Four years ago today, the icon known as Prince left this mortal coil after an accidental fentanyl overdose. Suffice it to say the late, great Purple One will forever live on in the minds of millions — and there’s a bevy of ways to commemorate his legacy, online.
A San Francisco woman whose five-year-old miniature Australian shepherd Jackson was taken from outside a grocery store in Bernal Heights in December is being reunited with the pooch after he turned up in a Los Angeles shelter.
Tuesday evening, the Tenderloin Museum is presenting a screening of an underground documentary, shot on 16mm film, that captures some of crazier and most rarely seen images from real-life queer San Francisco in the late 1960s.
The city adopts Oakland-style car bans on streets, but the number of streets closing is less than overwhelming, and it appears the program will employ honor system enforcement.
A 20-year-old man was arrested in Modesto over the weekend in connection with over 50 residential burglaries in San Mateo County — and in the process authorities seized eight semi-automatic rifles, three shotguns, a bulletproof vest, two handguns, and several allegedly stolen items.
An SFPD officer reportedly shot at a suspect wielding a knife on Ellis Street in the Tenderloin early Tuesday morning, and the suspect remained barricaded in a building — apparently Glide Memorial Church — as of Tuesday afternoon.
It's hard being stuck in a San Francisco apartment for this many weeks, leaving only to get groceries or booze as few times as possible. It's made a lot of non-dog-owners a little jealous that those with dogs have a natural excuse to walk around a few times a day.
While a coronavirus outbreak at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital appears to have been contained, a separate outbreak has taken hold at another senior care facility near Japantown in the Western Addition where 39 residents have been infected.
Thrift stores are seeing a spate of donation-dumping as everyone empties their closets, Chinatown SROs are too densely populated for social distancing, and PG&E's bankruptcy plan has gotten a boost from a judge.
Muni will restore the 5-Fulton and several other bus routes next week, protesters of stay-at-home order descended on Sacramento today sans masks, and the Mission, Dogpatch, Bayview, and SoMa appear to be San Francisco's hotspots for COVID-19 so far.
Yusuf Soylemez had only been driving for Uber Eats for about 10 days, trying to make ends meet after getting laid off from his job at a popular Fisherman's Wharf restaurant. And on Friday afternoon he had left his car idling when it got stolen on Mission Street.
A sunny Sunday in San Francisco would typically have drawn 10,000 or so people to the outdoor party of Dolores Park. But on April 19, one of the warmest days so far this spring, the scene was relatively mellow but nonetheless dotted with small gatherings and sunbathers.
In an effort to help get ahead of potential hot spots, Facebook has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to produce a county-by-county map of the U.S. showing the percent of the population reporting coronavirus symptoms.
Researchers at UCSF are conducting a study that will test nearly every resident in Bolinas as well as a group of 5,700 residents of the Mission District in San Francisco, to determine who has COVID-19, or who might have already had it and not known it.
The City made good on its vow to proactively smoke out any attempt at 4/20 gatherings in Robin Williams Meadow, as six-foot chain link fences are bolted together and barricading the area.
Police were called to the scene at a San Leandro Walmart on Sunday afternoon following reports of a robbery and found a man just inside the store entrance wielding a baseball bat.
A total of 51 people have been infected at Safeway's massive distribution center in Tracy, a freight train derailed in Emeryville yesterday, and experts are questioning the conclusions of that Stanford anitbody prevalence study.
During Sunday's Quaran-Tea Dance party, live-streamed on Twitch and Zoom, Sister Roma and Sister Dana announced this year's Foxy Mary and Hunky Jesus winners — Mary Vice and Mohawk Jesus.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) — after weeks of pressure from healthcare providers and the general public — published a partial list of nursing homes that have recorded COVID-19 cases. The report included 258 affected facilities; 34 of those listed are in the Bay Area.
Newsom announced the State of California struck a deal with Motel 6 to help house thousands of homeless people, the Bay Area’s own organic ice cream company Three Twins closed after 15 years of business, and a large COVID-19 testing effort is set to go underway in the Mission District next week.
Mayor Breed signed into law District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar’s Public Health Emergency Leave ordinance Friday, instantly making some 200,000 San Franciscans eligible to receive two additional weeks of paid leave.
Though habitually reclusive, a lack of both vehicle and foot traffic continues to embolden coyotes to take to San Francisco's desolate streets and beaches — occasionally howling and cackling into the night
Street artist Spencer Keeton Cunningham painted murals on plywood lining the windows at a boutique clothing store in Pacific Heights, Walmart associates are now required to wear face masks at work, and the IRS deposited a coronavirus stimulus check — into the bank account of a deceased SF woman.
SF will require facial coverings in public starting Saturday but not enforce the rule until next week, Kamala Harris said she'd "be honored" to be Biden's running mate, and UC Berkeley researchers are conducting a broad study of East Bay residents to track the asymptomatic spread of COVID-19.
Preliminary results of a large-scale antibody testing effort by Stanford researchers show that the vast majority of COVID-19 cases in Santa Clara County have likely gone uncounted.
