The Muni Metro is now likely staying closed through the end of the year, Fox News got footage of Nancy Pelosi in a Cow Hollow hair salon without a mask, and bears are getting really brazen in Tahoe.
Amid a year of postponements and cancellations, it was relieving news when organizers of the 2020 Folsom Street Fair announced in April that this year’s happening would morph into an entirely digital event — one which will now be hosted by author-actor-comedian-extraordinaire Margaret Cho.
Ahead of the latest U.S. election, Twitter is responding to criticism that one of its defining features, the Trending Topics sidebar, tends to promote misinformation and conspiracies.
As expected, Mayor London Breed and Dr. Grant Colfax gave their latest updates today on businesses that are allowed to reopen under public health orders, with September 1 being the latest goalpost for certain categories of businesses.
California remains one of five states that won’t strip badges from officers who commit crimes or misconduct, after an attempt to reform that failed to make the Assembly floor.
A 55-year-old community college instructor in the South Bay, has been arrested for allegedly making repeated criminal threats against Santa Clara County Public Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody.
As the traditional height of fire season approaches — these lightning fires we saw in August were an early-season surprise — PG&E says it will be conducting "accelerated" inspections of transmission lines starting in areas of Marin and Sonoma counties by drone and helicopter.
Following some neighbor complaints, an East Oakland church dedicated to psychedelics was raided by police in mid-August, and the founder of the church wants people to know he has nothing to hide.
Water has been contaminated by melted pipes in Santa Cruz after fires, a 52-year-old SF man was found dead at a marijuana grow up north, and Twitter has removed a conspiracy tweet about the CDC.
The SFPD has arrested a 33-year-old man in connection with a burglary and attempted sexual assault of a juvenile, Sonoma County is reopening hair salons, and Cal Fire says the LNU and CZU fire complexes may be contained by early next week.
Curry just gave an interview with CBS Sunday Morning in which he talked about his political awakening.
A bill to change the way that public transit, bicycle, and pedestrian projects are handled vis a vis the state's environmental impact laws has passed the legislature. And State Senator Scott Wiener, the sponsor of the bill, hopes it will aid in California's economic recovery after the pandemic.
After four years of scandals over targeting users by race — including a white users only option — Facebook has very quietly removed the racial targeting option for advertisements.
As breaks from the monotony of Netflix and meals at home go, the two day Inside Lands virtual festival came off fairly well, and included some live performances that made it feel like a special gift amid an otherwise pretty dismal August.
The number of COVID-positive hospitalized patients in the Bay Area declined 27 percent in the month of August, but August was the deadliest month so far in the region since the pandemic began.
Containment lines improved on all the Bay Area wildfires between Sunday and Monday, but the Woodward Fire in rugged parts of western Marin County remains the most difficult to manage.
Cal Fire rescue teams who are continuing the battle the CZU Lightning Complex fires in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties had to turn their attention to a vehicle crash Monday morning.
The SCU and LNU fire complexes have reached 60- and 63-percent containment, respectively; a 25-year-old Hayward man allegedly led cops on a transbay chase after carjacking a Porsche, and a Healdsburg man says he set some grass fires on Saturday because he was "having a bad day."
The biggest two wildfire complexes, the LNU Lightning Complex and the SCU Lightning Complex are now at least half contained after firefighters made headway on containment lines Saturday.
The Frameline festival— the annual SF queer film happening synonymous with Pride Month — was postponed this year, promising to return in the fall. Soon, you can catch all of Frameline44's screenings online (which will begin next month), making it the "world's largest" virtual LGBTQ film festival.
A man wearing a hat saying Patriot Prayer — the alt-right group that attempted to stir the pot in the Bay Area in the summer of 2017 — was fatally shot in the streets of downtown Portland Saturday night.
The City College of San Francisco and SF State University have reported huge drops in enrollment, at least 50,000 wildfire evacuees are now allowed back home, and a member of the Oakland A's tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of today's game against the Houston Astros — which has been postponed.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) announced this afternoon that an operator has died following a Saturday morning crash on Noe Street; the driver had just recently celebrated his nineteenth-anniversary working for SFMTA earlier in August.
Elon Musk — who co-founded and still leads Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, and Neuralink — demonstrated his neurotech startup's newest working implant... by livestreaming a pig's brain activity (recorded by the wireless device) as it scurried around a small pen on stage Friday evening.
With the shift toward more evergreen remote work models still going strong, Pinterest has decided to move away from leasing a massive 490,000-square-foot SoMa office space — and, instead, pay a one-time fee of $89.5M to cut ties with the 88 Bluxome Street address they planned on leasing.
