The California gig workers union has filed a formal complaint over Waymo transporting unaccompanied minors; an Audi driver was killed in a Livermore crash; and there was a widespread outage on Xitter.
An SF couple on a cruise in the Middle East were stranded in Qatar for a week when US-Iran first bombed Iran; crews are working late into the night getting the “Bay Lights” ready; and 16 vehicles that were involved in the Bay Bridge sideshow in December were seized and impounded for 30 days.
The group Safe Street Rebel installed plastic buffer posts at the intersection of Fourth and Channel streets in SF’s Mission Bay where a two-year-old girl was recently killed, in an effort to push SFMTA to take more drastic measures to improve pedestrian safety there.
Labor union hero Cesar Chavez, who is celebrated annually with a California state holiday on March 31, is now the subject of troubling historic allegations of abuse of young women and girls, according to the union he co-founded.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman probably should have kept his thoughts to himself Tuesday morning. But instead, like his rival Elon Musk often does, he took to Xitter to say something utterly tone-deaf about the present moment.
A person who residents say is a former tenant entered an Alameda apartment building Monday and intentionally sprayed bear repellent, leading to the evacuation of the building and surrounding vicinity, and injuring six, including an adult and child who were taken to the hospital.
The Tony Award-winning, ahistorical hit play by Cole Escola about the imagined life of Mary Todd Lincoln as an alcoholic would-be cabaret star is heading out on tour this year and will come to the Curran Theater in SF this October.
Wash those hands extra well, as portions of the Bay Area are experiencing spikes in norovirus infections, the highly contagious gastrointestinal bug that’s typically foodborne, including parts of San Francisco, Marin County, and Silicon Valley.
Not long after SF condo owners in older high-rise buildings got a reprieve of several years for getting sprinkler systems installed, it's coming to light that the guy who wrote the rules on that may now be profiting from the ensuing chaos.
As Waymo prepares to launch its robotaxis in 20 cities this year, we're likely going to hear more stories of Waymo passengers who become the unwitting victims of anti-AI rage.
California Street was blocked off near the Nob Hill Trader Joe’s for several hours Monday after residents reported seeing a man driving a purple Ferrari allegedly brandishing a gun who then barricaded himself in a nearby apartment before being taken into custody hours later.
One person died and one survived when their car went off a dock at the Sausalito Yacht Harbor; a teen boy was arrested for going 130mph on 101; and Trump says Newsom shouldn't be president because he's dyslexic.
An adult and a child were exposed to some sort of hazardous material in Alameda; police have made an arrest in connection with the post-Super Bowl shooting in San Jose; and Michael B. Jordan headed to In-N-Out after winning an Oscar Sunday.
Following a judge’s order to release Tony Phillips after determining Lurie’s bodyguard initiated the fight and assaulted him, Phillips was arrested Monday and booked into San Francisco County Jail on charges of violating the order to stay away from the alley where the fight happened.
After five years leading San Francisco's homelessness department and 23 years working in City Hall, Shireen McSpadden announced Monday that she will be leaving her role on June 30.
Four individuals have taken guilty pleas in connection with a 2023 drive-by shooting in San Francisco's Bayview District that left one person injured.
The next big shoe to drop in the local tech world that is being blamed on AI is a massive layoff reportedly about to happen at Meta, where CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been investing heavily in AI over the last year.
When a Fox News host bizarrely mentioned historic East Bay bar the Hotsy Totsy Club on air, calling it a "strip joint," the bar penned a satirical all-caps tirade setting the record straight — and while the host got El Cerrito’s zip code right, the bar is located in Albany.
Buckle up and turn on those fans, kids, because the hot weather is just going to stick around through the end of the week.
Alarmed by the recent string of pedestrian deaths in San Francisco — five in five weeks — local dad Harrison Anderson embarked on a 50-mile trek around the city Saturday to bring attention to the need for safer streets.
An overturned big rig was blocking several southbound lanes of I-880 in Oakland; Burlingame is taking down hundreds of aging eucalyptus trees; and a big AI conference kicks off in San Jose.
An Oakland woman died in a holding cell Friday at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin while awaiting transportation to court — a day after she was found unconscious and taken to the hospital where she was cleared several hours later.
Joby Aviation debuted its piloted air taxi with a demo flight from Oakland Airport to the Marin Headlands in minutes, as the company plans to launch trial operations in 10 states with potential plans for a pilotless taxi in the future, but it’s unclear when it will launch in California.
Oakland will begin issuing real citations from its speed cameras Monday instead of warnings; an SF tech worker named Alysa Liu had her Instagram account suspended for being an imposter; and 3,600 PG&E customers in the Outer Richmond/Seacliff lost power Sunday.
This week: PBS Kids’ Mychal Threets at South SF library, the Counter-Culture Museum, free books for kids, San Mateo desserts, and Alysa Liu at Paris Fashion Week. Plus, honoring the female Muni drivers through history and cutting hair and giving space.
