San Francisco has become America's foremost symbol of gentrification, lack of affordable housing, and twentysomethings who inexplicably make ten times more than you ever will. Scientists say the earthquake that will wipe it all away is now "locked and loaded."
Where do you have to be born to say that you're from a given city and not be lying? Back in August, prompted by a New Republic article called "Don't Say You're From the City If You're Really From the 'Burbs," we asked you—Gawker readers—to tell us the real borders of some of America's largest cities. Here are your…
A pair of deer looking to check out the tourist sights of San Francisco stopped traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge when they went for a leisurely Friday evening stroll. Heading toward Marin County, the deer just wanted to take in the beauty of the bay like any other vacationing couple.
Earlier this morning, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck California's Napa Valley, sending wine bottles crashing to the ground and knocking out power across the region.
The San Francisco Examiner reports that a San Francisco State University professor was charged with 15 misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy after secretly filming students in his home bathroom.
Here's a story to boost your confidence in airport security and the overall safety of women everywhere: An apparently drunk, 53-year-old man was arrested at the San Francisco airport Tuesday after allegedly convincing two women he was a TSA agent and ushering them into a private area to give them pat downs.
In a unanimous vote on Friday, it was decided by members of the Golden Gate Bridge's district in San Francisco that a massive steel net would be implemented on the bridge to prevent suicides. The project is to cost $76 million.
The US National Transportation Safety Board announced Tuesday during a hearing that pilot "mismanagement" likely caused the Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco last July. Mismanagement, according to the Board, includes the flight crew's over-reliance on "automated systems that they did not fully understand."
KRON 4's "People Behaving Badly" is a recurring segment that wags a finger at the Bay Area's rude assholes for their minor transgressions, uniting its audience through the power of mutual hatred. But it transcended its mission in a recent segment when one of those assholes tried to fight back.
A 2-year-old boy visiting San Francisco with his family from Utah was killed after a dolphin statue outside a store in the city's Fisherman's Wharf fell on him. Police are investigating whether the store, Majestic Collection Art Gallery, was in violation for having the statue on a busy walkway.
The United States Postal Service, who has historically held antiquated beliefs regarding the LGBT community, have now marched into modernity with a stamp that honors gay rights activist Harvey Milk. The stamp was unveiled in a ceremony on Thursday and is in circulation now.
A northern California couple who found $10 million in rare coins buried in their backyard may not get to see any of that money—there's evidence the coins were stolen during a turn-of-the-century heist, which would mean they belong to the government.
Walking is the only pleasant form of traveling by land. You need no special equipment, training, money, e-tickets, antidepressants, or Twitter followers. Whatever clothes you're wearing will do fine; a hat and shoes are optional. When I've got a few days to spend somewhere, I spend them walking around. So I spent a…
Asiana Airlines was just fined $500,000 for failing to assist passengers and their families in the aftermath of last year's deadly San Francisco airport crash. Federal officials say the airline took as long as five days to notify family members and failed to provide other federally-required assistance.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman's will was filed in a Manhattan Surrogate Court this morning, and his last wish was for his 10-year-old son to be raised somewhere with culture.
In January, two little entrepreneurs girls wanted to set up a stand outside their San Francisco (duh) home to sell cookies and lemonade. That business plan just wasn't disruptive enough for their mother, Holly, a tech worker in the city, who set the girls up with a "wallet" for the anonymous digital currency Bitcoin…
A new weekly magazine called California Sunday was announced this morning, and reaction was immediate and joyous. The very creative business idea is to put the print mag inside the state's biggest Sunday papers, while having all the websites and apps that are exciting to new-media people but can't charge Sunday paper…
That California drought emergency we told you about yesterday is official now. Governor Jerry Brown officially declared it this morning in San Francisco. "We ought to be ready for a long, continued, persistent effort to restrain our water use," says Brown. If it's yellow, let it mellow, etc.
Oakland, California, is both the robbery capital of America and one of the country's most expensive places to live. In acknowledgement of this dystopian situation, BART police will escort you and your holiday gifts from the train station to your car. Or, they may shoot you for no reason at all.
From the Rocky Mountains to the East Coast, America is struggling with ice storms and blizzards and general misery. The winter weather has been especially tough on Californians. Many of us don't own gloves, or forgot where we put them several years ago after we got home from Mammoth or Tahoe. Few of us have those…
