Companies based in the Bay Area are largely to thank — and blame — for how much the American psyche has changed. And as we close out this tumultuous decade, let's take account of the impacts the local tech industry has had on the world in a short span of time.
He started slinging sodas at UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium at the age of 10. 39 years later he was well known to local baseball fans at A's games for selling old-fashioned hot dogs out of a steamer box he carried around the stadium.
From free Muni and Caltrain rides to discounted cabs, here's how to traverse our slice of Northern California during the last New Year's Eve of this decade.
Bumble, the dating app that lets women make the first move in hetero pairings, just made a gaffe when it deleted sometime Bay Area resident Sharon Stone's dating profile, believe it was a fake. It was not!
Kids who grew up in the Bay Area are lamenting the loss of a seven-decade-old toy retailer in San Mateo that was a mecca in a legion of local childhoods. Citing the "retail apocalypse," the iconic Talbot's Toyland with its huge T-Rex in the entry is calling it quits.
With their nail-biter win against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday night, the Niners are headed to the playoffs as the Number One seed in the NFC West — the first time that's been the case since 1997.
It's a rare story when somebody actually catches a car burglar in the act, but that's what happened Saturday night near Civic Center.
Hundreds gathered for a vigil Sunday at Dublin High School for three boys killed in a Christmas crash, a plane had to make an emergency landing at San Jose airport, and a high-surf advisory has been issued for NorCal beaches.
Just in time to probe through holiday wrapping paper and plastic packaging, a crew of new AI-assisted robots and optical scanning machines at San Francisco's Recology recycling center will help make sense of all the reusable bits some 800,000 San Franciscans dispose of daily.
45 wrote a damning tweet of Pelosi and the “decaying city” she represents, an Oakland principal made history as one of the six men who managed to cross the infamous Drake Passage (unassisted) in South Africa, Starbucks is giving away free espresso drinks in SF this week, and more Sunday headlines.
The Bay Area is an open pasture for these proverbial unicorns to gallop abound in, unbothered by status quos or scaling norms. But, given enough time and financial pressures, some simply reveal themselves as donkeys dressed in drag, embellished with Party City-purchased headwear.
Expect your monthly PG&E electric and gas bill to inch even higher in the new decade.
An early morning car rollover in Brentwood left two injured yesterday, some Bay Area immigration judges are leaving their posts because of current administration policies, a pop-up art gallery adds a heaping dollop of creativity to a vacant Mission District storefront, and more Saturday links.
Over 100 birders spread out across San Francisco to take a bird census today, Oakland firefighters put out a homeless encampment fire, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren spent time at child care facilities in San Jose today.
Nearly two months after it supposedly was closing for good after over 20 years in business, Kennedy's Irish Pub and Curry House mysteriously soldiers on in North Beach.
The always-profound sign out front of the Kahn & Keville tire store will soon come down, as the shop has closed and the sign faces its end times.
A pair of teenage twins and their friend were killed in a collision Christmas night near Castelwood Country Club in Pleasanton, and now the Dublin High School community and the boys' families are in mourning.
The Martinez News-Gazette, in print for 161 years, is stopping the presses on its print edition for good this weekend, ending what may be the longest run for a newspaper anywhere in California. Its last edition will be on December 29.
The 33rd annual "Chipping of the Trees" is happening outside City Hall Friday to remind everyone to put their trees on the curb with their trash bins before January 15.
A homeless woman was arrested for attacking a man on Sansome Street in the Financial District, the SFPD arrested four suspects in a string of car burglaries, and a vintage clothing store is being held up from opening in the Haight.
Moms 4 Housing got a four-day reprieve in their Oakland squat, a Bernal Heights family got their stolen dog back, and it's going to get cold tonight around the Bay.
It's been a relatively quiet year for restaurant openings in San Francisco — and is it any wonder? Still, there are 11 brand new spots that are delightful and delicious additions to our local culinary scene.
The sewage facility we once tried to name after George W. Bush is getting a big (and overbudget) upgrade, but will remove a small chunk of the Great Highway.
Saying that "access to quality early care and education is an important part of our efforts to make San Francisco more equitable," Breed announced a plan Thursday to open 30 new childcare centers across the city.
The grandly Brutalist and angular Hyatt Regency at the foot of Market Street has 15 new guest rooms thanks to some underutilized, oversized hallways that had some excellent Bay views.
