A former Alameda County firefighter wanted on a federal child pornography charge may have staged his own death after allegedly disappearing in Suisun Bay in 2023, the FBI said.

This Tahoe ski area brought in a giant freezer unit to begin blanketing its slope with artificial snow as early as October.

Sen. Bernie Sanders represents a tiny state on the opposite coast, but continues to be one of the most powerful messengers in California politics.

An 80-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison — with parole eligibility in seven years — for murdering a teenage girl who was visiting San Francisco in 1978, prosecutors said.

Steph Curry told reporters at the Warriors’ first day of training camp he took a “less is more” approach to offseason work after knee trouble wiped out two months of his 2025-26 season.

California’s high-speed rail officials said all options remain on the table as they cast about for the ideal site to build a station in Merced.

One person was injured after gunfire was reported in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, police said.

Alameda County prosecutors filed murder charges against the couple accused of killing their son-in-law in a park in Dublin. He was an engineering director at the New York Times and father of three.

Officials identified an 80-year-old man killed in an Inner Richmond crash as the city’s pedestrian death toll reached 13 this year.

Union Square is seeing more foot traffic and fewer vacancies — and that might be a problem for the small businesses who helped bootstrap its recovery.

An unplanned outage Wednesday near the Ferry Building lasted several hours, disrupting businesses as commuters arrived downtown.

Leona Bridges served on the city’s retirement board and helped students through a permanent scholarship fund at S.F. State.

The reports, briefly posted online, examined the deaths of 33 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody between September 2019 and January 2026.

After years of serving as de facto sous chef in his family’s fine dining restaurant, Antoine Chemel has opened his own cocktail bar in San Francisco’s Union Square.

Summer may be over on the calendar, but the Bay Area is ending September with heat — and more warmth is coming through the weekend.

Both had been built by Oakland School of the Arts students and donated to the homeless mothers eight years ago.

The constant, cavalier way drivers sneak into the bus-only lane has become a source of frustration to California Highway Patrol officers who are writing $490 tickets to violators.

A yearslong battle over how to balance historic preservation and housing construction in San Francisco’s landmark-rich North Beach neighborhood has taken an unexpected turn.

After nearly a decade of supplying Bay Area brewers with a local alternative to industrial malt, the pioneering Admiral Maltings will close both its Alameda production facility and taproom.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Sen. Scott Wiener’s SB 747 Tuesday as part of a slate of bills designed to combat the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Scientists have long studied the connection between diet and mood. A new UCSF trial offers another clue about how the two may be linked.

Fans started noticing a change in the signature, garish color of It’s-It mint ice cream sandwich. Quietly, the Bay Area company had tweaked its iconic treat.

Golden State coach Steve Kerr was adamant on the first day of camp in Hawaii that the Warriors will play more five-out offense. But Kristaps Porzingis’ absence hampers their prep.

Buster Posey and Tony Vitello were frank about the San Francisco Giants’ failures, but got much more vague about solutions, their pitchers’ Pride Night protest and Harrison Bader’s future.

Months before he was killed, a 40-year-old games engineering director at the New York Times alleged his wife and in-laws abused him for being transgender, court records show.

Two people died and three others suffered injuries after a major crash in East Palo Alto that involved seven vehicles.

San Francisco is still lagging far behind state housing mandates to permit 82,000 units by 2031, even as dozens of city-owned properties sit vacant or underused.

An investigation into the Dome Fire, which continues to burn near Wawona, found an abandoned campfire sparked the blaze earlier this month.

A Caltrans worker was injured after being struck by a motorist on the right shoulder of northbound I-680 near McKee Road in San Jose, according to the California Highway Patrol.

MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle warns in her latest book, “Artificial Intimacy,” that AI chatbots like ChatGPT may weaken empathy, distort relationships and reshape human connection.

This updated property map tells you who owns any building in California. Plug in any address and instantly see who owns it.

A pedestrian died after being struck by a vehicle at Anza Street and Arguello Boulevard in San Francisco’s Richmond District, police said.

Golden State’s Draymond Green will play on an expiring contract this season (again), as head coach Steve Kerr asks him to embrace a shifting role in a “reimagined” Warriors offense.

Is this the same old Deebo Samuel, or something more? In his 49ers return, the veteran is proving to be exactly what they need, a WR with elite speed and the drive to dismiss doubters.

BTS star RM touched down in the Bay Area to celebrate the opening of his new exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. “RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me” opens to the public on Oct....

The Chico High School grad accused of killing two men at a public library — a shooting allegedly inspired by the Columbine massacre — will face a jury trial, Butte County prosecutors said.

With the wide receiver room down several would-be starters, the San Francisco 49ers added one of their recent draft busts, Dante Pettis, to the practice squad.

When Tiffany Hayes came right out and told Golden State Valkyries head coach Natalie Nakase this team could win the WNBA title, it was coming from ample experience as well as her competitive drive.

One of the Bay Area’s most popular bike rides just became much safer with the opening of a new paved riding trail near the Golden Gate Bridge.

Tom Cruise delivers one of his boldest performances in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Digger” — an ambitious climate satire, a flawed but unforgettable vision of America’s despair.

K-pop star Taemin has postponed his Bay Area concert, along with the entire North American leg of his world tour, because key touring and production personnel are still waiting for U.S. visas.

After nearly a decade of supplying Bay Area brewers with a local alternative to industrial malt, the pioneering Admiral Maltings will close both its Alameda production facility and taproom.

Prosecutors have charged a San Francisco bar owner with robbery and assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly attacked someone with a baseball bat over the weekend.

A judge has lifted what has been more than two decades of federal monitoring of the Oakland Police Department, bringing an end to the longest-running oversight of a police department in U.S....

The two proposals also reveal diverging priorities as to what should be considered historic and at what cost to new housing.

A body was recovered from the water between Alcatraz Island and Treasure Island, according to the San Francisco Fire Department.

A former Alameda County firefighter wanted on a federal child pornography charge may have staged his own death after allegedly disappearing in Suisun Bay in 2023, the FBI said.

San Francisco rents set yet another record in September, with median prices posting double-digit gains from a year ago. Rents are also surging elsewhere in the Bay Area.

Intentionally addressing trans people with their birth name or previous gender at University of California schools is permissible under freedom of speech rights, federal judge rules.

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted to suspend and file administrative charges against the president of a law enforcement oversight panel after a city investigation found he broke the law.