It's another sad story of an NFL player falling on hard times after his career — likely due to head injuries. Ex-Oakland Raiders defensive tackle Kevin Johnson was found dead at an LA encampment in what appears to be a homicide.
Napa County has just reported its first measles case since 2012; more details emerge about Thursday's police shooting on I-80; and people in Minneapolis are staging a general strike today in protest of ICE.
The TikTok transfer to American ownership is finally going through; a SoMa liquor store curfew got one step closer to reality; and check out the Bay Bridge, because the Bay Lights are being tested for their glorious upcoming return.
As state Senator Scott Wiener continues to try to thread the needle of being a moderate Democrat who has historically supported Israel but now kind of needs the pro-Palestinian vote, he is stepping down from a role he's held for five years in the state's legislative Jewish Caucus.
This could be the last dance for the Golden State Warriors with Steve Kerr as their coach, as the national media says some team members are thinking the unthinkable, that Kerr might be let go at the end of this NBA season.
We had to do a double-double take at Glassdoor’s new Best Places to Work 2026 list, as they ranked fast-food chain In-N-Out as a better place to work than the cushy, high-paid confines of Nvidia, Facebook, and Google.
It may be a dead mall with almost no tenants left inside — the official closing is apparently this weekend — but thanks to a nonprofit dedicated to the revitalization of downtown, one side of the former Westfield mall is getting a massive photographic mural.
A couple of one-time Rohnert Park police officers spent years posing as ATF agents and shaking down legal medical marijuana drivers for their cash and stash, and they got busted, but now their sentencing is delayed.
A massive traffic backup Thursday morning in the East Bay that was tied to a large police response in the westbound lanes of I-80 turns out to have been caused by a confrontation with police that led to the fatal shooting of a suspect.
13 years after his feature film debut Fruitvale Station, Oakland native son Ryan Coogler is setting Oscar records with his hit film Sinners, which received 16 nominations for this year's Academy Awards.
If you think there’s corruption at SF City Hall, you can now report it yourself and maybe start an investigation, thanks to SF’s first-ever Inspector General Alex Shepard who just started the new watchdog job this month.
A major traffic nightmare was happening due to a police situation on I-80 westbound in Hercules; a multi-county chase ended in a police shooting Wednesday in San Jose; and SF's Compton's Cafeteria building goes before the Historic Preservation Commission.
The new home for that massive Diego Rivera mural owned by City College breaks ground Thursday; Olympic gold medalist skier Eileen Gu will be the grand marshal of the Lunar New Year Parade; and ICE is circulating a memo suggesting they can break into people's houses.
As has been suspected for months, after exhausting her appeals, Elizabeth Holmes is seeking clemency and early release from President Trump, who seems to dole out such pardons willy-nilly, so she might get lucky.
Yes it has been 25 years since the infamous dog-mauling murder case was SF’s Trial of the Century, but now decades later, the woman convicted of letting her dogs rip a neighbor to shreds is up for parole for a third time.
Four very junkyard-looking locations in Oakland, Richmond, and San Leandro were on the business end of FBI raids Wednesday, in an investigation of what the FBI and Bay Area police think is a diesel fuel theft ring.
Restaurants and bars in SF and all around the Bay have been "long-listed" for the 2026 James Beard Foundation Awards, including Happy Crane, Sons & Daughters, and House of Prime Rib.
After Governor Gavin Newsom made some remarks disparaging to Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Wednesday, he was promptly shut out of the US pavilion and an on-stage event he was supposed to participate in was canceled.
The 10-day search for a man gone missing in Rohnert Park has come to a heartbreaking end, as the missing 29-year-old was found dead and submerged in a Tesla at the bottom of Bodega Bay, though foul play is not suspected.
Tell all your friends who constantly get mistaken for Bad Bunny, there's going to be a contest for that during Super Bowl Week in San Francisco.
Insult has been added to injury for the estimated 200 people who were displaced by Monday morning’s apartment fire in Oakland’s Uptown, after their landlord issued them all eviction letters.
A group of Sunset District businesses are filing a lawsuit against PG&E seeking compensation for lost business during the December 20 power outage, which for some lasted multiple days.
The SFPD made several arrests following a Sunday night sideshow in the Outer Richmond; staffers at a prison in Chino were apparently sickened by an unknown substance; and Solano County sheriff's deputies are helping patrol Vallejo.
One person was killed in a Hayward-San Mateo Bridge crash Tuesday; some DOGE bros are under investigation for shady use of Americans’ Social Security numbers; and Fremont is getting the biggest H Mart ever in the US.
A yet-unidentified man was hit by a freight train and killed in West Berkeley Monday morning, though the railroad’s operator Union Pacific says the man was trespassing on the tracks.
