Asian Art Museum Hit with Lawsuit Over Allegedly Stolen Artifacts
Look at these 1,000-year-old sculptures, because they’re unlikely to be on display at the Asian Art Museum any longer amidst a troubling lawsuit from the US government.
Look at these 1,000-year-old sculptures, because they’re unlikely to be on display at the Asian Art Museum any longer amidst a troubling lawsuit from the US government.
Two men were shot, one of them fatally, late Thursday night in East Oakland, and the double shooting followed two other fatal shootings earlier in the day, and months of escalating killings on the city's streets.
The Chase Center opens Saturday as a ballot drop-off spot, Sign Hill Park in South SF is closed until further notice, and San Francisco just ended its COVID testing partnership with Google's Verily because the results took too long.
A female inmate in the Sonoma County Jail died in an undisclosed medical emergency, Contra Costa County is investigating a few missing ballots, and California looks to be pretty divided over Prop 16.
Compounding fears that Trump may not lose this election are fears that he and his most ardent supporters may try to sow chaos in the days and weeks following Election Day in an effort to delegitimize the vote-counting process. But here in the Bay Area?
A handful of people in the country have contracted coronavirus and the flu simultaneously, one here in the Bay Area, and the double-whammy co-infection threat is real.
In a hearing on Wednesday, federal officials were discussing authorizing the death penalty for both Steven Carrillo and Robert Alvin Justus, Jr., the suspected shooter and driver, respectively, in the May 29 killing of a Federal Protective Services officer in Oakland.
With people already bolting from the Bay in droves, Reddit is among the first tech companies to pay workers the same salary if they move somewhere cheaper.
The West Contra Costa Unified School District hosted a virtual grand opening ceremony Thursday for the elementary school that it has renamed after former First Lady Michelle Obama.
San Francisco's lauded but temporary program of housing vulnerable and elderly homeless individuals in hotel rooms during the pandemic is set to wind down over the next seven to eight months, and next week the first wave of hotel closures begins.
Tensions are always high when the prospect of uprooting your entire life and moving to a new home is on the table. The simple fact is that moving from your house or commercial spaces involves more than packing and transporting boxes.
Coronavirus death rates are dropping across the country but crowded hospitals may change that, Sonoma County officials really want to get out of the "Purple" tier, and Bay Bridge traffic is basically back to pre-pandemic levels in case you were wondering.
Bay Area election officials are seeing unprecedented levels of early voting, a Sonoma County councilman has been arrested on child molestation charges, and the city of Pittsburg is settling a suit from the family of a man killed by a police officer in 2016.
No one should be surprised that he showed up for a bit of Republican political theater today with a truly guru-esque goat beard, and a nose ring.
Back rent is piling up under the eviction moratorium, so the Board voted Tuesday that the city would pay between 50-65% of it for qualifying tenants and landlords.
Two weeks after it advanced to the state's "Orange" tier, Alameda County announced that middle schools and high schools may reopen on or after November 9, with restrictions.
She had hung on through her 90s as a cheerful bon vivant who liked a glass or Champagne at local food events, but at age 100 she is gone.
A landmark home in San Francisco — made so solely because of a creative paint job inspired by the work of Piet Mondrian — has become just another drab house in a row of similar houses, because its new owners clearly didn't appreciate what they had and prefer a life of conformist banality.
Another possible near-miss for PG&E was recorded Tuesday night in northern Sonoma County when a vegetation fire broke out just minutes after power was restored in one area — and apparently there were two downed power lines in the vicinity that were missed in the utility's inspections.
Some odd (and vaguely racist) political ads are shaking up the races, as all six odd-numbered supervisor districts are on the November ballot.
Two patients and at least three healthcare workers in one unit at UCSF Parnassus have tested for COVID-19, Fairfield police are seeking a suspect in a hit-and-run that killed an 81-year-old, and PG&E issues the "all clear" for those who lost power.
San Francisco businesses were allowed to let 25 percent of their workforce return to "nonessential offices" today, the Mission District's Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery will reopen Thursday, and PG&E says it has restored electricity to more than 228,000 customers.
55-year-old former Santa Clara police captain Philip Cooke entered a guilty plea in federal court in Boston Tuesday, joining six other former eBay employees implicated in a wackadoo intimidation scheme aimed at a couple of Boston-based bloggers.
Onetime San Francisco Poet Laureate and one of the only feminist voices to keep company with the Beat Generation, Diane di Prima, has died.
The Bay Area isn't seeing anything close to what some other states and regions are seeing, and hopefully we will not as flu season arrives. However there are at least small signs of a slight uptick in cases outside of San Francisco in the past week.