The first red-flag warning of this fire season came last night in the North Bay, Pelosi says the revelation about Trump and the Russian bounties on US soldiers is "as bad as it gets," and the BET Awards mistakenly put Willie Brown in an "In Memoriam" montage last night.
Pride in SF this year saw the pandemic shutter its iconic parade and almost all other events. But, one of today's LGBTQ rallies galvanized the notion that the fight for radical, all-inclusive acceptance isn’t over — and helped reintroduce Pride to its activist origins.
For its 25th anniversary — set in the middle of a worsening pandemic — the Pink Triangle this year isn't made up of large tarps and sailcloths, but rather 2,700 LED nodes that glowed hot pink Saturday night, managing to even pierce through the thick fog wrapping Twin Peaks.
Four San Jose police officers are now on leave after posting racist and sexist comments on Facebook, American Airlines announced it will book flights to full capacity starting July 1, and Marin County — like San Francisco — has opted to push back certain reopenings over spikes in COVID-19 cases.
This past July, 34-year-old La'Marcus McDonald was between houses and, after indulging in some tequila, chose to sleep inside his friend's car one night with the door ajar. He was later that evening allegedly subjected to "excessive and deadly force" by an officer conducting a welfare check.
Well, it looks like SF "Karen" Lisa Alexander — the skincare CEO filmed scrutinizing a local man for writing "Black Lives Matter" outside his home earlier this month — has a male counterpart: this "Ken" named William Beasley who blocked a Latino man from entering his apartment complex Tuesday.
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo is calling for the firing of SJPD officers accused of writing racist Facebook comments, South Korea is now distributing houseplants to citizens in a bid to fight “COVID depression,” and SF Pride's 2020 weekend-long virtual celebration begins at 1 p.m. today.
Trump called life in Oakland "like living in hell" and Mayor Libby Schaaf clapped back, lawmakers call for an audit of the EDD, and the postponed Bay 2 Breakers race has officially been canceled.
Zuck just announced that Facebook will — after months of mush-mouthed justifications otherwise — begin to label posts by politicians that spread misinformation or otherwise violate Facebook policies.
The San Francisco Giants are set to begin an abbreviated, 60-game season next month, with a second iteration of "spring" training happening right here in the city at Oracle Park starting July 3.
Your corner convenience store no longer has to close before sundown every night, as the 8 p.m. closure order has been quietly rescinded.
A 30-year-old woman was injured by multiple gunshot wounds Thursday evening in the Tenderloin, and the incident adds to an already violent week in the neighborhood.
Things have changed in four days, and after announcing Monday that outdoor bars, nail salons, barbershops, and hair salons were all going to get to reopen ahead of schedule thanks to stable COVID data in San Francisco, the Mayor's Office is pulling back once again.
A horse seeking a cool drink of water at Lake Sonoma earlier this week got him or herself stuck in some quicksand-like mud, and required a rescue by the Sonoma Sheriff's Office Marine Unit.
So it goes... Two days ago it seemed like San Francisco had some further flattening of the curve to celebrate, but today, not so much.
A new study by an international team led by UC San Francisco finds that cells infected with SARS-CoV-2 quickly begin to grow new arms or dendrites — referred to clinically as filopodia — which are themselves studded with fresh virus particles.
CalTrans has been sending "violations" to people who don't have FasTrak, SF is rescinding the temporary ban on reusable shopping bags, and a new study estimates the per capita cost of COVID-19 testing in CA counties.
Another BART director is drawing public ire, BART's board just approved $200 million in budget cuts, and a group of farm workers in central California have gone on strike following a COVID outbreak.
The Bay Area is cautiously reopening, and even as that is happening case totals continue to jump day to day in Alameda and Marin counties in particular. And a new study confirms an earlier one out of China that links severe COVID outcomes with Type A blood.
The Marin County prison is turning into “a catastrophic super spreader” according to a bombshell memo that explains how a bad situation is much worse than anyone realizes.
Bad news: Nopalito is closing its second offshoot on Ninth Avenue. Good news: They're opening a taco window near Dolores Park.
The hilarious case of a parody account on Twitter that took pleasure in trolling Republican California Congressman Devin Nunes has (probably) come to a close over a year after Nunes filed one of many frivolous lawsuits.
The latest update in the broadening City Hall corruption scandal in San Francisco is that federal prosecutors have formally filed fraud and money laundering charges against local contractor and noted permit expediter Walter Wong.
The Palo Alto Police Department has been hit with a civil rights lawsuit, a woman suspected of coughing on a baby at a yogurt shop is a San Jose school district employee, and CalTech astronomers say they saw light from a collision of black holes.
Illegal fireworks caused at least two grass fires in San Francisco yesterday, a man was found dead of multiple stab wounds on Larkin the Tenderloin, and CA courts are now considering early release for 3,500 more inmates.
