Nick Bovis, the local restaurateur named in a federal indictment earlier this year stemming from an FBI probe of corruption in SF City Hall, has now filed for bankruptcy for one of this businesses, longtime hofbrau Lefty O'Doul's.
A fire broke out Tuesday morning in the Oakland hills, on the final day of an extended Red Flag Warning amid record-dry conditions, and it engulfed two homes and spread to nearby vegetation.
A 300-acre fire in Suisun City on Monday was likely caused by a cigarette butt, Oakland police are investigating a shooting death of a driver who crashed their car, and PG&E is in the process of restoring power for 180,000 customers today.
Out of the surprisingly large number of weed delivery services out there, we bring you this roundup of the best currently serving the SF Bay Area.
Stocks slumped on news of surging virus cases, Jared Kushner got racist on "Fox & Friends," and a UCSF doc says that if the entire country had followed SF's lead there would be 175,000 fewer dead in the pandemic.
A Sacramento woman who had herself been forced into prostitution at a young age was formally sentenced on Thursday for her role in recruiting and grooming a 15-year-old girl who was forced into prostitution three years ago.
Tom Taylor, the creator of the Tom & Jerry House Christmas display with its enormous tree at 21st and Church Street passed away last week. The cause was reportedly prostate cancer.
Some 300 San Francisco music venues, bars, and nightclubs will get their local taxes and fees waived in hopes of helping them survive the pandemic.
With injuries stacking up for the 49ers ahead of their matchup with the favored New England Patriots, Niners head coach Kyle Shanahan looked poised to scheme new ways for his team to win, upsetting the Patriots and Bill Belichick at Gillette Stadium.
Details are few at the moment, but for reasons not entirely clear, the Coca-Cola Company has decided to pull down the iconic neon sign that has stood beside I-80 in SoMa since 1937.
The cops would like everyone in SF to know that they will be on the hunt for public-health rule-breakers on Saturday, and you will get in trouble if you get caught throwing an actual Halloween party.
There was a peak wind gust of 89 mph on Mount St. Helena last night, a brush fire in Castro Valley came within 50 feet of a home, and the Pope Fire in Napa County was 100-percent contained before the winds whipped up.
With just over a week until Election Day, the Shanti Project — a volunteer nonprofit organization that helps the well-being of people with disabling illnesses or conditions — and the City have teamed up to offer personalized ballot pick-up and drop-off services to local voters who need them.
SFPD officers doing rounds in SoMa early Sunday discovered a hellacious scene along a neighborhood side street: a body burning inside a debris pile.
PG&E updated account holders Sunday (ahead of the scheduled power shutoff) to say that apparently 386,000 customers will now be affected, two men were injured in a North Oakland shooting Saturday, and the Pope Fire is now 80 percent contained.
California on Friday gave grant funding to four more homeless housing projects in the Bay Area. Those allocated resources will help Hotel Diva, a three-star lodge near Union Square, transform into supportive housing for the city's homeless.
City of Berkeley officials announced Friday that residents living in the region's hills should evacuate before Sunday's extreme fire conditions — and PG&E's fire-safety shutoffs are now expected to leave some 143,000 Bay Area customers in the dark.
The Pope Fire burning in Napa is now 70-percent contained, SF Zoo's 21-year-old ring-tailed lemur Maki is getting stronger each day (and living his best life), and the Mission District's beloved Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery is expected to reopen this coming Thursday.
The entire Bay Area is expected to be under a Red Flag Warning come Sunday evening, a Muni bus collided with a bicyclist earlier this afternoon, and yes: there's another fire burning in Napa right now.
The April 1984 murder of 14-year-old Tina Faelz shocked the small, still mostly rural community of Pleasanton to its core. Now the killer has finally confessed.
Local restaurant lobby group the Golden Gate Restaurant Association (GGRA) still wanted to bring some attention to the hobbled local food scene during the time of year when they would normally be hosting their Eat Drink SF festival.
The 49ers CEO has dropped $3 million ($100 per registered voter!) to elect a new Santa Clara city council that would be far friendlier to billionaire NFL owner interests.
The last thing Jewish people want to see is a swastika, ever. The Nazi symbol is especially unsettling on the front door of a synagogue, but that’s exactly what was found this week at Oakland’s Temple Sinai.
In normal times, it can be hard for a Muni bus driver to skip stops when they have an over-full load of passengers while also letting people off where there need to get off. But add a pandemic to that and it's even more impossible.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted the health and housing security of Black people nationally, and it is all but certain to speed up what's been an ongoing exodus of Black people to the more affordable Bay Area suburbs.
