There are several local ballot propositions you'll be voting on today if you still do things the old fashioned way and go to an actual polling place, and perhaps none of them is more significant than Prop D.
Willie Brown says Biden should have done more campaigning in the Bay Area, cruise to Mexico breaks out in chaos after two people get the flu, and San Jose detectives dug up a Los Gatos parking lot for a cold case.
A bald eagle hatched at the SF Zoo is alive and well in the wild at age 20, the Saturday Burlingame sidewalk collision gets a new detail, Mission bar Amnesia went out with a bang on Saturday, and Waymo gets $2.5B in outside investment.
The 20-year-old San Francisco man arrested following the February 22 attack on a 68-year-old Asian man — and the one who recorded the incident on his cellphone and can apparently be heard saying "I hate Asians" — will face "restorative justice."
Freelance journalist Bryan Carmody sold details of Jeff Adachi’s death report for $2,500 a pop, and now he’s sledgehammered out a $369,000 settlement with SFPD over the raid of his home.
Unfortunately for the local paranoiac community including myself, there will be no on-demand testing for the coronavirus at the new SF facility, but test turnaround time will go down to one or two days from seven.
After multiple promises to reopen and some false starts, chef Douglas Keane has just inked a deal to reopen his acclaimed Cyrus restaurant in new digs near its original Healdsburg location.
All of the deaths from the coronavirus so far in the U.S. — now a total of six — have occurred in Washington State, suggesting that the undetected hot spot there is further along in the virus's cycle than elsewhere.
An arrest has been made in a case involving a hunched-over shady character who was seen in surveillance video apparently randomly stabbing someone in the back of the leg on Market Street.
A Department of Public Works street cleaner, driving in a city-owned pickup truck, fatally struck a 67-year-old woman at the intersection of Geary and Taylor streets Sunday morning.
Health officials in Solano County announced Sunday that two healthcare workers at the NorthBay VacaValley Hospital are being treated as presumptive positive cases for the coronavirus after their exposure to a female patient in recent weeks.
More Diamond Princess cruise evacuees are getting released from quarantine in Solano County today, presidential candidates are making final sweeps through California before Super Tuesday, and a second suspect turned himself in the robbery and hate attack on an elderly Asian man collecting cans.
San Francisco is known for picturesque beauty, internationally recognized landmarks, and, of course, as the number 1 American city for bars per capita, with a whopping 16.5 bars per 100,000 households.
Juanita MORE!, San Francisco's indefatigable drag matriarch, walked down The Castro — flanked by locals and a sea of sequined regalia — yesterday afternoon to lay wreaths down at both defunct and thriving queer businesses, spotlighting the need to safeguard SF's queer legacy and culture.
A four-alarm fire enveloped an India Basin warehouse last night, according to the San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD). The blaze was later contained by 11:35 p.m., but the charred warehouse eventually collapsed and an adjacent restaurant, Bonanza, sustained substantial damage.
A driver allegedly drove his SUV onto a sidewalk in Burlingame to strike four teenagers, Bay Area Costco stores are running low — or completely out of — essentials like bottled water and toilet paper as coronavirus fears grow, and the founder of Trader Joe's, Joe Coulombe, died Friday at 89.
According to some anecdotal reports, foot traffic in SF's Chinatown is down over 50 percent because of concerns over the coronavirus. But the Eye of Sauron-like social media giant hopes to turn that around by helping those affected businesses create and run ads to buffer dwindling sales.
SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin launched a bevy of new policy directives — among them the end of charging defendants for contraband procured during "pretextual" traffic stops — yesterday, aimed at reducing racial imbalances in our criminal justice system and mass incarceration.
Chinatown eateries are still feeling the squeeze from the novel coronavirus as foot traffic in the area continues to slow, Oakland police have made a second arrest in an El Cerrito robbery, and two new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Mexico.
Two more Diamond Princess evacuees have the coronavirus, 'The Amazing Race' has suspended filming because of the virus, and SF Supe Shamann Walton says a very rude hostess at a downtown cigar bar discriminated against him and some friends.
Terrifying! A second case of "community transmission" of the Wuhan coronavirus has now been confirmed in Santa Clara County, marking the first two U.S. instances — both in the Bay Area — of an infection with no discernible connection to a traveler returned from China.
Hong Kong Lounge II lives on in SoMa; Prairie is pivoting with more live-fire cooking and a new nightly, one-seating prix fixe; and SF is getting a German bakery in SoMa, Hahdough, which debuts on Sunday.
A new Hummingbird Place homeless drop-in center could spring up at Valencia Street’s current Salvation Army Mission Corps Community Center, and while some neighbors are skeptical, the opposition is nowhere near as fierce as the Embarcadero Navigation Center's was.
File under Condo Price Sadness: A combined, double-unit condo on the 25th floor of the St. Regis Residences in downtown SF has hit the market for $9.8 million, and it features only two bedrooms but an office with a view, a media room, and a "cuddle puddle room" with sweeping views of the city.
It's a touristy, expense-account-heavy spot for lunches and early dinners, but MarketBar to be sure will be missed by many after establishing its place at one corner of the Ferry Building over two decades.
