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Fifty Firefighters and Three Helicopter Drops Put Out a Half‑Acre Fire in Joaquin Miller Park
A vegetation fire in the wooded hills near the Chabot Space and Science Center burned about half an acre off the 10000…
On Front Street, 18 Charli XCX Lookalikes and California's First Entertainment Zone
A Brat-themed block party closed a stretch of Front Street on July 31, complete with a Charli XCX lookalike contest.
The Burrito Boys Are a Dynasty Now: El Farolito Wins Second NPSL Title in Three Years
El Farolito, the soccer team run out of a Mission District taqueria and staffed by cooks, construction workers and…
On Ashby Avenue, a Black Church Trades Its Parking Lot for 50 Apartments It Keeps for a Century
St. Paul AME broke ground Thursday on St. Paul Terrace, a seven-story, 50-unit affordable building rising on the…
‘Hazy Bear’: Guerneville’s 30th Lazy Bear Week Pushes Through Coastal Smoke
Smoke from the coastal Woodside Fire drifted up the Russian River into Guerneville during Lazy Bear Week's 30th…
A Database Is Coming for California's School Janitors. Its Teachers Just Dodged One Again.
A California bill that would have let school districts check whether a teaching applicant had been reported to the…
A Cannabis Café on Valencia, and the Ordinance That Rescued a 10‑Year Bet
San Francisco could be home to the Bay Area's first Amsterdam-style cannabis café by next summer — the payoff of a…
Native or Invasive? The California Gull Boom Reshaping South Bay's Salt Ponds
A gull species that didn't nest anywhere near San Francisco Bay a few decades ago now numbers in the tens of thousands…
A Hayward Man Was Killed in a Philippine Military Operation. Now California Lawmakers Want Answers
Lyle Prijoles, a 40-year-old Hayward resident, was one of 19 people killed in an April military operation in the…
California's Largest Urban Bat Colony Puts on a Nightly Show Near Sacramento — but 2026 Tours Are Already Sold Out
If watching a quarter-million bats spiral into the dusk was on your summer list, you're too late for this year: the…
Musk's AI Company Wants a San José Deepfake Case Moved to a Texas Judge It Prefers
Elon Musk's AI company is asking a federal judge in San José to freeze a proposed class action accusing its Grok…
Roblox's Safety Overhaul Comes With a Wall Street Bill: San Mateo Firm Loses a Quarter of Its Value in a Day
Roblox, the San Mateo game platform that spent 2026 rebuilding itself around child safety, watched Wall Street punish…
California's Nation‑Leading $17.40 Minimum Wage Is a Floor Most Bay Area Cities Already Cleared
When California's statewide minimum wage climbs to a nation-leading $17.40 an hour on January 1, 2027, it will still…
A San Francisco Court Just Reopened Bond Hearings for Immigrants Detained Across California
A federal appeals court headquartered in San Francisco ruled Thursday that the Trump administration cannot jail…
A New Fence at 700 Missouri: The Last Marker of Potrero's Cleared Annex
A $160,000 over-the-counter permit for a permanent fence at 700 Missouri St is the quiet coda to this spring's HOPE SF…
Berkeley Clears Hopkins Street Bike Lanes in 7‑2 Vote, Ending an Eight‑Year Standoff
After public comment pushed a Berkeley City Council meeting past midnight, the council voted 7-2 to repave Hopkins…
Nine Years, Four Mayors, $166 Million: What San Francisco Paid for 160 Homes at a Former Haight McDonald's
The affordable-housing complex that opened this week at 730 Stanyan St.
A 'Never Again' Coalition Confronts a Planned ICE Facility Near Gilroy as a September Injunction Hearing Nears
Descendants of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II stood in San José's Japantown last week and drew a…
Parents of SFO Ramp Worker Crushed Under a Cargo Pallet Sue the City and Two dnata Contractors
Seven months after 28-year-old John Lacayanga was found pinned beneath a cargo pallet he had been towing on an SFO…
In Downtown Berkeley, a Vacant Half Price Books Becomes a Six‑Month Arts Marketplace — on a Discounted Lease
Zero Empty Spaces will turn the long-vacant Half Price Books at 2036 Shattuck Ave.
Future Bars Turns Its Own Nightingale Into Shotski's Alpine Lodge on Kearny
Future Bars converted its Nightingale Bar at 239 Kearny St.
The Bunker Goes Dark: What It Sounds Like When the Giants Turn on Their Own Radio Home
A baseball team and its radio station are supposed to be one organism — the broadcast is where the franchise lives in…
Pay or Don't Play: Oakland's Last Team Learns to Rent by the Kickoff
Three weeks after announcing that 2026 would be their final season at the Coliseum, the Oakland Roots are back on the…
A Beer‑and‑Wine License Is Changing Hands at Izumi Kaiten Sushi's Japantown Address
A holding entity called STE 355 LLC has applied to take over the existing beer-and-wine license at the Kintetsu Japan…