Last night's rare and lengthy thunderstorm around the Bay Area caused upwards of 7,000 flashes in the sky and 1,200 ground strikes according to meteorologists, and everyone should be
![[Update] Shooting And Crash Closes Stretch Of O'Farrell Street For Hours](https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2012/08/sfpd_star_dcattny-thumb-640xauto-734546.jpg)
The San Francisco Police Department closed a stretch of Union-Square area street for nearly three hours Tuesday morning, on reports of a shooting on the block. ABC 7 reports that O'
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A brand new iPhone 8 could be yours for the low, low price of free. You hear that? That's the sound of Apple disciples around the country gearing up to swarm
![[Update] Photos: Freak September Thunderstorm Brings 1200+ Lightning Strikes](https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2017/09/sunset-lightning-thumb-640xauto-1012401.jpg)
It's weird enough that we're getting a thunderstorm tonight, but this was one with an unusually high number of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes. Also, meteorologists are saying that
* A male student, DJ, and SF State cheerleader who was accused of assault with a deadly weapon and multiple felony counts was acquitted of most charges against him last week in a strange
Is this black bloc's biggest ever showing in the Bay Area? pic.twitter.com/qX1Ck3j8Sh — Michael Montgomery (@MichaelMontCIR) August 27, 2017 We used to use the term "anarchists" or
The anniversary of the September 11 attacks is always an important occasion for anti-abortion whackadoodles, because it's their special day to trot out “Every Day is 9/11 for the
The McDonald's at the end of Haight Street at Stanyan is not long for this world as the city has just about inked a deal to purchase the problematic property for
Continuing the trend of producing some of the Bay Area's most odd crime stories, Vallejo's police blotter brings us this latest crime involving a Baskin Robbins, a shirtless man,
There is not much suspense to this afternoon’s San Francisco Board of Supervisors Land Use and Transportation Committee vote on whether to rename the Embarcadero’s Justin Herman Plaza. Considering that every
Nearly a decade and a half after San Francisco's wild parrots gained wide fame via a book and a documentary about them, the noisy but beloved, non-native green birds have
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week voted to hold a November hearing on the issue of the contested sale of a privately owned street to real estate investors who are, seemingly,
by Daisy Barringer The 49ers kicked off their football season yesterday with a pathetic, but totally expected, loss to the Carolina Panthers. The issues were nothing new for this team; everyone’s performance
* Pac Heights home features bathrooms dedicated to SF landmarks. [SF Gate] * Can data be the key to tech inclusion? [CNet] * If your self-driving car doesn't have Spidey-sense it'
#BigSurLandslide fly around May 27, preliminary computer animation. Roughly 13 acres of new #California land! pic.twitter.com/PoKZL5WZBI — USGS Coastal Change (@USGSCoastChange) June 1, 2017 The Mud Creek Slide in the southern
One of the Bay Area's newest In-N-Outs was the site of a scary fight last week, when a man threatened a fellow diner with a box cutter. The scene
Anthony Torres, the flamboyant 44-year-old DJ and nightlife personality known around the Tenderloin as Bubbles and typically wearing large wigs and pink lipstick, was reportedly shot and killed early Saturday morning
Now up to 88 in #SF (21 degree increase from Saturday). Also warmer there than it is in Oakland and @flySFO. #cawx #bayarea — NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) September 10, 2017 San Franciscans still
Every one of of San Francisco's 44 fire stations held a somber ceremony this morning, marking the 16 years since an attack on the World Trade Center killed nearly 3000 people.
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Interested in better collaboration? With technology at the forefront of the way most office team members communicate and collaborate, it's common for businesses and startups to emphasize the importance of doing
This latest video of fearless skaters "hill bombing" around SF was posted only a week ago, and it opens with a kid screaming "F**k you!" at the driver
The 2017 vintage may be a tough one for many Napa and Sonoma winemakers after last week's heatwave, which hit right before harvest for red varietals like Cabernet. The harvest had
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