Billionaire Elon Musk gets to do what he wants and turn joke tweets into actual businesses — remember the Boring Company? — and the latest is a premium tequila in a lightning-bolt-shaped bottle with Tesla branding.
GOP senators are beginning to push back on Trump's vote-count lies, a fatal shooting followed a public fight in Richmond's Iron Triangle Thursday night, and Myrna Melgar appears to be the new SF supervisor for District 7.
Glide Memorial Church is no longer part of the Methodist Church after 100 years, SF is likely giving a tax break to the cannabis industry, and some Bayview chefs were featured in a Bud Light ad during the 49ers game.
There were a pair of shootings in San Francisco on Wednesday, one of them fatal, in two different neighborhoods, about eight hours apart.
In another example of Facebook's ineptitude at stemming misinformation — during an election or otherwise — a group the entire purpose of which was to delegitimize the election and ballot-counting process was able to flourish for a full day and amplify Trump's lies before being taken down.
Fresh-caught Dungeness crab will not be on your Thanksgiving menu, as all commercial fishing is delayed in our region until December 1.
Rain! Remember rain? Between the wildfires and the election season it's hard to remember a time when rain fell out of the sky in the Bay Area — but there's some coming!
"Bambi blazed trails and burned bridges for many decades but she always remained a dreamer," writes Justin Vivian Bond today, on the death of longtime friend, Bambi Lake. "It feels like the end of an era."
A memo seems to have gone out to would-be looters that this week was going to be a good time to hit some stores in the East Bay, with a CVS, a Big 5, and a sneaker shop all targeted.
Health officers in the nine Bay Area counties will be meeting Thursday to discuss possibly instituting a 14-day quarantine rule for all those traveling here from parts of the country that are experiencing surges in COVID-19 cases — similar to one instituted in New York State.
Protests erupt across the country demanding to "count every vote" and also to "stop the count," the District 1 supervisor's race in SF is still too close to call, and Biden appears to have an edge with remaining votes being counted in four states.
Trump is now suing three states in a bid to stop votes for Biden getting counted, the rise in COVID cases in California isn't a "surge" according to the top health official, and Lori Loughlin began her prison sentence in Dublin under unpleasant circumstances.
Contra Costa County public health officials announced Wednesday that the county would be ratcheting back its rules on some higher risk business activities, decreasing capacity for restaurants and movie theaters as it faces a possible move back to "Red" tier status next week.
What began as one of many seedy adult-movie houses in the Tenderloin in 1969, the O'Farrell Theatre soon grew to prominence as its owners launched a booming porn production business and spruced up the theater into what Hunter S. Thompson famously dubbed "the Carnegie Hall of sex in America."
Results are still coming in, but the attempted revision of Prop 13 for commercial property is running slightly behind, and the reinstatement of affirmative action has likely failed.
The ranked-choice tallying is ongoing on Wednesday for SF's six Board of Supervisors races, but there are several that can probably be called at this point. And former supervisor Scott Wiener handily won reelection to the state Senate with 60% of the vote as of last count.
With results still being tallied for San Francisco's local ballot measures, the writing seems to be on the wall for most of them. SF residents largely voted yes down the ballot — just not for letting 16-year-olds vote.
The 49ers shut down their facility and began contract tracing on Wednesday due to the player's positive test, one day ahead of game against NFC rival Green Bay Packers.
Rumors and fears of potential unrest gave way to at least two burglaries at marijuana businesses in Oakland, one of which led to an officer-involved shooting. Other shootings elsewhere in Oakland resulted in six people being injured.
A fire that broke out overnight in Noe Valley spread to three homes and rose to three alarms before being contained around 3:30 a.m.
The dialysis regulation measure Prop 23 appears to be going down, Mark Kelly beat Martha McSally for the Arizona Senate seat, and as promised Facebook and Twitter flagged Trump's false claims about winning the election and the Democrats trying to "steal" it.
Bayfair Mall in San Leandro closed over election night looting fears, Marin County had more polling place volunteers than they knew what to do with, and a QAnon crazy has won a Georgia House seat.
A tedious battle at City Hall over the selection of an appropriate monument to poet, author, and onetime San Francisco resident Maya Angelou has seemingly been resolved, and a monument that was selected by committee over a year ago and then rejected has been reinstated.
Safety drivers who are piloting Waymo's self-driving cars around San Francisco as part of a testing program that has been ongoing for several years were instructed on Monday to bring the vehicles back to Mountain View.
Leather bar The Eagle, the Museum of Ice Cream, the Balboa Theater and Almanac Beer Co. are filling in as temporary polling places this as San Francisco is set to break turnout records in this bizarre pandemic election.
