Challenger Dean Preston came within 1,800 votes of beating then-Supervisor London Breed in 2016. His performance in November against Breed’s hand-picked successor will show whether she still has sway in the district.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos ignored a court order to stop collecting certain student loan payments, and a San Francisco federal judge threatened to throw her in the slammer.
Vegan Mob, the Oakland-based vegan food pop-up — which garnered a cult-like following this past spring — now has less-temporary roots in the Bay Area, taking over the Grand Lake staple Kwik Way Drive-In, with long lines in tow.
An arson case at an under-construction apartment complex on the Oakland-Emeryville border — one of 10 that was set in similar circumstances around Oakland in the last seven years — has ended in a five-year sentence.
BART pledges that train service will not be interrupted Wednesday and Thursday despite large swaths of the Bay Area being expected to lose power in a PG&E safety shutoff.
The San Francisco 49ers blew out the Browns 31-3 in probably the most joyous game ever played at Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium.
Nearly 2,000 people lost electricity Monday afternoon, the Supreme Court is hearing a major LGBTQ employment case today, and Sandra Lee Fewer says she's "90 percent" sure she's running for reelection.
Five people were detained for questioning Monday evening following a shooting at BART's Pittsburg-Bay Point Station.
The Salesforce CEO unloaded on his tech brethren at a TechCrunch Disrupt event last week, and said Facebook is “the new cigarettes.”
The good folks at Habitat for Humanity just bought this property for a mere ten bucks, and will build seven townhouses for the low-income population.
The sad mating ritual of the Bay Area's tarantula population is going into full swing in time for Halloween spook season, as experts say this week's warm weather will be bringing out more and more wandering males.
Two homes on the Excelsior District’s Vienna Street went up in flames that are now contained, and the S.F. Fire Department saved three people and a dog.
This is basically an earthquake kit situation without the earthquake, and will potentially affect millions of Californians between Wednesday morning and Thursday afternoon.
Joan Osborne had a heat stroke collapse onstage, Robert Plant busted out plenty of old Zep, and new security restrictions did not damper the delight of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2019.
BART stopped traffic through Powell Street station at a pretty awkward time Sunday night, we're in a risky wildfire period, and Fleet Week technically begins today.
A brush fire broke out Sunday afternoon in the hills above American Canyon in Napa County which sent embers down into an area along a residential neighborhood where neighbors fought flames with garden hoses.
It’s kind of a troll move with the Raiders already heading for Las Vegas, but the commissioner of Major League Baseball says the same could happen to the A’s.
Responsible for prying people away from death's ledge, Marin County will soon receive the funds necessary to secure the purchase of five new emergency extraction devices.
An SF father was given the longest sentence in the University of Southern California college admissions scandal, Bay Area tarantulas are coming out in droves, a million-plus people to attend Fleet Week, and more Sunday links.
After a string of nearly 20 “armed, unarmed and attempted” bank robberies, an Oakland man has pleaded guilty to a U.S District Court Judge in relation to the various heists.
Twitter was feeling it when an earthquake struck this morning, with an epicenter about four miles off the coast of Daly City’s Mussel Rock Park.
Your PG&E bill might soon increase by almost a $1, two men were shot at Jack London Square, Madonna moves her Haloween show to early November and more Saturday headlines.
A 24-year-old woman who went swimming off Mile Rock Beach Friday evening was swept out by the current and her friends say they lost sight of her.
An alumni group sues over the covering of a widely-seen-as-racist mural, the Castro’s Naan N Curry suffers a Health Department shutdown, and high-flying weed delivery service Eaze lays off 20 percent of its staff.
The District Attorney’s office looks like an episode of “Succession” — literally — as Gascón suddenly quits a month before the election, and Breed power-plays candidate Suzy Loftus into the job.
