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Geary BRT plan moving forward with community input process
by Jessica Kwong With Van Ness Avenue bus rapid transit on its way to becoming the first of its kind in The City, authorities are bringing before the community a staff-recommended alternative for a...
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Bill would require ‘kill switch’ for smartphones
by The Associated Press Two California officials have announced plans to introduce legislation requiring smartphones to have a "kill switch" that would render stolen or lost devices inoperable. State...
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San Francisco police to deploy DUI checkpoints in The City this weekend
by Rob Nagle With the holiday season in full swing, San Francisco police want the public to be aware of the dangers of driving while impaired on drugs or alcohol, and so they will be conducting DUI...
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Man threatens to kill mail carrier, steals mail
by Rob Nagle A mail carrier was threatened with death by a man who stole mail from her truck north of the Panhandle on Wednesday afternoon, police said. The 41-year-old victim was in her truck in the...
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71-year-old woman critically injured in Western Addition robbery
by Rob Nagle A 71-year-old woman was seriously injured in a purse robbery on her way to church in the Western Addition early Wednesday morning, police Sgt. Eric O'Neal said. The victim was in the...
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628 area code approved for San Francisco-Marin region
by Joshua Sabatini San Francisco resisted an area code change, but in the end new phone numbers will no longer come with the 66-year-old 415 prefix. Get ready for 628.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
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Investigators urge safety rules for rail workers
by The Associated Press Federal transportation safety officials are citing the deaths of two San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system workers this fall as evidence of the urgent need to increase...
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Humbug-Ashbury? Haight street Christmas tree removed
by Chris Roberts A Scrooge story or a concerned citizen doing the right thing? Either way, a temporary mystery has turned into the Haight-Ashbury’s very own Christmas story.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe...
View ArticleRedwood City officials meet with recycling plant after second blaze in two...
by Bay City News Redwood City officials met with Sims Metal Management after a second fire in two months broke out at the recycling plant in Redwood City Tuesday morning. The two-alarm fire at Sims...
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SF lands identified for endangered Franciscan Manzanita habitat
by Vince Echavaria In what some environmentalists consider a key step toward the recovery of an endangered plant species in San Francisco, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated...
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New BART board president supports measure to ban strikes
by Bay City News Veteran BART Director Joel Keller began his term as the transit agency's board president with a bang today by proposing a ballot measure supporting state legislation that would ban...
View ArticlePUC fines PG&E $14.35 million over pipeline records delay
by Staff Report A state agency levied a $14.35 million fine against PG&E on Thursday, saying the utility failed to promptly notify the state about incorrect records related to a natural-gas...
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Protesters swarm tech worker shuttle buses in Oakland, S.F.
by Chris Roberts In what could become a regular Bay Area morning ritual, protesters in San Francisco and Oakland who blame the booming technology industry for the current wave of gentrification...
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SF woman pleads not guilty in crash that killed 16-year-old
by Bay City News A 58-year-old San Francisco woman pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony gross vehicular manslaughter and reckless driving charges in connection with a crash that killed a 16-year-old...
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Shorter holiday shopping season not a bust for SF retailers
by Jessica Kwong The six fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas this holiday shopping season — the shortest in more than a decade — has some San Francisco retailers stressed, but not about a...
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Former homeless residents moving into SF homes
by Jonah Owen Lamb Thirty-two formerly homeless people will be moving into a newly completed apartment complex in South of Market over the holidays, and by early next year the Rene Cazenave Apartments...
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Woman sentenced for fatal DUI hit and run on SF's Twin Peaks
by Bay City News A 24-year-old woman who fatally struck another woman while driving drunk near a lookout at San Francisco's Twin Peaks a year ago was sentenced this week to four years in prison, San...
View ArticleWoman receives life sentence for burning woman to death in Candlestick...
by Bay City News The woman convicted in the brutal murder of a homeless woman who was kidnapped and lit on fire at a parking lot of San Francisco's Candlestick Park in 2007 was sentenced Friday...
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BART, union leaders reach labor deal
by The Associated Press BART officials and labor union leaders announced a new deal early Saturday, saying the final issue in their ongoing dispute has been resolved. The transit system and its two...
View ArticleWoman, 2-year-old child victims of violent home-invasion robbery
by Bay City News Investigators are seeking information about a man who violently robbed a home occupied by a woman and her 2-year-old child in South San Francisco on Monday afternoon, police said. At...
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