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.
Thanks to a Twitter bot that does nothing but tweet map details when aircraft are circling over parts of the Bay Area, we have a funny sketch of the flight path of a helicopter that was being used in the 'Matrix 4' shoot in San Francisco's Financial District on Sunday night.
As shoes keep dropping in the Mohammed Nuru/DPW scandal, Matt Haney proposes making the street-cleaning unit its own separate city department.
Almost exactly one year ago, noted professional skier Josh Daiek completed a stunt he'd been eyeing for years at Echo Summit Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe — a ski jump over Highway 50. It was all a matter of waiting for the right snow.
An attorney for Holmes moved to have a federal judge throw out all 11 fraud charges against the two defendants claiming the government's case is too "broad" and "full of ambiguity and fudging language."
A candy shop that's been the delight of youngsters and the young at heart since 1931 has quietly closed its doors in West Portal.
Local bar impresario Thad Vogler just announced that two of his four businesses will be undergoing changes in the coming months, including his design- and bar-award-winning Bar Agricole, which opened on 11th Street in 2011.
If you'd like to go sip your rosé and simply enjoy this unseasonably warm February weather, be our guest. But otherwise, you can read about the downside and enjoy it a little bit less.
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29-year-old John Lee Cowell took the witness stand in his own defense as scheduled on Tuesday, after the prosecution rested its case on Monday. And he unleashed some choice quotes that may bolster an insanity defense.
A woman was struck by a car outside a Portola nightclub, the Chevron refinery in Richmond did more early morning flaring, and the first coronavirus case among American evacuees in quarantine has been confirmed in San Diego.
Tartine is hoping employees reconsider the union effort, the Board of Supes is considering a 20-year lease for a Navigation Center for homeless youth in the Tenderloin, and Berkeley High students walked out to protest rape culture.
Little rocket man Elon Musk set his targets on Facebook over the weekend, though the ‘Friendship Ended With’ animosity on this one goes back years.
The six-year-old battle over the San Francisco Flower Mart appears close to a resolution today, however it looks like it's happening at the expense of a lot of housing, which is a damn shame.
While there have been calls in the last two weeks for Mayor London Breed to fire embattled Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, she said that she had to follow proper procedure — and now Nuru has resigned of his own accord.
While there has yet to be a case of the Wuhan/novel coronavirus in San Francisco, health officials are preparing for the possibility that a case will appear here.
Something went down Monday morning at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, and it led to some flaring — the practice of safely burning excess hydrocarbon gases that comes with dramatic flames shooting out of smokestacks and the release of smoke.
Today is the first day for the pilot BART Ambassadors program, so commuters may begin seeing the unarmed outreach personnel patrolling trains in search of quality-of-life infractions. Also, some train schedules are shifting for commuters between SF and the East Bay.
An East Bay neighborhood was partially evacuated due to collapsing trees and downed power lines. And that 209-mph wind gust recorded at Kirkwood may have been the result of an equipment error.
Three people died in house fires in Oakland and Vacaville overnight, a hit-and-run driver was arrested in Richmond, and a new SFPD "foot beat office" has opened in mid-Market.
Thousands convened at Market and 2nd Streets Saturday where the SF festivities began to celebrate the Year of the Rat — hissing firecrackers, lanky dragons, chromatic fashions, and all — in the largest Lunar New Year parade outside of Asia.
Today's 30-plus-mile-an-hour winds shattered a window on the 41st floor of the tilting SoMa building; the Big Bad Wolf could never.
Brace yourself for longer headway times between BART trains on Sundays, certain rail car services ending at Concord instead of Pleasant Hill, and a host of other noteworthy adjustments the rapid transit agency will kick off Monday morning.
Looks like Saturday and Sunday's strong Bay Area winds will carry into Monday morning, a late-evening car accident in Montclair left two dead and a 5-year-old boy and adult man in critical condition, and UCSF’s Dr. Charles Chiu has developed a more immediate test for coronavirus.
Mass transit fans and beer aficionados alike, rejoice. Oakland's newest watering hole combines the best of both those worlds, pouring a selection of on-tap IPAs and ales from the side of a retired and restored AC Transit bus from 1972.
You may recall the story of a homeless couple, Greg Dunston and Marie Mckinzie, who last year were taken in by a wealthy Piedmont homeowner who offered them his empty in-law unit to stay in for free. Now there's a twist in the tale.
