Somehow there are still over a dozen Democrats in the race for 2020, and 13 of them will be in town in SF this weekend for the Democratic National Committee’s Summer Meeting.
An arrest has been made in a fatal assault in SoMa, Alice Walker has stepped into the fray regarding those murals at George Washington High, and the ACLU calls BART's proposed panhandling ban unconstitutional.
The pilot in yesterday's Half Moon Bay crash blames bad gasoline, the Ghost Ship jury reached no verdict today and went on a two-week break, and environmental groups are suing Trump in SF over endangered species rules.
Uber made big headlines Tuesday after announcing it was opening a "second" headquarters in Dallas, which will be home to 3,000 employees. Dallas media seized on the story, with some suggesting Uber was moving its headquarters there. But the company says it has no plans to do that.
The latest project from the Burning Man artist turned public-art guru Leo Villareal is called "Illuminated River," and it features different lighting schemes on each of the 15 bridges that cross the Thames in London.
Burning Man may not be the hippest upcoming Nevada event, as prank-turned-actual-event “Storm Area 51” sets its phasers to beam tens of thousands of alien conspiracy freaks toward the remote Air Force base.
Yet another significant retail closure to tick off for the Castro neighborhood: Unionmade has closed both its men's and women's stores on 18th Street after a decade in business.
Somewhere off the coast of Hawaii, floating between there and the California coastline, is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), spanning twice the size of Texas and containing an estimated 79,000-plus tons of plastic waste. And, currently, there’s a Frenchman swimming straight through it.
The Trump Administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has put San Francisco on notice over an affordable housing policy that the Obama Administration had tacitly supported.
After loud objections and six hours of public comment, Chinatown's station on the new Central Subway line will be called Rose Pak-Chinatown Station, following a 4-3 vote by the SFMTA board on Tuesday.
A cat on a leash was found perched on a ledge, hundreds of feet in the air, along the First Street onramp to the Bay Bridge Tuesday afternoon during rush hour.
Someone was shot at Sixth and Market, Santa Rosa's Coffey Park is almost all rebuilt after the Tubbs Fire, and Juul is also fighting an e-cigarette ban in Livermore.
Accused SoMa assaulter Austin Vincent pleaded not guilty to an earlier assault today and will remain in jail, a free-speech group has sued the SFPD over the raid on a journalist's home, and a San Mateo school is forcing all students to lock up their phones all day.
A little over a week after telling the Bay Area Reporter that the end might be close if customers didn't come in full force, the owner of Finn Town in the Castro, Rick Hamer, has announced plans to close at the end of this weekend.
The officer-involved shooting death of Mario Woods at the hands of the SFPD in December 2015 was a direct inspiration for the NFL "take a knee" protest that divided the country and negatively impacted the career of former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
The owner of a popular truffle shop in North Beach says he was being strangled by an allegedly homeless man outside his store on Monday, and the attacker only relented when the owner's son came out with a baseball bat.
The oldest still-operating webcam was born in San Francisco, but it will cease to exist next week after 25 years of producing grainy footage of the fog rolling through SF State.
In open court today the judge in the case announced that two of the three dismissed jurors are going to face contempt charges related to possible contacts with the media or internet use.
Over a year after the Cambridge Analytica debacle showed Facebook users how insidious the practice of personal data-collection has become, Facebook is giving users a new way to control how much data it's collecting on your activities outside Facebook.
Well known local artist and Burner Jack Champion says he's devastated to have lost a pair of elephant installations he's been working on for the past 10 months, which he intended to bring to Burning Man on Sunday.
Wildfires are down across California by 90% this year, the city of SF is giving teachers $3K bonuses, SFO's plastic water bottle ban takes effect, and some Ghost Ship trial jurors now have scheduling conflicts looming.
Muni had a meltdown at the end of rush hour Monday morning, a 32-year-old man in the Bayview suffered life threatening injuries after being punched, and a trailer fire sent smoke over Santa Rosa today.
One of the darlings of the local government Twitterati, the voice behind the @OfficerEdith Twitter handle that tweets cute pictures of animals rescued by Animal Care & Control, is actually named Lt. Eleanor Sadler.
A full banishment of panhandling could be in the works for the BART system, but we’d lose our lovely musical busking performers in the stations as well.
The judge in the trial of Ghost Ship fire defendants Derick Almena and Max Harris has dismissed three jurors — a quarter of the jury — for undisclosed reasons, and replaced them with three alternates.
