These days some of you only know Rose Pak as the name on a Muni station, and that is too bad. She was an elbows-out, combative political force who was never afraid to speak her mind, which was always the case at the annual Chinese New Year Parade.
36-year-old Brenda Natali Morales made a phone call to an uncle just minutes before her husband, Shane Killian, fatally shot her, their two sons, and Morales's parents in a drunken rage on July 10, 2024, prosecutors say.
A PG&E executive testified that Mayor Lurie demanded the lights be turned back on during the Dec. 20 blackout for his daughter's ‘Nutcracker’ performance, but now PG&E is backtracking on that claim.
The San Francisco teachers' union and the SF Unified School District reached a tentative deal that was announced at 6 am Friday, after four days on strike, with the union getting a key benefit they had been seeking.
A 76-year-old Oakland woman was injured in a mugging; a former BART director speaks out about the station closure threat; and the SF Flower Market is in full swing for Valentine's Day.
A teen was charged with last November's shooting at Ocean Beach, the Puppy Bowl got higher ratings than Kid Rock’s halftime show; and activists just replaced the Stonewall Pride flag that the Trump administration tore down.
A ho-hum item on Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors agenda has turned into a full-blown witch-hunt for Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who says he’s launching an investigation into some fellow supe he claims leaked confidential info.
Is AI coming for most of your jobs? Maybe not. But some of them? Yes, probably. And we're seeing another wave of AI industry insiders speaking out publicly and making some grave statements.
Sonoma County Sheriff Eddie Engram held a meet-and-greet in Bodega Bay Wednesday, which was met with a group of local protesters and community members denouncing the sheriff for handing over 70 people to ICE in 2025, urging him to support a proposed non-compliance ordinance.
We now have the early news about the first big fall restaurant opening on the books for San Francisco, and its a new, unnamed project from Hi Neighbor Hospitality Group.
San Francisco is seeing a rapid uptick in its homicide count so far in 2026, following a year with a historically low count. The latest killing occurred in the Tenderloin.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made the exceedingly unwise decision to kid his international employees that they might be arrested by ICE, and boy did that joke not land whilst he was addressing a company event.
There is now a lawsuit in San Mateo County seeking to stop the county from taking down a controversial fence surrounding some long-vacant property, and the man who put up the fence remains defiant.
Negotiations went later than they have typically been going on Wednesday night as a deal between the SF Unified School District and the teachers' union remains elusive. And now kids may not be returning to the classroom until next Wednesday, with a long weekend ahead.
A 73-year-old woman was struck in the head while having her purse stolen in Oakland; a Sonoma County fire engine was involved in an injury crash; and we can expect a break in the rain now until Sunday, but more storms are coming.
SF schools will remain closed again Thursday as strike talks continue; a long-planned transit-oriented development at West Oakland BART is getting underway; and an assistant principal in San Jose was arrested in a child exploitation sting.
During the general strike on January 30, the folks at Fleetwood Fine Goods in the Inner Richmond began offering free “F*ck ICE” screenprints, which was met with huge success, and they’re continuing to offer the service to anyone who brings in or purchases a garment of their choice.
It’s ‘bottoms up’ at more SF movie theaters, as the Board of Supervisors just social-lubricated the red tape around alcohol sales at movie houses.
Did you know that the Bay Area was created out of something called a drowned river valley? Do you know the history of how Treasure Island was created out of nothing in the 1930s? A fun new video explains this and more.
Former San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo filed a guilty plea in federal court Wednesday in the corruption case that also ensnared former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, making him now a potential witness against her.
Concerned families, teachers, and community members packed the house at the San Jose Unified School District’s community meeting Tuesday evening after receiving news last week that up to a third of its elementary schools may be shuttered due to a 20-percent reduction in enrollment.
There is plenty of finger-pointing going on with the SF teachers' strike, but what seems clear is that the union may be sensing their upper hand at this point, and a resolution before Thursday seems unlikely.
It typically would not be whale-watching season yet in San Francisco Bay, but a few gray whales, possibly due to changes in their feeding grounds up north, are making early stops in the Bay.
Another celebrity who was in town for the Super Bowl, retired Philadelphia Eagles center and soon-to-be brother-in-law of Taylor Swift Jason Kelce, did a "Beer Bucket List" video hitting multiple San Francisco landmarks.
Five people, including two from the Bay Area, have been sentenced to prison terms and restitution for their parts in a strange fraud scheme involving the creation of sham driver and customer accounts on the DoorDash platform.
