San Francisco News

Mai Tajina, left, sitting on the shoulders of Greg Hamel attend the Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, Aug. 10, 2012.

Fifty Julys ago, up the road near San Francisco, in the unfortunately named Cow Palace, the Republican National Convention gave its presidential nomination to Arizona senator Barry Goldwater, who knew he would lose: Americans were not going to have a third president in 14 months.

Bullets flying through windows and a double hit-and-run resulted in the injuries of four people on Tuesday in the Bayview, one of whom is an 80-year-old woman.

Among the nurses in the AIDS ward at San Francisco General Hospital during the epidemic's nadir in the denial days of the 1980s, Steve K. stood out. "People always asked me how I stayed so calm, why nothing bothered me," he said Tuesday. The answer: he was stoned the whole time during his 35-year-long daily marijuana habit.

I need to develop a system whereby if anyone in Northern California is even thinking of establishing a jazz venue, that information is immediately transmitted to me via some form of ESP or Vulcan mind meld or something.

Looking for a way to unwind? Check out the Mandarin Oriental's new "Spa Happy Hour" offering.

San Francisco's appetite for underground dinners seems to be insatiable. Five-year-old Lazy Bear has become one of Yelp's highest-rated restaurants and is preparing to open a permanent restaurant in the Mission .

Police are searching for a pair of women they say attacked an ex-boyfriend of one of them and then robbed him.

The owner of California's Bryman College chain -- with campuses in San Jose, Hayward, San Francisco and Los Angeles -- is in financial trouble and could close.

A man was shot and killed on Tuesday night in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood, not too far from where President Barack Obama is staying during his visit to the Bay Area.

The San Francisco outpost of theCorner Bakery Cafe will be the first of 32 cafes the group plans to open in the next five years.

In contrast to their negative reputation as disease causing agents, some viruses can perform crucial biological and evolutionary functions that help to shape the world we live in today, according to a new report.

The man was sleeping inside a dumpster full of cardboard when it was picked up Tuesday morning by a Recology truck in the city's Sunset District.

A young man died after a hole he dug on a Northern California beach collapsed and trapped him in the sand for at least five minutes, authorities said Tuesday.

A 40-year-old Sausalito man has been identified as the victim of an alleged murder in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco.

The Board of Supervisors voted 6-4 on Tuesday to put a 2-cent-per-ounce tax on sodas, sports drinks and other beverages sweetened with sugar.

It sounds absurd, and Urban Green eventually announced it would not evict Mary Phillips .

Distribution of tickets for President Barack Obama's speech this week at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College will begin at 8:30 a.m. today at the college's Aspen Hall.