Last month, SF Officials passed (in assembly and senate) a bill that would create a “toll and reservation plan” for visitors who wished to snake down the world-famous section of Lombard Street. Newsom, however, vetoed the bill late last night.
When Utah tech entrepreneur and “force for good” Erin Valenti went missing in San Jose Monday, friends and family hoped for the best, but yesterday their worst fears came true: A body inside the back of a parked vehicle near San Jose’s Bose Lane was identified as hers.
SF SPCA's Mission Campus will offer $25 pet exams on Tuesdays, Fleet Week is coming to a close today, a protest at SFO against Turkish Airlines blocked ticket counters yesterday, and more Sunday links.
A massive multi-billion-dollar redevelopment of Treasure Island, which was agreed on in June of 2011, threatens to displace hundreds who call the man-made island home. However, newly proposed extensions of certain relocation benefits could help some residents sleep well at night.
As maritime vessels continue to flood the waters off San Francisco for Fleet Week, marine mammal experts caution those piloting these ships to keep a keen eye out for other ocean-going behemoths — like, for example, two recently spotted humpback whales.
99 percent of Bay Area PG&E customer accounts are now back on, a mural near the Van Ness Muni station revealed as an eight-story-tall baby cop, BUILT BY GIRLS innovation summit happening today, and more Saturday links.
Sup. Vallie Brown has an owner move-in eviction skeleton in the closet, Visa and Mastercard dump Facebook's crypto product, and it sure looks like an SFPD officer lied under oath about a severe beating.
As news breaks that PG&E executives threw a ritzy Sonoma winery bash on the eve of the blackouts, we also learn the company rejected a multibillion-dollar offer from City Hall to buy their local lines.
The Ukraine scandal comes to San Francisco (and Livermore!), as Giuliani associate Andrey Kukushkin was arrested by the FBI for his alleged role in a marijuana bribery scheme.
As of early Friday morning, PG&E was turning the power back on for much of the Bay Area, however over 50,000 homes and business are still without power in Sonoma and Napa.
Steve Kerr gets philosophical over Trump's tirade at him, 'Moulin Rouge' will be replacing 'Hamilton' at the Orpheum, and Github employees are furious that the company is working with ICE.
With gas prices hovering in the low-$4 range, with premium fuel regularly coming it at cents away from $5, prepare yourself for more crowded BART commutes and sidewalks crisscrossed with electric scooters in the days to come.
A fire on the mountain in Brisbane, a school shooting scare in San Jose, and Trader Joe’s keeps pushing for a Hayes Valley location.
There will be no more new outages, PG&E declares, though it may take until Tuesday for the utility to turn everyone’s electricity back on.
Swaths of Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo Counties lost power last night, but a Moraga wildfire reminds us that the threat of fires is indeed real.
Fleet Week’s practice flights start today, Juul lobbyists are getting blacklisted, and an SF mansion on sale is asking the most expensive price the city’s ever seen.
The San Francisco PG&E Building got barricades, its Oroville branch got egged, and the Mezzanine has declared bankruptcy.
There’s another reason to loathe those $159 AirPods — a Washington Post investigation finds they have a very temporary shelf life, and are likely to end up as environmental waste.
The body of the 24-year-old woman who was swept out to sea Friday after attempting a swim near Land's End has been recovered and identified.
The nightlife scene dodged a bullet as El Rio was at serious risk of shutting down in recent months, but thanks to a city program, Carmen Miranda’s huge head is not going anywhere.
PG&E has said it will be delaying planned power outages for several Bay Area counties until 8 p.m. Wednesday.
You may have thought that the story that came out of the closure of Cook Shoppe — in the former Chow space on Church Street in the Castro — was already nutty, but there's more!
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Marin and Napa customers got their power cut last night, while Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo counties will lose power today, as the PG&E power outage disaster is mushrooming by the minute.
A Lombard Street toll measure moves forward, 13 people were hospitalized for fentanyl exposure at County Jail, and a Giants prospect shows that minor league players are paid peanuts.
PG&E has announced that it's shutting off power for 800,000 customers at midnight, and the utility's website has gone kablooey for the last six hours so people cannot even check whether the outage will be hitting them.
