In a not-very-veiled threat via a statement from Major League Baseball, the Oakland A's are following a familiar playbook to coerce the Oakland City Council to approve an $855 million payment for new infrastructure around the Howard Terminal site.
The vaccine machine that is Levi’s Stadium is offering teens a “Vaxstage Pass” — vaccine shots, with chasers of 49ers swag, locker room tours, and live DJs several nights this week.
Recology customers in San Francisco are set to get refunds and lower rates from the company, and the city will get a $7 million payout under the terms of a settlement in a lawsuit from the city attorney.
44 U.S. attorneys general are asking the company to please, kindly, not launch an Instagram for kids, because of all the significant legal, safety, welfare, and privacy concerns this will raise.
What were initially reported as two separate 911 calls about an apparently intoxicated but non-threatening man in an Alameda Park last month were actually calls to the city's non-emergency line.
Richard Mead was out late at night in San Francisco last month, at work on one of his latest hobbies, collecting scrap metal. He was picking through a dumpster near Union Square when he saw someone get into the driver's seat of his truck.
The Golden State Warriors survived a late onslaught from Jordan Clarkson as they held on to beat the NBA-leading Utah Jazz 119-116 at Chase Center Monday night, securing a play-in berth for this year’s postseason tournament.
Famed Bay Area interior architect Art Gensler dies at 85, Newsom wants to cover all back rent for low-income Californians, and Santa Clara County and the 49ers are teaming up to get teens vaccinated.
SF high school seniors may get brought back to a couple of schools for a day just so the district qualifies for some state funds, SFMTA introduces a new temporary bus line, and Mayor Breed proposes new "wellness teams" to join SF's street crisis teams.
The Outer Sunset’s Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church pastor Rev. Megan Rohrer just became the first ever trans person elected bishop to a major U.S. Christian denomination.
A collection of 350 sculptures that commemorate America's "original sin" of slavery is set to arrive by Juneteenth at the Golden Gate Park's Music Concourse.
54-year-old Patrick Thompson, the mentally ill man accused in last week's stabbing of two elderly Asian women on Market Street near Union Square, appeared in court for an arraignment Monday after refusing to do so on Friday.
All four of the baby peregrine falcons that hatched in the nest atop the PG&E building on Beale Street in downtown SF have survived their first month and will soon begin to fledge — gaining the adult feathers they need for flight.
A 19-year-old from Hayward went missing a week ago while he was visiting a sister in Mexico, and U.S. authorities are now pressing local police to locate him.
A 41-year-old Oakland man was killed on Sunday afternoon when a car drove onto the sidewalk where he was standing. The driver fled the scene on foot and police have yet to announce an arrest.
A big jump in COVID cases in Alameda County last week was the result of a state tabulation correction, a Sunday truck fire and subsequent grass fire shut down I-80 in Placer County, and Gov. Newsom is proposing new $600 stimulus checks for middle-income Californians.
Initially expected to end Monday at 6 p.m., the National Weather Service (NWS) has extended its Red Flag Warning for parts of the Bay Area another 24 hours.
Forest fires play a crucial role in natural life cycles — it's just that human activity is exacerbating that rhythm. In order to give Mother Nature a leg up after the flames cease, Santa Cruz researchers are using oyster mushrooms to help break down the ash from previous wildfires.
Around 65% of all San Franciscans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, three people — a four-year-old and two women — were injured in the Times Square shooting yesterday, and local businesses are enjoying a second wave of increased sales amid looser COVID-19 restrictions.
The grass fire near the Benicia Bridge — which was first reported today at 10:28 a.m.— was successfully contained by CalFire crews Saturday afternoon; no structures were damaged by the blaze.
On Friday, SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin asked a judge to hold a man who's connected with the high-profile stabbing Tuesday of two elderly Asian women near Fourth and Market streets. The suspect — Patrick Thompson — however, refused to come to court from jail.
A shooting near Lakeshore Avenue around 3:30 a.m. Saturday left more than one person injured, hurricane-like winds blew through the Bay Area, and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf released her 2021-23 budget Friday — which showed that local police would receive $600M from the $3.85B plan.
All Contra Costa County-run vaccination sites will now allow walk-ins, disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is set to go on trial this summer, and a convention by the American College of Rheumatology — which was slated to be SF's largest convention in 2021 — has been canceled.
Only one candidate in the Recall Gavin circus has spent the money to advertise on TV, but you’d hardly call him a “credible” challenger.
Ridership on BART steadily climbed this week, as the agency's communications team announced Friday on Twitter, hitting a new high Thursday not seen since the beginning of the pandemic.
