A 61-year-old woman was nearly killed by a Muni train Thursday night, there is a very real fear of mudslides this weekend in the North Bay, and the Castro's Squat & Gobble is closing after 22 years.
Nikolaus Krampus, the Christmas-time cacodemon, has its roots in European folklore. But, in recent years, he’s become something of a camp icon, not unlike Babadook. Tomorrow night, you can expect gaggles of drag queens embody that notion in all manners of over-the-top regalia at El Rio.
The SF Planning Commission on Thursday approved a plan to convert the top two floors of Nordstrom at the Westfield mall into 50,000 square feet of new office space.
A second-grade classroom that produced a viral hit rewrite of Lizzo's "Truth Hurts" last month was treated to a meet-and-greet with Lizzo before her set at San Jose's SAP Center Thursday night.
Planning commissioner Dennis Richards has had nine permits revoked at a property he co-owns, but claims there’s a vendetta against him, and describes it in some very colorful language.
A man who was apparently walking in the train tracks by the East Bay town of Port Costa was killed by an eastbound Amtrak Capitol Corridor train Thursday night.
Wayne Merry, one of the first people to conquer Yosemite's El Capitan, has died at the age of 88; two homeless moms who have been squatting in a West Oakland house are getting evicted; and more rain is rolling into the Bay Area.
Uber just reported it saw 3,000 sexual assaults last year, the person who died in the fall from Land's End has been identified as a 42-year-old SF man, and two Fairfield residents in their 20s are suspected in a pair of home invasions in the East Bay.
While it's a fact of modern musical theater that jukebox musicals of both the biographical and non-biographical sort are popular money-makers, it's almost universally true that they tend to be despised by critics.
With holiday shopping season in full swing and the two-part Harry Potter show playing at the Curran for the next six months to a year (at least), you could probably use some ideas for when you're stuck and hangry in tourist trap central.
The now annual Drag Queens on Ice event began way back in 2009 as a lark by Stud hostess VivvyAnne ForeverMore. The event, which will have its 11th go-round Thursday night, has now expanded and gained official sponsorship from Alaska Airlines.
PG&E would be radically transformed into a customer-owned co-op under a new plan being pushed by more than 100 California elected officials.
Addressing reporters Thursday morning after the announcement that the House is officially drafting articles of impeachment, House Speaker and longtime Congresswoman from San Francisco Nancy Pelosi responded sternly to a reporter's question about whether she "hates" President Trump.
A group of around 100 protesters, many of them senior citizens, stormed Mayor London Breed's office on Wednesday to demand a larger city budget for housing subsidies for elderly residents.
A 28-year-old Brentwood woman is suspected of violently ramming a barber in Antioch with her car after arguing with him over a bad haircut that he gave her son.
A 25-year-old man was stabbed and gravely wounded in the Tenderloin Wednesday night, Kincade Fire victims may get property tax relief, and people are being warned not to drive to Tahoe on Friday.
A Livermore man and woman were arrested on human trafficking charges, the Central Subway contractor is fighting over a rooftop park, and man has died after falling off a cliff at Land's End.
North Beach's jewel of a green space, Washington Square Park, reopens to the public today following a six-month rehab project by Rec & Parks that included upgraded irrigation and drainage systems.
Chinese developer Oceanwide Holdings looks to be trying to exit the U.S. market, either partially or fully, putting its considerable development portfolio in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco all on the market at once.
A second lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Lyft in a case involving 20 cases of sexual assault involving drivers. And this suit joins a separate one filed in September by the same law firm that covers 14 other cases of assault.
The purple peace sign power of Craigslist is now available as an official iOS app, though the Android app is more of a beta version casual encounter.
Mother Nature’s reclaimed much of Mare Island since its Naval base heyday, making it a haven for native flora and fauna. But recent battles over its public access, wildfires, and in-limbo development plans threaten the Bay Area Eden’s ecological health.
The former CEO of the Oakland Coliseum Authority, who resigned in August amid claims that he was illegally trying to profit from a naming-rights deal with RingCentral, has now been charged with a felony.
M'Dundamella, the eldest of the elephants at the Oakland Zoo and a resident there since 1993, collapsed inside her 6.5-acre habitat and was pronounced dead Tuesday afternoon of unknown causes. She had just turned 50 years old in September.
The Alameda County Sheriff's Department is investigating two armed robberies last night, a new high-rise could become SF's fourth tallest building, and today's rain is just a light prelude to tomorrow's storm.
