Over three decades after the scourge of the early HIV/AIDS crisis drove public health officials and then Mayor Dianne Feinstein to push for the shutdown of all gay bathhouses in San Francisco, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman says that it's time to overturn this anachronistic and stigmatizing ordinance.
The new annual batch of Hearts in SF sculptures are out for Valentine’s Day, and we caught their unveiling last night to talk with the ‘heartists’ who created this year’s works.
BART can't just wave a magic wand and get riders back as its aging trains and tracks make for some truly unpleasant — if not dangerous — experiences during late-night and off hours.
One supervisor is already calling for Mayor Breed to resign after a fairly explosive Medium post in which she divulged a relationship with the embattled former DPW director, and a potentially improper gift from him last year.
In another sign that California will actually play a decisive role in this year's primary season — for a change! — 2020 Democratic frontrunners Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders are both heading here to do some campaigning this weekend ahead of Super Tuesday on March 3.
A suspect who allegedly attacked a fellow BART passenger with a chain, unprovoked, on board a train in Oakland Tuesday evening has been arrested, but not yet publicly identified.
A 16-year-old driver helped rescue a man who drove off a cliff on Highway 1, Union City police are announcing an update in the investigation of the homicides of two young boys, and Trump went tweeting about his absolute powers to interfere in the DoJ.
The last flight from SFO to China for at least six weeks is scheduled to depart tomorrow night, the car burglary suspect that died in yesterday’s high-speed Vallejo police chase has been identified, and this past January was the warmest one ever recorded by NOAA.
The ERA was OK’d by the House of Representatives Thursday morning, some 50 years after it was introduced Rep. Martha Griffiths (pictured at right).
After being acquired by cannabis agriculturalists Sam Magruder and co-proprietor Gian-Paolo Veronese in 2017, a quaint Petaluma farmstead is gung ho on cultivating a more modern mainstream green — weed.
A new three-minute ad from the Bernie Sanders campaign is squarely aimed at Democratic voters in California, and makes the case that only Sanders will have what it takes to fight corporate interests like PG&E that value profits over human life.
A creative team led by director Tina Landau and a slew of talented pop-star songwriters created a critical darling out of unlikely material, garnering 12 Tony nominations in the 2018 season, and now 'The SpongeBob Musical' is on tour.
Subpoenas issued Wednesday by the City Attorney's Office for records and emails from eight private companies and non-profits appear to relate in part to a kids' baseball charity run by indicted local restaurateur Nick Bovis.
A 62-year-old man was arrested Wednesday evening on suspicion of felony hit-and-run after his burgundy Prius allegedly plowed through the intersection of 23rd and Mission, clipping a Muni bus and hitting three pedestrians, critically injuring two.
A reportedly "small" fire in an underground PG&E vault near the intersection of Laguna and Hayes streets Wednesday night caused a power outage for 9,000 utility customers — including the San Francisco Ballet, performing at the War Memorial Opera House.
The star witness in the Hillsborough heiress murder case is now in federal custody, Colin Kaepernick is writing a memoir for Audible, and SFO is about to reopen a public observation deck at Terminal 2 for the first time in 25 years.
The CDC says the coronavirus testing kits sent out to states are "flawed," a San Francisco woman was found dead in a Santa Rosa creek, and the City Attorney's office is making good on its promise of a swift corruption investigation into the DPW scandal.
Just one day into BART's new Ambassador program, a BART rider was attacked and injured by a suspect on board a Daly City-bound train Tuesday evening.
There’s only one state ballot measure on the usually-crowded March 3 election slate, so let’s school ourselves up on what the $15 billion school construction bond proposes to do.
Have you recently ordered food on a delivery app from "American Eclectic Burger," "Fork & Ladle," or "Red Corn Taqueria"? Because these are all ghost restaurants operating out of so-called "ghost kitchens" in SF.
A couple of rare San Francisco Republicans have drafted a measure for the November ballot that would significantly limit the city's ability to open more homeless Navigation Centers, and limit the operation of all Navigation Centers to a maximum of two years.
Juul's annus horribilis looks to be extending into 2020 as a lawsuit has just been filed in Massachusetts with potentially some of the strongest evidence to date that the company was targeting children and teens with its marketing.
A Bay Area woman and her daughter were among the 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China two weeks ago and sent into quarantine at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside.
BART has lost almost 10 million riders on nights and weekends, unlicensed contractors nabbed trying to bid on work in Paradise, and yes, PG&E does plan to keep shutting off the power when it's windy and dry this year.
Berkeley High School students walked out for a second day in a row protesting "rape culture" on campus, an Oakland man was robbed in his driveway Monday afternoon, and Janet Jackson just announced a San Jose stop on her summer tour.
