After a young man approached a sobbing woman by an Anza Vista Walgreens to ask if he could offer any help, Brendon Kruse allegedly took it upon himself to yell racial expletives at the preteen, holding the victim's bike in place to prevent him from fleeing.
The deafening sounds of illegal fireworks going off rang across the Bay Area Saturday night. Included in that soundtrack of thunderous claps were fire truck sirens resounding left and right as they drove to battle blazes — with one still-growing South Bay fire now 343 acres large.
San Francisco's COVID-19 contact tracers have “never been busier,” illegal firework activity made skies glow across the Bay Area Saturday, and six people were injured in a series of shootings that carried out last night and into early this morning around East Oakland.
Despite the pandemic’s tightening grip on society, one that's squeezed-out a record-setting jump in national COVID-19 cases this week, people are still enjoying nightlife revelries — illegally. And SF officials this week shut down yet another unlawful nightclub, the second since April.
A picture showing people Thursday packed tighter than tuna in a tin can at San Jose's Santana Row has sparked outrage (and concern), a firework last night blew out three house windows in SF's Excelsior neighborhood, and tilt your head toward the skies tonight to see the “Buck Moon.”
Former Chronicle editor Audrey Cooper is facing some stiff backlash after taking a job at WNYC — being white, not from New York, and never having worked in radio — and the SF police union is threatening legal action over a use-of-force policy proposal.
Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams has officially recused herself from the investigations into a pair of officer-involved shootings in Vallejo, including the June 2 shooting of San Francisco resident Sean Monterrossa.
A hollow, corporate Black Lives Matter post on SFMOMA’s Instagram drew a critical comment from an ex-employee, setting off a month of escalating drama and critiques of the museum’s mostly white executive culture.
San Francisco police aren't likely to get a lot of help in identifying some rowdy demonstrators who allegedly attacked them with wooden shields and vandalized a police van on Pride Sunday in the Mission.
A young mountain lion that captivated the attention of San Franciscans in recent weeks after it was seen aimlessly roaming around Russian Hill and the Embarcadero was reportedly struck and killed by a vehicle along Highway 1 in Pacifica early Friday morning.
A suspect wearing a mask inspired by both the Edvard Munch painting and the horror movie franchise Scream allegedly attacked a young man on BART after he boarded an East Bay-bound train at Colma Station on Tuesday.
If you have an urge to see the ocean this weekend and are planning to do so in a socially distanced manner, you had better walk or take a bike, because none of the beach parking lots in San Francisco will be open.
Transit advocates and planners at the SFMTA are facing a grim reality that no one could have seen coming, and it may mean a permanent end for dozens of Muni bus lines.
Employees at a Whole Foods in San Mateo tested positive for COVID-19, a San Francisco man was arrested for an alleged stabbing in Pacifica, and the MLB just canceled the All-Star Game.
Accused 'Boogaloo' shooter Steven Carrillo pleaded not guilty today in the fatal shooting of a federal officer, the SF City Attorney is coming after Walter Wong's money, and Six Flags Marine World is partially reopening in Vallejo.
As a metric of where a region is in this pandemic, rising rates of hospitalization for severe COVID-19 cases is not a good sign. But that is what has been happening over two weeks across the Bay Area.
A recent real estate report showed one-bedroom rent prices in SF have fallen 11.8 percent — eclipsing last month's record-breaking 9 percent drop — as more locals pack their bags. We decided to catch up with a few of them to ask why they're leaving (or have already left) the City by the Bay.
Boudin joins district attorneys in Boston and Philly to “address the injustices of the past,” but the involvement of lightning-rod organizer Shaun King is leading to some questions.
Beware of eating shellfish caught by friends and relatives and friends of relatives this holiday weekend.
Engineers for the Golden Gate Bridge apparently knew that there might be some humming caused by the spacing of new, thinner handrail slats that were installed over the last few months.
The body of a 67-year-old man who had gone for a swim at China Beach Wednesday morning was recovered by SF Fire Department personnel on Wednesday afternoon.
The Oakland Zoo says its finances are looking grimmer as it hemorrhages $2 million per month during the continuing lockdown for zoos in the Bay Area.
Another Death Row inmate at San Quentin has turned up dead in his cell, the free COVID testing site in Hayward is getting overwhelmed, and over 40 Bay Area school principals are now quarantined after attending a reopening planning meeting with an infected person.
Police are responding to an assumed drive-by shooting on I-580 that injured at least four people, a recent study put San Francisco among the "worst-run" cities in the country amid the pandemic, and to maybe no one's shock: SF is now home to the third-most billionaires in the world.
In a reversal — or, as Newsom is now calling it, a slide of the "dimmer switch" on reopening — Governor Gavin Newsom ordered all winery tasting rooms, indoor-dining restaurants, museums, and other businesses that have opened in 19 California counties to close, effective immediately.
