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.
The newest addition to SF's bar scene is an Irish bar, but it's not the kind that you think.
A 420-foot, 40-story residential tower at the intersection of Market Street, Oak Street, and Van Ness, dubbed One Oak, in planning since 2014, apparently doesn't "pencil" in the parlance of developers, and its entitlements are now up for grabs.
A case backed by Attorney General William Barr is escalating quickly at the Department of Justice that will once again pit Apple against the federal government in a fight over smartphone privacy.
The Inner Richmond's Arsicault Bakery, which a couple of years ago was named Bon Appetit's "Bakery of the Year" in part because of its perfect croissants, is expanding for the first time and has just quietly opened a second location in Civic Center, just around the corner from 7th and Market.
The District 1 supervisor will be a one-and-done, leaving the seat up for grabs in the November race.
There's a weird story today in which a San Francisco supervisor is pointing the finger at San Mateo County and the SamTrans bus agency for intentionally shuttling homeless people out of SFO and dropping them off at 2 a.m. at the new "end of the line" near the Embarcadero.
A 52-year-old communal living curiosity in the East Bay is making news again for an unfortunate reason this week after vehicles and buildings on the property were hit with racist graffiti.
The two women who were arrested Tuesday morning at the home in which they were squatting in West Oakland were released following misdemeanor charges. Now the group Moms 4 Housing is hoping they can keep the momentum going.
Pelosi has picked her impeachment managers, a Mission high school gym has become a homeless shelter, and San Jose's Doobie Brothers are being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Oakland records its first homicide of the new year, Tahoe sees hurricane-force winds during today's winter storm, and a Beefeater-dressed doorman at the Sir Francis Drake retires after 43 years.
Based on a 2018 pop-up of the same name, chef Brandon Jew's Mamahuhu is opening its doors to the public on Clement Street on Wednesday, January 15, and you can expect this will be quite popular.
One of Moms 4 Housing’s biggest advocates at Oakland City Hall is demanding answers on how many encampments are in Oakland, and whether the city’s $32 million annual investment is even making a dent.
One of SoMa's longest continually running restaurants, Fourth Street Basque-French bistro Fringale, is set to close on January 25 after nearly three decades in business.
Former color-blocking KPIX meteorologist Roberta Gonzales has been busy since leaving television news behind in 2017, having started her own Pleasanton-based production company, Roberta Gonzales Productions. But today we learn that she has also written a children's book.
A fur industry group has filed a federal lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco over its ban on real fur products which took effect January 1. The suit calls the ban "so arbitrary as to be ridiculous," and says it is a violation of the Commerce Clause in the U.S. Constitution.
Another construction crew ruptured yet another gas pipe on Tuesday, this time near 11th and Harrison streets in SoMa, causing multiple buildings in the area to be temporarily evacuated. The situation was resolved in about 40 minutes.
BART Police are going to be regularly patrolling trains on nights and weekends as part of a new program that launched Monday, and the news has some regular riders going "Really?... Now?"
A 69-year-old woman was severely injured Monday afternoon when she collided with a cement mixer while riding an e-scooter near the intersection of Bay Street and the Embarcadero.
Perhaps this was the Alameda County Sheriff's Department's idea of ending things peacefully and without incident, but two of the homeless mothers who have been squatting at a West Oakland residence since November were met with a militaristic raid early Tuesday morning.
The local Filipino community is on edge about a volcano near Manila, Sutter Health has formed a partnership with Lyft to give patients rides, and a Napa Valley security guard is charged with an inside-job burglary at a winery.
Four female suspects were arrested in a Stanford Shopping Center smash-and-grab, Bernie Sanders just opened a new Oakland campaign office, and Rep. Barbara Lee says the upcoming all-white debate is troubling.
A local TV station up in Seattle was so optimistic about the Seahawks potentially getting to host the NFC Championship Game next week that the anchors erroneously reported Saturday that the Minnesota Vikings had beaten the 49ers.
Ahead of the closure of Brown Sugar Kitchen's Ferry Building outpost, Mother Jones has just released a podcast interview with chef Tanya Holland in which she talks about the challenges of working in the white male-dominated world of high-end cuisine, and doing business in the Bay Area.
We don’t know for sure that a drone killed a hawk in Dolores Park on Christmas Eve, but one earwitness account was enough to get avian advocates and Nextdoor gadflies furious at the possibility. Animal Care and Control has yet to confirm a cause of death for the bird.
