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Congressman and senatorial candidate Adam Schiff was told not to leave anything in his car while staying in San Francisco, but he says he was in a hurry and left his luggage, which got stolen while the car was in a parking garage.
SF NewsA large fire just before 4:30 am Friday morning consumed a four-story residential building at Lyon and Clay streets, but fortunately no one was injured, as the building was vacant and still under construction.
SF NewsPacifica police are seeking an arson suspect who was last seen at an archery range; an Oakland man is in a coma after being tased by park police while in the water; and there is some apparent misinformation being spread about the disappearance of Mint Butterfield.
SF NewsThere's impressive new renderings of a proposed reimagining of the former Westfield Mall; bike activists' guerrilla street alterations near Duboce Park have been removed; and the NFL Draft is underway, with plenty of 49ers intrigue.
SF NewsThe Michelin organization has just released its first ever guide to and rankings of US hotels, and like the Michelin Guides to restaurants dole out stars, the new guide has given "key" rankings to 124 hotels across the country.
SF NewsAfter the recent SF County Jail lockdowns and complaints of severe staffing shortages, SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto opens up about his office's challenges, while the deputies' union is demanding he calls in the National Guard.
SF NewsSan Francisco opened a brand new high-tech 911 call center on Wednesday. But early Thursday morning, the city's 911 system crashed, and dispatchers were handling calls with pen and paper.
SF NewsBerkeley native Hersh Goldberg-Polin was taken hostage in Israel on October 7 and even had his arm blown off in the process, but a new-proof-of-life video from Hamas, which appears to have been shot Wednesday, shows him very much alive.
SF NewsCar owners without garages in SF are tensing up in preparation for an announced May sweep by the SFMTA's Parking Enforcement team, which is set to cover every district of the city in search of parking rule violators. But those parking enforcers are tense themselves.
SF NewsThere was a deadly vehicle crash in Pleasanton on Wednesday night; a Secret Service agent on Kamala Harris's detail was displaying "distressing behavior"; and the LAPD arrested 93 student protesters at USC last night.
SF NewsThe 14-year-old boy who drowned in the Russian River earlier this month has been identified as from SF; a Silicon Valley investor is planning a Trump fundraiser in SF; and several 'Planet of the Apes' characters were spotted on horseback at Crissy Field.
SF NewsCourt hearings are underway in the case of that doctor who drove his family off a cliff in San Mateo County last year, and his attorneys argue he was mentally ill and obsessed with conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein, fentanyl, and Ukraine.
SF NewsThe major redevelopment project over at the Stonestown Galleria, in which the mall's massive parking lots could be transformed in to a 3,500-unit residential "village" with parks and a new retail mini-corridor, has taken a step forward with a development agreement with the city.
SF NewsA 15-year-old girl who had recently been released from a psychiatric facility ran away from her Bay Point home last week. Less than three days later she was found dead in the driveway of a home in SF's Oceanview neighborhood.
SF NewsA 3 am Sunday morning hit-and-run near Market and Guerrero streets has left a man in critical condition, and we now learn that man is Bob's Donuts employee Jesus Zamudio, who is reportedly still unresponsive.
SF NewsThe Marin County Sheriff's Office posted a notice of a missing juvenile, whom they identified as 16-year-old Mint Butterfield — the child of former Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield and entrepreneur Caterina Fake — who is believed to be in SF's Tenderloin neighborhood.
SF NewsThe proponents of recalling Alameda Co. DA Pamela Price want to hold the recall election in a few months; a man was arrested after allegedly assaulting a member of the San Jose mayor's security staff; and a South Bay caregiver was arrested for stealing from an elderly couple in Los Altos Hills.
SF NewsThe transfer of prisoners out of FCI Dublin has been even more chaotic than we realized; the Tesla layoffs will leave nearly 3,000 Bay Area workers out of a job; and a third baby peregrine falcon has been born at the famed Berkeley nest.
SF NewsUC Berkeley has joined in a nationwide protest action on college campuses in which students are pitching tents in prominent plaza spaces, as a sort of "sleep-in" in solidarity with displaced Gazans and in protest of investments in war-profiting corporations.
SF NewsPleasanton Home Depot security guard Blake Mohs was shot and killed trying to thwart a shoplifting last April, and the two suspects involved have just pleaded guilty to knock a few years off their sentences.
SF NewsCorner stores that cater to the crowds who hang out around UN Plaza and elsewhere into the wee hours of the morning are part of the problem, the mayor's office says.
SF NewsThere was a brief bit of chaos Tuesday morning at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital when an incarcerated person being held in the jail ward at the hospital escaped custody by climbing through ceiling tiles and trying to crawl away through the bowels of the hospital.
SF NewsA Friday night incident saw a self-driving Waymo pop into the wrong lane for a couple blocks, but it may have had good reason to do so, because it was being swarmed by electric unicycle riders.
SF NewsA child predator sting operation out of Sacramento arrested a San Jose fire captain; PG&E CEO Patti Poppe's compensation is being compared to others; and Tesla is being sued over California layoff notification laws, and last week's layoff announcement.
SF NewsSF is trying to get a class-action civil case thrown out that was brought by teens arrested for the Dolores Hill Bomb last year; the Joe Simitian/Evan Low recount is down to one vote again; and another United Airlines jet had to divert to SF, this time over smoke in the cabin.
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