The woman who died in an early August house fire in Bayview has been identified, police reportedly arrested at least 10 individuals during Friday night’s protests in downtown Oakland, and Chadwick Boseman — star of Marvel's history-making “Black Panther” — passed away Friday.
A San Jose stabbing victim has died of his wounds (becoming the city’s 25th homicide this year), don’t expect smoke-free skies in SF anytime soon, and two of Big Basin Redwoods State Park’s tallest trees appear to have survived the CZU Lightning fire — and "remain generally healthy."
Mayor Breed and San Francisco Public Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax announced Friday that some SF businesses — mostly in the beauty industry — can start offering certain outdoor services beginning Tuesday of next week.
In his public address today updating the state on its double-disaster fire/pandemic situation, Governor Gavin Newsom focused on improving how the state is handling its county "watch list" messaging — and slightly altering how the latest reopening guidance is going to work, going forward.
Right-wingers have already won the fight to dominate Facebook engagement, but rival social media upstarts could blaze a new path, or go down in flames of election misinformation.
Proposals to institute congestion pricing — essentially tolls — in downtown SF date back to at least 2008, and a new one is back on the table.
The SCU and LNU Lightning Complex fires have traded off the number-two and number-three spots a couple of times this week on the list of the biggest wildfires in California history. And once again the SCU Complex in the East/South Bays and the Central Valley has moved to the top.
A Tesla employee succeeded in thwarting a recent attempted malware hack of its computer systems, after bringing the attempt quickly to the attention of company brass and the FBI.
In another weird twist in the realm of current wildfire stories around the Bay Area, firefighters doing "mop-up" work around the Boulder Creek Country Club in Santa Cruz County discovered an undetonated pipe bomb sitting in a tool box, along with other explosives.
A Foster Farms chicken processing plant in Merced County has been shut down amid a COVID outbreak, Oakland is turning an old CCA dorm into affordable housing, and the Commitment March is happening in D.C.
Accused Oakland and Santa Cruz shooter Steven Carrillo pleaded not guilty in the Santa Cruz shooting, a San Leandro classroom got Zoom-bombed, and the SF mayor and Board of Supervisors are in a budget battle.
A group of surfers floating off Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica last Tuesday say that an eight-foot great white shark swam right under them, and appeared to head for one female surfer on her board in particular.
Two users flagged a militia group's page for inciting violence in Wisconsin, but Facebook did not take the page down until after two people were killed Tuesday night.
Outdoor dining and takeout still only amount to a fraction of the number of meals these restaurants would have been serving nightly during normal times.
Vice President Mike Pence predictably lied multiple times during his speech at the RNC on Wednesday night. But perhaps most egregiously he tried to link the May 29 fatal shooting of a federal security officer in Oakland to the protests that were happening that night.
The largest of the lightning-sparked conflagrations in the Bay Area, which is once again the LNU Lightning Complex fires by about 200 acres, saw containment rise to 33 percent overnight, and one entire zone of the SCU Lightning Complex has been declared fully contained.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave some unprompted remarks during her weekly Thursday news conference suggesting that Joe Biden should skip all the scheduled debates with President Trump, saying that any event where Trump is included will be "an exercise in skulduggery."
A peaceful protest in Oakland last night in solidarity with Kenosha gave way to some vandalism, two men remain missing in the Santa Cruz fires, and Santa Clara County is extending its zero-bail order through January.
The weather will be warming up again this weekend, NBA Playoff games are postponed over Wisconsin protests, and Dr. Fauci says the CDC met with the Trump administration about new testing rules while he was in surgery.
San Francisco's largely vacant hotels have an opportunity both to provide shelter to Bay Area residents displaced from their homes due to wildfire evacuation orders, and to make some revenue after months of nearly zero in the process.
The Bay Area sheriff who gained notoriety in May for refusing to enforce his county's public health orders says that budget cuts would mean no more rescue copter for the cash-strapped and currently burning Sonoma County.
The San Francisco Police Department's Taraval Neighborhood Unit just announced the arrests of four SF residents and the seizure of over two dozen firearms, ammunition, and "various narcotics" following a raid on a residence last week.
The virtual version of Outside Lands, dubbed Inside Lands, will be airing this Friday and Saturday on Twitch — with organizers hoping that it reminds concertgoers how much they love the Golden Gate Park festival, and pushes them to purchase tickets for next year.
A Fairfax man and previously convicted sex offender has been charged in federal court after allegedly telling an undercover agent in an online chat that he wanted to rape and murder his ex-girlfriend as well as a five-year-old girl, and film the acts to sell online.
Containment on the three major wildfire complexes around the Bay grew overnight on Tuesday, and evacuation orders began to be lifted in parts of the North Bay that either burned last week or were largely spared.
