A California woman filed a federal lawsuit against a company that owns two upscale apartment complexes in SF’s South Beach neighborhood — Avalon Mission Bay and South Beach Marina Apartments, saying they were aware that she was being sex trafficked there at age 17
A man was arrested in Sonoma County for allegedly wearing Wolverine-style metal knuckles; a Cybertruck driver in Oakland reported his back passenger door flying open while on the highway; and Trump says he won’t attend the Super Bowl in Santa Clara.
SF Giants players and executives embarked on a goodwill tour of South Korea led by Giants center fielder Jung Hoo Lee, bolstering the team’s visibility in Asia and showing support for Lee, a fan favorite — who was briefly detained at LAX upon arrival back in the US this week.
Daly City residents are urging city officials to take down an eight-foot-tall fence that recently appeared, blocking a public path near Thornton State Beach and featuring a handmade cardboard sign with a drawing of a gun and a message stating trespassers will be shot on sight.
This week: Polynesian dance in Fremont, a new cat cafe in SF, a South Bay Batman, book clubs of the Peninsula, and California pollinators. Also, examining an ancient Greek star map using physics; supporting stroke survivors; and highlighting the unsettling parts of suburban life.
Loveski Deli, purveyors of the delicious and excellently textured bagels that have been the talk of Napa and Marin for several years, is expanding to San Francisco with a new location in Jackson Square.
Legendary 49ers quarterback John Brodie, who played with the team a record-breaking 17 seasons, died at age 90; the White House posted a doctored image to social media of a Minnesota protester crying; and North Beach launched some special "pizza box" trash cans.
Tesla Cybertruck sales decreased by 48% in 2025; Trump’s latest Truth Social post frenzy involved TikTok and Newsom; and one of Oakland Zoo’s tigers has died from an infection that spread after a foreign object became lodged in her paw.
We’ve never seen an SF institution offered historical landmark status but then reject the offer, but the SF Catholic Archdiocese is fighting a landmark designation for their Noe Valley church featured in the movie ‘Sister Act.’
A Friday afternoon crash on Market Street at the intersection of Ninth and Larkin streets ended with a large SUV flipped on its side in the middle of the street, but reportedly injuries were minor.
A new Nepalese and Indian restaurant is on the way to the Marina, Union Square gets a fancy new French patisserie, and there's a pop-up fish market on the docks at Fisherman's Wharf, all in This Week in Food.
The first creepy cult to take root in California, about 25 years after statehood, had its origins in upstate New York in the 19th Century, which was a hotbed of religious zealotry and cults.
The museum says that its longstanding tradition of free admission on the first Thursday of every month is “temporarily paused,” and though it may return someday, signs point to this being a budget cut due to a lack of sponsors.
In addition to the previously announced, Guy Fieri-hosted tailgate party at the Cow Palace on Super Bowl Sunday, the all-star Players Tailgate event will be happening closer to Levi's Stadium.
South Korean DJ Peggy Gou is among the headliners of a new three-month electronica concert series called Club Darc, being thrown at Pier 48 in Mission Rock, lasting from late February until mid-May.
A wanted felon led Sonoma County sheriff's deputies on a one-hour chase Thursday in which a vehicle pursuit turned into a foot pursuit and then a water pursuit in the frigid Russian River.
It's another sad story of an NFL player falling on hard times after his career — likely due to head injuries. Ex-Oakland Raiders defensive tackle Kevin Johnson was found dead at an LA encampment in what appears to be a homicide.
Napa County has just reported its first measles case since 2012; more details emerge about Thursday's police shooting on I-80; and people in Minneapolis are staging a general strike today in protest of ICE.
The TikTok transfer to American ownership is finally going through; a SoMa liquor store curfew got one step closer to reality; and check out the Bay Bridge, because the Bay Lights are being tested for their glorious upcoming return.
As state Senator Scott Wiener continues to try to thread the needle of being a moderate Democrat who has historically supported Israel but now kind of needs the pro-Palestinian vote, he is stepping down from a role he's held for five years in the state's legislative Jewish Caucus.
This could be the last dance for the Golden State Warriors with Steve Kerr as their coach, as the national media says some team members are thinking the unthinkable, that Kerr might be let go at the end of this NBA season.
We had to do a double-double take at Glassdoor’s new Best Places to Work 2026 list, as they ranked fast-food chain In-N-Out as a better place to work than the cushy, high-paid confines of Nvidia, Facebook, and Google.
It may be a dead mall with almost no tenants left inside — the official closing is apparently this weekend — but thanks to a nonprofit dedicated to the revitalization of downtown, one side of the former Westfield mall is getting a massive photographic mural.
A couple of one-time Rohnert Park police officers spent years posing as ATF agents and shaking down legal medical marijuana drivers for their cash and stash, and they got busted, but now their sentencing is delayed.
A massive traffic backup Thursday morning in the East Bay that was tied to a large police response in the westbound lanes of I-80 turns out to have been caused by a confrontation with police that led to the fatal shooting of a suspect.
