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An underground electrical fire threw the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District into chaos Thursday morning, prompting evacuations, a shelter-in-place order and gridlock just as commuters arrived for work. Learn more at the link below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 20h

When someone from SFMOMA, San Francisco’s premier modern art museum, reached out to global K-pop sensation BTS' leader, RM, with an offer to curate an exhibition with his personal collection, he jumped at the chance.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 30/09/2026

Skrillex, the “king of dubstep,” and collaborator Boys Noize unleashed wobbly bass and screeching synths during their headlining set as Dog Blood at Portola Music Festival on Saturday.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 29/09/2026

Bay Area food company Mezzetta is recalling jars of peperoncini after a viral video appeared to show a dead rodent inside one.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 29/09/2026

A man posing as an Amazon delivery driver allegedly helped thieves target a Milpitas home while its resident was away on vacation. The broad-daylight burglary left longtime resident Donna Kato shaken and raised questions about the limits of home security systems that rely on Wi-Fi. Story below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 28/09/2026

At San Francisco's Portola Music Festival, no one had any doubt over which song Robyn would close her headlining set with.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 26/09/2026

Hundreds of people gathered in downtown San Francisco this afternoon who were definitely not working 9 to 5. That’s because it was Dolly Day, a celebration of Dolly Parton that took over Union Square with wigs, rhinestones and a whole lot of love for the country music icon. Read more below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 26/09/2026

A new study from UC Davis researchers found that waterways in Alaska’s remote Brooks Range are becoming increasingly vulnerable to acid rock drainage as permafrost thaws. The researchers found some of the affected waters were even more acidic and metal-rich than water draining from mines.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 24/09/2026

Despite its location in one of San Francisco’s most tourist-heavy areas, Fog Harbor Fish House says more than half of its diners live in the Bay Area. It also has more than 13,000 Yelp reviews, the most of any restaurant in the Bay Area.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 21/09/2026

Shermanator, an African Spurred Tortoise and local Bay Area celebrity, takes BART. 🎥: @shermanator209

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 18/09/2026

A mountain lion was found Friday morning in the Outer Sunset on the 2500 block of 44th Avenue, between Ulloa and Vicente streets. Video from San Francisco resident Grace Erickson shows the big cat making its way across her driveway. Read more below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 18/09/2026

The New York Times recently heralded Barbacoa Mejía as one of the best Mexican restaurants in the nation. It's tucked in a maze of tents and shipping containers at the Richmond Flea Market.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 16/09/2026

A California Highway Patrol helicopter crew rescued an injured rock climber stranded on a 700-foot cliff in the Sierra National Forest on Friday. The climber had fallen while scaling Power Dome, a steep rock face near Courtright Reservoir in Fresno County, leaving him unable to climb to safety.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 14/09/2026

We're building a newsroom in Golden Gate Park. Fri, Sept. 18, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., JFK Promenade at 8th Ave: a dozen SFGATE journalists, a response wall, free photo shoots (pets count), and free Shirley Chong totes + posters for Friends of SFGATE. Totally free. RSVP: partiful.com/e/twZyfOnVz6OHs19VXSkV

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 12/09/2026

This 21-year-old California cook is giving the internet a front-row seat to the chaos of a restaurant kitchen — through Meta's AI Ray-Ban glasses.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 11/09/2026

Some people are fans of the San Francisco 49ers. There are also many who are not fans of the San Francisco 49ers. SFGATE columnist Drew Magary reads email submissions from readers about the yearslong troubles that continue to plague the Bay Area team.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 10/09/2026

San Francisco firefighters rappelled down a cliff in the Presidio Wednesday night to rescue a couple stranded by the rising tide. Read more at the link below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 09/09/2026

Four murals along San Francisco’s iconic Clarion Alley were recently damaged, with three painted over entirely and a fourth partially destroyed. Read more below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 06/09/2026

On a clear Saturday night in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, fireworks erupted over a tall wooden statue of a man illuminated with blue, green, and orange LED lights. The man and the 60-foot platform he stood on then exploded into flames. Tens of thousands of Burners watched in awe as he toppled.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 04/09/2026

Turning Burning Man’s toilets into art has become a tradition. Burners like Erick Schultz have been decorating the event's bathrooms for decades.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 02/09/2026

An entire garbage truck was emptied out on Mason Street early Wednesday morning as members of the San Francisco Fire Department frantically searched for a man trapped inside it.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 31/08/2026

A small green wild parrot got its head stuck between two panes of porch glass on Telegraph Hill on Sunday, prompting a delicate rescue by a San Francisco firefighter.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 31/08/2026

A major flash flood swept through Grand Canyon National Park on Saturday, prompting scores of evacuations and an ongoing search and recovery effort. Video taken Saturday evening near the Phantom Ranch ranger station shows Bright Angel Creek flash flooding. Read more below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 29/08/2026

The second day of the Pokémon World Championships is unfolding in downtown SF — and attendees kicked off Saturday morning with a Pikachu-assisted yoga session.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 29/08/2026

Pokémon fans from around the world filed into San Francisco's Moscone Center on Friday to kick off the 2026 Pokémon World Championships and Pokémon XP.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 28/08/2026

Video appears to show a San Francisco Muni operator nodding off moments before the train rear-ended another L-Taraval train on July 31. SFMTA said its initial determination was that operator error caused by fatigue led to the crash. Two passengers were aboard and no injuries were reported.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 26/08/2026

