In addition to its tracks and stations, BART has over 100 acres of land to manage — and that translates to a major headache in terms of mowing grass and cutting back overgrown vegetation when fire season hits.
A Black Lives Matter mural that sparked outrage from Palo Alto police over a year ago is now the subject of a lawsuit against the city over its refusal to remove it for four months.
Spread of the extra-contagious Delta variant in the Bay Area and elsewhere has sparked a lot of chatter, and questions, about whether the relative freedom we're all experiencing with public health orders lifted could be short-lived.
A lot of sweet bud just moved from the legal market to the black market, and/or some thieves are getting very high somewhere right now.
The Montana grizzly bear that dragged a NorCal woman out of her tent and killed her has been shot and killed, a Flex Alert has been issued for 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. today, and video shows fallen rocks from yesterday's earthquake.
VTA light rail service will be back by late July following the shooting-related shutdown, Contra Costa County says the Delta variant is spreading there among the unvaccinated, and The Independent reopens Friday.
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Thursday afternoon near Smith Valley, Nevada in the eastern Sierra, about 80 miles south of Reno, and shaking was felt all across the Bay Area, including in San Francisco.
Alameda County, parts of which became early hot spots of COVID-19 infection in 2020, may be poised to become a hot spot once more as unvaccinated pockets of the county are seeking outbreaks of cases that are being mirrored elsewhere in the country.
The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus released a magnificently funny video last week, but a barrage of threats and doxxing has forced them to change their key.
A two-alarm fire in Merced Heights on Thursday afternoon required the rescue of at least one resident in the burning home.
Chef Traci Des Jardins, whose local restaurant empire shrank significantly over the last two years, looks to be getting back in the game with a new venture coming to a planned food hall in Los Altos.
The California Geological Survey (CGS) has released updated tsunami hazard area maps for the Bay Area, using worst-case scenario predictions to look at where residents will need to evacuate to higher ground.
The latest development in the now 18-month unfolding of both federal and local investigations into corrupt dealings at San Francisco City Hall is the arrest of a former high-ranking Department of Public Works official by the SF District Attorney's Office.
A 3.6M earthquake struck northern Napa County last night, a Mendocino County wildfire is now threatening homes, and the Prime Minister of Japan announced that there will be no spectators at the Olympics at all.
A 16-year-old boy was shot while on a Muni bus on Treasure Island, a California woman was pulled from her tent and killed by a bear in Montana, July 4th revelers left behind mountains of trash on Tahoe beaches.
The forthcoming Trump campaign tell-all from a Wall Street Journal reporter delves into Kim Guilfoyle’s TMI revelations about Don Jr’s turn-ons, “including how he liked it when she wore a cheerleading outfit.”
Facing a drought that everyone is calling unprecedented, Marin County is tightening its water-use restrictions in ways that other counties may soon follow.
Newly installed California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Wednesday laid out how he plans to enforce a law that he helped put on the books as an Assemblymember, which requires the AG's Office to get involved with all police shootings of unarmed civilians in the state.
Pastry chef Christina Tosi's big hit bakery Milk Bar looks to be doing some more expansion, and it's arriving in the Bay Area in two ways, including a pop-up at San Francisco's Ferry Building.
A San Pablo man was found dead inside a tent at Lake Oroville over the holiday weekend, and the death is being investigated as a murder.
Donald Trump is busying himself with a new crusade that is likely to fail, and it's a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
A large homeless encampment under the 101 freeway in San Rafael was cleared, a San Francisco armed robbery suspect was arrested after being shot in a separate incident, and there seems to be significant support for the recall of three SF School Board members.
A 75-year-old woman was knocked down and critically injured by a fleeing shoplifter in the Outer Mission, former homelessness czar Jeff Kositsky is leaving City Hall entirely, and SFO is giving free COVID rapid-testing and variant-testing kits to arriving international passengers.
Mohammed Nuru, Harlan Kelly, and Tom Hui are still pulling pensions as high as $21,000 a month, despite leaving their jobs in disgrace amidst federal corruption probes.
A creamsicle-orange makeover and a fog gradient are supposed to make fans want the new Giants uniforms that no one asked for, but critics say Nike 'mist' the point with these new alternate home-game outfits.
