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Three months after a wave of Peet’s Coffee closures shuttered the location in Russian Hill, a popular Mission bagel shop is moving in. Good thing, too, because despite San Francisco’s increasingly heated bagel scene, the neighborhood is a true bagel desert, with nary a pumpernickel to be found.

Russian Hill residents tired of trekking across town for a proper bagel are about to get some relief. Bageletto, the Mission-born bagel shop that set up a production kitchen on 14th Street last year, is bringing its all-day bagel program to Polk Street, turning a former coffee chain outpost into a sit-down cafe built around Mission-made bagels.

San Francisco's downtown mall may be dead, and Union Square may remain beleaguered and full of vacant storefronts, but that seems poised to change in the not-too-distant future. Several well known retailers have reportedly been on the hunt for new space in and around Union Square, as the SF Business...

The death appears to be San Francisco's ninth traffic fatality of 2026, 12 years after the city promised to eliminate road deaths. Truck hits, kills man in South of Market on Monday afternoon

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Officers from the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) responded to a residence on the 2100 block of Larkin Street on February 15, 2026, following reports of a person calling for assistance. Upon arrival at approximately 4:14 p.m., officers located an adult female at the scene.

"Ideally, it would be someone who could keep the doors open."

You’ve probably heard big promises before. Fast, sleek trains linking major cities, cutting travel time, and easing traffic. That was the idea behind California’s high-speed rail plan back in 2008. It sounded exciting and bold. But nearly two decades later, people are still waiting. The story, recently highlighted...

The Berkeley fixture has been hit with back-to-back lawsuits in recent months.

Around 3 a.m. on a Saturday in July 2024, a resident of an apartment building in Oakland’s Koreatown Northgate neighborhood woke up to commotion outside. The resident, who asked not to be named due to fears of retaliation, walked out and began recording the early-morning chaos on their phone. The video, reviewed by The Oaklandside, showed several people lined up in front of...

Sometimes reality can be a lot stranger than fiction. Just take all the recent technological breakthroughs coming out of Silicon Valley, for instance. Just 10 years ago, AI, self-driving cars, and robots were considered fodder for science fiction. But now, they are mainstays of the San Francisco Bay Area. At...