Embattled and recall-threatened school board member Alison Collins has withdrawn the bizarre lawsuit she filed in March demanding $87 million in various damages from her fellow board members and the school district.
The fate of the 4 Star Theater in San Francisco's Richmond District is looking up, after 18 months of sitting dark — and Victor Bergeron, the guy behind the successful cinephile reinventions of the Vogue and Balboa theaters, will be doing the programming.
Flower Piano, the annual event that began in 2015 in which a dozen pianos are scattered around the SF Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park, is returning next week after a pause in 2020 — and this time it will happen during the usually sunnier month of September, instead of foggy July.
Much of Northern California is in for another lightning scare this week, amid a summer of unusually frequent brushes with tropical moisture that creates the potential for lightning.
A 35-year-old man who claims to have been a bystander on a sidewalk was struck by a bullet early Tuesday in the area of Mission and Erie Streets.
VP Kamala Harris is heading to San Leandro for a "No on the recall" campaign event, SF's Board of Supervisors is moving forward on a "ghost gun" ban, and opening statements begin today in Elizabeth Holmes's fraud trial.
There's a new COVID outbreak at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, an East Bay grandmother was tragically killed by her 8-year-old grandson on a golf cart, and Sup. Peskin is calling for a new hearing about the Millennium Tower and its sinking.
Serial COVID-19 safety protocol violator Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone insists he is more pro-life than you, despite all the preventable outbreaks in his diocese, and uses the new Texas abortion law to argue that both Biden and Pelosi cannot be good Catholics and support abortion rights.
'Dear San Francisco: A High-Flying Love Story,' the new show from Pickle Family Circus heir Gypsy Snider and co-artistic director Shana Carroll, is readying for its first previews at Club Fugazi in North Beach later this month, and they gave a sneak preview to some members of the press last week.
Post-Burning Man photos are flooding social media as they do after every Labor Day, and this year’s ‘Rogue’ burn drew larger crowds than expected — but also appears to have pissed off a number of Nevada locals.
Vice President Kamala Harris is headed back to California this week to give a boost to the "No" campaign in the gubernatorial recall, and President Joe Biden is planning to do the same early next week.
One of the original proponents of recalling Gavin Newsom as governor, Orrin Heatlie, has been sidelined in the final weeks of the recall campaign because he is sick with COVID-19.
The bears of the South Lake Tahoe area had a ball last week tearing through evacuated neighborhoods, breaking into homes and garages where they smelled food, and generally making a huge, stinking mess.
A suspected arsonist had firefighters chasing down small blazes all around Healdsburg on Monday, putting residents and firefighters both on edge for hours amid continued dry conditions.
A female hiker fell to her death off a hiking trail near Mori Point in Pacifica on Sunday.
A lawnmower hitting a rock was likely the culprit in last week's vegetation fire in Lucas Valley, two teens were killed during a roadside party in Brentwood, and containment on the Caldor Fire has risen to 49%.
The infamous Napa curfew left Guns 'N' Roses fans with a totally anti-climactic end to Saturday's set, as the plug got pulled in the middle of the band's encore, "Paradise City," featuring guest Dave Grohl.
Evacuation orders in areas close to Lake Tahoe, including the city of South Lake Tahoe, were downgraded to warnings on Sunday, allowing thousands of residents to return home almost a week after being forced out by threatening flames.
Oracle Park workers have voted to strike but will be working today's Giants game, a new wildfire erupted Sunday in Auburn, and a horrific wrong-way crash killed one person Monday morning in Oakland near the Bay Bridge.
Karla the Fog was particularly thick this morning, California firefighters continue making headway containing wildfires, and Berkeley’s mission to explicitly define shadows could mitigate future housing plans.
Due to a mix of improved weather conditions and successful suppression strategies performed by firefighters, the Caldor Fire is now at least 37% contained after burning some 214,107 acres — giving new hope for evacuees that they can return to their houses soon.
"Moderate" air quality levels still hang above the San Francisco sky, a one-alarm warehouse fire broke out in Potrero Hill early Saturday morning, and Yolanda López, who painted the Virgen de Guadalupe series, has passed away at 79.
Market Daze is set to become Oakland’s first city-permitted cannabis festival over the long weekend, CA cyclists could soon have the option to treat stop signs at times as yield signs, and Santa Clara County will open in-person voting stations this weekend for the gubernatorial recall election.
It's going to feel like playoff baseball, as the Giants and Dodgers head in this weekend's three-game series tied for the best record in baseball, for their last series of the regular season.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials had to make a tough call, with a bear they could not transport to safety, and would have burned alive in the fire as it could no longer walk.
