San Francisco Plans to Revive 90-Day Shelter Limits as Waitlists Swell
San Francisco is preparing to put a clock on shelter stays again. City officials announced a plan to limit how long people can stay in most city shelters, reviving a 90-day cap that was suspended years ago, with hundreds of people still waiting for an open bed. A Policy Years...
Man fatally shot near San Francisco elementary school
Police are investigating a fatal shooting Friday night on Potrero Hill, directly adjacent to Starr King Elementary School.
Sausalito’s last ‘anchor out’: The reluctant face of a changing world
Sausalito’s last authorized “anchor out” is a living symbol of a way of life on Richardson Bay that is being hauled out like a sloop past its prime.
2 pounds of fentanyl seized with assistance from CHP K-9
(FOX40.COM) — About two pounds of fentanyl were seized from a vehicle during a traffic stop with the help of a CHP K-9 unit. Officers assigned to California Highway Patrol’s Crime Suppression Team conducted a traffic stop for a window tint violation in Oakland in the evening of Oct. 10, CHP wrote in a news […]
Richmond Man Gets 42 Years to Life for Killing, Burning Body Near Oakland Zoo
A Richmond man was sentenced to 42 years to life in prison, with no chance of parole for 42 years, for shooting a 25-year-old man and then having his body dumped and burned inside a pickup truck near the Oakland Zoo. Jose Vazquez-Cano, 45, was sentenced in Martinez after a jury convicted him of second-degree murder and arson of a corpse in the June 2023 killing of Bryan Barrios-Marroquin.
Bay Area deputies navigate corn maze to reach stabbing victims, arrest suspect
A stabbing in a Dixon corn maze Friday night sent two people to a hospital and one person into custody, Solano County authorities have confirmed. The incident unfolded around 9:15 p.m. at Cool Patch Pumpkins, a family-run, 40-acre corn maze on Dixon Avenue West off of Interstate 80. The victims...
Richmond Man Pleads Guilty to CVS Robbery, Tenderloin Machine-Gun Shooting
A 35-year-old Richmond man has pleaded guilty to robbing an East Bay pharmacy at gunpoint and illegally possessing a fully automatic handgun, admitting in federal court that he pointed what turned out to be a paintball gun at a CVS employee before fleeing onto a BART train with a cash drawer worth $247.22.
Presidio Heights Mansion Fetches $17.2M as SF Luxury Bidding Wars Hit Record Highs
A five-bedroom mansion at 120 Cherry Street in San Francisco's Presidio Heights neighborhood sold Thursday for $17.2 million, in the latest sign that the city's luxury housing market has flipped its usual script. The 6,174-square-foot home closed at roughly $2,780 per square foot, dwarfing the neighborhood's three-month sale price median of $1,970 per square foot.
San Francisco’s Ripley’s Believe It or Not! to close in December
Ripley's Believe It or Not! will close its Fisherman's Wharf location in San Francisco on Dec. 1 after 60 years. The attraction opened on Feb. 2, 1967. Notable visitors included Michael Jackson, Joe DiMaggio and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. “We’ve had nearly 60 unbelievable years at Fisherman’s Wharf,...
Valkyries bring Bay Area music stars to WNBA Finals
The Golden State Valkyries have assembled a Bay Area-heavy entertainment lineup for their first two WNBA Finals games at Chase Center in San Francisco.
