As we mark the halfway point in the year, Oakland has just marked its 66th homicide of 2021, with someone killed on average every three days in the city so far since January.
An Outer Sunset restaurant is complaining that the SF Department of Public Works and PG&E showed little sympathy for their small business in demanding the removal of a parklet they spent thousands of dollars to construct.
The 17-year-old fatally shot in the Tenderloin has been identified, the Supreme Court has just ruled in favor of Arizona Republicans to further gut the Voting Rights Act, and the toll to cross the Golden Gate Bridge just went up.
A 54-year-old San Luis Obispo County man has been sentenced in the bizarre string of slingshot-marble attacks on Monterey County roads, candidates for governor are being forced to show tax returns, and over 120 deaths are being attributed to the Northwest heatwave.
The cafe that gained wingnut fame for a $5 fee for orders placed while wearing a mask won’t be charging that fee anymore, as a new landlord refuses to renew the cafe's lease unless the owner stops proselytizing.
SF Mayor London Breed and the Board of Supervisors announced Wednesday that they had reached a deal on a $13 billion budget for the new fiscal year which begins Thursday, July 1 — and it includes another $32 million for the city's rent-relief program.
A personal injury firm in San Francisco has filed 85 separate lawsuits on behalf of women who say they were sexually assaulted, falsely imprisoned, kidnapped, harassed, and/or stalked by Uber drivers, and they say they have over 300 more to go.
Unapologetic war hawk Donald Rumsfeld went to his grave this week believing that the Iraq War was justified and that he was on the right side of history. We'll see about that.
The 35-year-old San Jose woman arrested in Denver on June 8 following the discovery a week earlier of her 7-year-old son's body near a hiking trail in Las Vegas has reportedly confessed to killing the boy in frustration.
The owners of a deli in SoMa were severely beaten on Monday by a suspect who had just stolen a beverage and walked out of the store, according to the SFPD.
Sonoma County was one of the first in the country to apply for a grant under a new FEMA program dedicated to pre-disaster mitigation, and President Joe Biden announced today that they would be getting the aid immediately.
Homeland security is warning of extremist group chatter about targeting mass gatherings over the Fourth, Pride weekend crowds left behind a lot of trash in Dolores Park, and Francis Ford Coppola is selling off his Sonoma wineries.
A 17-year-old boy was killed and a 34-year-old was injured in a Monday shooting in the Tenderloin, Newsom has signed the $5.2 billion rent-relief bill into law, and Scoot has lost its permit to operate in SF.
Dunphy Park had typically been home to kayakers and an outdoor art festival, but the 35 unsheltered people who'd set up an encampment there were very unceremoniously given the boot early Tuesday morning.
Uber is the latest company to offer increasing flexibility for its workforce that has gotten very comfortable with their telecommuting situation.
San Francisco announced what it said was an "important milestone" on Tuesday, saying that 70% of eligible Latinx residents, i.e. those over the age of 12, have received at least one vaccine dose as of today.
There's been some fairly odd and aggressive behavior by one or more coyotes in the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park recently, which may have something to do with a litter of coyote pups spotted there this spring.
At long last, Melissa Perello's Michelin-starred Pac Heights hot spot Octavia is reopening tonight, serving dinner for the first time since the pandemic hit last March.
The Lava Fire currently burning east of I-5 in Siskiyou County tripled in size overnight and has now scorched 13,000 acres, or about 20 square miles. The blaze is hundreds of miles from San Francisco, but it's taking shape to being the first truly major fire of the season in our half of the state.
It seems half SF news is about the exodus out of San Francisco or the return of rising rents. A significant number of people moved out of SF earlier in the pandemic, and many seem to be filling the void. Check out this list to assist in storage during your move in or out of San Francisco.
Governor Gavin Newsom is suing CA Secretary of State Shirley Weber over the fact that "Democratic" doesn't appear below his name on the recall ballot, and L.A. County health officials are encouraging everyone to keep wearing masks indoors due to the Delta variant.
Just before 6:30 p.m. on Monday, a 3.9-magnitude earthquake struck in the East Bay was felt all over the Bay Area.
The victim in that shark attack near Half Moon Bay has shared his whole story, DA Chesa Boudin is recusing himself in a weird case about a theft of school board recall petitions, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband have listed their Tahoe compound for $41 million.
The Tony Award-winning two-part play 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' is going to return, both to Broadway and to San Francisco, in a revised and much shorter form — with the creative team having worked during the pandemic to turn this into a one-part show.
Now three years beyond its original deadline and nearly $40 million over budget, the so-called Van Ness Improvement Project apparently went off the rails because we started digging without knowing what was underneath.
