According to city data on individuals who seek healthcare and other services, the number of homeless in San Francisco jumped 30 percent between 2018 and 2019 — and the total number was more than twice the number counted in the January homeless census.
A standoff ends peacefully in San Jose, steam from a power plant caused some panic in Crockett, and BART is once again disappointing everyone with a new delay on the Milpitas and Berryessa station openings.
The Alameda County DA's office has announced charges in a 22-year-old sexual assault case, PG&E is testing technology that would reduce the need for shutoffs, and there are no charges being filed against the five men arrested last week in the Halloween shooting case.
NBC Bay Area reveals that BART is “one of the most dangerous transportation systems in the country,” and details which stations are the worst for violent crime.
You may have noticed recently — as I did walking toward the Castro — that one of the antenna towers on Sutro Tower looks like it broke off. But it's actually just getting replaced with a new one with higher-tech antennas inside.
A backpack and large bag ban that's been officially in place for almost two years at the Cinemark/Century cinema chain has apparently been getting enforced more vigorously in the Bay Area in recent months according to various reports from disgruntled theater-goers.
An artist and prankster is having some fun with Apple-product-adoring San Franciscans, leaving life-size, realistic-looking AirPod stickers on sidewalks and streets in an effort to hoodwink unsuspecting passers-by into reaching for them.
In newly released, partially redacted search warrants in the federal prosecution of a Hayward man for Chinese-backed espionage, there's a new wrinkle being revealed involving the purchases of $20 million worth of hotel properties in and around the Bay Area.
As should be expected, the impacts of a still-in-planning Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) by PG&E on November 20 are a moving target, and now we're learning that Alameda and Contra Costa County are in the mix.
A few days after learning that Mayor Breed had named her pick for SFMTA chief, we're hearing that a few people with more direct experience leading urban transit agencies may have scoffed at the job after seeing how Breed treated Ed Reiskin.
A Palo Alto city worker died in an electrical accident Saturday, a Valencia ice cream shop is offering a reward to catch a vandal, and there was severe traffic on eastbound I-80 this morning due to a fatal crash.
After an early morning blaze severely damaged four businesses Saturday in The Castro, social media was quick responding to the crisis, offering bouts of support and calls for help. Now, the city appears adamant about offering a solvent helping hand, as well.
In another fit of déjà vu, the legally embattled power company might perform more planned power outages this week in the wake of predicted strong winds and dry ground conditions.
Dreamforce 2019 – which will feature Barack Obama as a keynote speaker – is almost here, an SF public bank could make Bay Area housing actually affordable, San Francisco is knighted the most vegan-friendly city in the nation by PETA, and more Sunday headlines.
Three months after he began with a mysterious pair of child's eyes, muralist BiP (Believe in People) has finished his fourth mural in San Francisco. And it's a conversation piece to be sure.
Freshly elected San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin, after taking office in January, plans to stop the criminal prosecution of consenting sex workers, public campers ... and people peeing on the street.
San Franciscans can expect a few more days of sunshine before cooler and wetter weather begins, the Mayor's Office will offer dozens of extra beds to the homeless this winter (that'll only be available to men), hate crimes skyrocket in SF, and more Saturday headlines.
Early this morning around 4:30 a.m., a fire was reported off the 456 block of Castro Street, displacing some thirteen people and injuring two others.
The mother of murder victim Keith Green called acquitted suspect Tiffany Li "evil" outside a San Mateo courtroom today, the Santa Clarita shooter has died, and a suspected Marin County con artist was nabbed in New York.
At a Friday press conference, Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston described the crime scene at the Orinda Airbnb on Halloween night as "a bloodbath" and like nothing he'd ever seen in his 32 years in law enforcement.
Scorsese's latest epic, now playing at The Castro and at Alamo Drafthouse, is somber and slow, but also vital, intriguing, and real in its portrayal of an aging mafia hitman who was Jimmy Hoffa's right-hand man.
Gay4U, a sister project to the forever closed Hella Vegan Eats that once lived at Oakland's Classic Cars West, recently opened for business inside Oakland’s Garden House.
Condemned man Spencer Brasure, who had lived on San Quentin's death row since 1998, was found dead in his cell of unpublicized causes early Thursday morning, according to prison officials.
The 2020 Board of Supervisors races are now underway, as one-time supervisor John Avalos is challenging Ahsha Safai for the seat Avalos held for eight years.
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The jury found Tiffany Li not guilty of the 2016 murder of her ex and baby daddy Keith Green, but they were deadlocked on the murder charge against her boyfriend Kaveh Bayat.
