The murder trial of 29-year-old John Lee Cowell, the mentally unstable transient man accused of killing an 18-year-old woman in an Oakland BART station two years ago, got off to an inauspicious start Wednesday morning.
The mayor introduces a ballot measure effort to eliminate red tape for affordable housing developments, but the definition of “affordable” is a bit mind-boggling.
A little over three years after it unleashed some self-driving cars in San Francisco without any legal permit to do so, Uber has just been granted a new permit to test the autonomous vehicles on California streets.
SF's own Nancy Pelosi yet again made one for the meme history books on Tuesday night when she used her on-camera moment behind President Trump to rip her copy of his State of the Union address in half. And this is what makes her a badass bitch.
One of the iconic Painted Ladies along the Steiner Street side of Alamo Square Park just sold after about three weeks on the market. And despite its horrific moldy bathrooms and non-existent kitchen, it went for $750K over asking.
PG&E cleared another bankruptcy hurdle, five San Jose healthcare workers possibly exposed to the coronavirus were sent home, and a total of 350 Americans are now quarantined at a military base in Solano County after arriving from Wuhan.
A woman died after crashing into a parked big rig in Santa Rosa, a new statewide rent-control measure is headed to the ballot, and Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield is going to be taking 250 Americans into quarantine from China.
Arguably our city’s most iconic tower, the Transamerica Pyramid has — after hitting the market last August — reportedly sold to a New York developer for a heart-stopping $700M.
“The plumbing suddenly broke” is the new “dog ate my homework” on the often-inhospitable hospitality platform.
Adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Tiny Beautiful Things recounts the story of Cheryl Strayed’s experiences as an anonymous advice writer whose column “Dear Sugar” on The Rumpus made her something of an enigmatic national phenomenon.
The latest City Hall scandal has a lot of people asking whether our allegedly corrupt director of Public Works wasn't at least partly to blame for either pretending the problem wasn't as bad as it was, or fundamentally mis-managing the department responsible for keeping things clean.
Rumors are mounting that Iguodala may get traded again before Thursday's trade deadline — something that a couple of his younger Grizzlies teammates are publicly hoping for, and that doesn't sit well with Steph.
A San Francisco-based tattoo artist who once lent her "tremendously cool" van with a unicorn mural on the side of it to Pixar is now suing the Disney-owned animation studio for copying her "superlative work of automotive art" in an upcoming film without her permission.
A video has come in from one of the caucus precincts in Iowa last night where a woman covered in Pete Buttigieg stickers finds out for the first time — astonishingly! — that her chosen candidate is indeed a homosexual.
Dennis Herrera, in conjunction with the city's Controller, said today that an independent investigation — beholden to no one at City Hall — is already underway into any potential improprieties in contracts linked to the DPW and its recently federally charged director.
The Walgreens pharmacy chain has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a case in which an employee succeeded in impersonating a pharmacist for 11 years and illegally wrote prescriptions for patients in Alameda and Santa Clara counties.
A Brisbane resident shot an alleged home invader, a Santa Clara County sheriff's deputy wearing a turban was shot at by a passing car, and the San Benito County couple with the coronavirus is in isolation at UCSF Parnassus.
A thief was caught on camera stealing an SF woman's wedding dress from her front porch, a four-year-old girl's death in the Bayview is being treated as suspicious, and Michael Bloomberg is alone campaigning in California right now.
PG&E wants to dig out of their problems by just adding some safety experts to their board, but state Senator Scott Wiener would prefer to end PG&E as we know it.
Last week's news about a bizarre situation that felt like a scam has an update, and it's not going to inspire trust in the world of food delivery apps.
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The coronavirus has officially arrived in San Francisco as of Monday after a husband and wife who both tested positive for the virus arrived at an unnamed San Francisco hospital.
Unless you have Mobile Passport and other enhancements, and especially if you're arriving from Asia, the customs situation for international travelers at SFO is currently lengthy and scary and straight out of contagion-disaster films.
The Castro really can't catch a break when it comes to the retail vacancy epidemic that is sweeping multiple SF neighborhoods. And now we learn that two more restaurants have permanently closed on the once hopping strip of Castro Street between Market and 18th.
SFist has already covered the stellar sushi scene in San Francisco, so now it's time to survey the best of the best nigiri and sashimi on the other side of the Bay.
When I agreed to come of “retirement” to write about the Niners being in the Super Bowl, I obviously wasn’t envisioning this: a devastating loss to the Kansas City Chiefs made even more upsetting due to the fact that it really seemed like the 49ers were going to win the game.
