Hey San Francisco-bound commuters, you probably won't get to work on time today, thanks to heavy traffic slowing the drive on the Bay Bridge this morning. A big rig reportedly crashed with another vehicle just before 6 a.m., causing injuries and ...
KTVU blamed the National Transportation Safety Board for supplying fake Asiana pilot names. Then it invoked copyright law to cover up its now-infamous broadcast gaffe. Now, KTVU might have finally gotten to the root of the problem. Yesterday l...
The San Francisco Giants are packing up for a trip to the White House for the second time in three years, where President Barack Obama will pat them on the back for their 2012 World Series victory over the Detroit Tigers . Obama, who you might re...
Melvil Dewey of decimal system fame would likely have been shocked at the notion of heading to the library to peruse CDs, DVDs, or virtual farming games. Also: insects. They had insects in the 19th century too, and insects did find their way into l...
A moving train: Enjoy it while it lasts If you haven't marked Aug. 4 on your calendar, do it now. That's the second most important day of the year (your birthday is first, of course). That's the day BART workers either will or will not walk off t...
The things we do to be sorta sexy. Over in Japan, men and women have latched on to this new trend called snail facials, which are exactly what they sound like: Slimy molluscs crawling on your face. Right now, it's all the rage in Asia, but seeing h...
San Francisco police are desperate to find missing 19-year-old Ryan McCusker who is considered to be "at-risk." On July 19, McCusker was in Massachusetts and said that he was headed to San Francisco to harm himself. On Tuesday, July 23, investigato...
To scientists at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory , an idle smartphone isn't just an oblong slab chugging battery juice and waiting for its green bar to fatten. It's actually a storage unit bursting with potential energy, which, if filtered ...
Two people were taken to the hospital this afternoon after being shot by a group of men in the city's Bayview District. Officer Albie Esparza had very few details at this time, but said that at 4:11 p.m. the cops were called to the intersection of ...
Car Talk on the floor of Congress. " Alas. After self-destructing via a particularly ignominious crotch-shot Tweeting scandal, his hopes to succeed Mike Bloomberg as New York City mayor went flaccid with the revelation of an ongoing sexting bing...
With all the studies going around showing just how awesome San Francisco is , we were a bit reticent to print another. However, we also felt you deserve kudos for all your hard work at the office, since you won't be getting that raise anytime soon. ...
Sundar Pichai, Google SVP of Android and Chrome, speaks at the Google event in S.F. this morning. As he he opened the Google event in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood this morning, Sundar Pichai noted that Google has had a very busy few we...
Courtesy of BART BART unions might want more money and better benefits , but BART passengers want nicer, cleaner, and more spacious commutes. Well, they just might get what they're asking for -- commuters that is. Yesterday afternoon BART re...
Summer vacation took a venomous turn for two East Bay kids this week, one who was bitten by a rabid bat and another who was bitten by a Rattlesnake that was reportedly sunbathing in a grassy field. The first incident happened Saturday when a teen...
Yes, that is exactly what it looks like Has anyone else noticed that PETA's demonstrations have gotten progressively more ... naked ? Consider this a warning: If you were planning on using your lunch break tomorrow to pick up a new down comfort...
A couple of San Francisco residents are doing what they can locally to halt gun violence with the power of crowd funding. Ian Johnstone and Eric King started an indiegogo campaign to raise $20,000, which would go toward a gun buyback program in San F...
Illustration by Audrey Fukuman . The whirring of thousands of bicycle chains is a magical sound. And, not so long ago in the grand scheme of things, thousands whirred up Market Street. Male cyclists were dressed as ladies. Bikes were done up...
Of course Bridgette Carroll has coverage for her sailboat. "We have insurance for natural things," she says. Unfortunately, her 26-footer, the Slowly But Surely , suffered something of an unnatural disaster. "I haven't looked to see if we have an i...
The ball sailed lazily through the temperate San Diego night and settled in Gregor Blanco's mitt. Tim Lincecum nonchalantly raised his right fist. He cracked a grin when Buster Posey grabbed him from behind and lifted him clean off the pitcher's mou...
Trayvon Martin was shot in Florida, but his face quilted downtown Oakland last week, endlessly repeated on paper signs like a rose pattern entwined on wallpaper. As protesters marched through the city's downtown corridor waving Martin's picture and ...
Photograph and direction by Mike Koozmin. Design by Audrey Fukuman. Billy Sell was not, by any means, a sympathetic character. He'd earned a double life sentence for attempted first-degree… More >>
When six frustrated pot entrepreneurs got together to launch TheNug.com, an Oakland-based site dedicated to "weed, women, and other important stuff," they thought they'd stumbled on an Internet gold mine.… More >>
Not quite a year ago, a crippled 60-foot Muni articulated bus was hauled to Smith & Tobey 24-hour Towing. Muni buses break down all the time — but this was… More >>
A Muni operator's job entails driving the vehicle from Point A to Point B — but it's still a decent thing to thank him or her when you disembark. The Muni… More >>
Evidently, rideshare start-ups — or "Transportation Network Companies" per the new patois — aren't the only businesses to benefit from an impending BART strike. A Santa Monica parking directory service… More >>
The Bridge is Out, Then In The great news is that the new Bay Bridge will open on time. The bad news is that the Bay Bridge will be closed for… More >>
Picking Fruit Online Reading way into what the grocery store has come to represent: The grocery store is now only for the rich or those with food stamps, everyone else has… More >>
Illustration by Audrey Fukuman. Only a few hours ago, the strawberry was sitting on a vine at a family-owned farm in Watsonville, about 90 miles south of San Francisco. But,… More >>
At the corner of Townsend and The Embarcadero, outside AT&T; Park, an unusual sort of panhandler has appeared. They don't seek handouts; they seek autographs. Dylan Courier, 18, is on the… More >>
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" is a simple enough concept. And yet, applying it to on-the-ground situations often leads to profoundly unintended consequences — there's a reason… More >>