Lyft has allegedly received more than 100 rape and assault claims in California alone, and the victims say the company "chooses to stonewall" on prosecuting drivers. Now 14 women are suing.
While complaints about the homeless on trains are not new, the problem appears to have gotten significantly worse on BART this year.
A big rig carrying hundreds of live chickens crashed into an overpass support on westbound I-80 in San Pablo early Thursday, and after the truck caught fire many of the chickens sadly died. And it's a mess.
A manhunt is on for a man considered armed and dangerous fleeing Merced County, a bunch of art stolen in the '90s has been found in LA, and a Berkeley couple is among the dead in Monday's SoCal boat fire.
A convicted Santa Clara County murderer is suspected in a prison killing, SF's planning director of the last decade is stepping down, and the jurors in the Ghost Ship fire trial asked to re-hear some testimony on this, their fifth day in their current deliberations.
Tyler Florence, the TV-famous chef who opened Wayfare Tavern in San Francisco nine years ago, is set to open a second project in the city after several other Bay Area projects have proven to be false starts.
Six fires have had to be put out in the last three weeks in Buena Vista Park, and the SFPD made an arrest of a suspect over the weekend that will hopefully put the alleged arson string to rest.
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture presents 'actions vent ascending frequencies,' a participatory art installation and roller rink experience that will be free to the public from September 13 through October 6, 2019.
Twitter is addressing a potential vulnerability that has been abused by some hackers in the last week, and the company announced on Wednesday that it is temporarily shutting off the ability to tweet via SMS.
Yeah, barf. 21st Century American decadence, real estate insanity, and hate-reads about the wealthy all combine in a story about a recently constructed 6,400-square-foot modern Tuscan villa on the Peninsula that some new owners intend to demolish in order build something bigger and more "them."
With this year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB) festival now just a month away, the final acts have been announced—and the wait was well, well worth it.
In a new book about Uber's rise, there's a scene in which CEO Travis Kalanick is writhing on the floor of a marketing executive's home repeating, "I'm a terrible person."
The supes unanimously passed a resolution calling the National Rifle Association “a domestic terrorist organization” that "spreads propaganda" to “incite gun owners to acts of violence.”
The great and almighty Oprah Winfrey is doing an arena show tour called "Oprah's Vision 2020: Your Life in Focus," and it will be landing at the new Chase Center on February 22.
Her name is Chanel Miller, and many of us have known her story, and her prose style, without knowing her real name or anything much about her. That is about to change.
The Ferry Building is getting a new coat of paint, Oakland is getting a new Downtown Specific Plan, and 93-year-old singer Tony Bennett has had to cancel a show next week at the Fox due to an illness.
At least 59 people were arrested at Burning Man this year (mostly for drugs), pet euthanasia is down 75 percent in major U.S. cities, and Newsom shows his support for AB 5 in a Labor Day op-ed.
Four-year-old Belgian beer-and-sausage spot Belga quietly shut its doors over the holiday weekend, and come September 17 it will reopen as something new from prolific local restaurateur Adriano Paganini.
We're learning today that the majority of the 34 people aboard the Conception, the boat that caught fire early Monday off the Santa Barbara coast, were local residents, including the daughter of the tour company founder.
It will be an Outside Lands-style gated entrance with security at this year’s free bluegrass festival, and your cooler is no longer welcome, but your dog still is.
It happens every year that people publicly do things that are in violation of Burning Man's basic rules around commercial promotion. And this year, it was DJ/producer Diplo who proudly enabled Popeyes to advertise their new chicken sandwich from the playa.
In case the word hasn't gotten out far and wide enough, I'm just going to say it again here: Do not drive to games and concerts at the Chase Center.
A man who crashed through security gates and drove across the tarmac at Oakland Airport over the weekend was found dead in the Oakland Estuary, and Austin Vincent, the SoMa assault suspect, is due back in court.
The BART track replacement project knocked out a major power line along Highway 24 near Lafayette, a man dove into the Bay after driving across Oakland Airport last night and evaded capture, and 71 people were arrested in a Contra Costa sideshow bust.
The man was burned Saturday night and many Burners are packing up and heading out of the desert today. But for one Burning Man camp, Sunday night's Temple burn will take on even more somber significance than usual.
