Another day, another shuttered Bay Area restaurant. The Riddler, the esteemed SF champagne bar that matched bubbly with tater tot waffles, announced on Instagram this week they're waving goodbye to their Hayes Valley watering hole — and are now selling their wine selections at half price.
District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar has tested positive for COVID-19 and is showing "minor” symptoms, this year's Bay Area Black Restaurant Week is more important than ever, and Hadley Hall, the founder of Coming Home Hospice — SF’s history-making AIDS hospice — has died at 87.
"Dome dining" is back in San Francisco at Hashiri after changes were made to its controversial “igloos,” the SCU Lightning Complex fire is now ten times larger than the size of Manhattan, and… alas: San Francisco will stay on the state’s COVID-19 watch list, after all.
The disparate wildfires raging in over a dozen counties in and around the Bay Area this August are happening before much of the grape harvest has even begun, threatening much of the vintage.
For this fiercely contested election, the California secretary of state has officially partnered with Drag Out the Vote to ‘work’ the polls and lay the foundation for a big turnout.
A teardown-and-rebuild project in Clarendon Heights that dates back to 2012, with the completed house now just two years old, has just hit the market for an eye-popping $22 million.
The CZU Lightning Complex fires in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties has forced the emergency evacuation of the UC Santa Cruz campus and displaced over 60,000 residents, and caused damage to the oldest state park in California.
Widespread lightning on Sunday and Monday from the remnants of a tropical storm in the Pacific has led to a nightmarish early fire season across NorCal. Now the remnants of yet another storm, formerly Hurricane Genevieve, pose another threat of lightning around the Bay Area.
Facebook is doing some disaster planning for the days and weeks after the election, given that all signs point to Donald Trump attempting to hold on to power by questioning the results of the election — should he, god willing, lose.
Firefighters began reaching some level of containment in the LNU Lightning Complex fires in Sonoma, Napa, and Solano counties Thursday night, but the level of destruction and death stemming from the fires has climbed to at least 480 structures and five lives.
Air quality in SF will be at "orange" levels today, fire evacuees are eschewing shelters because of COVID, and the Golden State Killer's wife of 46 years speaks out for the first time since his arrest.
Newsom's DNC appearance has been put on hold due to the wildfires, Uber's former chief of security has been charged for allegedly covering up a 2016 hack, and Zuckerberg was testifying before the FTC this week.
Farallon, the 23-year-old seafood staple near Union Square, has officially closed its doors due to the pandemic — adding its name to the still-growing tally of over 370 restaurants in the San Francisco metro area that have shuttered since March.
A new wildfire erupted for unknown reasons in a field in the Napa Valley Thursday afternoon, nowhere near the footprint of the LNU Lightning Complex fires burning to the north and west.
Lyft was about to shut down all California rideshare operations at the stroke of midnight, but an appeals court granted a reprieve only about 12 hours before that would have happened.
If the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests are to have a lasting impact on police practices in this country, they must be accompanied by legislative action.
For the first time in its 30 years of hosting an Oscars-like awards ceremony for restaurants and chefs, the James Beard Foundation announced Thursday that it will not be bestowing any awards during its planned September 25 broadcast.
Firefighters are stretched thin across Northern California as crews continue battling wildfires large and small on over two dozen fronts, in the nine-county Bay Area and beyond. And the still uncontained fire burning into Solano County is now imminently threatening thousands of homes.
A PG&E worker died helping firefighters in Vacaville on Wednesday, energy officials explain why California became so suddenly short on power this week, and Steve Bannon has been charged with fraud in New York.
Struggling businesses now have to lure people outside in the smoke, winds may pick up and make fires worse this evening, and on the plus side Barack Obama is set to tear Donald a new one in his DNC speech this evening.
As Kirkpatrick warned she would, she has filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that her firing came after she had sought to challenge "corruption and abuse of power" by members of the city's police commission.
You've likely seen the news reports and heard all the alphanumeric names being thrown around (LNU, CZU, 15-10, Hennessey, Gamble), and yes, it feels like we're in yet another apocalypse. Here are some maps.
Burners are madly coding away to create a suite of “Multiverse” experiences in lieu of their annual bacchanalia, but the feds are keeping an eye on whether some of them will just show up at the Black Rock Desert anyway.
An artist and onetime LGBT talk-show host in San Francisco, Tim Gaskin, has popped up in a video that's gone viral after he was heard spewing a homophobic epithet and other angry words at a store employee in the South Bay over a demand that he wear a face mask.
A San Francisco man was arraigned for murder and other crimes Wednesday in connection with a police chase that ended in a horrific crash on Saturday in the Crocker-Amazon neighborhood that killed a 63-year-old Pittsburg man.
