Grab Your Umbrella: Bay Area Weather About to Get Dramatic
Just when you thought you could trust that endless stretch of mild, do-nothing skies, Mother Nature is apparently ready...
The latest from The Dissent on general.
Just when you thought you could trust that endless stretch of mild, do-nothing skies, Mother Nature is apparently ready...
Here's a fun sequence of events: You go to a nightclub. You notice debris on the dance floor that could hurt someone. Yo...
Say what you will about San Francisco — the budget deficits, the bureaucratic bloat, the transit delays that make you qu...
If you've been hitting the Bay Area trails lately — and honestly, with weather like this, you should be — here's your fr...
You know things have gotten absurd when Bay Area drivers are genuinely relieved to pay somewhere in the neighborhood of...
If you bolted upright in bed around 1:42 AM wondering if that was a dream or actual tectonic activity — no, you weren't...
Something strange is happening near Park Presidio, and no, it's not just the fog rolling in. Residents in the Inner Ric...
If you were trying to get through the Divisadero and Ellis intersection today, you weren't. A garbage truck caught fire,...
Here's a sentence we didn't expect to write today: a popular Haight-Ashbury bar allegedly has a camera recording inside...
Kaiser Permanente, the healthcare giant that already struggles to get its mental health patients seen in a timely manner...
Wastewater monitoring across Northern California is lighting up with rotavirus, a highly contagious gastrointestinal vir...
A dead bat discovered at a Fremont home has tested positive for rabies, and Alameda County health officials are urging a...
## A Feathered Interruption With a Happy Ending Look, we spend a lot of time on this site talking about government inef...
Here's something we don't say often at The Dissent: a government program that actually makes sense. The "Healthy Parks...
Here's a radical concept for you: instead of waiting for City Hall to allocate another $300 million to a "street beautif...
An investigation into the deadliest avalanche in California history — the one that struck near Lake Tahoe — has surfaced...
There's a saying in the Richmond District that everything new is old again — and if you've been paying attention, it's h...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake rattled the Bay Area early Thursday morning, centered in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Buildings...
A San Francisco jury has convicted Mission District resident Lisa Gonzales of murdering and dismembering her roommate, M...
San Francisco has spent *billions* trying to address its overlapping crises of homelessness, addiction, and public safet...
Peter Duesberg, the UC Berkeley molecular biologist who spent decades insisting that HIV didn't cause AIDS, is dead. We'...
If you were planning a leisurely stroll through downtown San Francisco next weekend, maybe recalibrate your expectations...
A 19-year-old man is behind bars facing murder charges after a fatal shooting at the corner of 3rd and Harrison Streets...
A 24-year-old man named Tertron Johnson is dead after a shooting in the Sunnydale neighborhood, and if you're waiting fo...