The 16th Street convenience store that lost its resident feline last fall to a tragic accident involving a Waymo is now taking applications for a new bodega cat.
The now 79- or 80-year-old woman who is accused of mowing down a family of four with her car in West Portal two years ago will be in court Friday hoping to have her charges reduced to misdemeanors.
A 38-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with a Jan. 15 homicide in SF; a home in Napa County's Angwin burned to the ground this morning; and an SF high school has been seeing a tuberculosis outbreak.
Turns out the Pac Heights mountain lion has been known to authorities for years; we’re learning that Tommy Lee Jones’s daughter was pregnant prior to her death; and next weekend’s Super Bowl tickets cost $7,000 minimum.
After TikTok was sold to a cabal of Trump’s buddies and donors, users say their posts criticizing ICE or mentioning the Epstein scandal are being buried with zero views, and now Gavin Newsom says the state will investigate.
The new Seth Rogen movie that was shot in San Francisco is apparently quite good and got a standing ovation at Sundance, and now Hollywood studios are elbowing each other to buy the rights to what they think will be a huge hit.
Stanford University has reportedly reached a settlement to bring an end to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of soccer star Katie Meyer, who took her own life in March 2022.
Supervisor Danny Sauter is trying to resurrect the old idea of extending the Central Subway out to North Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf, but officials realize there’s no way this gets funded while Trump is still president.
Toronado, the Lower Haight beer bar and mecca for beer geeks the world over, remains very much its cash-only self, in case you were wondering. And on Super Bowl weekend, they will be pouring Pliny the Younger.
A character who had been linked to a Sea Cliff mansion with an illegal cliffside staircase, who was convicted over a decade ago in a bizarre fraud case involving $11 million in paintings, is back in the news.
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A young mountain lion made a surprise appearance in San Francisco Monday, in the Pacific Heights neighborhood, and as of Tuesday morning it had been found by Animal Care & Control.
The fire is now out, but a warehouse in Berkeley is now “completely destroyed” after a Tuesday morning fire ripped through the place, a fire that was visible from Interstate 80.
The family of a 17-year-old girl found dead in Antioch last week seeks answers; traffic congestion is getting worse in downtown SF; and Amazon is closing its Amazon Go retail stores.
A 27-year-old San Francisco man has been convicted in the 2022 shooting deaths of his father and stepmother; Pacifica residents are in an Airbnb limbo; and a search is underway for a missing 73-year-old woman in Mill Valley.
A 40-year-old man is charged with shooting and killing three people at the Sky Market corner store in Oakland's Woodland neighborhood, and the whole dispute was apparently an illicit marijuana deal gone wrong.
Google/Alphabet has agreed to pay $68 million to customers who used its voice assistant and whose words were unwittingly recorded and shared with advertisers.
ICE may be bogged down in controversy for shooting and killing people in Minnesota, but they insist they’re not backing down on previously announced plans to have next weekend’s Santa Clara Super Bowl crawling with ICE agents.
Were it not for a last-minute reversal by President Trump, brokered in secret by a couple of billionaires and SF's mayor, San Francisco and Oakland could have easily descended into the same violent chaos, provoked by an ICE invasion, that we're seeing in Minneapolis.
Ripple Labs co-founder Chris Larsen is back with another splashy donation, this time $5 million for a plan to add new security gates to businesses on Larkin Street, plus to power-wash the sidewalks more and put up more lights.
The prominent corner at Noe and Market streets that for decades was home to Cafe Flore has a new tenant moving in, with hopes to bring some life back to this terrific space.
Who’s got the appetite for another billion-dollar transit overhaul that would tear up North Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf with construction for years on end? Because the push to add more stops to the Central Subway begins today.
A stabbing on Saturday night in San Francisco's Tenderloin left one person injured, and a subsequent shooting on Sunday evening injured a second person. The shooting suspect remains at large.
A 17-year-old girl found by the side of the road in Antioch was apparently killed by a hit-and-run; Kaiser nurses walked off the job in a large strike today; and Trump sends border czar Tom Homan into Minneapolis.
Newark Memorial High School in the East Bay began dismissing all 45 of its athletic coaches and assistants at the end of their respective seasons last month, telling them they may be rehired next year as part of a new policy.
K-Pop sensations Twice, who made a surprise visit to the San Francisco Zoo Wednesday after performing two sold-out shows at the Oakland Arena last weekend, all left wearing matching vintage-style t-shirts, and the resulting social media post prompted a flood of sales.
