Jump in Illegal Firework Activity Seen Around Bay Area; COVID-19 and Protests Make Citing Violators Difficult
No, you're not going mad: it really is starting to feel like Fourth of July weekend — almost every night across the Bay Area.
No, you're not going mad: it really is starting to feel like Fourth of July weekend — almost every night across the Bay Area.
After a conservative news outlet claimed Friday the married California Assemblyman was involved in an "extramarital affair," Ting formally admitted Saturday on Twitter that those allegations were, in fact, true.
A man was filmed tearing down "Black Lives Matter" signs in Berkeley, TikTokers and K-pop stans came together and absolutely sabotaged Trump's Tulsa rally Saturday, and the SFUSD introduced a measure last night that would sever its relationship with the SFPD.
Last week, it was unveiled the "Queen of Bounce'' Big Freedia would headline San Francisco Pride's virtual weekend celebration for 2020. Now with the digital shindig just a week away, organizers also shared Thursday that many staple SF drag queens will, too, join in on the festivities.
As restaurants prepare to open for indoor dining next month, we're likely to see a lot of creative solutions to the problem of people's anxiety about being in close quarters with strangers.
As companies continue adopting remote work models amid the pandemic, many San Francisco tenants are opting to not renew their leases — and leave town, altogether. So, for the first time in well over a decade, the city's now in the midst of a long-overdue renter's market.
Angela Davis addressed a crowd of thousands at the Port of Oakland yesterday afternoon, SF City Hall was lit with green and red colors last night to celebrate Juneteenth, and the Junipero Serra, Francis Scott Key, and Ulysses S. Grant statues at Golden Gate Park have been removed by protesters.
Contra Costa County is now on a state watch list due to rising COVID hospitalizations, AMC Theaters walked back that no-mask stuff, and the SF Zoo is investigating whether that wayward mountain lion cub might have killed two wallaroos and a kangaroo last week.
A San Francisco man isn't quite doing SF proud if what San Mateo County authorities say is true. He's accused of yelling at a family of five outside a Burlingame restaurant last week and threatening to shoot them for wearing Black Lives Matter shirts.
The 49ers had their offseason workout in Tennessee, to avoid California's rigid COVID-19 restrictions. Guess what happened next.
Gypsy Taub (pictured at left), who for years made headlines in San Francisco and her hometown of Berkeley for her "body freedom" activism and nudist parades, was arrested in December after allegedly violating a restraining order and "stalking" the teenage friend of her son.
To mark the day during this time of national conversation — and protest — over racial and social justice, there are multiple events happening around the Bay Area both on- and offline.
The SFMTA is going to be significantly altering how trains run through the Muni Metro tunnels from West Portal through downtown San Francisco when the system reopens for business in August.
The SF Public Library is reopening some branches this summer, Californians will all be getting mail-in ballots for November, and Alameda County is reopening outdoor dining and indoor retail starting today.
A 60-year-old SF man was arrested for the killing of his 80-year-old female roommate, wildfires were burning in multiple parts of the Bay Area today, and Oakland is now investigating a hanging effigy on a Lake Merritt tree.
After days of late-night sightings in and around downtown San Francisco, a sub-adult mountain lion was safely caught — without the use of tranquilizers — by police and animal control officers early Thursday morning.
The latest ‘complaining white woman’ brouhaha comes from Livermore, where a farmers' market crackdown on Pride flags has led to the director’s resignation and a suspension of the event.
Someone, or a group of someones, recently went to the home of Contra Costa County Public Health Officer Dr. Chris Farnitano and wrote on the sidewalk outside, "My body my choice" and, "Tyranny is not the answer."
In a move that is sure to anger the Trump supporters and other anti-mask, anti-lockdown activists in many corners of the state, Governor Gavin Newsom has just issued a statewide order requiring all residents to wear face coverings in public to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Mother Nature can be cruel. And in the case of the clutch of eggs that a female peregrine falcon has been incubating for over a month, all on live internet television, atop the PG&E building on Beale Street in San Francisco, it was the dad who ate his own young this time.
While much of the nine-county Bay Area has seen fairly steady and minimal growth in the cumulative number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, Solano County just recorded its single biggest one-day jump in cases.
As recently as October, Supervisor Aaron Peskin was vowing to prosecute the vandals who tossed red paint all over the statue of Christopher Columbus near Coit Tower. But now it's gone. Will Columbus Avenue be next?
Two home invasion suspects were in an early morning standoff with police in San Jose, and they have now been taken into custody.
The four young people who died in a crash by the Carquinez Bridge have been ID'd, the SFPD's Taraval Station captain has been removed for unknown reasons, and Trump now says Kaepernick should be able to play.
The Tuesday morning explosion in Stinson Beach occurred in a real estate office, workers at a McDonald's in Oakland are suing over COVID exposure, and Oakland is investigating some "nooses" that were found around Lake Merritt that may have been exercise equipment.