In the Bay Area, Halloween goes way beyond candy and costumes to get at something primal, as we shake off the monotony of everyday life, don alter egos, and seek out some spooky, mind-altering times.
Reddit has just leased a bunch of new office space at 1455 Market Street, a.k.a. the building where Square and Uber both occupy a fair amount of square footage.
SFist brings you our guide to getting around this weekend’s 19th Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, in hopes of easing your transportation and security check-in woes. Yes, you will need a clear plastic backpack if you’re taking anything with you into the festival grounds.
A Sacramento-area woman says she's freaked out by the fact that a naked stranger got into her backyard last week, took his clothes off, and chilled naked in her hot tub. And he also kept trying to get her back sliding door to open, to no avail.
On Thursday in a San Mateo County courtroom, jurors heard evidence of suspect Kaveh Bayat's gun collection, and of the vehicle believed to have transported Green's body.
The wrong-way driver in yesterday's crash was "impaired," Biden makes a quip about Trump's China accusations while in the Bay Area, and a new Red Flag Warning has been issued for the North Bay tomorrow.
Seven years after a mass shooter dressed as the Joker killed a dozen people at a Colorado movie theater during a premiere screening of The Dark Knight, the release of the dark Warner Bros. origin story Joker had theaters around the country bracing for the worst.
Whole Foods is seeking an expanded restraining order against a Berkeley animal-rights group, a Vacaville woman was arrested for an attempted kidnapping outside a school, and Uber launches temp-worker app.
When even Caltrans is referring to a construction event as “Carmageddon,” you can expect miles-long traffic jams, and this one’s scheduled to disrupt travel on the 101 around Portola next summer.
A $1,500 lunch with Biden is already underway in Palo Alto, but you can catch him at Feinstein’s mansion later today for the affordable price of $2,800.
After a three-year hiatus and some staffing shuffles, local chef Mourad Lahlou is reopening his original flagship in the Outer Richmond (named for his mother), Aziza.
In a landmark settlement for a victims' fund that is exceeded only by funds for victims of September 11th and the 2010 BP oil spill, MGM Resorts International is expected to pay up to $800 million to settle hundreds of lawsuits stemming from the October 1, 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
The Market Street Burger King abruptly closes following another recent health complaint, ending a 32-year run of giving San Francisco the runs.
A baby was found safe after an alleged abduction in Emeryville, a Menlo Park police was attacked, and people are texting as fast as they type now.
A horrific crash on northbound 101 after midnight Wednesday night claimed the lives of four people, including a taxi driver and two passengers.
The body found in the Santa Cruz kidnapping investigation has been confirmed as Tushar Atre's, work crews are starting to clean up a major Sausalito mudslide from February, and #TrumpMeltdown trends on Twitter.
A Palo Alto man in his 60s who went to check on a smoke alarm that went off at the home he was renting on Airbnb got accosted and robbed, twice, after discovering an unauthorized party at the house and trying to shut it down.
Mayor Breed comes out swinging against the scaled-down compromise bill, because people with health insurance could qualify for taxpayer-funded care.
Yakitori, the Japanese cuisine sub-genre that stars grilled chicken parts, has emerged in multiple locales around the Bay Area in the last decade. But Hina Yakitori offers an elevated version, with a prix fixe.
After some comments by Mark Zuckerberg at an internal Facebook meeting in July leaked out Tuesday in which the CEO spoke candidly about his concerns for a possible Elizabeth Warren presidency, Warren responded pointedly on Twitter — and it didn't end there.
In a mysterious case in which very few details have been publicly revealed, a 50-year-old tech entrepreneur from Santa Cruz was allegedly kidnapped from his home early Tuesday, and his girlfriend's vehicle was later found with a dead body in it.
East Bay Congressman and short-lived presidential candidate Eric Swalwell hosted a town hall meeting in Union City Tuesday evening to which he invited Richard Nixon's White House Counsel and key Watergate figure John Dean.
PG&E's tree-trimming project is behind schedule, thousands of Santa Clara County workers are on strike, and Sen. Bernie Sanders has suspended all campaign activities following heart surgery.
A woman was killed and a four-year-old girl was injured in a pedestrian crash in East Oakland, a judge has temporarily stopped the sale of the Coliseum property to the A's, and the Tegan and Sara show tonight in SF is going to have about 200 walk-up rush tickets available.
Fear not, sausage fans and Toronado regulars! The shuttered Rosamunde in the Lower Haight is being taken over by a longtime Rosamunde employee and getting turned into a German sausage place.
