40-year-old Miesha Ellese Singleton of San Leandro was picking up her child from Elmhurst United Middle School Friday afternoon when she was struck and killed by a rogue Nissan Maxima.
SFO will start screening passengers arriving from central China for a deadly coronavirus that's sickened over 40 people, JetBlue announced they'll no longer serve OAK, and various Women's Marches are scheduled throughout the Bay Area today.
A San Mateo pastor was arrested for threatening to shoot people, SB 50 is back in play, and two Bay Area health giants have pledged $45 million to the state's homelessness fund.
Cole Valley's beloved Zazie is changing hands, the Millennium team is plotting a vegan brewpub, and Soleil Ho is less than thrilled with Tokyo ramen export Tsuta.
Another mega-project in San Francisco is inching its way toward final approvals, and this one would transform the 29-acre, waterfront Potrero Power Station site into a mixed use complex of 2,600 residential units and 1.8 million square feet of new commercial space.
Some things are shifting and/or pivoting at six-month-old AL's Place spinoff AL's Deli, and pending these changes the restaurant announced this week that it's going to be open for lunch only for the time being.
Inspired by the New York City MTA using Queens native Awkwafina's voice on some train announcements, newly installed SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin is reaching out to SF native Ali Wong to do the same for Muni buses.
The DA's office declined this week to file murder charges in the January 5 killing of 32-year-old Emma Hunt in the Tenderloin.
Amnesia’s owners have confirmed the 20-year-old bar’s closure, effective February 29, 2020.
One of San Francisco's last standing neighborhood movie houses, the Clay Theatre on upper Fillmore, is reportedly screening its final film on Sunday, January 26 after 110 years in Pacific Heights.
An avalanche Friday morning has taken the life of one skier at the Alpine Meadows Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe, and a second skier has reportedly suffered serious "lower body" injuries, with several other people possibly injured as well.
A new plan has been submitted for a mixed-use conversion of the former I. Magnin building on Union Square — most recently the white-stone-clad extension of Macy's at the corner of Stockton and Geary — that would include 21 condo units on the top three floors.
As he wrapped up a statewide tour of programs to address homelessness on Thursday, Governor Gavin Newsom called the protesting moms in West Oakland "courageous," and said that his staff would be meeting with them.
Four were arrested in San Jose for operating two alleged brothels, 300 flights were delayed or canceled Thursday at SFO, and Pelosi made it back from D.C. in time for the SF Ballet opening gala last night.
Travel to Tahoe is pretty much impossible tonight due to snow, a stomach illness has now hit 170 visitors and employees at Yosemite, and the Giants just hired the MLB's first full-time female coach.
An amusing internet meme in December featuring pigeons wearing cowboy hats in Las Vegas has ended in death for one of those birds, and there's a copycat in Reno who has apparently glued a sombrero to a pigeon there.
Alphabet officially reached a valuation of $1 trillion on Thursday, becoming only the fourth American company — and the fourth tech company in history — to reach this once unthinkable milestone.
In an effort to curb the trend of landlords leaving retail spaces vacant, the SF Board of Supervisors voted this week to establish a dozen new Neighborhood Commercial Districts (NCDs) that will fall under a new vacancy tax law that's on March primary ballot going before voters.
As the Senate impeachment trial technically started this morning with the swearings-in, the partisan food fight sees Pelosi take unexpected jabs at Facebook.
Today's moderate to heavy rains in SF came with a surprise bout of thunder and lightning. What's up with that? Also, there was hail falling all over, and snow on Mount Diablo.
An elderly woman with dementia who disappeared last week was found alive Wednesday by Butte County Sheriff's deputies in a helicopter, after her SUV drove off the road in snowy conditions.
With the holidays behind us, new restaurants and bars are starting to emerge out from under their construction dust on both sides of the Bay. And in Oakland, there are three debuts to talk about this week.
Governor Gavin Newsom is concluding a four-day tour of homelessness outreach operations across the state with a stop near the Oakland Coliseum where he'll be showing off a key component of his new state program.
A man was killed in a wrong-way crash on Highway 1 in Pacifica, Google is revising a huge transit village plan in downtown San Jose, and low-lying areas should beware of flooding as rains intensify this morning.
A healthcare exec in town for a convention just called SF "the Bill Clinton of cities" because it "squandered itself with its flaws," a missing 68-year-old Oroville woman has been found, and Pier One Imports is closing Bay Area stores.
