The progressive candidates Chesa Boudin and Dean Preston have taken slight leads as ballots keep getting counted, a female bicyclist was struck and severely injured in SF, and a pedestrian struck last weekend in Potrero Hill has died.
Stefon Demar Jefferson, who's implicated in a killing spree in the Bay Area on April 26 that left three men dead, was just sentenced for his shootout with police later that night in Nevada's Douglas County.
After a stint at San Diego’s The Old Globe, PigPen Theatre Co’s "The Tale of Despereaux: A New Musical" – which tells the tales of one brave mouse as he attempts to save a human princess from malicious vermin – will come to the Berkeley Repertory Theatre for a six-week residency, the 21st.
A pair of videos has been making the rounds of a BART police officer having a heated interaction with a rider whom he wanted to cite for eating on the Pleasant Hill BART platform earlier this week.
One year ago today, the ferocious Camp Fire broke out in the forested hills east of Concow and Paradise, California. And marking the anniversary the local media has published dozens of stories checking back in on the survivors and the rebuilding effort.
Video went viral this week of a Pittsburg second-grade teacher's classroom where the students learned a version of Lizzo's self-empowerment anthem "Truth Hurts" with rewritten lyrics to inspire their schoolwork. And the story got picked up Friday by ABC's Good Morning America.
The mayor’s brother Napoleon Brown won the chance at a re-sentencing in his manslaughter conviction from 14 years ago, thanks to a ruling that just came from a San Francisco Superior Court judge.
For the first time since the outbreak of lung illnesses associated with e-cigarettes earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control says it has identified a specific ingredient as a "very strong culprit": Vitamin E acetate.
The face of 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is going up on the side of a building near Union Square, and the artist painting is hoping a band will donate their services for an unveiling ceremony.
The jury in the trial of Tiffany Li and Kaveh Bayat is going into their ninth day of deliberations, BART service to San Jose may begin in December, and Elizabeth Holmes just won a small battle over evidence in court.
Airbnb has agreed to pay for Orinda victim funerals, Suzy Loftus has a 879-vote lead in the DA's race, and Lyft's e-bikes are returning in force next month.
ACT's latest production is a world premiere by an American- and British-trained playwright about the game of cricket, in particular women's cricket, and it spans three centuries and two continents in a brisk 90 minutes.
Former New York City mayor and self-made billionaire Michael Bloomberg is reportedly inching toward declaring his candidacy for the 2020 presidential campaign, and is making moves that include filing paperwork calling himself a candidate in the Democratic race in the Alabama primary.
The official "groundmaking" ceremony was held Thursday to kick off the process of building and landscaping what will create 14 acres of parkland over the top of the 101 freeway tunnels near the Golden Gate Bridge, connecting the Presidio to Crissy Field.
The U.S. government has accused two former Twitter employees of spying on behalf of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia via their access to sensitive Twitter user data.
Foster City-based Gilead Sciences is accused is ripping off government patents to develop its blockbuster, billion-dollar HIV treatment PrEP.
A shooting Thursday morning near the intersection of Market, Sixth Street, Taylor, and Golden Gate Avenue has left one person injured, and at least one bullet hit the window at Dosa Allee (1020 Market).
It'll probably be two years before the store opens, but Hayes Valley is finally going to get a grocery store as Trader Joe's won its formula-retail exemption from the Board of Supervisors this week to move into 555 Fulton.
Newsom has closed-door meeting with PG&E CEO, Alphabet's board is wrapping up a sexual misconduct investigation of some executives, and Suzy Loftus has extended her lead in the DA's race.
The Kincade Fire is 100 percent contained, 42 people have been shot at short-term rentals in 6 months, and Sup. Sandra Lee Fewer has angered the police union.
"Are you all starting to get it?" Madonna asked from the stage, at least several times, to a fawning, screaming audience whom she treated more like a kindergarten classroom than who they were — a crowd of mostly middle-aged fans.
It's the end of an era as one of San Francisco's queen bee drag queens says she needs a "break" and is stepping back from her ownership role at the SoMa nightclub she helped found almost five years ago.
A four-pronged scandal-palooza is rocking Facebook’s world today, the worst of which is probably the “Switcharoo Plan” where recent user privacy measures did not apply to choice advertisers.
The Halloween shooting that cost five people their lives at an unsanctioned party in an Orinda Airbnb has led the city council to enact a 45-day emergency ban on all un-hosted short-term rentals.
A pair of inmates who escaped prison in Monterey County on Sunday clearly didn't have much of a plan for evading capture. While they appear to have succeeded in the cliche flight to Mexico, they were caught by authorities trying to cross back into the U.S. from Tijuana around midnight last night.
