A guy dressed as Santa Claus made a wrong turn in his flying "sled" north of Sacramento on Sunday morning and ended up snagged in some power lines and in need of rescue.
The newly passed stimulus bill leaves out direct aid for state and local governments, Governor Gavin Newsom is quarantining again after a possible COVID exposure, and tens of thousands passed through SFO over the weekend despite public health warnings about travel.
After a contract was approved Friday that finally put a cap on the stadium-naming mess involving former Coliseum Authority Executive Director Scott McKibben, the Oakland Coliseum is now formally "RingCentral Coliseum."
The company responsible for selling over 36 million computerized rectangles annually in the United States announced it will temporarily shutter all of its California stores; some Apple stores, however, will honor existing order pickups and Genius Bar appointments up until December 22.
Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine has started shipping out, San Francisco's "Tree Twins” continue to spread holiday cheer across the city this year, and an Oakland man believed to be related to a series of armed robberies dove into San Francisco Bay while trying to elude authorities.
San Francisco police came across the scene of an apparent homicide inside a North Beach apartment building Friday afternoon, leading to the arrest of a yet-named male suspect.
Some SF City officials are pushing back against the ban on outdoor dining, a small mini-mart will be held at the Mission Bowling Club today, and SFO employees have started making sure incoming travelers are aware of SF’s mandatory 10-day quarantine.
The FDA has now officially authorized the "emergency use" of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, SF's public school students won't start returning to campuses on January 25 as originally planned, and 58 more people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco last month.
Drop everything immediately and check out this open-air interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz of the Snowflakes” on an airport tarmac by Post:Ballet.
A man who denied having symptoms of COVID-19 boarded a United Airlines flight in Orlando on Monday bound for Los Angeles. Shortly into the flight he suffered a medical emergency and died onboard, and his wife was heard telling medical personnel that he had COVID symptoms.
Twitter figures that if we are informed that someone also likes dogs or soccer, maybe we will tone down our death threats and online harassment.
Residents working at Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto staged a protest Friday to demand that they be given priority in the line for healthcare workers getting the Pfizer COVID vaccine.
In one of many cases of EDD fraud being investigated, a Sacramento area woman who used to work for the EDD apparently cashed in $21,000 in fraudulent claims using the name and social security number of Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Two men were arrested this week on sexual assault and other charges in unrelated cases, with witnesses on a San Francisco Muni helping to identify one of the suspects.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is trucking along and corralling her caucus like a pro at age 80, is in a high-risk category for COVID both because of her age and being an "essential worker." But as of Friday, she has received her first shot of the vaccine.
The mayor’s Medium post vaguely decries “what some people have been saying” and “a number of inaccurate statements” after the Board of Supervisors' unanimous vote to extend the shelter-in-place hotel program.
Businesses in SF's Chinatown are asking the mayor for more financial relief, a drone operator helped rescue a woman in high surf in Pacifica, and the federal government is giving California less of the Pfizer vaccine than promised in its next shipment.
A suspect believed to be related to the Lake Merritt-area assaults has been arrested, the SF Weekly and the Examiner have been purchased by Clint Reilly Communications, and San Francisco will soon make it mandatory for travelers (arriving anywhere outside of the Bay Area) to quarantine for 10 days.
The state usually sets speed limits, but the SFMTA has found a loophole by which they can lower the speed limit on many Tenderloin streets.
The pandemic threatened to cancel it, but "The Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes" is happening on a recreated set at Oasis for a live, multi-cam telecast experience instead, starting Thursday.
San Franciscans barely got to enjoy the 150-foot tall "observation wheel" in its 5.5 weeks of operation this fall, and parks officials now want to get its permit extended through next year.
Kohrs, who works in construction now, did a short stint in jail for a 2015 hit-and-run in North Beach. And while he still won't talk about that, he wants to talk about why exactly the Police Commission decided to fire him.
It remains just a list of recommendations that hasn't been formalized, but a SF school district committee's push to strip Abraham Lincoln's name from a school is drawing national outrage and laughter.
In a show of unity Wednesday on a live-streamed Zoom session, SF Police Chief Bill Scott and District Attorney Chesa Boudin discussed recent charging decisions implicating SF police officers, and the growing role of the DA's Independent Investigations Bureau.
SF Mayor London Breed says she's still "fighting for the single people" who are trapped at home under health orders, a new testing site in the Mission has some long waits, and the Bay Area is in for another dry spell after this rain.
