Following her sentencing to 14 days in federal prison for her role in the college admissions fraud scandal, Oscar nominee and onetime 'Desperate Housewives' star Felicity Huffman began her new real-life 'Orange Is the New Black' experience on Tuesday in Dublin, California.
BART is actively trying to incentivize getting to SFO via train, rather than Uber or Lyft or private vehicle, and they want to give riders access to the TSA Priority lane at security via a scan of their Clipper card.
On Tuesday, with broad support from a coalition of advocacy groups, a plan was finally made official and final by the SFMTA to ban private vehicles from the lower half of Market Street and undertake a variety of street improvements over the next six years.
PG&E releases photos of power line damage from last week's winds, yesterday's refinery explosion caused a 15-acre grass fire, and a Facebook engineer says he was fired for speaking out about a colleague's suicide.
A smaller earthquake rattled the Pleasant Hill area this evening, Twitter won't delete Trump's account, and the man killed on Jones Street on Monday has been identified.
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A couple of 8,000-gallon tanks holding diesel fuel exploded Tuesday afternoon at the NuStar refinery in Crockett, shaking the areas of Rodeo, Hercules, and Pinole and sending thick, toxic black smoke into the air.
The Bay Area earthquake swarm continued Tuesday afternoon with another not-insignificant temblor just south of the Bay Area, centered in a remote area near Hollister.
Daly City is facing an apparent eviction crisis as landlords are hurrying to oust tenants ahead of a state law taking effect in January that bars no-fault evictions.
Mark Zuckerberg has given the non-conservative half of the country a new reason to hate him this week as it's come out that he secretly met with groups of right-wing pundits, professional firebrands, and journalists in order to appease their cries of liberal bias.
After Supervisors Haney and Ronen introduced their sweeping Mental Health SF initiative, Mayor Breed counters with her own Urgent Care SF plan, which is ironically the less urgent of the two.
A Napa pumpkin grower won the day at the annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh Off on Monday in Half Moon Bay, with a gourd weighing in at 2,175 pounds — a new California record.
A thief on Sunday afternoon snatched a Salvador Dali etching worth $20,000 off an easel inside the door of a gallery near Union Square, and his casual escape was all caught on surveillance video.
Last night's earthquake was felt in Tahoe, the inventory of homes for sale in SF has peaked for the year, and the city cut back the number of new e-scooters set to hit the streets today (slightly).
So, the little earthquakes are getting bigger? It means nothing. It's just the 30th anniversary of Loma Prieta. Pure coincidence.
A homicide outside a Tenderloin hotel, an arrest in a 2002 sexual assault, an injury crash on Nob Hill, and the CPUC is letting PG&E have it — at least in letter form.
As is tradition, as Thursday marks the 30th anniversary of the 1989 earthquake in SF, we urge you all to watch KGO's Cheryl Jennings broadcast live like a pro even though everyone's power was out and hardly anyone was watching.
Chesa Boudin and Suzy Loftus are pulling in endorsements in the DA race, while Friday looms as George Gascón’s last day on the job.
Uber just announced the elimination of another 350 jobs from its Eats, autonomous vehicles, safety, insurance, and other teams. After two previous rounds of layoffs in July and September, this brings the company's total layoffs in recent months to 1,185.
Loyal readers of SFist will remember the lovely but troubled Marilyn Hartman, and she's back making headlines.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has again upped the ante in her war on Facebook, and her campaign recently tried to make a bold point about the company's controversial policy to allow political ads that contain falsehoods.
In what Supervisor Aaron Peskin calls "a hateful, despicable piece of divisive vandalism," someone or multiple someones threw red paint over the statue of Columbus next to Coit Tower on the eve of Columbus Day.
A 59-year-old man who's been jailed since 2017 on child sex-abuse charges along with two female accomplices appears to have taken his own life while in a Santa Cruz County Jail cell.
The A's get some Newsom love, a female Stanford student reports getting drugged at a party, and a pedestrian was killed on I-580 in Richmond.
A multi-vehicle crash on Divisadero Street Sunday evening sent five people to the hospital, one of them with life-threatening injuries.
A small vegetation fire broke out Sunday morning near Lake Merced that prompted alerts and a quick response from the San Francisco Fire Department.
