Cultural appropriation in the form of Native American headdresses has now joined the list of banned items at Outside Lands — meaning it's no longer just an insensitive faux pas, its completely prohibited.
The BART system would prefer you call them “elevator attendants,” and they’ll soon expand from just Civic Center and Powell Street to Montgomery Street and the Embarcadero Station as well.
Oakland and Emeryville have seen a number of residential buildings go up in flames, mid-construction, in recent years. And while a suspect has been in custody since November who's believed to be tied to at least one arson, another fire struck a residential project Thursday night in North Oakland.
Given that it's technically legal, there may not be any recourse for the city at this point, but both District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and at least one Planning Commissioner are mad about this project.
Juul co-founder James Monsees testifies before Congress, the SFMTA already made changes to intersection where deadly crash occurred, and the SF Marathon is this Sunday, complete with road closures.
A heat wave is headed our way this weekend, the BLM has signed Burning's permit at last, and a beloved sticker factory in the North Bay is shutting down its retail store.
Since June 29th, San Francisco owns a league-best 17-4 record, catapulting the once-middling G-Men from last in the NL West to second place, sitting just 3.5 games out of the final Wild Card spot.
The Netflix series 13 Reasons Why hasn't even debuted its third season yet, but shooting for Season 4 is already underway in the North Bay.
Some horrible human being stuck a pair of senior horses in rusty trailer without food or water and abandoned them in a Home Depot parking lot in Windsor for at least 18 hours earlier this week.
Glen Park Station has long been a favorite of all the BART stations among architecture nerds and other aesthetes. And now a local preservationist has applied for it to be added to the National Register of Historic Places.
In an effort to keep people from driving or Uber-ing to the arena, the soon-to-open Chase Center and the SFMTA will be giving free Muni rides away with every ticket purchase to a concert or basketball game.
A judge refuses to toss rape and kidnapping charges against Orlando Vilchez Lazo, even though the DNA sample used to bust him may have been obtained illegally.
After arrests were made and charges filed against two of the protesters who linked arms and lay down across Market Street to disrupt the San Francisco Pride parade last month, the board of SF Pride gave a press conference this week asking that those charges be dropped.
Two puppies were stolen in Potrero Hill, BART's board is voting on a new general manager, and an 80-acre fire is burning in San Jose.
An arrest has been made in the June 27 vehicular manslaughter death of Alexander Norton in SoMa, Tesla's stock tumbled today on bad Q2 earnings, and the Canyon Fire is now 90 percent contained.
Eleven of the better known drag queens to come through the Rupaul's Drag Race gauntlet are on a world tour, with the North American leg kicking off in September. And the whole gang, along with host Michelle Visage, will descend on SF's Warfield Theater on September 21.
At the flood-damaged, historic River Theater, we get the story of a concrete-encased, long-ago locked safe that the owner recently discovered hidden in a side room.
A headline from the Oakland Tribune dated May 9, 1906 asked the incendiary question, "Was the Earthquake and Fire Result of Alleged Wickedness In San Francisco?"
San Francisco chefs who feel they played a role in popularizing the Impossible Burger are steaming mad that Bay Area-based Impossible Foods cut off their supplies for weeks while apparently fulfilling a contract with Burger King.
Per capita homelessness in Oakland is now higher than San Francisco or Berkeley, in one of the biggest spikes in the unsheltered population of any city in California.
The city of Berkeley is going to be testing out a program in which reusable coffee cups are loaned out through an app-based service and then returned like library books, in order to reduce paper waste.
As is tradition, organizers of this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival have begun teasing out the lineup with a mystery medley, and so we now know who a few of the performers will be, including Bettye LaVette and The Meat Puppets.
Under pressure from the mayor, the SF Board of Supervisors on Tuesday declined to approve a ballot measure that would have asked voters if they believe there should be a commission overseeing the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
A standoff in the Oakland hills ends with two suspects arrested, the DMV is on a half day today, and the Board of Supervisors approved the creation of an Office of Racial Equity.
Tech giants in the Bay Area to be subject to a new DOJ probe, new evidence has been unsealed in the Bryan Carmody/SFPD warrant case, and nesting pigeons delayed a BART escalator repair.
