Aaron Peskin, both of whom brought their senses of humor.
Neighbors on one street in San Francisco's Richmond District seem to be witnessing the training of robot cars in the art of the three-point turn — over, and over, and over again.
A new location of Little Original Joe's is headed for Chestnut Street in the Marina, and the family behind the local restaurant empire is expanding into Mexican cuisine with Elena's, a new restaurant in West Portal.
It's being called the biggest game in the history of the 120-year-old rivalry between the Giants and the Dodgers, and it will be happening in San Francisco, under the lights at Oracle Park, in the hopefully waning days of a pandemic on Thursday night.
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A wildfire tore through an RV park in Isleton Tuesday and destroyed 21 homes, three people were shot in the Tenderloin Tuesday night, and William Shatner just became the oldest person ever shot into space.
A vegetation fire in Hillsborough was quickly contained today, Walgreens announced it's closing five more SF stores due to ongoing "retail crime," and the water level at Lake Tahoe has gotten disturbingly low.
In the former La Folie Lounge space at 2310 Polk Street, the neighborhood is getting a new high-end cocktail spot this week — the sister bar to Nisei, the Japanese tasting-menu restaurant from chef David Yoshimura that debuted in the La Folie space in August.
The vendors you select for wedding flowers, catered food, musicians and yes ... even your dress really only have to stand the test of a single day. Your wedding photographer is different.
The whole thing appears to be a publicity stunt to generate interest (or investors) in a Robin Williams movie, but actor Jamie Costa’s performance will indeed give you the chills.
Smash Mouth, which last made headlines here and elsewhere for performing in the middle of a pandemic at the August 2020 Sturgis motorcycle rally/super-spreader event, no longer has a lead singer.
There are still Raiders fans in the Bay Area even if they are just the long-distance supporters of a Las Vegas team now. And so it remains local news that the Raiders head coach has been shown to be a gross human being.
A Los Gatos woman of means is accused of hosting secret parties with dozens of teenagers present throughout the last year, and pushing them to drink excessively and have sex with each other.
The Newell Fire, which began as a quickly moving grass fire Monday evening in American Canyon and was soon threatening homes and American Canyon High School, is 60% contained and only reached 132 acres as of Tuesday morning.
The San Francisco Giants faced off against the Dodgers Monday in a near flawless night for both teams' defense, and one home run by Evan Longoria was all it took to hold off the Dodgers and head for a potentially decisive Game 4 on Tuesday in L.A.
PG&E is warning of more wind and more power shutoffs later this week, Millennium Tower is undergoing a key test to the effects of the ongoing sinking fix, and the smoldering Caldor Fire is still putting off a fair bit of smoke despite being almost entirely contained.
A person was struck in the head by an arriving BART train in West Oakland and is apparently still alive, a winner was declared this morning at the annual Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-Off, and Elon Musk trolled Jeff Bezos on Twitter about being richer than him.
It’s Max Scherzer night (and Jon Miller’s birthday!) as the Giants resume the series in Los Angeles, and while Game 3 often predicts the NLDS outcome, these Giants have a winning record at Dodger Stadium this season.
The previously announced new incarnation of the Central Kitchen space from the Flour + Water Restaurant Group, a casual pasta restaurant called Penny Roma, makes its debut Monday after a brief remodel.
For better or worse, the world is back to cruising, and Princess Cruises' Majestic Princess came into port in San Francisco around 7 a.m. on Monday, letting a couple thousand passengers disembark to wander the city.
Every year meteorologists introduce us to new terminology that was once just the purview of professionals and weather geeks. And this week it's all about the "inside slider" — not the baseball pitch, but the slang term used for a northerly weather system that has a steep southward trajectory.
A large tree came down amid gusting winds Sunday night in San Mateo County, hitting power lines and causing some damage, but no fire was sparked.
Most of today's PG&E power shutoffs are in Solano County and eastern Napa County, Southwest Airlines canceled over 1,000 flights over the weekend, and that German cargo ship that was being investigated in the oil spill has been let off the hook.
