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.
There’s just five months until we choose who will be the next California governor (or at least, have the primary election for that office), and six major candidates will be duking it out Tuesday night here in SF in a debate.
That two-year-old male mountain lion who wandered up from the Peninsula and ended up scaring dozens of people around Pacific Heights on Monday has been released back to the wild, way down in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
If teachers in the San Francisco Unified School District go on strike next week, amid an impasse with the district over a new contract, it will be the first time in 47 years that this has happened — which, one could say, suggests a resolution to the impasse is still likely to come.
Just two years after Gavin Newsom brokered a $250 million deal with Google and Meta for them to help preserve the local newspapers that their business models have destroyed, Newsom himself is now dismantling the deal.
Local rapper LaRussell, who petitioned the NFL to let him perform at this year's Bay Area Super Bowl, has gotten the invite to do so at the official NFL Tailgate Party outside Levi's Stadium.
Since Home Depot parking lots have become magnets for ICE arrests and deportations, a couple hundred protesters hit the Emeryville Home Depot Tuesday night to pressure the retailer to push back more against ICE.
The 16th Street convenience store that lost its resident feline last fall to a tragic accident involving a Waymo is now taking applications for a new bodega cat.
The now 79- or 80-year-old woman who is accused of mowing down a family of four with her car in West Portal two years ago will be in court Friday hoping to have her charges reduced to misdemeanors.
A 38-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with a Jan. 15 homicide in SF; a home in Napa County's Angwin burned to the ground this morning; and an SF high school has been seeing a tuberculosis outbreak.
Turns out the Pac Heights mountain lion has been known to authorities for years; we’re learning that Tommy Lee Jones’s daughter was pregnant prior to her death; and next weekend’s Super Bowl tickets cost $7,000 minimum.
After TikTok was sold to a cabal of Trump’s buddies and donors, users say their posts criticizing ICE or mentioning the Epstein scandal are being buried with zero views, and now Gavin Newsom says the state will investigate.
The new Seth Rogen movie that was shot in San Francisco is apparently quite good and got a standing ovation at Sundance, and now Hollywood studios are elbowing each other to buy the rights to what they think will be a huge hit.
Stanford University has reportedly reached a settlement to bring an end to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of soccer star Katie Meyer, who took her own life in March 2022.
Supervisor Danny Sauter is trying to resurrect the old idea of extending the Central Subway out to North Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf, but officials realize there’s no way this gets funded while Trump is still president.
Toronado, the Lower Haight beer bar and mecca for beer geeks the world over, remains very much its cash-only self, in case you were wondering. And on Super Bowl weekend, they will be pouring Pliny the Younger.
A character who had been linked to a Sea Cliff mansion with an illegal cliffside staircase, who was convicted over a decade ago in a bizarre fraud case involving $11 million in paintings, is back in the news.
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A young mountain lion made a surprise appearance in San Francisco Monday, in the Pacific Heights neighborhood, and as of Tuesday morning it had been found by Animal Care & Control.
The fire is now out, but a warehouse in Berkeley is now “completely destroyed” after a Tuesday morning fire ripped through the place, a fire that was visible from Interstate 80.
The family of a 17-year-old girl found dead in Antioch last week seeks answers; traffic congestion is getting worse in downtown SF; and Amazon is closing its Amazon Go retail stores.
A 27-year-old San Francisco man has been convicted in the 2022 shooting deaths of his father and stepmother; Pacifica residents are in an Airbnb limbo; and a search is underway for a missing 73-year-old woman in Mill Valley.
A 40-year-old man is charged with shooting and killing three people at the Sky Market corner store in Oakland's Woodland neighborhood, and the whole dispute was apparently an illicit marijuana deal gone wrong.
Google/Alphabet has agreed to pay $68 million to customers who used its voice assistant and whose words were unwittingly recorded and shared with advertisers.
