It's Fat Tuesday, everybody! And for those who celebrate, or those who wish they were in New Orleans — or Rio, or elsewhere — to celebrate, there are a few festivities happening in SF.
San Francisco-born Olympian Eileen Gu, now competing in her second Olympic Games at age 22, reveals in a new interview that she has faced harassment and even death threats over her choice to ski for China instead of the US.
A large ficus tree came down during Tuesday's storm near the intersection of Potrero Avenue and Alameda Street, near the 101 freeway overpass.
The Oakland Pride Parade and party just declared itself finished, but a new leadership organization immediately sprang up in its place, and the long and the short of it is that Oakland Pride will now be Sunday, August 16.
Familial DNA was used to solve a case that had gone cold for over 40 years in Sonoma County, the case of the 1982 murder of 13-year-old Sarah Geer in Cloverdale.
I-80 was closed in both directions Tuesday morning due to heavy snow conditions; snow is also expected today on peaks around the Bay Area; and the Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at age 84.
Marjorie Knoller, who was convicted in the notorious dog-mauling murder of Diane Whipple, has been denied parole again; a Hayward man is charged with a BART parking lot rape; and vaccine makers are pulling back on studies, because of RFK Jr.
42-year-old Lisa Catalano has been at it for six months now with the “Marry Lisa" billboards up and down Silicon Valley's US-101, and she’s still paying for them while looking for a husband, but her viral fame is a mixed bag.
Meet all the horse statues just installed around San Francisco to celebrate the Lunar New Year’s Year of the Horse, as these intricately designed horse monuments now adorn SF parks, markets, and public spaces.
In snowy Tahoe, I-80 was temporarily closed in both directions Monday morning due to multiple spinouts, and rainy conditions around the Bay are leading to ponding and road closures as well.
The body of a 22-year-old UC Berkeley graduate student who had reportedly been struggling with mental health issues was found by a dive team Saturday in Lake Anza, a reservoir in Tilden Regional Park.
Just when you thought that SF was absolutely, positively getting rid of that 710-ton some-would-say-eyesore known as Vaillancourt Fountain, a group of preservationists is suing the city to keep the damn thing there.
San Francisco-based AI company Anthropic, which launched as an ostensibly more ethically driven AI enterprise than competitors like OpenAI, appears to be hitting an impasse in its contract negotiations with the Pentagon.
The elderly woman accused of killing a family of four with her vehicle two years ago in West Portal changed her plea Friday from not guilty to no contest, and the judge indicated that she was unlikely to get jail time.
Inbound flights were delayed an average of four hours at SFO last night; the remains of a missing Santa Cruz woman have been ID'd; and a Palo Alto restaurant hosted Bad Bunny's private Super Bowl afterparty.
Dream Youth Clinic in Oakland launched a mobile clinic offering free reproductive health services to teens and young women who've experienced sex trafficking, and it also recently hosted a first-ever town hall providing a forum for girls to speak directly to local leaders.
Kurt Van Dyke, a well-known surfer from a prominent Santa Cruz family of surfers who also own Van Dyke Farms in Gilroy, was killed by armed intruders Saturday in his home on Costa Rica's Caribbean Coast where he was a longtime hostel owner.
The Bay Area is getting hit with several days of solid rain; Assemblymember Diane Papan is working to close a loophole that allows e-bikes to operate at excessive speeds; and a social-climbing local entrepreneur has been accused of sex crimes.
Ghirardelli workers took part in a one-day strike at the company’s flagship location at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf Saturday demanding a new contract that includes wage increases and preserving their union-run health plan, for which they’ve been bargaining for months.
This week: Hip-hop at Yoshi’s, coastal trails, national park sweethearts, and a Muni beer crawl. Plus, turning Lake Merritt trash into art, repairing bikes for kids, a light bulb that never goes out, and the big cat on campus.
The great Sam Smith seemed wistful, grateful, and dare we say happy during their almost 90-minute set Friday night, and you can hear them paying tribute to generations of R&B and soul singers in multiple numbers.
Asian American communities are celebrating the Lunar New Year across the Bay Area; an SUV driver wearing a boot cast crashed into a Santa Rosa store; and a new $8,000 laundry-folding robot will fold most clothing and small linens.
Amazon ended its deal with Ring after that creepy Super Bowl commercial; the Vallaincourt Fountain preservationists have filed a lawsuit pausing demolition; and MC Hammer made an appearance on a Black History Month cable car.
Trump’s EPA is running roughshod over all California’s environmental protections, so the state is suing to keep as many of them as intact as possible, the latest being our rollback of how much greenhouse gases can be emitted into the environment.
Bad Bunny took the world by storm during his Super Bowl Halftime Show, and so did the 400 mostly local performers in the now-famous “grass bunny” costumes who are sharing their experiences all over the internet, with one performer listing the prized costume on eBay for $5,000.
