The economic toll of the state's spat of historic wildfires is estimated to be north of $10B, Castello di Amorosa reopened its tasting room for business, and the second presidential debate has been canceled by the Commission on Presidential Debates.
The Shasta County Coroner's Office has identified four victims who lost their lives in the Zogg Fire, SFPD is searching for a pickup truck driver who critically injured a man in a Thursday night hit-and-run, and Male Image in the Castro has been renamed “Castro Barbers.”
A sleek new dispensary just debuted in Union Square Friday morning to an eager crowd of early customers, and it's the first in the city to be owned by a Latina woman.
The Google-Alphabet-Waymo dream of fully autonomous taxicabs is a reality as of today, but only in a small patch of the Phoenix, Arizona area.
There's been a lot of other horrors in the news lately. But in terms of COVID case counts, virus spread, and hospitalizations, it's been mostly good news in the Bay Area since mid-September.
Smoke was rising from an encampment fire in San Francisco's Bayview District on Friday morning, after a fire erupted at what's being described as a "treehouse" that was built into a hillside beside the Caltrain tracks.
In the history of San Francisco real estate, the lows never drop too low or last too long. Will this time be different?
The Glass Fire remains largely under control in Sonoma and Napa counties as we close out its second week since igniting, and Cal Fire reported Friday morning that it has reached 74-percent containment.
Pelosi and Rep. Jamie Raskin on Friday introduced proposed legislation to create a commission that would assess a president's physical and mental capacity to serve — in the case of future presidents who, say, catch a deadly disease and seem to act erratically after taking a steroid.
Nine residents have died and 46 have been infected in a recent COVID outbreak at a Santa Cruz County nursing home, Alameda County has reopened gyms and malls, and the UN World Food Program has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sales tax data from the spring shows evidence of SF exodus, Sausalito license-plate cameras detected a stolen car used in an SF burglary this morning, and more public-safety power shutoffs may be in store on Sunday.
The ongoing federal prosecution of City Hall corruption schemes that, thus far, have all had alleged ties back to former Department of Public Works chief Mohammed Nuru has netted two more guilty pleas this week.
Rigo 23’s large-scale homage to long-jailed Native American activist Leonard Peltier will be unveiled Friday for a six-month display in SF, after the FBI had the statue kicked out of Washington, DC.
A much-anticipated restaurant opening for 2020 has made it open, sit-down dining and all.
A coalition that includes the city's biggest and most popular cinemas says the theater owners are keeping their doors closed until the city allows them to sell food and drinks, which are their money-makers.
A flyer went up on Twitter last week about a "free speech rally" for Proud Boys in San Francisco's Dolores Park on October 17 — but this event has all the hallmarks of the weird, sometimes fictional, antifa-antagonizing rallies that were planned around the Bay in 2017.
There was an "officer-involved fatal incident" in Concord last night, Dr. Anthony Fauci is participating in a UC Berkeley public policy talk today, and a leaked FEMA memo suggests 34 White House staffers have been infected with COVID-19.
Facebook is banning all political ads indefinitely after Election Day, a staff member in Gov. Newsom's office has tested positive for COVID, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass has donated $3 million to out-of-work musicians and shuttered venues during the pandemic.
It's Kamala's time to shine tonight in Salt Lake City at the only vice-presidential debate, and it's not hard to guess that Mike Pence is going to be very uncomfortable.
Just a day after the House released a scathing report on antitrust issues, a nonprofit group that reportedly includes former Facebook employees and Clinton campaign staffers has launched an attack ad that focuses on Mark Zuckerberg himself.
An SF firefighter died Wednesday after falling from a fire escape at the SF Fire Department's training facility at 19th and Folsom streets in the Mission.
Vallejo City Council thinks gangs are engaged in a turf war, but their emergency declaration sets off a turf war between the city’s police and its police officer’s association.
UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna, along with French colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today for the pair's pioneering work in the genome-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9.
The Glass Fire is largely under control in Napa and Sonoma counties as of Wednesday morning, though several thousand residents remain under evacuation orders. Cal Fire reported reaching 58-percent containment, as damage assessments continue.
According to a new report there were 63 verbal altercations and nine assaults on Muni drivers over mask-wearing rules between April and August, and pulmonology experts say Trump is clearly struggling to breathe.
