A new video captures the greatest hits of an epic, two-county car chase where a suspect collides with police cars, jumps a 20-foot ridge and carjacks his way out of it, and then attempts to gouge the eyeballs out of the K-9 dog that eventually nabs him.
Thanks to more sophisticated testing being done on virus samples in Colorado, officials there say the first detected U.S. case of COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 has been found there.
Both daily new case totals and hospitalizations may be peaking or nearing a peak in San Francisco, indicating a possible — possible! — reprieve in the current surge. And SF's Director of Public Health Dr. Grant Colfax wants everyone to know he's proud of you.
FasTrak Luddites beware! Starting at midnight on New Year's Eve, drivers without FasTrak tags or existing License Plate Accounts with the Bay Area Toll Authority will begin receiving monthly invoices for toll crossings on seven Bay Area bridges.
For the second time this year, an iconic Castro bar is turning to patrons and fans for help, as it once again sits closed and without a source of revenue for an indefinite span of time.
Thieves and vandals targeted shops on Clement Street over the holiday weekend, a UCSF infectious disease specialist pushes for "harm reduction" on New Year's Eve, and Vice-president-elect Kamala Harris and her husband get their COVID vaccines.
A man was arrested after leading authorities on a chase through three Bay Area counties, the former SFPD officer charged with manslaughter in a 2017 shooting has pleaded not guilty, and a local sea lion has recovered from a severe shark bite and returned to the ocean.
The two competing rideshare giants announce two different competing plans to offer free rides for vaccine shots, but the fine print shows plenty of these rides will not actually be free.
DJ Earworm, who used call San Francisco home and whose year-end mashups were a mainstay on SFist for many years, has just dropped a 50-year medley that melds a few bars from 50 different songs — one for each year, in order, from 1970 to 2020.
A Las Vegas man is accused of showing up in Sonoma County a little late for Christmas on Saturday, dressed in a Santa beard, Santa hat, and a Donald Trump mask, and creating a ruse to lure his former brother-in-law out of his house so that he could shoot him.
A female driver was critically injured after her car plunged off a cliff at Fort Funston on Christmas Day, and the upside-down car was still on the beach as of Sunday, draped in police tape.
We're learning that a large gated compound on Lombard Street in Russian Hill that was originally listed for $45 million in 2018 and subsequently reduced ended up quietly changing hands earlier this year for $27 million.
There are at least signs that, for the moment, Bay Area hospitals have avoided seeing the unmanageable crush of new COVID patients that had been predicted around Christmas.
CA legislators are postponing the effective date for a flavored-tobacco ban, actress Lori Loughlin is walking out of a federal prison in the East Bay today, and the CHP says they arrested 300 drunk drivers over Christmas.
Sunday around 6:44 a.m., a 3.8 magnitude earthquake shook the ground 31 miles outside of Chico — which was followed by a smaller 3.2 magnitude tremor south of Gilroy at 11:05 a.m. this morning.
Less than two weeks ago, a statue built to honor the life of Breonna Taylor debuted in Oakland's Latham Square; it was promptly broken into pieces the day after Christmas by unknown vandals.
Cal Fire officials have said that this year’s wildfire season will end Monday, it appears rain got the better of the gingerbread monolith at Corona Heights Park, and a ring of suspended ice crystals — known as a moon ring or winter halo — captivated denizens of the Bay Area Saturday night.
Don't give up on your Christmas trees just yet (if for no other reason than to avoid a deluge of dropped needles). SF City officials announced today that these still-living holiday staples can soon be put out for collection sometime in early January.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced Friday that stay-at-home orders in four regions, including the Bay Area, are likely to stay in place past their original three-week duration — solidifying what many of us have been thinking as Bay Area hospitals crowd with COVID-19 cases.
Older Bay Area residents are likely next in line to receive the coronavirus vaccine, a jolly Santa gave out gifts to the Oakland Zoo’s animals yesterday, and SF’s Chinatown was eerily quiet on Christmas — a day usually filled with tourists and locals alike walking the neighborhood.
A woman was seriously injured after her car went off a cliff near Fort Funston, rain continues to come down in the Bay Area, and a gingerbread monolith (that stands over seven feet tall) mysteriously went up in SF on Christmas Day.
After piquing the attention of Sonoma County health officials and worried members of the public, the NYE shindig at Graton Resort & Casino in Rohnert Park — which had all the makings of possibly becoming a regional superspreader event — has been canceled.
It's going to be a Dungeness crab-free Christmas today, there was an indoor mask-free church service at the controversial Calvary Chapel in San Jose yesterday, and a large Good Boy took a tumble down a rocky cliffside near Coit Tower — but was safely rescued.
New data shows that SF neighborhoods with the least access to testing are the most affected by COVID-19, Glide hosted its annual Christmas Eve prime rib dinner today, and the 196 unhoused people who died in San Jose this year have each been memorialized with a “temporary tombstone.”
A Berkeley troublemaker hit the jackpot by successfully fooling Fox Business’ ‘Mornings with Maria’ on a live segment that of course went brilliantly awry.
