The SF Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved an expansion of the shelter-in-place hotel program for the homeless, adding 400 more hotel rooms to the 1,800 currently in use.
Days after two Republican congressmen from California took potshots at it, a $141 million federal gift to BART has been dropped from the $1.9 trillion stimulus package.
Officials from the FBI and U.S. Capitol Police say they are taking "seriously" some intelligence that suggests there is a plot by a militia group and some QAnon believers to help bring Donald Trump back to power on March 4.
The CDC is warning places (like SF) that may be reopening too soon, the Recall Newsom effort is getting a lot of play on Fox News, and another SF Walgreens is closing permanently at Bush and Larkin.
One Medical is being called on by Congress to answer for allegations about its vaccine distribution, the SFPD has made an arrest in a quintuple shooting last June in the Tenderloin, and cable cars will run again by fall, says the SFMTA.
Folsom Street Events (FSE), the nonprofit behind the Folsom Street Fair, is expected to open a sex-positive community center at 145 9th Street in SoMa that will have a queer-focused library and archive, host shame-free, kink-friendly sex education classes, and much more.
One out-of-context sentence from a New York Times interview is the latest fodder for right-wing media and the Recall Chesa crowd to throw, well, temper tantrums.
Union Square. Hayes Valley. The Castro. In these and other neighborhoods around the city, no amount of parklet dining and drinking can make up for the fact that, on some blocks, there are more empty storefronts than there are active ones.
San Francisco's two biggest art museums reopen this weekend after three-month closures, as the city moves into the "Red" tier allowing for 25% capacity at museums.
As expected for several weeks though a week later than predicted, San Francisco has moved to state's "Red" tier for reopening businesses, as COVID case numbers have fallen back to levels not seen since before Thanksgiving. Also newly "Red" are Santa Clara and Napa.
Now that over a half-million Americans have been lost to this pandemic — and the number could easily top 600,000 or higher before the year is out — there is a movement to establish a new national holiday to remember and mourn the COVID dead.
There's nothing resembling a serious soaking in the forecast — and even with a few soakings this rainy season is already looking like a failure by drought-relief standards. But there is a dash of rain possible this weekend, late Friday into Saturday, so it's something.
SF is expected to move to the "Red" tier along with Napa and Santa Clara counties today, a group of Berkeley moms has posted video of the teachers' union president dropping his child off at a private preschool, and Specialty's has reopened... in Mountain View.
Blue Shield takes over in directing CA's vaccine distribution starting this week, Santa Cruz anti-maskers continue to terrorize a Trader Joe's there, and SF's only Krispy Kreme has closed for good.
His high school denied him a varsity letter for odd reasons that he chalks up to homophobia and his being effeminate. 63 years later they made it right.
For the first time in a century, a gray wolf — a species once listed as "endangered" under the Endangered Species Act — has been documented traveling near Yosemite National Park, the farthest south a wolf has been tracked in California since the early 1920s.
The fellow who gained fame for a TikTok Fleetwood Mac video was in SF last week, and players didn’t love him but instead broke into his family’s two rental cars.
A one-alarm fire in the Outer Mission Monday morning has destroyed one home and displaced seven residents.
As part of the ongoing corruption scandal that upended business as usual at San Francisco City Hall last year, City Attorney Dennis Herrera has officially suspended five executives representing four companies that previously had city contracts.
Roger Reece Kibbe, who was serving multiple life sentences for the rape and murder of women he found on the freeways around Sacramento in the 1970 and 80s, was apparently killed in a homicide at Mule Creek State Prison on Sunday.
We're back to the Republicans' favorite game of using "San Francisco" as a stand-in for everything detestable about liberals.
A body of a man found in a Marin County park is being treated as a suspicious death, San Jose police made a wave of gang arrests, and United Airlines is planning to furlough over 3,000 workers at SFO starting April 1.
Despite winning three in a row for the first time this season leading up to Sunday night’s contest against the defending NBA champions in LA, the Warriors suffered a savage 26-point loss to Lebron James and the Lakers, falling to eighth in the West.
The public light installation that's been glowing inside Golden Gate Park's Peacock Meadow since December was expected to dim entirely by the end of February; it's now been extended to shine until April 4.
TTempting fate, two skiers were able to snake down a particularly dangerous — and incredibly variable — part of Yosemite's Half Dome by alternating between skiing and rappelling down to the valley floor. They're still somehow alive (with footage, in tow).
