A windstorm Monday night took a small, smoldering wildfire near the Oregon border and turned it into the largest blaze this fire season in California — though so far no structures have been burned.
On a Tuesday morning in January 1989, a 24-year-old drifter with a history of run-ins with the law took a semi-automatic rifle and unloaded 106 rounds on a school playground in Stockton, California, killing five children and wounding 29 others, as well as one teacher.
The statue of Mohandas Gandhi in back of (or in front of, depending on your perspective) the San Francisco Ferry Building has been vandalized again, although this time pretty harmlessly.
A new report by the city's Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office finds that the city has been involuntarily committing about half the number of mentally ill individuals as it did half a decade ago, partly due to a lack of inpatient beds.
Burning Man has kicked off a “Diversity & Radical Inclusion” effort as their census data again confirms that the majority of Burners are white dudes.
While a motive has still not been discussed in Sunday's mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, we know that the 19-year-old implicated spent the last months of his life in solitude in a sad-looking triplex near I-95 in Nevada.
A 36-year-old woman was left with life-threatening injuries in an early Saturday pedestrian crash on Van Ness, a group of friends in Gilroy grazed by bullets can't believe they're alive, and hundreds turned out for vigils in Gilroy Monday.
All three fatalities in Sunday's shooting were under the age of 25, Uber just laid off a third of its marketing team, and the first new hotel since the wildfires just opened in Sonoma County.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz got an earful from Supervisor Hillary Ronen at LAX on Sunday when she decided to confront him about the horrific conditions for detainees at the southern border.
Closing arguments in the months-long Ghost Ship fire trial began Monday after jurors were given a two-week break. Alameda County prosecutor Autrey James delivered his closing statement to a packed courtroom.
A local developer whom the City Attorney's office accused of being "unscrupulous" is having to cough up a $1.2 million fine for forging ahead with major construction at seven residential properties around the city without the proper permits.
In an incredibly tone-deaf move that he continues not to apologize for, Pleasanton-based cartoonist Scott Adams posted to Twitter Sunday evening informing witnesses of the shooting that they could sign up for his for-profit news-gathering app and "set your price to take calls."
More than half of the people who “overcome homelessness” in San Francisco are merely shipped of town on a one-way Greyhound bus ticket, and the track record of this program is a mixed bag.
The 19-year-old primary suspect in the Friday killing of 35-year-old Italian police officer Mario Cerciello Rega in Rome has told a judge in the case that he acted in self-defense.
Once a shining example of combining modern cuisine with preservation of a beloved, historic space, Tosca Cafe has served its last delicious meatballs as of Saturday night. The bar remains open, but possibly not for long.
Authorities have identified the shooter in Sunday's tragic mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival as 19-year-old Santino William LeGan of Gilroy.
Closing arguments start today in the Ghost Ship fire trial, a fight between neighbors allegedly leads to Cotati's first homicide in 24 years, and among the dead in Sunday's shooting in Gilroy was a six-year-old boy.
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A shooting Sunday afternoon at the Gilroy Garlic Festival claimed at least three lives, with multiple others injured.
19-year-old Finnegan Elder and 18-year-old Gabriel Natale Hjorth, two graduates from Tamalpais High School’s class of 2018, were accused of slaying 35-year-old Italian police officer Mario Cerciello Rega earlier this weekend. Now, those close to the vacationing duo are speaking out.
Former Rio Olympian wins the SF Marathon, Hong Kong Airlines is stopping service from SFO, and a Pick-and-Pull yard in San Jose caught fire.
The Tubbs Fire in and around Santa Rosa in October 2017 was deemed to be the only large scale Wine Country wildfire not caused by PG&E-owned equipment — but recently unearthed surveillance footage has CalFire investigators thinking otherwise.
A pair of 19-year-old men from San Francisco have reportedly confessed to the fatal stabbing of a police officer in Italy, following an alleged scuffle over a bag that belonged to a drug dealer.
UC Berkeley's been dropped from the US News college rankings, a Thursday hit-and-run driver has surrendered, and Bay Area home prices are dropping.
A woman who jumped in front of a BART train Wednesday evening and survived is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation, the Gilroy Garlic Festival kicks off, and Twitter is on a hiring binge.
In addition to this weekend being the famous Gilroy Garlic Festival down south, in SoMa this is the weekend for the Up Your Alley street fair more commonly referred to as "Dore Alley."
