The Muni Metro comes back alive on Saturday for not exactly the first time since the pandemic began, but almost. And given the SFMTA's track record, it's safe to say that the reopening of the system isn't likely to come off without a hitch.
A coalition of district attorneys are petitioning the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to repeal new regulations that took effect May 1 that grants early release for tens of thousands of inmates in state prison for good behavior.
The panhandler accused of slashing a man's face near Union Square has been identified, a rally is happening outside DA Chesa Boudin's office to demand justice for Asian American crime victims, and the House of Prime Rib is back open after yesterday's inspection.
The California attorney general is taking over the case of the Vallejo police shooting of Sean Monterrosa, the SFPD is apologizing for an officer-involved shooting last week, and the Roxie is reopening with 'Cinema Paradiso.'
There is no question that cost of living – from the your receipt at the grocery store all the way up average price tag of property – is high here in California. In fact, of
Tesla troll Param Sharma clearly revels in being public enemy No. 1, as he just bought another new Tesla and drove it from the backseat again in front of TV cameras. Also, he would like us to know he is very rich.
A longtime contractor with the city of San Francisco and a well-known consultant known to be able to grease the wheels of city departments to get notoriously slow permit processes to magically speed up is going to be repaying over $1 million in contract awards to the city.
There was yet another attack on an elderly Asian person in San Francisco on Tuesday, and the alleged perpetrator is now in jail — but it's also another case of a repeat offender who was out on bail at the time of his latest crime.
The Centers for Disease Control took what some may say is a major step in the pandemic Thursday, changing their guidance about indoor mask-wearing for vaccinated people.
A 42-year-old Pittsburg man working for a landscaping company was found dead at a job site in San Rafael on Wednesday, one day after he was reported missing.
The SFPD made an arrest Wednesday in a knife attack that may or may not have stemmed from the victim refusing to give a random stranger money when he asked for it.
An arrest was made in a Wednesday morning knife attack on Powell Street near Union Square, Bay Area parents can now sign up their 12- to 15-year-olds for vaccines, and the House of Prime Rib is closed today for a voluntary re-inspection by the health department.
The family of a man fatally shot by a Napa sheriff's sergeant is suing, an 11-year-old and a 17-year-old were arrested for a San Leandro assault on an elderly Asian man, and SF City Hall reopens for weddings and more on June 7.
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A startup star who wrote in his memoir that “Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak” is Apple’s new ad executive, and Bay Area women who work at Apple would like a word.
One of the first official school renamings to take place in the Bay Area after debates during the last two years over the legacies of racism and slavery is happening in Marin County, where Sir Francis Drake High School, known familiarly as Drake High, will get a new name next school year.
There's been another dustup in the many-months' war between Bay Area parents and their children's teachers and school districts, and this time it's about a kindergarten teacher taking a trip out of the country while she's still supposed to be teaching.
For the past six weeks, the number of people in Bay Area hospitals with COVID-19 infections has gone down and up and down again, but hovered in the 300 to 400 range consistently instead of steadily dropping.
Newsom said Tuesday that California won't have a broad mask mandate after June 15 in the majority of public settings. But that doesn't mean the Bay Area will roll with that right away — and we likely won't.
A man who had been seen multiple times on Bay Area roads happily sitting in the backseat of his Tesla while it drove him places on Autopilot has been arrested by California Highway Patrol. But it sounds like no lessons have been learned.
Despite taking on the top two teams in the NBA's Western Conference on back-to-back nights with just eight healthy players in rotation and Steph struggling, the Warriors supporting cast came alive to inspire a late fourth quarter comeback at home over the Phoenix Suns Tuesday night.
California health officials are getting set to approve giving Pfizer shots to kids 12-15 starting Thursday, a Richmond school has shut back down due to a van with threatening graffiti, and Oakland just had its 49th homicide of the year.
New California AG Rob Bonta announced the creation of a Racial Justice Bureau, the family of the 25-year-old man killed on Polk Street Saturday say they're shocked at his murder, and San Mateo County just made it to the 'Yellow' tier.
A small wave of complaints about food poisoning from the House of Prime Rib have come in to the Department of Public Health (DPH) — and the restaurant's Yelp page.
Marin County - the lush swath of beautiful land north of San Francisco - is home to long hiking paths, good public schools, and Bayside towns so quaint that you might think you've stepped into an Italian village on Lake Como.
The first-ever Pride Movie Nights at Oracle Park — with this year’s theme organized around the ideas of inclusivity and togetherness — will feature in-person film screenings of the Tony Award-winning musical film adaptation of "In the Heights," plus a second unannounced feature picture, in June.
