The Sonoma County district attorney has charged PG&E with 33 criminal counts — including five felonies — in light of findings that their transmission lines did cause the Kincade Fire.
Republican trans woman and generally bored rich person Caitlyn Jenner is reportedly mulling a run for governor in the likely event that we have a recall election for Gavin Newsom this year.
Next up in our Great American Pandemic Story we are likely to see a wave of stories about vaccination card forgeries — given how easy they are to fake, how many dumb Americans are still avoiding getting vaccinated, and you'll seen need one to go to a concert.
The future is looking cautiously brighter as of Tuesday in the Bay Area, now that Sonoma, Napa, and Contra Costa counties have all graduated to "Orange" tier status, and people can go back to drinking at outdoor bars without ordering food in eight out of nine Bay Area counties.
Newsom announced during a visit to San Francisco Tuesday that he expects, if COVID infection rates hold steady and keep declining in the state, that California will be able to toss out the color-coded tier system by June 15.
The former owner of Blowfish Sushi to Die For is preparing legal action after a ghost kitchen opened in the former Blowfish space at 2193 Mission Street, using the Blowfish name and logo and fulfilling delivery orders on DoorDash and Seamless.
Amid calls on social media for all of them to be recalled, San Francisco's embattled Board of Education is saying that it will reverse its decision on renaming 44 schools in the district in favor of a different, "more deliberative" process at a later date.
President Biden is saying states should open vaccine eligibility to everyone by April 19, the SFMTA is still adding more Slow Streets, and Sonoma County is expected to move to the "Orange" tier for the first time today.
California now has the lowest COVID test-positivity rate of any state in the country, a new cannabis dispensary is headed to Cow Hollow, and Kamala Harris used her Oakland visit to announce that FEMA will keep the Coliseum vaccination site open past Sunday.
For the second year in a row, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence hosted their annual Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contests online, and crowned winners on Twitch. But the group’s second iteration of its streaming Easter Sunday tradition was arguably much grander than the 2020 event.
The Trader Joe's that nearly everyone in the Hayes Valley environs is jonesing to shop at will not become a reality until late next year or even possibly early 2023, according to a newly released timeline from the company.
Remember George Gascón? Both SF district attorney Chesa Boudin and Los Angeles DA Gascón face recall efforts, a pro-Gascón PAC has made a lavish contribution to help Boudin.
Popular TenderNob Hawaiian restaurant Liholiho Yacht Club is undergoing a renovation, and the owners are relocating the operation temporarily this month to their other restaurant space at 3560 18th Street — which is home to Dear Inga.
A bizarre incident happened in front of multiple onlookers at a popular vista point in Bodega Bay on Saturday, and it ended the lives of a 41-year-old teacher from the East Bay and her 64-year-old mother.
A 24-year-old who had previously been arrested for bringing a concealed firearm to the SF Pride celebration in 2019 has been arrested in connection with a road-rage shooting three weeks ago in the Silver Terrace neighborhood that left one man and a juvenile injured.
With news having arrived on Friday about concert venues and theaters being permitted to resume indoor events later this month at reduced capacity in California, the calendar at the Chase Center is already filling up once again.
As is the case in cities across the rest of the Bay Area, the number of people renting in San Francisco tends to exceed the number of people who own their homes, with
VP Kamala Harris is making a quick stop in Oakland today, the Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit brought against Trump over his habit of blocking critics on Twitter, and a new COVID variant has been identified in the Bay Area by researchers at Stanford.
One of the world’s largest living animals washed up ashore at Crissy Field this past Wednesday, captivating passersby — and sparking up curiosity about how the marine mammal died. Now four days and one necropsy later, it's still unclear as to how the whale perished.
Friday evening, four kite surfers were finally able to make it ashore in Foster City after strong ocean winds carried them far away from their original kick-off points; all but one, however, needed rescue by local firefighters and Coast Guard officers.
Another pandemic Easter Sunday is here, over half a billion Facebook users might have had their personal information compromised (and posted online), and the body of a 19-year-old Oakland woman was discovered by a hiker in Siskiyou County.
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the Bay Area's dining and art scenes, claiming hundreds of restaurants and putting even more financial pressure on local culture hubs. Citing a massive loss of revenue, the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) was recently forced to remove 20 full-time positions.
"Entwined," the array of glowing LED structures at Golden Gate Park, has become an Instagram darling since debuting in the winter of 2020 — but with its month-long extension coming to a close, this is the last weekend to see it before the installation goes dark.
1,700 homeless people remain in hotel rooms after SF moved them inside during shelter-in-place, tree removal and trimming continues along 24th Street, and cooler weather is finally here (which may bring with it a very small chance of rain next week).
172-year-old Tadich Grill will reopen next week, a noose was found on USF campus grounds, and Mayor Breed announced Thursday that most SF adults will have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by mid-May.
