This week: a trinket box in the Sunset, a coyote in Japantown, a denim design legend, a local inventor, and a one-day artist talk on “taking a knee” activism. Plus, remembering Oscar Grant on his 40th birthday, catching crab right off the boat, foraging wild garlic, and protecting the snowy plover.
The Alcatraz coyote is thriving, but visitors need to give it space; a brawl broke out after an East Bay high school basketball game Friday night; and the new Chinese New Year mascot, “Maverick,” has been unveiled.
Students and workers across the Bay Area took part in a nationwide walkout Friday; Yosemite eliminated the reservation system for Firefall and will instead be limiting car and foot traffic; and classes will be held remotely at SF’s Archbishop Riordan High School to cut the spread of TB.
A poor little stolen Doberman puppy was not only dognapped by a man allegedly carrying 68 grams of meth, the puppy was then used as a weapon and thrown at Monterey County Sheriff’s deputies when they tried to arrest the man.
Dr Oz’s latest conspiracy theory says that the “Russian Armenia mafia” is running fake hospice centers in LA, and Gavin Newsom is taking legal action, as many of the businesses Oz highlights aren’t even hospice care.
A major medical emergency stemming from a person possibly being struck by a BART train shut down West Oakland Station Friday afternoon, and service was being impacted throughout the system.
It’s no surprise that drones are banned from the Super Bowl at Levi’s Stadium, but that ban has also been curiously extended to SF venues like the Ferry Building, the Moscone Center, and even Grace Cathedral.
Anthropic, the growing AI concern founded by two siblings and former OpenAI execs, had inked a deal for an entire office building at Howard and Fremont streets, marking one of the largest office deals in the city since 2019.
An SFPD officer assigned to Oakland was nearly killed on the job Tuesday, in an eventful car chase that featured a murder attempt, a wrong-way chase on I-580, and Oakland Police opening fire for reasons even they can’t explain.
Outreach workers and volunteers fanned out across San Francisco Thursday morning conducting this year's biennial point-in-time count of the homeless.
Today is another nationwide day of protest against ICE; former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested by federal agents over a protest; and various events will be causing street closures around SF for the Super Bowl next week.
Super Bowl tickets are hitting the event’s second-highest price ever; a Waymo hit an elementary school student in SoCal; and the Castro Theatre's much-anticipated new digital organ has arrived and will soon make its debut.
Day of the Dead just won’t be the same without the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, but the 47-year-old arts space gave up the ghost Monday, and is now desperately trying to get an advance to continue existing in some form.
Following recent violent events in Minneapolis, a San Francisco bakery is selling cookies with anti-ICE messages on them, alongside Valentine's cookies with traditional Valentine's heart candy abbreviations on them.
Established in 1858, 7 Mile House at the SF-Brisbane border turns 168 years old on Saturday, and is celebrating with $1.68 Jack Daniels shots, free adobo, and a presentation on the restaurant's (often outlaw) 168-year history.
Beloved Oakland bakery It's All Good, which opened inside the former Black Panthers headquarters in North Oakland in 1996, has permanently closed.
A real cock-up in the annals of Muni advertising, as users noted what appeared to be a holographic penis on the side of a bus, though it’s just an AI company ad that may have been approved willy-nilly.
SF drag legend and midnight movie impresario Peaches Christ is returning home to the Castro Theatre as part of its grand reopening months, putting on a 30th anniversary screening of the cult classic "Showgirls."
Waymos are ferrying paying customers from SF to San Francisco International Airport for the first time on Thursday, but the robocars will not be able to take you directly to the terminals, at least not yet.
Yet another Democratic candidate has declared for the 2026 California Governor’s race, and the tech industry now has their favorite guy in the mix, with three-year San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan throwing his hat in the ring.
"Well, looks like we’re gonna turn into a buncha condos," say the owners of Potrero Hill music venue Thee Parkside in an Instagram post featuring a video of graffiti being written saying "This Will Be Condos You Can't Afford."
A five-gallon bucket of what turned out to be meth prompted a hazmat response in Vallejo; Allbirds is closing all of its brick-and-mortar stores; and Nicki Minaj was seen holding hands with Trump at an event in DC.
East Bay high school students protested ICE actions with a walkout this morning; San Ramon's Bishop Ranch will see some major housing development; and a judge in Minnesota has condemned ICE for violating court orders.
SF’s 30-year-old Drug Court was intended for non-violent drug offenders to avoid jail for low-level drug crimes. But now people with pretty violent charges are sneaking in, and Supervisor Matt Dorsey ain’t happy about it.
Elon Musk made a big announcement about Tesla on Wednesday, saying in an earnings call that the company would be ending production of its Model S and Model X, and converting the Fremont factory to production of the Optimus robot.
