The drama! A wealthy San Francisco nonprofit that helps support the city's Rec and Parks Department is having none of Richmond District Supervisor Connie Chan's insinuations.
Traffic through SFO is ticking up steadily, an investigation into the inner workings at the Employment Development Department is telling but unsurprising, and the CDC may be changing its rules about distancing for schoolchildren.
Assuming San Francisco enters the "Orange" tier next week, bars will be able to serve outside without the mandatory food and restaurants can open indoors at 50% capacity; and SF is getting a new interim director of its homelessness department.
A fund established by SF Supervisor Matt Haney to provide direct relief grants to music and entertainment venues that have been dark for the past year has gotten its first influx of public funds, thanks to the city's unexpected budget surplus.
The Golden Gate Bridge had standstill traffic Thursday afternoon after all northbound lanes were blocked following an injury crash near the vista point on the north end of the bridge.
The popular roller skating venue at an abandoned church on Fillmore Street called The Church of 8 Wheels has been thwarted in its efforts to reopen to the public at least three times since November.
A crowdfunding campaign set up just yesterday for the elderly Chinese woman assaulted on San Francisco's Market Street on Wednesday has already raised over $300,000 — due in no small part because she was seen fighting back, and she sent her attacker to the hospital.
It’s not an announcement or confirmation, but the Burning Man Project has sent a “gentle nudge” to the biggest camps to start planning, and giving deadlines for those wanting prime placement.
Attorneys for disgraced Theranos founder and possible cyborg Elizabeth Holmes — who, believe it or not, still hasn't gone to trial in her fraud case — won yet another delay in the court case because their client is pregnant, and her due date is right around when her trial was set to begin in July.
An Amtrak train carrying 111 passengers and crew, en route to Los Angeles, collided with a maintenance truck that was parked too close to the train tracks on Thursday morning. No injuries have been reported.
The mass vaccination site at the Oakland Coliseum stopped taking appointments for first shots of the Pfizer vaccine last week as it prepares to switch over to administering only the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
With Warriors center James Wiseman and forward Eric Paschall ruled out of Wednesday night’s game in Houston due to coronavirus-related contact tracing, the Dubs cruised to a victory over the Rockets despite losing Steph Curry after three quarters to an injured tailbone.
The family of a man killed by a sheriff's deputy in Danville last week is demanding answers, the SFPD says it will step up patrols in the wake of a spike in attacks on Asian residents, and FEMA will be reimbursing COVID funeral expenses.
SF supervisors and the mayor have struck a deal on using the city's $125M surplus, a sink hole appears in the Mission, and the IRS says you can file your taxes through May 17 this year without penalty.
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The organizers of Outside Lands teased some sort of big announcement on Monday, and now they've released the news as of Thursday. The festival is being postponed once more, but this time just for two extra months (and change).
You’ll want to avoid the paddy wagon on this St. Paddy’s Day, and SFPD promises you’re courtin’ trouble if you drive drunk because they’ll be out in force at checkpoints.
The Chronicle is getting in on the zeitgeist of true crime podcasts and stories, and revisiting a horrific case that, in the Chronicle's trashier days in the 1970s, was mostly just tabloid headline fodder — and the SFPD never bothered to solve it.
Historic East Bay women's college Mills, which was founded in 1852, is ending its run as a degree-granting institution and won't be taking on any new students after this fall.
A 70-year-old Asian woman, injured by a much younger man she said was "bullying" her, successfully beat up her attacker on San Francisco's Market Street Wednesday morning.
We're likely headed for another summer of dried-up lawns, fires, and water restrictions if Mother Nature continues to withhold the rain and snow that we need to make up for a super-dry November, December, and February.
The SF falcons at the PG&E building are incubating a clutch of four eggs, and across the Bay, the falcon pair that nests in the Campanile tower on the UC Berkeley campus just produced their third egg of the season, with a fourth due today.
Commuter traffic around the Bay is back to near pre-pandemic levels, three suspects in a fatal shooting apparently disappeared into Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood last night, and Solano Co. is allowing the 50+ set to get vaccines.
SF likely will keep to stricter rules than the state allows when it advances to the "Orange" tier, a 59-year-old Asian man was assaulted on Market Street on Monday, and Feinstein's husband may be give her an out when it comes to leaving the Senate gracefully.
A 16-year-old San Leandro girl has been arrested and two other teen suspects are being sought in an attempted robbery and carjacking in San Francisco's Inner Richmond last week in which an elderly woman was injured and a good Samaritan intervened.
Several supes expressed exasperation about the fact that they were spending so much time and energy on this. And in the end, they voted 6-5 to let the contract stand as-is, at four years, in what will be cast as a victory for fun.
