If you're 16 or over and live in one of eight SF zip codes that the city considers "high-impact neighborhoods" in the pandemic, you can go line up for a same-day vaccine at two different drop-in vaccination clinics.
A new wrinkle has arisen in the case that’s raised $1 million on GoFundMe, as surveillance video indicates the attacker himself had just been beaten pretty senseless.
President Joseph Biden has put together a 36-member bipartisan commission, comprised mostly of academics, to "study" different potential changes to the Supreme Court including term limits and adding more justices.
In addition to new LED signs and public art now installed at SFMTA’s Church and West Portal stations, another notable update will help modernize those underground terminals: reliable access to the internet.
Though San Francisco expected to be the first county in the Bay Area to enter the "Yellow" tier for reopening next week — returning where it was for a brief period last fall in terms of falling COVID case numbers and hospitalizations — that won't be happening yet.
A massive rockslide is blocking Highway 50 just outside of South Lake Tahoe, preventing traffic from moving in either direction on Friday morning.
The Sonoma County Sheriff is now investigating sexual assault accusations against the mayor of Windsor, Facebook is making its Menlo Park headquarters available as a vaccine site, and BART may resume more regular hours starting in September.
West Oakland's only grocery store says it may not be able to stay open without financial help, the SFPD has released an updated sketch of a toddler who went missing when her mother was killed in 2016, and Uber and Lyft are both spending big on incentives to bring drivers back.
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Another gray whale has died in the Bay Area, the fourth in just eight days, and it washed ashore on Muir Beach in Marin County on Thursday morning. This spate of gray whale deaths is reminding biologists of 2019.
The Centers for Disease Control confirmed today what epidemiologists have been saying for at least eight months, which is you don't need to keep disinfecting surfaces and decontaminating your groceries because the coronavirus doesn't spread by surface contact.
Mayor Breed announced guidelines for indoor events to return next week in SF, and the Warriors will let fans in the stands on April 23 for a Nuggets game.
San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum is set to reopen next month, on May 7, with two new exhibits — one of which celebrates the culture of food and drink in Pompeii, which the museum's director says was “kind of the Sonoma Valley of ancient Rome.”
Breed announced Thursday that she had appointed Shireen McSpadden, the current executive director of the Department of Disability and Aging Services, to be the next head of the city's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
Onetime cornerback for the 49ers, Phillip Adams, is the sole suspect in a mass shooting on Wednesday in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Adams is believed to have shot six people, killing five of them, and then turning the gun on himself.
A carjacking victim is critically injured near Union Square, a domestic incident near Fisherman's Wharf turned into a six-hour standoff, and Alameda County is expanding vaccine eligibility in 12 zip codes.
KPIX reporter Don Ford was robbed *again* in San Francisco — but the thief dropped the news camera while fleeing from his security guard; the SFMTA has approved four more Slow Streets; and a shooting in South Lake Tahoe leaves one dead.
A new vaccination clinic with phone appointments and some drop-in availability has opened to serve the hard-hit Excelsior District, much like neighborhood clinics that have opened in the Mission, Tenderloin, and Bayview.
The rival schools have a new common enemy — the cybercriminals sending their students and faculty emails reading “Your personal data has been stolen and will be published."
Success! In addition to other good news this week, we have an egg-cellent development to share over at the falcon's nest on top of PG&E's Beale Street headquarters: Not one but two of the eggs that Val laid in March have hatched.
If you haven't yet received at least one vaccine shot and waited the appropriate two weeks after to resume more normal activities, you should not be resuming those activities as if we're totally out of the woods and you have nothing to fear — I don't care how young or invincible you think you are.
A story broke over the weekend that was initially characterized as another anti-Asian attack, this time outside a famed North Beach bar, with a victim who was 18 years old, but it appears to have been more of an interpersonal conflict.
A couple in the East Bay town of Rodeo has been charged with torturing and abusing an 11-year-old girl over a period of four months, and they may soon be charged with her murder.
A man was killed in a freeway collision Tuesday night after attempting to flee from a traffic stop on 101 in Burlingame.
A 48-year-old man has pleaded guilty to gun charges in a random shooting on Market Street, the SF school board just reversed itself on renaming 44 schools, and is Justice Stephen Breyer going to retire this year?
Developers of the 88 Bluxome project in SoMa say they can no longer afford to replace the tennis club, the family of a Danville homeless man shot by police is suing, and two UK variant cases have been confirmed in Marin.
