Graphic courtroom testimony caused emotional outbursts in Rome, but the two NorCal youngsters accused of killing an Italian cop have an emerging defense of a police cover-up.
The Bay Area will have some live sports to look at for the first time in four months starting next Monday, July 20!
The Planning Department, Department of Public Health, and the City Administrator's Office have all been hit with subpoenas stemming from the sprawling federal investigation into corruption in San Francisco government.
No trains were going in or out of BART's SFO Station for about an hour Wednesday morning due to an unspecified "police matter" that has yet to be made public.
The first coronavirus vaccine we wrote about back on March 17, developed by Massachusetts-based biotech firm Moderna, is already in its second phase of testing and about to enter its third later this month. And a report on the first phase is being called a "triumph" by one Stanford expert.
The SF School Board is moving ahead with a distance-learning plan, arsons have been ticking up in the city during the pandemic, and the Berkeley City Council voted last night on a measure to create a new non-police department in charge of traffic stops.
An SFPD officer suspected of domestic violence and sexual assault in San Mateo County will not be prosecuted, California may shift its COVID testing strategy, and the Bay Area just hit a new record of hospitalizations with 673.
By labeling blatant lies as “opinion,” fossil fuel industry pundits have found “a loophole that you can drive a Mack truck through.”
It may sound like a headline from 1850, but it's indeed a headline today in 2020. The suspect in the July 3 murder of Danville doctor Ari Gershman was just charged with murder, attempted murder, and burglarizing a gold mine.
It certainly isn't the first utterly tone-deaf thing that Airbnb has done as a company, but amid a global pandemic and recession, it seems wildly inappropriate and dumb to be asking customers to pad the pockets of hosts — i.e. homeowners — who are suddenly out their side income.
The Trump administration has issued an order to hospitals to begin reporting their COVID-19 patient data directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), bypassing the politically neutral Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Approximately 7,600 PG&E customers lost power Tuesday morning just before 11 a.m., and the company says the cause of the outage remains under investigation.
Another SF icon, albeit a humble one, is biting the dust after 83 years of continuous business. The owners of Louis' Restaurant at Lands End, perched above the Sutro Baths around the bend from the Cliff House, announced Monday that they are closing permanently.
Someone Zoom-bombed a Sonoma organization's meeting with lynching images, Squaw Valley Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe may change its name to Olympic Valley, and the Oakland Police Dept. is being accused of stoking the politics of fear with a new report.
Sup. Matt Haney's proposal to create a new Department of Street Cleaning moves forward, a new UCSF study finds that young people have a 1 in 3 chance of having a serious COVID case, and the Bay Area is starting to see serious testing delays.
Yet another management figure at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has resigned amid roiling controversy among the museum's staff over race and representation.
The Vallejo Police Department has now changed its story over the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Sean Monterossa, and famed civil rights attorney John Burris wants answers.
As the city of San Francisco approaches its 5,000th confirmed case of COVID-19, likely sometime this week, Mayor London Breed and Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax issued some grim predictions for the second half of the year, if infections don't slow down.
Governor Gavin Newsom just issued a broad, statewide order covering counties both on and off the public health department's watch list, ordering many reopened businesses to close once more.
Tensions have been brewing (sorry) at locally founded Philz Coffee for several months both due to pandemic concerns and what workers claim are unsafe practices inside the companies' coffeeshops. And now the company has announced its first round of layoffs.
A woman left behind a "disheveled" campsite and a smashed-up car after being on a solo camping trip near Chiquito Lake in the Sierra National Forest two weeks ago.
Three more San Quentin inmates have died of COVID-19, an unidentified woman who was brought in to SF General Saturday night has been ID'd, and around 500 people took part in a Black Lives Matter march in Martinez on Sunday.
Announced Friday night, the Alameda County Public Health Department suspended outdoor dining in all of its cities — yet another harmful blow to the Bay Area’s already crippled gastronomic scene. But at least four cities in the region are now pushing back on that hiatus.
Michael Lofthouse, the CEO of the local tech startup Solid8 who was filmed yelling anti-Asian expletives at a dining family in Carmel Valley last weekend, has officially resigned due to growing backlash over his atrocious, racist behavior.
Dozens of firefighters were busy Saturday battling a 55-acre South Bay blaze, Santa Clara County Executive Officer Dr. Jeff Smith suggests that COVID-19 could soon overwhelm the state, and Oakland’s Fairyland is now in danger of permanently closing.
