Star chef Traci Des Jardins, who last year closed her 21-year-old flagship restaurant Jardiniere, has also just closed her fast-casual Mexican spot at the Ferry Building, Mijita, after 15 years in business.
Gas-powered mowers, leaf blowers, and weed whackers could get whacked as pollution opponents target gasoline-fueled lawn equipment.
An Oakland man who has spent the last five years in jail was let free on Monday following three mistrials with deadlocked juries, the last of which ended in October.
The recently shuttered Fat Angel (1740 O'Farrell Street off Fillmore) already has a taker, and it's the team of Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski from State Bird Provisions and The Progress around the corner.
A much-anticipated new project from Lazy Bear chef-owner David Barzelay and former Lazy Bear sous chef Matthew Kirk has found a home, and it's the former Green Chile Kitchen space at McAllister and Baker.
The first homicide of the new year happened in the Tenderloin, just blocks from two other homicides in December.
The lineup for the eighth edition of BottleRock is out, and it's a notably more star-studded one than usual with headliners Stevie Nicks, Dave Matthews Band, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Miley Cyrus.
An 89-year-old great-grandmother succumbed to her injuries Friday after a year in the hospital following a January 2019 beating in a park near her home in Visitacion Valley.
The trial begins today for the man accused of killing 18-year-old Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART station, a vigil for the deceased laptop theft victim in Oakland, and Sunday sideshows were captured on video in SF.
Thousands descended on downtown San Francisco yesterday to criticize the American airstrike that killed a top Iranian general (Qassem Soleimani) Friday, an action by President Trump that many agree could pull us into a war.
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A 13-year-old girl was reported missing last week after last being spotted at near UCSF's Madison Clinic for Pediatric Diabetes, where her younger sister was being treated for type 1 diabetes.
A China Air 747 cargo plane hit a bird shortly after taking off from SFO yesterday, new data shows that there are probably thousands of empty homes in the Bay Area, and a candlelight vigil will be held today for the laptop theft victim at the Montclair Starbucks off Mountain Boulevard.
Unless you've been living under a rock, it's no news that San Francisco is in the midst of a housing crunch. One proposed solution? To (ironically enough) build housing beneath the bedrock.
In a sweeping attempt to curb pedestrian injuries and deaths on Market Street, SFMTA announced that private vehicles won’t be allowed on the road starting January 29th.
Dave Chapelle is in SF tonight and tomorrow to do three shows at The Chapel, nearly 500 eateries in the city closed for good in 2019, and there's an important sewer pipe near Lake Merced that San Francisco plans to spend millions to save from climate change.
There are some more details in an incident involving a homeless man chasing someone with a needle in SoMa, Bay Area lawmakers are denouncing Trump's drone strike in Iraq, and Sonoma officials are dealing with a rat problem.
The latest world premiere at Berkeley Rep by playwright Sarah Ruhl is a complex and darkly funny look at the Salem Witch Trials through the lens of contemporary American malaise, the #MeToo movement, and Donald Trump.
A meteor shower that is expected to go on through January 10 will peak tonight around midnight on the West Coast. It will be low to the horizon, but will at least be more visible than that November "unicorn" shower, which was a bust for California.
Longtime domestic violence prevention nonprofit La Casa de las Madres has bought a building, after bouncing around the city with three previous moves.
Two previously convicted robbers have been arrested and are facing charges in the New Year's Eve death of a 34-year-old Oakland man whose laptop computer they were allegedly trying to steal.
The agency that took over for the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA), known as the Office of Community Infrastructure and Investment (OCII), has just proposed a state law that would allow it to use its former funding tools to develop nearly 6,000 new below-market-rate units in the city.
Eleven-term U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who has represented Oakland and the East Bay in the House of Representatives since 1998, was just married on New Year's Eve to Los Angeles-based pastor Rev. Dr. Clyde W. Oden, Jr.
A man was arrested Monday evening after reports that he was chasing another person around the area of 7th and Mission Street with a hypodermic needle.
Sure, it's a rarity at any music festival to have a major female headliner, and Beyoncé, Ariana and Bjork have been exceptions to the rule at Coachella over the years. But this year the headlining lineup is back to being all dudes.
A woman was swept out to sea at Half Moon Bay trying to rescue her dog, homicides were actually up 7 percent across the Bay Area, and Tesla hit its sales goals for 2019.
