Facebook has now joined the ranks of trillion-dollar companies, alongside the only other companies to reach such a market capitalization, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft.
The family of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is staging events around the country this summer to advocate for the dropping of the United States' extradition request and the Espionage Act charges against him.
The Art Deco-styled Round House Cafe on the SF side of the Golden Gate Bridge is getting a new tenant, and it's none other than Marin County-based Equator Coffees.
The Flintstone House in Hillsborough will keep its tacky statuary and cartoon sculptures, and the town has agreed to pay the homeowner for her trouble following a two-year dustup that centers on taste and private property rights.
"Safe and sane" fireworks are being sold all over the Bay even though they remain wildfire hazards, a swimmer has drowned at Lake Berryessa for the second weekend in a row, and Pride Sunday was a party all over the city.
Saturday morning, the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office tweeted that a beachgoer was bitten by a great white shark, which was estimated to be between six and eight feet long, prompting the Grey Whale Cove State Beach to close; first responders described the bite as severe.
Dolores Park and Oasis saw massive crowds Saturday to celebrate Pride, police arrested a suspect in connection with two San Francisco murders, and the death toll of the Surfside condominium building collapse has now risen to 9 people — with 156 individuals still unaccounted for.
Earlier this year, SFMTA installed wireless routers and cellular antennas inside the Muni Metro tunnels. Now, we can also expect all 50 BART stations to have free (and readily accessible) WiFi hotspots in as little as three years.
The renter's market in SF is quickly evaporating as rents begin skyrocketing, a car fire caused traffic to back up on eastbound I-80 in San Francisco Friday, and nature is, in fact, healing — as evident by the wildlife returning to Bernal Heights Park.
SF is set to close all its remaining mass vaccination sites by July 14, UC Berkeley intends to hold an in-person graduation ceremony for the class of 2020 at the Greek Theatre, and former police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced Friday to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd.
Coinciding with the traditional last-weekend-in-June Pride celebration in San Francisco, Oakland Black Pride is having its first-ever series of events focused on the Black LGBTQ+ community of the East Bay.
A San Francisco building inspector resigned last week over fishy permits he granted at two properties and an inappropriate loan from a developer, but now the dam is bursting with a school of his fishy permits that span all across the city.
The SF Giants and the Oakland A's are repeating the time-honored tradition tonight of the Bay Bridge series, competing against each other in a set of three East Bay vs. West Bay games at Oracle Park.
Both Oasis and the Eagle Tavern are reopening indoors and out this weekend for the first time since the pandemic began, bringing LGBTQ nightlife back to SoMa in time for Pride.
You may want to strap on some good walking shoes if you're planning to party-hop during this late-pandemic Pride Weekend in San Francisco, because things aren't exactly back to normal with public transportation or the world of rideshares.
Some mandatory evacuation orders have been lifted in the remote mountains of the Ventana Wilderness east of Big Sur as firefighting crews have gained the upper hand on the week-old Willow Fire.
A new city report finds that 45% of SF small businesses remain closed, a group representing Black city employees objects to SF's mandate that they all be vaccinated, and the death toll at the Miami condo collapse site is at 4 but expected to rise dramatically.
A 21-year-old woman visiting SF says she was shot through her car door in the Mission on Sunday, SF's Dept. of Homelessness still wants to spend too much on those tents, and one of those swanky Light House condos on Dolores Park is back on the market.
Somewhere around 40 or 50 percent of people living here — people living here who respond to polls, that is — say they plan to leave in the next few years.
One faction of the Recall Chesa Boudin movement bought roughly $2,000 in ads on Nextdoor, but the neighborhood-centric social network removed the ads and returned the payments.
John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software who has made headlines many times in the last decade for his legal troubles and presidential runs, was found dead in a jail cell in Spain late Wednesday, hours after a court approved his extradition to the United States on tax evasion charges.
The East Bay city of Antioch is aiming to be the "cannabis capital of Northern California" with the approval of two major cannabis cultivation and distribution facilities.
A drive-by shooting in Richmond that killed three people and wounded five others at a house party on Sunday was similar to one that occurred in Oakland several weeks earlier, investigators say.
A kitten who was apparently tossed off a freeway overpass near SFO earlier this month and was stranded on a ledge high above the ground was rescued by the Peninsula Humane Society and is now up for adoption.
A heatwave descending this weekend will make for some hot hot weather in the Pacific Northwest and parts of Northern California, but San Francisco and much of the Bay Area will just have some pleasantly warm and sunny days.
