The federal immigration court in downtown San Francisco that started 2025 with 21 judges and will soon be down to just four, thanks to Trump administration mass-firings, will close by January 2027.
Indie musician Ariel Pink is coming to town just days after the fifth anniversary of January 6th — which he actually attended, at least the Trump rally part, though he denies joining the horde that stormed the Capitol.
The trial continues this week of onetime Los Gatos resident Shannon O'Connor, who clearly wanted her sons and their friends to think of her a "cool mom" who'd let them drink, but the alleged teen parties she threw actually sound pretty sordid, and unsafe.
The jig is up at the Tenderloin's Empire Relaxation Spa, which has been busted at least four times for selling sex, and now has been shut down permanently with the owners agreeing to pay a $275,000 settlement.
A section of winding Highway 116 slid into the Russian River in Sonoma County on Monday, and the washout near Monte Rio is only expected to grow as the rain-soaked banks of the river continue to be saturated and unstable.
Supervisor Alan Wong and others are calling for a hearing into PG&E's massive outage last month; Sonoma County is under a flood warning today; and Valero has begun shutting down its Benicia refinery.
This year’s SF Sketchfest will feature a live show on a moving BART train; a Union City man effectively busted himself for child porn; and a brawl broke out at Disneyland over line-cutting.
That Tenderloin “corner store curfew” that shuts liquor stores down at midnight could be extended to a whole bunch of SoMa and beyond, as Supervisor Matt Dorsey wants corner stores shut down earlier in hopes of deterring crime.
The Hazie's bartender who had his hair pulled by a very intoxicated customer who was irate about being cut off on SantaCon Saturday, in a video that went internationally viral, says he's now been fired.
Uber's line of robotaxis that are set to hit the road in San Francisco sometime later this year made their big public debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Monday.
A last-ditch lawsuit attempting to overturn 2024’s Prop K and bring cars back to the Great Highway has failed, as a judge just tossed out the lawsuit’s claim that the car-free Great Highway ballot measure skirted California law.
The former CineArts at the Empire on West Portal Avenue is just a one-story structure, but could become a nine-story housing complex with 64 units under a just-announced proposal from the family that has long owned the building.
The Trump administration is now waging more political war with Democrat-led states, announcing the withholding of $10 billion in social services funding to five states: Minnesota, California, New York, Illinois, and Colorado.
A full-throated "Noooo!" is being shouted around San Francisco today by anyone who knew and loved Café Jacqueline, because the stalwart, soufflé-focused restaurant has closed for good.
Turns out anyone with an internet connection, and not even a password, could access the feeds of a line of the Flock surveillance cameras that are currently all the rage with the SFPD and Oakland Police Department.
Doug LaMalfa, who has represented California's 1st Congressional District for the last 13 years, died suddenly on Monday at the age of 65. No cause of death has been announced, but LaMalfa's death will further constrain Republicans' narrow majority in the House.
A few more details were released in the case of an 11-year-old girl shot Monday in Antioch; the body of a woman who went missing Friday while hiking was found in the American River; and Newsom begins his final year in office with an $18B deficit.
The demolition of Alioto's began today at the Wharf; an 11-year-old girl was hit by a stray bullet in Antioch; and Hilton is apologizing for a Minnesota hotel that was refusing rooms to ICE agents.
The wild corruption case of a SF City Hall Workers' Comp department employee who embezzled $627,118 and blew city money and personal tech gear has ended, and that now-fired employee is headed to prison.
After President Trump invaded Venezuela and deposed President Nicolás Maduro Friday night, the Bay Area reacted fast, as protests took over both San Francisco and San Jose by Saturday afternoon.
A famous waterfront hangout in Marin County that boasted plenty of celebrity guests in the 1970s — and where Robin Williams once worked as a busboy — has shut its doors for the second time in 45 years.
An excellent free activity to take the kids to this month (once the rain dies down), as the San Francisco Zoo will offer free admission to kids 11 and under for the entire month of January.
It seems odd that there are businesses that still want to stay open in a dead mall, but one of them has frontage on Mission Street, and the other two are apparently trying to stick it out for some reason.
A standoff with an “armed individual threatening to harm themselves and not complying with officers' commands” at Embarcadero and Brannan streets began just after noon Monday, and much of that area remained blocked off for hours.
Daniel Lurie is correct to say that much of the country has "an outdated notion" of what San Francisco has been like the last year or two. But is it right to give him credit for a perceived turnaround in the city that was kind of underway before he took office?
