Because of an "electrical issue" earlier in the week, San Francisco's iconic cable cars are currently corralled inside SFMTA's "Barn" — with still no operational date in sight.
Saturday morning, a milestone in fighting two of Northern California's most pressing wildfires — the Dixie Fire and Caldor Fire — was achieved: successfully containing at least 60% of each blaze.
With the NFL season having officially begun last night with the Buccaneers defeating the Cowboys 31-29 in a thrilling opener, the San Francisco 49ers get set to kick-off their own campaign Sunday in Detroit against the Lions. And the excitement running through the franchise is palpable.
A woman spotted a mountain lion on the UC Santa Cruz campus, this local nonprofit is helping displaced people from the homeless camp on Apple-owned land find shelter, and on this day 20 years ago: Two Boeing 767 planes struck the Twin Towers — killing 2,996 people.
San Jose is expected to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for City employees, Apple continues its tug-of-war with neighbors of a homeless encampment in San Jose, and the CDC has new data showing that unvaccinated individuals are 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than those who've been vaccinated.
Just months from the paper’s 40th anniversary, SF Weekly is being put “on hold,” and the continued existence of the city’s last alt-weekly is a questionable proposition at best.
Many Japantown residents want no part of seeing a luxury hotel there converted to supportive housing. Their supervisor Dean Preston takes up their cause, earning him grief from across the housing discourse spectrum.
San Francisco is getting an Institute of Contemporary Art — a new contemporary art museum without a permanent collection — in the already artsy Dogpatch neighborhood, and it's being partially bankrolled by the same folks behind the Minnesota Street Project.
A 1970s-era home tucked up near the end of Stanyan Street in Cole Valley — on a hill with sweeping city and Bay views — just sold for $2.1 million over its asking price after receiving 15 offers.
Technically his title is senior manager of social service partnerships, but Daniel Cooperman is now BART's point person for humanely addressing homelessness in stations and on trains.
A 100+-year-old restaurant in the Delta, Giusti's, burned to the ground on Thursday, and the owner thinks the cause may have been a propane water heater.
This week's lightning scare became an actual lightning storm on Thursday night, and around 110 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes were recorded across the Bay Area during a time of extreme fire danger.
Nine members of a family including two small children were injured in a DUI crash in Oakland, Elizabeth Holmes's trial has been delayed by a juror's COVID exposure, and local newsman Wayne Freedman is retiring after 53 years in news.
The Red Flag warning for much of the Bay Area starts now with lightning possible, today is the one-year anniversary of the day the skies turned orange in SF, and Merrick Garland announced that the DOJ is suing Texas over that abortion law.
Food & Wine Magazine's Best New Chefs list for 2021 just dropped, and two of the 11 chefs hail from the Bay Area: Horn Barbecue's Matt Horn, and State Bird Provisions Chef de Cuisine Gaby Maeda.
A mere five cases of in-school COVID transmission have been recorded since San Francisco schools reopened last month, and as of now, SF schools are avoiding the Delta variant nightmare being seen elsewhere across the country.
An evacuation due to a smoke alarm at the SFMTA's cable car barn, and a subsequent power outage, led to a suspension of service on all cable car lines Thursday afternoon.
The developer behind a 61-story mixed-use tower slated to go in at 550 Howard Street announced plans today for an early 2022 groundbreaking, delivering solid evidence that developers remain very optimistic about post-pandemic San Francisco.
San Francisco's trash and recycling company has admitted to bribing former SF Public Works Director Mohammad Nuru to the tune of $900,000, and it does so just as the federal government was charging it with conspiracy to commit honest services fraud.
Out of an abundance of caution for the spread of COVID, the city council of Half Moon Bay voted this week to deny a special event permit to the annual pumpkin festival. Organizers now say they need a benefactor to step in to save the day.
Back in early 2020, San Francisco was abuzz with Keanu sightings as the cast and crew of a fourth 'Matrix' installment arrived for location shooting. And now we get to see what some of that looks like after post-production, as the trailer for 'The Matrix Resurrections' has just dropped.
A crossing guard was killed and a child injured in a car collision in Lafayette, a new investigation finds that TikTok directs young users to dangerous content, and Millennium Tower officials say foundation work will resume soon.
A 65-year-old man was fatally stabbed in the Upper Haight, activists are pushing London Breed to extend the SIP hotel program, and former President Obama has shot a new ad supporting Newsom in the recall.
You might be shelling out $10 to park at Baker Beach, Land’s End, and a host of other SF and Marin County parks under a new proposal from the National Park Service.
The SFPD announced the arrest of a suspect in a shooting that happened Sunday night in the Lower Haight, stemming from a verbal altercation between an older man and several younger men outside of a business.
