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A sizeable snake was spotted slithering near Levi's Plaza this week, prompting the age-old San Francisco question: *whose escaped pet is this?* Turns out, the...
A new real-time whale detection network is now live in San Francisco Bay, designed to alert ships to the presence of whales and help prevent deadly collisions....
Of all the casualties of rising fuel costs, here's one that hits different: the ice cream truck might be pricing itself out of your neighborhood. As gas prices...
Another week, another San Francisco worker trapped in a job that's gone sideways — afraid to even name the employer publicly because, in their words, "they are...
Here's a story that's become painfully ordinary in San Francisco: a skilled restaurant manager with eight years of fine dining experience is suddenly out of wor...
If you woke up this morning on the coast and reached for a hoodie while your friends in Walnut Creek were already sweating through their shirts, congratulations...
Here's a fun one from the "rules are for other people" files. A Mission Bay parent was recently playing with their baby on the lawn at China Basin Park — a pub...
Here's a snapshot of civic life in San Francisco in 2025: you politely ask someone to follow the clearly posted rules at a public park, and you get threatened w...
Bay Area health experts are sounding the alarm: the latest Ebola outbreak overseas has the potential to escalate quickly, and local officials are urging awarene...
A stray dog turned up in North Beach this week, doing what most of us do in the neighborhood — heading straight for a restaurant. The pup wandered into a local...
A massage therapist in San Carlos has been arrested after victims came forward to report sexual battery — a reminder that licensing and professional credentials...
If you've woken up the last few mornings looking like you lost a fight with a stapler, congratulations — you're not alone. Mosquito season has arrived in San Fr...
San Francisco could hit the 80s today, which means exactly two things: every transplant is going to text their friends back east about how amazing this city is,...
A Bay Area resident recently posted what they probably thought was a straightforward plea: help me find a home for a pregnant cat. She's young — less than a yea...
A physical altercation in the Castro neighborhood is making the rounds this week, and while details remain sparse, the incident is yet another data point in a p...
Something is off this year, and your sinuses already know it. San Francisco — the city where Mark Twain allegedly said the coldest winter he ever spent was a s...
Let's talk about Safeway — the grocery chain that somehow manages to make buying eggs feel like navigating a government bureaucracy. If you've walked into an S...
Here's a fun little snapshot of life in San Francisco: you're standing at George Sterling Park, taking in one of the best Golden Gate Bridge views in the city,...
A man has been shot and killed in the Sunset District, identified as Eric Bigone. Details remain sparse, but here's what we know: a man lost his life to gun vi...
A six-year-old child is dead after a table fell on him during an after-school program at McKinley Elementary in Burlingame. Let that sentence sit for a moment....
Another fire season, another round of evacuations, another set of headlines that feel depressingly familiar. The Sandy Fire is currently threatening homes and...
Nearly 12,000 Bay Area customers are still sitting in the dark, waiting for their power to come back on — and if you're wondering why, well, the explanations fr...
Here's a fun exercise: go pull up your bank statements right now and cross-reference them with every receipt you've gotten from a counter-service spot in the la...
Something extraordinary happened in San Francisco this week. Something so rare, so unexpected, that residents are reacting like they just witnessed a solar ecli...
Egg freezing has gone from a niche medical procedure to something that feels almost mandatory for ambitious women in their late twenties and thirties navigating...
An 80-year-old San Francisco resident recently lost $20,000 to one of the oldest tricks in the digital con artist's playbook — a fake virus pop-up that told him...
File this one under "only in California." A boat crash has reportedly sparked a massive wildfire in a California national park — because apparently the Golden...
More than 30,000 PG&E customers across Northern California are currently without power — and if you live in this part of the state, your first reaction was prob...
If you've driven out to the western edge of the city lately — past the fog, past the surfers, past the point where cell service gets philosophical — you've prob...
Just when you thought you could enjoy a nice spring weekend, Mother Nature decided to remind the Bay Area that she doesn't do "calm" for very long. A wind advi...