There’s something about "Fogust" that has always felt so uniquely San Francisco. Almost nowhere else in America can you can sip a pint by a fogged-up window while the rest of the country sweats through August.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: 49ers owner Jed York arrested in Ohio over the weekend bit.ly/45L14PK

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 21/08/2026

A paraglider was rescued after crashing into a cliff in Daly City on Wednesday and being left stranded hundreds of feet above the ground. Video from the scene shows a rescuer and the paraglider being hoisted hundreds of feet to a waiting helicopter. Read more below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 21/08/2026

Darth Vader made an unexpected appearance at San Diego City Hall this week to weigh in on the city’s use of Flock surveillance cameras.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 20/08/2026

A bystander pulled a 60-year-old tourist from Upper McDonald Creek and performed CPR after he fell 120 feet at Glacier National Park last week. Ken Nurse began breathing again before rangers stabilized him and a Two Bear Air Rescue crew hoisted him out by helicopter. Read more below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 20/08/2026

Ocean swimmers and experts are reporting increased white shark activity off California’s coast as El Niño warms the water, drawing the animals farther north. Read more below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 20/08/2026

Snowline Saloon, a cherished watering hole in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Yosemite National Park, was destroyed in a massive fire Tuesday night. Read more below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 19/08/2026

In Novato, the famed rotating round house at 4 Harkle Road is for sale for the first time, bundled with six other homes on the 2.25-acre property for $3.3 million. Read more below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 18/08/2026

iniBurger is a family-owned burger chain headquartered in a nondescript Pleasanton shopping center, where customers shuffle around with cheeseburgers, crispy chicken sandwiches and crinkle-cut fries. Co-owner Leeza Popal has a mantra for the staff: Every burger is worth $100,000. Read more below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 18/08/2026

The Long Beach Fire Department and U.S. Coast Guard rescued two Jet Skiers who went missing off Long Beach on Sunday night. Read more below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 17/08/2026

LaRussell spent months out of the spotlight after backlash over “Heaven Sent,” a song that named Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and Hitler alongside Malcolm X and MLK as “heaven sent.” On Sunday, though, nobody at Stern Grove seemed particularly interested in holding a grudge. Read more below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 17/08/2026

Hundreds fluttering overhead near Smith River, 500 miles north of San Francisco. A swarm hovering above tubers floating down the Russian River near Guerneville. And at Lake Merritt in Oakland, squadrons dancing over the grassy hill near Fairyland, mottling the sky. Learn more at the link below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 17/08/2026

Hurricane Lala weakened to a tropical storm Sunday after raking Hawaii with heavy rain and strong winds, sweeping around 100 homes off their foundations on the Big Island. Read more at the link below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 14/08/2026

On Friday, containment of Humboldt County’s MP18 Fire slipped to 5% a drop from 10% two days prior. In a video shared to Facebook on Tuesday, Cal Fire’s Humboldt-Del Norte Unit showed crews working to protect nearby communities and Highway 96 while strengthening containment lines.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 14/08/2026

For generations of San Franciscans, Camp Mather has been where they first learned to ride a bike, catch a fish or spend an entire day outdoors without supervision.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 13/08/2026

Despite being flanked on all sides by similar frozen treat businesses, Milky Flakes owner Billy Rinchin deliberately opened his shop in downtown Walnut Creek and has been mobbed with customers ever since its debut in early July.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 12/08/2026

Navier, an Alameda-based luxury electric yacht startup, uses more than 150-year-old hydrofoil technology to create a boat that can travel faster while using a cleaner electric motor. The company sees it as a game changer for maritime transportation.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 09/08/2026

When actor Joe Keery, aka Djo, trotted onto the Outside Lands stage on Saturday evening, he inspired a high-pitched howl from the crowd that made SFGATE's Dan Gentile think of what it must’ve been like to be at a Beatles concert in the 1960s.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 09/08/2026

Backstage at Outside Lands, there's a nondescript white trailer referred to simply as MCR. Short for "master control room," it's the beating heart of the festival's elaborate livestream operation.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 08/08/2026

When Turnstile’s set at Outside Lands hit its stride, even the VIP section got moving. The five-piece Baltimore band tore through the Sutro Stage, opening the pit to a new generation of hardcore fans as everyone within earshot leaned toward the action. Find the full review at the link below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 08/08/2026

Wet Leg strutted onto the Lands End Stage on Friday afternoon, all muscle and innuendo. Frontwoman Rhian Teasdale, who once embraced a cottagecore aesthetic and flounced around in prairie dresses and bonnets, now looks more like a weightlifting Amazonian rock god. Read more below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 08/08/2026

When Geese frontman Cameron Winter took the microphone at Outside Lands, his permanent frog-in-throat voice kicked off one of the festival’s most hyped sets, with thousands hanging on his every word. Read the full review at the link below.

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 08/08/2026

Geese draws a packed crowd at the Sutro Stage 😍

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 08/08/2026

SFMTA offered free Muni rides to Outside Lands wristband holders on Friday, with extra service on the 5R Fulton Rapid, N Judah and 5X Fulton Express. Riders who took Uber, Lyft or Waymo instead faced steep surge pricing, with some cross-bay and Peninsula trips topping $100.

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