The Lesher Center hosts three days of unscripted comedy Oct. 16-18, with a festival co-founder saying improv applies to every part of life.

Steamer Landing Park hosts Sonoma County's only artisanal cider festival Oct. 24, with crafts, apple games and free admission for kids.

Rhiannon Lawler and Augustin Garcia died after a driver allegedly ran a red light in Daly City. His license was already suspended for a prior DUI arrest.

Free open studios run two weekends starting Saturday, with a Petaluma artist who once designed Disney rides among the 160 participants.

Two council members were absent as East Palo Alto fell one vote short of honoring Oct. 7 victims, reigniting a fight over an earlier antisemitism measure.

The San Francisco firm pays homeowners and businesses to shift power use so data centers can skip the grid queue.

Keron Lamotte, 22, was gunned down watching a mural get painted at Plymouth and Broad. Police say the trail has gone cold.

Eric Washington, 26, faces felony charges after a 2023 shooting sent a car crashing into a Lone Tree Way median.

Strawberry Village now hosts Ernesta's second California showroom, with to-the-inch rugs delivered in as little as two weeks.

The free, one-night Market Street Arts & Theater Festival lands Oct. 17 with aerialists, drag karaoke on a cable car, and 15,000 nearby theater seats.

A structure fire near Shelter Cove jumped into brush Wednesday, but crews stopped it in under three hours.

Kait Bauman and Angelo De Lorenzi’s third spot lands in the old L’mida space, with rabbit roulade and a bone-marrow luge on the menu.

Prosecutors charged a 36-year-old man with five offenses after a woman awoke mid-assault near Bayshore Boulevard. SFPD is again pointing victims toward its Special Victims Unit.