In a seven-page cease-and-desist letter dated June 29, City Attorney Dennis Herrera said the church was "putting its parishioners and the larger community at risk of serious illness and death."
It will surely interest the “Defund the Police” movement that San Francisco is paying out a combined $455,000 in settlements to a man SFPD shot in the back, and another they injured during the 2017 skateboard “hill bomb.”
The effort that began two weeks ago to move hundreds of homeless tent-dwellers off the sidewalks of the Tenderloin has succeeded in relocating at least 388 people — thanks to threats of legal action by UC Hastings.
As part of its process to encourage people to start using BART to commute around the Bay again, the transit agency is now publishing load charts for all trains, showing which are the least and most crowded.
One of the four Little Chihuahua locations in San Francisco, on Divisadero near the Lower Haight, has temporarily closed after three staff members have turned up COVID-positive.
Hundreds of pounds of illegal fireworks were seized by authorities Tuesday in the East Bay, so-called 'Safe and Sane' fireworks sales are booming, and a carjacking suspect took a cliff dive during a police pursuit in Santa Cruz.
The FBI is investigating a ransomware attack at UCSF, Newsom says statewide mask enforcement may be coming, and the iconic Ghirardelli sign is about to go dark and get replaced with new letters.
Over the weekend, homophobic SF Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone decided to stage some religious theater at the spot in Golden Gate Park where that statue of Father Junipero Serra was toppled by protesters ten days ago.
Notorious SF scandal figure Leland Yee has just been released from federal custody after serving five years for racketeering charges.
Facebook announced that it was removing more groups associated with the antigovernment Boogaloo movement just as three Democratic senators sent a letter to the company calling out its poor track record on racial justice, tamping down hate, and giving voice to far-right extremists.
San Francisco-based Uber, in a bid to secure Uber Eats as a major player in the future of food delivery, is courting another rival for a possible acquisition — and like with the recently failed courtship of Grubhub, they are not Postmates' only suitor.
Amazingly, all four victims are expected to survive this brutal Monday night accident where an SUV plowed into a bus shelter, but police suspect a DUI hit-and-run.
Prankster and master of disguise Sacha Baron Cohen pulled off a new prank over the weekend, showing up as an invited guest performer at an alt-right group's rally for "rights" in Olympia, Washington.
One of the San Francisco Giants' top prospects for this upcoming, abbreviated 2020 season, 2019 first-round draft pick Hunter Bishop, has just tested positive for COVID-19 while in Arizona.
Marin health officials believe the San Quentin outbreak will double in a week, Stanford unveils its fall plans, and Bay Bridge traffic has ticked up 14 percent since the lockdown orders began.
Nancy Pelosi is leading a bipartisan charge to seek answers from the White House about Trump's latest Putin collusion scandal, landlords are suing the city of San Francisco over the eviction moratorium, and Berkeley is defunding the police to the tune of $9.2M.
The disgraced former DPW head tossed millions of taxpayer dollars around like candy, and benefited from loopholes with names like “BFF Gift Exemption” and “Donation Shakedown.”
Sonoma County, unlike most of the Bay Area, has allowed bars to serve drinks indoors — and allowed wineries and restaurants to reopen for indoor service with some restrictions — since June 19. The effects of that reopening step may start to appear shortly.
Air Force Sergeant Steven Carrillo was indicted by a federal grand jury Monday on murder and attempted murder charges in connection with the May 29 shooting outside the federal building in Oakland.
Male Image, the barbershop near the corner of Market and Sanchez in the Castro, is not going to reopen whenever barbershops are allowed to in SF. Longtime owner Gary Mootz reportedly plans to retire.
One of President Trump's most ardent online fan clubhouses, the subreddit called "the_donald" on Reddit, has been once-and-for-all shut down as Monday, with the SF-based social media company citing multiple policy violations.
There will be no official Bay Area fireworks spectacles this year — though you can rest assured the illegal fireworks will be popping off all over.
Coincidentally the day after an HBO documentary about the hunt for the Golden State Killer premiered, the man law enforcement identified as the perpetrator of a decade-long spree of brutal rapes and murders across California has pleaded guilty to his crimes in exchange for avoiding a death sentence.
The home of a black woman in a traditionally black neighborhood in Oakland as well at the vehicles belonging to a black family in Alameda were both targeted with "All Lives Matter" graffiti over the weekend in two apparently separate incidents.
There are now 1,011 active cases of COVID-19 at San Quentin State Prison, meaning that almost a third of the entire prison population has become infected in the span of just two weeks.
