Last seen during the last drought in September 2015, the ruins of a Gold Rush-era village have been exposed again as the water level in Folsom Lake has once again receded to a new low.
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A twin-engine Cessna plowed right into a house near the Monterey Airport Tuesday morning, and while the house was empty, the pilot, a passenger, and a dog all did in the crash.
After announcing guidance for California public schools on Monday that had been leaked out on Friday, and facing backlash from critics of Governor Newsom's pandemic response in general, the state's public health department is backtracking a bit.
Kuinini "Nini" Manumua, who started lifting weights at age 13 at San Francisco's Lincoln High School, will be representing her family's home country of Tonga in the sport of weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics — the first woman ever to represent Tonga in the sport.
Adding to the warring choruses about the state of San Francisco and crime, Supervisor Catherine Stefani appears to have taken her case to the Chronicle, which rolled with a fairly sensational headline about how half of all suspects granted pretrial release go on to reoffend.
In the wake of a holiday travel week and the growing spread of the Delta variant, local reports are coming in with a bit more frequency of fully vaccinated people testing positive for COVID-19 and even getting sick.
San Francisco's iconic cable cars rolled back into testing mode on Monday, with a few operators reportedly offering free rides while the cars undergo weeks of testing, to the delight of locals and tourists alike.
COVID outbreaks at summer camps across the U.S. have experts worried for the school year, the barrage of attack ads against Newsom has begun, and Bay Area rapper Sky Skers/Sky Balla has been arrested for rape in Vegas.
Oakland is installing Botts' dots and other physical deterrents to curb sideshow activity, someone's improperly thrown out lithium battery sparked a fire at Recology, and the search intensifies for that missing Berkeley runner.
In another reminder to always go through your deceased relatives’ possessions lest you lose an amazing artifact, Betsy Ross’s third husband’s diary has been gathering dust in a Marin County garage until it was recently found.
Well-funded legal marijuana darling Flow Kana admits one of their lawnmowers sparked last week’s Broiler Fire, which forced 250 evacuations while burning 80 acres and three homes.
The always scrappy and impressive SF Playhouse near Union Square is reemerging with live performances sooner than some of its larger counterparts around the Bay Area, and today they announced their upcoming full season.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott gave their first "CompStat" press conference of the year Monday and they took the opportunity to try to counter the much-repeated narrative about how much crime has been plaguing San Francisco.
A Victorian house in Oakland in an unknown state of repair is being offered for free to any taker who will pay to have it relocated.
A 51-year-old Berkeley man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after he was injured in a horrific freeway crash that killed the driver of the car — which followed a freeway shooting in which the injured man is the only suspect.
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and multiple other mayors from around the country are meeting President Biden at the White House for what's been described as a high-level strategy session on addressing the rise in gun violence nationwide.
Firefighters have contained the 128-acre Diablo Fire in the East Bay, the search continues for a Berkeley runner who went missing in Pleasanton, and today's back-to-the-office day for many employees at Google (and elsewhere).
San Francisco police released a statement Friday about a recent incident explaining that a burglar got more than what he had bargained for when he was met with gunfire breaking into the home of a local elder.
There was a small earthquake near Hollister this morning, a Bay Area doctor saved a choking fan at last night's Giants game, and though coastal cities and towns in higher elevations will be spared from triple-digit temperatures Sunday, inland areas will continue to scorch.
Maya — who looks to be either a purebred or mixed bluetick coonhound — was taken from her owners outside the Ferry Building Saturday. SFPD has since discovered the dog's whereabouts, gave Maya back to her owners, and arrested a suspect.
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San Francisco is losing its only Top Round Roast Beef outpost soon, Valencia Street will again close to cars later tonight, and San Francisco police detained a suspect thought to be in connection with Friday's stabbing near Broadway and Powell Street.
Sonoma County officials said 47 residents at the Sam Jones Hall shelter tested positive for COVID-19, there was a small brush fire by Lake Merritt Friday, and California will still require face masks inside schools — despite the CDC recommending otherwise.
In a new op-ed, the supervisor whose district contains the whole stretch of the Great Highway currently closed off to cars calls for a “compromise” deal on reopening the thoroughfare for automobiles.
District Attorney Chesa Boudin told an audience of supporters at Manny's on Thursday that he "refuse[s] to be distracted" by the ongoing effort to recall him over what he says is a false perception of the reality of the city.
