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United Airlines employee, fiancée plead no contest to SFO luggage theft charges
by Rob Nagle A United Airlines employee and his girlfriend pleaded no contest Monday to charges of felony grand theft and possession of stolen property after stealing bags from San Francisco...
View ArticleMan shot in 2000 succumbs to injuries in January
by Rob Nagle View Larger Map San Francisco recorded its fifth homicide of the year Monday with the shooting death of a 26-year-old man in the Bayview, but one of the victims included in that tally...
View ArticleSPUR releases plan to guide economic growth in Bay Area
A San Francisco urban think tank has released a plan they hope will help guide Bay Area planners and politicians in the future so they create livable, lively and economically viable cities for...
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SF spends $165.7 million on homeless but it’s still not enough
by Joshua Sabatini San Francisco spends $165.7 million on homelessness annually, but it would take tens of millions more to house the thousands who remain living in their cars, on the streets or in...
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Protests, events mark third anniversary of Fukushima nuclear accident
by Bay City News Bay Area residents are marking the third anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear accident today with events including a protest outside the Japanese consulate in San Francisco -- one of...
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Baseball Hall of Fame commemorative coin produced by SF Mint
by Chris Roberts Leave it to San Francisco to be the hub of innovation in a function of government as old as the republic itself. A never-before-used style of commemorative coin — the type of specie...
View ArticleBalboa students arrested after photos surface of gun at school
by Bay City News Two students at San Francisco’s Balboa High School were arrested after posing for a photograph in a school bathroom with a loaded handgun and posting the picture on Facebook last...
View ArticleSFMTA proceeds with purchase of new electric trolleys
by Jessica Kwong San Francisco’s transit agency announced today that it is officially moving forward with the purchase of 60 new electric trolley buses, the first phase in replacing the aging fleet...
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Goat landscapers set to meet public
by Bay City News A herd of goats responsible for some of San Francisco’s trickiest landscaping jobs will be available for the public to meet at an open house in the Hunters Point neighborhood this...
View ArticleMan convicted of mayhem for biting off victim’s ear
by Bay City News A Palo Alto man was convicted of mayhem Tuesday for biting a man’s ear off during a drunken fight over stolen cigarettes outside a Redwood City bar last year. Joshua McGriff, 40, now...
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Large fire burning at construction site in SF's China Basin
by Bay City News The American Red Cross has responded to the scene of a five-alarm fire burning in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood this evening to assist residents who were forced to evacuate...
View ArticleEnvironmental groups file suit alleging Bay Area creek fish being harmed
by The Associated Press Two environmental groups have sued the National Marine Fisheries Service over two water systems operated by Stanford University that they claim are harming threatened fish. Our...
View ArticleBusiness robbed at gunpoint in the Mission
by Rob Nagle View Larger Map A business was robbed at gunpoint in the Mission on Tuesday, police said. Two women in their 60s were working at the business at 25th and Bryant streets about 4 p.m. when...
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Mayor Ed Lee says welding was being done at building destroyed by 5-alarm fire
by Bay City News A five-alarm fire that destroyed an apartment building under construction in the city's Mission Bay neighborhood on Tuesday is not yet under control this morning. Firefighters are...
View ArticleWoman fatally struck by BART train at Balboa Park station identified
by Bay City News A woman fatally struck by a train at BART's Balboa Park station in San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon has been identified by the medical examiner's office as 67-year-old Marie Baca....
View ArticleMountain View police, school officials warn about new psychedelic drug
by Bay City News Mountain View police and school officials sent a letter today to parents and students warning them of a new psychedelic street drug named "DOC" that apparently caused a student to...
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Man arrested after officer shooting, multi-county pursuit charged by DA’s office
by Rob Nagle The man arrested after leading police on a Bay Area-wide chase last weekend hours after reportedly being at the scene where a San Francisco Police officer was shot was charged with two...
View ArticleTours to Alcatraz called off due to high winds
by Bay City News High winds and choppy Bay waters prompted a rare closure of Alcatraz Island to visitors Wednesday, a National Park Service spokeswoman said. The Park Service and officials with...
View ArticleDemocratic Party votes to oppose June waterfront ballot measure
The effort to curb real estate development along San Francisco’s waterfront suffered a setback Wednesday when the local Democratic Party voted to oppose a June ballot measure that would require voter...
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Officials investigate possible welding cause in Mission Bay blaze
by Wire Report San Francisco fire investigators on Wednesday were looking into whether welding work was to blame for a massive blaze that barreled through an apartment building construction site,...
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