The Bay Area’s largest music festival adds even more acts to lineup
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hardly Strictly Bluegrass has announced even more acts for its 2026 festival, which runs Oct. 2-4 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Alison Krauss & Union Station, Sierra Hull and Jesse Welles are among the acts included in this latest Hardly Strictly Bluegrass lineup announcement. Other newly ann
Undercover S.F. child-exploitation sting leads to felony charges against 5 Bay Area men
Five Bay Area men face felony charges after allegedly arranging online to meet children for sex in San Francisco.
Asian and Hispanic Grocers Are Quietly Filling the Bay Area’s Emptiest Storefronts
For eight years, a 50,000-square-foot storefront in San Francisco's City Center Mall sat empty. City officials once promised a Whole Foods there; Amazon quietly dropped those plans in 2024. Then T&T Supermarket, a Canadian Asian grocery chain few Bay Area shoppers had heard of, agreed to take the space, according to re
USPS worker attacked outside San Leandro post office
(KRON) — Authorities are searching for a suspect who brazenly assaulted a USPS worker at an East Bay post office last week. A reward of up to $150,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the attacker. On July 27 around 3 p.m., a San Leandro postal worker was outside […]
S.F. police boost hiring from other agencies
San Francisco Police Chief Derrick Lew swore in 12 new police officers on Monday. Still, they aren’t rookies — they’re what is known as “lateral transfers,” experienced cops who started their careers in other agencies. The event marks the largest hire of such personnel in over 10 years and was described in a statement
SFMTA Announces Service Improvements on Several Muni Lines Beginning August 29
Several Muni lines will see increased frequency during peak periods at the end of the month, along with a few routes seeing shorter wait times, longer buses, and stop changes. Several of Muni’s busiest bus and rail lines will experience more frequent service beginning August 29, with the San Francisco Municipal Transpo
A mysterious landlord. A tenant revolt. Inside a bizarre, only-in-San Francisco housing battle
After a new San Francisco landlord cut services and threatened evictions, these tenants banded together for a bitter, yearslong housing war with little end in sight.
San Francisco grocery store set to close after years as neighborhood staple
The Lucky supermarket on Fulton Street will close in mid-September. Its parent company, Save Mart, says the location has been losing money for years.
More than 100 people rally on SF streets, urging city to enforce drug laws:...
People in recovery, formerly incarcerated individuals and advocates gathered in San Francisco on Tuesday to call for stronger enforcement of laws related to public drug use and to urge city leaders to hold people accountable while expanding access to treatment.
As new Berkeley park emerges, those who fought for it for decades are ‘ecstatic’
For half a century, a four-block stretch of former rail line through Southwest Berkeley has been fenced off and neglected — weedy, overgrown and mostly unused due to the soil that’s laced with heavy metals like arsenic. WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE PARK. Now, city crews are remediating...
