The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose was the center of all manner of chaos yesterday morning: A woman took her own life in a “chemical suicide” with an unknown substance, sickening at least nine others in the process.
The third puppy that was stolen from SF Animal Care was recovered Saturday, the Mission's poem-writing pigeon-lover John Ratliff is back on the streets, and District 5 supervisor candidate Dean Preston lost the Democratic nomination.
People keep leading law enforcement on high-speed chases along 101 in Sonoma County this summer. The latest was a guy who yelled out his window to Petaluma police that he had "nothing to lose."
Yesterday, a California state appeals court decidedly threw out the sole conviction against 46-year-old Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate, the immigrant who fatally shot a 32-year-old Kate Steinle back in 2015.
The San Francisco Planning Commission has opted for a completely different rebuild of the 1935 Neutra-designed Twin Peaks home, deferring to the wishes of the property owner who tore it down.
The Embarcadero homeless Navigation Center construction is well underway, a huge new British ad agency is moving into SF, and Gordon Ramsay is opening a restaurant in Tahoe.
The cases of two dead homeless men in San Francisco are now both "pending further investigation" as the suspects believed responsible for their deaths have been let out of jail.
Some hackers compromised Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account on Friday and used the platform to make racial slurs, bomb threats, and otherwise be grossly offensive.
Three-month-old Castro area restaurant Cook Shoppe is already dunzo, and the unfolding story behind it is totally nuts. The owner of record, Mark White, has apparently been using an alias, and someone he opened the restaurant with is in jail now.
Cupertino’s enormous and empty Vallco shopping mall has seen a zigzag of fortunes in the quest to turn it into a large housing development, and state Senator Scott Wiener is furious over the latest compromise.
Some 200 people have come down with serious respiratory illnesses in recent months that are linked to street-purchased vape products. The CDC has now taken the unusual step of issuing a warning about vaping, despite there being no single product that's been identified as the culprit.
A man was found dead at Burning Man on Thursday, and was declared dead by event medical staff before the local county coroner arrived on the scene.
An early morning fire damaged businesses in downtown Los Gatos, Ronen and Haney want a hearing about mental health beds, and local hotels are getting more angry with Airbnb.
DeMarcus Cousins has been charged with domestic violence threats, a Mountain View landlady who staged a home invasion to scare her tenants appears in court, and one more victim has been found in the Gilroy shooting.
Uber laid off 400 people on its marketing team last month, and a big reason for that is likely the fact that efforts to turn around public sentiment about the company don't appear to have worked. Like, at all.
A sexual misconduct investigation is underway stemming from the revelation earlier this year that a former soccer coach at SF's prestigious University High School (SFUHS) had multiple allegations against him from his time at another Bay Area prep school.
Some Bay Area companies have "chief culture officers," and some of these party mavens think that Burning Man is the perfect place for coworkers to bond and unwind over a few hallucinogens.
The Berkeley lawyer who who smuggled her client’s ‘hit list’ out of prison insists the whole thing was a misunderstanding, and asks the State Bar for reinstatement.
There was some bizarre hot-potato action at the Hall of Justice Thursday morning as a herd of reporters followed along as a hearing in the case of Austin Vincent got bounced to three different courtrooms in less than an hour.
Yelp — the crowd-sourced review forum virtually everyone visits before heading to a new eatery — is (finally) giving users the ability to personalize their profiles to appease certain dietary and lifestyle needs.
San Francisco's cable cars are all going out of service for ten days next month as part of a gearbox rehabilitation project — and anyone coming to town and hoping to take a ride on one will be sorely disappointed, and offered a bus ride instead.
A 6.3M earthquake struck off the coast of Oregon this morning, a drunk guy apparently set a house on fire while burning a flag, and the Federal Transit Administration is giving $125 million more to BART.
Newsom drops a plan to hire a "homeless czar," three credit-card-skimming devices were found at a Peninsula gas station, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of the 2020 race.
President Trump is scheduled to appear at an as-yet-undisclosed location in the Bay Area for a campaign fundraising luncheon on September 17, and this will be the first time he's dared set foot anywhere here since he became President.
Condo owners at the leaning and tilting Millennium Tower are getting big payouts as the developer and the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) are settling around 200 lawsuits this week.
