Still don't have any New Year's Eve plans and looking to lock down some tickets and get out of the house? We have a few ideas for you, at least a couple of which won't break the bank, and a couple of which might impress your new paramour.
For the rain year to date, which began on October 1, San Francisco and Oakland are both above normal in terms of rainfall, and the rain total is only set to rise further before 2025 is out.
Muni will be absolutely free on New Year's Eve for the 17th year in a row, and while BART will not be free, the BART system will let you catch trains almost up until (but not quite until) the 2 am last call at the bars.
The body of a woman was found Saturday on a remote beach north of Santa Cruz, and it is likely that of Erica Fox, the 55-year-old woman who disappeared while swimming with an ocean swimmers' group last week.
A barnburner of a Sunday Night Football game saw the 49ers and Bears score a combined 11 touchdowns, but the Niners defense came through in the clutch for a 42-38 win that could give them home-field advantage all playoffs long.
A building in downtown Oakland suffered a fire for the second time this year; a 4.7M earthquake in far northeastern CA was felt in Sacramento; and some siblings helped rescue a family from a fire in Menlo Park.
For the third time in a little over a week, 11,000 customers on the west side of the city experienced a power outage Sunday evening, which took about two-and-a-half hours to restore.
A snowmobiler riding with a group near Yosemite Sunday was airlifted to a trauma center after the group set off an avalanche, and one of the ski patrollers who was injured while performing avalanche mitigation work at Mammoth Mountain Friday has died.
A body was found in Monterey Bay near where missing swimmer Erica Fox disappeared; Bay Area tech pioneer Andrew Ng says AI isn’t replacing humans any time soon; and around 6,000 households lost power Saturday following the massive days-long outage earlier in the week.
After initially suspending the case due to lack of evidence, Petaluma police arrested a suspect who was allegedly caught on video surveillance tracing racial slurs and swastikas onto the dusty windows of local youth mentor and former Harlem Globetrotter William Bullard’s SUV.
Residents said more than 100 people attended an illegal early morning sideshow in SF’s Outer Sunset Saturday. SFPD, which was flooded with reports of gunshots, fireworks, and a U-Haul full of furniture being set ablaze, reportedly took more than 20 minutes to respond.
This week: Land stewardship in the East Bay, tracking birds in the South Bay, and 50 years of wine in Napa Valley. Also, tamale season, unconventional homes, a local middle school record player, the Valkyries DJ’s new Oakland club, and new work by ‘90s Mission School artists.
Tolls on seven Bay Area bridges will increase by 50 cents January 1; a hiker in the South Bay was found safe after he went missing for twelve hours the night of Christmas Eve; and a shark smacked a surfer’s board from below in Marin, but the surfer wasn't injured.
UC Santa Cruz’s famed Lick Observatory was damaged by 114 mile per hour winds; a person in Arkansas is the winner of the $1.8 million Powerball jackpot but hasn't claimed it yet; and an armed DUI suspect was killed by police in the East Bay city of Brentwood.
Just six days before its scheduled permanent closure, popular SoMa nightclub Oasis has been saved with a seven-figure donation to keep the club open, though it’s still closing for the next few months for renovations.
The snow finally arrived in time for Christmas for powder-staved Tahoe skiers, but with that snow came some very treacherous driving conditions, and an avalanche that hospitalized two Mammoth Mountain ski patrollers.
The 55-year-old swimmer who went missing during a presumed shark attack in Pacific Grove Sunday was identified as Erica Fox, a triathlete who took part in Escape From Alcatraz for 20 years and swam at Lovers Point every Sunday for two decades.
The O'Brien Tract neighborhood of San Jose saw four people shot on the street in a 3:30 am Friday morning incident, and all four have been hospitalized as police look for answers and for a suspect.
Following Islamic tradition, the family of Muhammad Alghazali, the one-and-a-half-year-old boy who was struck and killed by a driver in SF’s Hayes Valley on the morning of December 14, is raising funds for a variety of charities in his name.
Terminal 1 at SFO was temporarily evacuated Friday morning due to a suspicious, unattended item, and passengers on airlines using the terminal were instructed to go through security at the International Terminal.
Hilly streets turned into shallow rivers, Daly City saw significant flooding, fallen trees were reported all over, and SFO continues to see significant flight delays after the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day storms.
Waymos went out of service in SF again on Christmas Day; Mayor Lurie continues his airing of grievances with PG&E, and that utility also struggled with the storms Thursday with more than 120,000 Bay Area customers losing power.
A driver of a fuel tanker, who was allegedly speeding, collided with a pickup truck on Highway 101 in South San Jose early Christmas morning. Southbound lanes were closed until early Friday morning as authorities in hazmat suits worked to clean up more than 600 tons of spilled fuel.
When a pit bull, nicknamed “Google,” was abandoned outside Google’s Sunnyvale office the morning of Christmas Eve and animal control was closed, Bay Area Reddit users came together to give it food and water and find it shelter with the help of Sunnyvale police.
San Francisco and multiple other locales remained under flood warnings Christmas morning; multiple major roadways were closed due to flooding including westbound Highway 24; and some drivers were reportedly stranded overnight on Donner Summit.
