Two teenage suspects were arrested Thursday after an attempted robbery aboard a BART train in which they allegedly pepper-sprayed the 61-year-old victim.
The first festival to be back on the calendar in the Bay Area is BottleRock Napa Valley, and they will be requiring vaccination proof, but not masks — at least not yet.
The search for missing Berkeley man Philip Kreycik is set to resume Saturday, three weeks after he went missing while on a run in Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park.
The Delta variant is likely causing more severe infections, even though experts have not been saying this up until now, and the ease with which it spreads even among the vaccinated has the CDC raising internal alarms.
The Shasta County DA announced coming criminal charges against PG&E for last year's Zogg Fire, hundreds of SF bars began asking for proof of vaccination on Thursday, and mask sales are once again booming.
A study of older patients finds significant data linking COVID-19 with long-term cognitive decline, police in South San Francisco staged a sting to retrieve a French bulldog stolen during a robbery, and SF mourns the loss of activist and poet Janice Mirikitani.
Adoption fees are being temporarily waived at the San Francisco SPCA for older dogs and cats, and doggos 30 pounds or heavier, through the middle of August.
District Six, the street food park formerly known as the SoMa StrEat Food Park, is hosting the fourth annual Avocadocon this weekend, to the delight of avocado fans all over.
When faced with the moral and medical choice of whether or not to get vaccinated, the 23-year-old defensive end from Fort Lauderdale is really looking to test your patience.
A San Francisco couple in their 60s just got the largest ever tenant buyout from an SF landlord for the seven-bedroom apartment they've rented since the early 1990s.
San Francisco's progressive prosecutor Chesa Boudin is again garnering a national spotlight in a piece in The New Yorker that tries to parse our current moment with criminal justice reform, and the polarizing position he has landed in.
A San Francisco man who says he was high and paranoid and was just firing "warning shots" has been sentenced to five years in federal prison stemming from a scary October 2020 incident in downtown SF.
Another figure in the ever-unspooling SF City Hall corruption scandal has agreed to plead guilty to bribing former Department of Public Works head Mohammed Nuru, and this means one more cooperating witness for the feds in the cases against Nuru and potentially others.
An 8.2M earthquake on the Alaskan Peninsula may be the biggest U.S. quake in a century, the DEA says it's ID'd a large-scale fentanyl supplier in the East Bay, and SF and Berkeley are reportedly considering new mask mandates.
Google has pushed its back-to-the-office time until mid-October, the death toll in Monday's plane crash in Truckee has risen to six, and Martin Shkreli sold his Wu-Tang album to pay his court debts.
A dispensary the Planning Commission rejected for being too close to another won an appeal before the Board of Supervisors, but some Vis Valley residents complained that it’s corporate weed in sheep’s clothing.
Those grants for cultural institutions that we talked about way back in December have finally been distributed by the Small Business Administration, and over 300 Bay Area theaters, music venues, museums, movie houses, and more have been awarded grants totaling $326 million.
An acclaimed play that had its Broadway opening in the fall of 2019 is making its West Coast premiere in Marin County in September, and it will mark the first in-person performances at Marin Theatre Company since the start of the pandemic.
A North Bay teenager is likely facing murder charges following the violent death of a 14-year-old that was mistaken for a train accident.
Bay Area health officers likely don't want to order any more restrictions that will impact recovering businesses, but the pressure seems to be on to make a mask recommendation more of a mandate.
A trash-y Public Works project that has been in the works for three years is pushing forward, but the SF Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a lower budget for some pricey trash can prototypes than was originally requested.
A hit-and-run last Wednesday next to Alamo Square Park shocked the neighborhood and gravely injured an 88-year-old woman. Now, an arrest has been made.
Barbara Boxer tells the story of her mugging in Oakland, a traffic stop in Vacaville turned tragic, and Gavin Newsom's Cow Hollow wine and spirits shop has been broken into four times so far this year.
Solano County Health Officer Dr. Bela Matyas continues to push back on mask mandates, recall candidate Kevin Faulconer also hates mask mandates, and Gov. Newsom has pulled his kids out of a summer camp because it has no mask mandate.
PG&E rebuffed SF’s $2.5 billion offer for the city’s grid in 2019, but now the city is power-playing for an appraisal and gaming to force the utility to sell.
