Thought to be destroyed after sustaining water damage while in storage, a piece of the OG Rainbow Flag — undeniably the most defining symbol of the LGBTQ civil rights movement — was rediscovered in 2019; a portion of that same flag now sits inside a glass display box in the Castro.
A federal judge in California on Friday overturned the state’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, new ADUs in Oakland might be banned, and the CDC reported the first cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome — known more commonly as "AIDS" — 40 years ago to the day.
Pro-Palestinian protesters attempted to block an Israeli cargo ship from unloading at the Port of Oakland, SF police arrested a suspect linked to a Polk Gulch homicide last month, and one large black bear was low-key filmed strolling in an East Bay neighborhood Friday.
An Amazon delivery driver in the East Bay took out some anger on a 67-year-old customer Thursday evening, all of it caught on video, and the driver has since been arrested.
Though trains will still stop at 9 p.m., and Sunday trains will remain rare, most BART lines will see far more trains on their tracks, starting this Monday.
The Brixton is taking over the former Stacks in Hayes Valley, The Sentinel is back slinging sandwiches downtown, and the Castro is getting a new Italian restaurant this fall from a longtime Poesia guy.
How will you know if you've won $50,000 or one of the $1.5 million grand prizes in California's vaccine lottery drawings? State health officials are going to try to call you on the phone, so you may want to answer unknown calls on your cell for the next couple of weeks.
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The unionization effort at Dandelion Chocolate may have just been melted down, as “a number” of Dandelion employees were laid off Thursday.But the unionizers say they’ll fight it.
In what appears to be the first instance of a building owner seeking approval from the city under a new ordinance limiting the number of units that can be corporate rentals, the developer behind the NEMA building downtown is looking to convert 200 units.
Facebook says that Trump's punishment for inciting a riot at the Capitol on January 6th will be a two-year suspension, and that suspension will only be lifted if he no longer represents a "risk to public safety."
In terms of wildfires in Northern California this year, it's not a matter of if but a matter of when, where, and how terrible. That's according to new maps showing the extreme fire potential taking shape with dry fuels across the region.
The first California vaccine lottery drawing happens today, the Board of Supervisors is holding a hearing about gas line safety, and a San Francisco man recently returned a Bob Dylan record to a library 48 years late.
No charges are being filed against Mohammed Nuru in that knife incident and the DA says it was just a misunderstanding, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis says she won't play politics with the recall, and Honey Mahogany talks about her political ambitions after becoming SF Democratic Party Chair.
Conservative cancel culture lost its latest fight at Stanford, as a law student will now be allowed to graduate after posting a very funny satirical flyer linking a right-wing group to the Capital insurrection.
Restaurants and bars in California can continue selling to-go booze through the end of the year, and outdoor parklet dining and alcohol sales are being extended as well, ahead of state laws that will solidify both.
It may be that we won't ever get a completely reliable description of events of what happened with disgraced former Public Works head Mohammed Nuru to lead to his arrest Wednesday on a robbery charge. But that hasn't stopped some city officials from reacting.
Another white person in Pacific Heights has been captured on video being an asshole to a person of color, this time questioning a man who was delivering Narcan to a nearby halfway house.
KTVU anchor Frank Somerville, one of the most recognizable of the Bay Area's news personalities having been on the air at KTVU since 1991, was pulled from a Sunday broadcast and has not returned since after slurring his speech on air.
Twitter just announced the launch of its Twitter Blue product, a new subscription service with extra perks for avid users that is rolling out today in Australia and Canada ahead of a wider launch.
State regulators are likely keeping mask rules in place for workers after June 15, Google has reassigned a diversity figure for antisemitic comments, and a dump truck driver did an apparent dump-and-run following a messy accident in Fremont.
Federal investigators recently seized over 40 lbs of fentanyl from an alleged Honduran cartel in the East Bay, the San Jose PD has a lot of questions to answer about a Monday night shooting of a man outside his home, and the 92-y-o Bellevue Club in Oakland is becoming a new location of The Battery.
Legendary Oakland BBQ stop Flint’s Barbecue may finally have its brick-and-mortar reincarnation, but there’s community pushback against the ghost kitchen facility that would house it.
Former San Francisco Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was reportedly arrested Wednesday morning following a strange-sounding incident at the SF-Marin Food Bank warehouse in the Dogpatch neighborhood.
In an entirely predictable turn of events, our former president has abruptly shut down his "From the Desk of Donald Trump" weblog, barely a month after it launched.
Just in time for Pride Month, we have a new video going viral of an outraged white woman being escorted out of a hotel pool area in Sacramento after allegedly complaining about the fact that two women were publicly kissing with children present.
