The CA state assembly is considering a bill to remove gender labels from department store toy sections, and Tucker Carlson will surely have his yo-yos in a bunch over this one.
Sandra Zuniga, formerly the head of San Francisco's Office of Neighborhood Services (a.k.a. the Fix-It Team), has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering, and will cooperate with federal investigators' ongoing corruption probe.
After only having limited-capacity indoor dining for three short weeks since the pandemic began, restaurants in Alameda County are preparing to once again allow patrons indoors starting on Wednesday.
A ballot measure to make the school board appointed by City Hall, instead of elected, is in the works — but the political action committee behind the effort might not exactly be “grassroots.”
The San Francisco Police Department on Tuesday released a few more details about last week's armed robbery of a KPIX crew's camera at Twin Peaks — which, ironically, was stolen while the reporter was there to report on all the theft going on in the area.
In yet another argument for why SF neighborhoods can not afford to be too picky about what kinds of retail and restaurants they get in the midst of a retail apocalypse, the first U.S. location of Hinoya Curry was forced to close just weeks after opening in order to go through a permitting process.
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An Uber driver picked up a classy trio of young women during the brunch hours of Sunday in San Francisco, only to have one of them swear at him and cough on him after being told she needed to wear a mask.
Santa Clara County is refusing to sign an agreement with Blue Shield for vaccine coordination and other counties may follow, the Johnson & Johnson one-dose vaccine arrives in the Bay, and the NYT has controversially declared California's bagels superior to New York's.
Ghost Ship fire defendant Derick Almena was sentenced today to further house confinement and restitution, SF hit a new four-month low in COVID cases, and the city's budget deficit is getting wiped away by the federal stimulus bill.
Dr. David Seftel, the physician for the 500 employees and their families at the East Bay racetrack Golden Gate Fields, recently played a role in the early study of a common psychiatric drug, fluvoxamine, to treat COVID.
A 17-year-old male mute swan, one of two who have ruled over the lagoon at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, died last week of apparent zinc and lead poisoning — which his mate was also being treated for in recent weeks.
In an encouraging sign for the office real estate amidst the ‘everyone's working from home forever’ craze, the four-building Mission Bay complex known as the Exchange has sold for $1.08 billion.
Chalk up another pandemic casualty in the bar and restaurant scene, and this one is going to hurt for denizens of the Lower Haight — Maven is closing on March 29.
Mass-vaccination sites across the state of California are in need of volunteers. For those eager to get a vaccine shot before they're eligible without committing any ethical misdeeds, there may be opportunities in your area to volunteer some time and receive a vaccine.
A bit more potentially dramatic weather is arriving today and tomorrow, with the possibility of some rare thunder and lightning that hopefully won't spark any fires this time.
A local news station in San Francisco has uncovered a story that will add fuel to the anger about lawlessness in the city and the DA's office's policies when it comes to freeing suspects from custody.
The CDC has issued new guidance for the vaccinated, three people were injured in a head-on collision stemming from sideshows in Solano County, and Willie Brown has had his second shot and says he's feeling just fine.
On Tuesday, Berkeley councilmembers will consider a resolution that would move toward making a sun-washed yellow, two-story duplex on Bancroft Way a historic landmark; the house, in question, was where our current vice president grew up.
One rambunctious labrador puppy got more than what it bargained for after it dropped off a steep cliff while playing at Fort Funston. Thankfully, SF firefighters were able to rescue the small black lab from the steep slope without injury.
Joining the likes of SFMOMA and other venues that reopened this week, the Conservatory of Flowers began welcoming back guests into its sun-soaked greenhouse on Friday.
Goodwill Industries announced it plans to shutter at least eight Bay Area retail stores, SFMTA's Slow Streets survey is still open to fill out, and the $1,400 stimulus checks are expected to start going out later this month — possibly as early as next week.
After a contentious few weeks on the subject, San Francisco school officials plan to reopen classrooms for in-person learning next month. Preschoolers and elementary students (through 2nd grade) will return first — though only about a third of SF elementary schools will initially reopen in April.
Part of Google’s $1B affordable housing plan has landed in Potrero Hill, Amanda Gorman — the history-making poet who recited her piece, "The Hill We Climb," at Biden's inauguration — was racially profiled before the weekend, and the Senate has passed the $1.9T COVID-19 relief bill.
102-year-old Tosca Cafe has reopened its parklet after a months-long shuttering, the Fairmont in San Jose has filed for bankruptcy, and California officials announced Friday that large venues like stadiums and theme parks can reopen next month — albeit under strict attendance capacities.
A mural on one of SF's Slow Streets — a block of Sanchez Street in Noe Valley between 24th and Elizabeth streets — now has a very tall/long new mural that is best viewed via drone.
