By Taylor Romine and Chimaine Pouteau, CNN (CNN) — Oakland’s airport has changed its name from “Metropolitan Oakland International” to “San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport” after a unanimous vote by the city’s Board of Port Commissioners on Thursday – despite a trademark lawsuit from neighboring San Francisco. “With the new name, the Port aims
By Taylor Romine and Chimaine Pouteau, CNN (CNN) — Oakland’s airport has changed its name from “Metropolitan Oakland International” to “San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport” after a unanimous vote by the city’s Board of Port Commissioners on Thursday – despite a trademark lawsuit from neighboring San Francisco. “With the new name, the Port aims
By Taylor Romine and Chimaine Pouteau, CNN (CNN) — Oakland’s airport has changed its name from “Metropolitan Oakland International” to “San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport” after a unanimous vote by the city’s Board of Port Commissioners on Thursday – despite a trademark lawsuit from neighboring San Francisco. “With the new name, the Port aims
If you got the chance to paint a "Painted Lady," why not paint it an extraordinary way? That's exactly what artist Xavi Panneton did. Last summer, he took the opportunity to give a historic San Francisco Victorian a stunning makeover. Located in Duboce Triangle, this house was transformed to stand out among its traditional neighbors. — Read the rest
An exciting expansion to the WNBA is bringing a team to the San Francisco
The collective blood pressure in West Berkeley may have lowered significantly in recent days as a new roundabout just opened at one of the most dreaded intersections in the Bay Area. Caltrans announced last week that the Gilman Street interchange, which has made drivers fear for their lives for decades, opened two sections of its multi-year infrastructure project to the public on May 11. These include a bike and pedestrian overpass that travels above Interstate 80 near Gilman Street and a...
This year, Kyle Shanahan’s club is hoping to go all the way.
Former rivals are working together again. After nearly a year of running against each another in California's Senate race, Rep. Adam Schiff appeared alongside Rep. Barbara Lee at a Washington fundraiser partially to help the Oakland congresswoman raise money for "debt retirement purposes," according to a copy of the invite obtained by The Times. The event came the same day Lee announced her endorsement of Schiff in his head-to-head contest this November against former baseball player Steve...
Flight attendants had to break up a fight between two men on a flight that started after one sat in the other's seat because he wanted a break from another passenger's incessant coughing.
What would you say if I told you that the hottest restaurant in San Francisco right now is an unmarked ramen counter that doesn’t have a phone number, doesn’t let you pick your courses and charges right around $200 a head? You’d probably be surprised — didn’t the pandemic kill off this sort of dining trend? — and then a touch resigned. Of course San Francisco still has this kind of restaurant. Of course yuppies all across this city would sell all of their Dogecoin to get a reservation. As long...
The right-hander has spent parts of four seasons in Major League Baseball.
One of San Francisco's signature events took to the streets Sunday, filling the city with runners attired in salmon costumes, wedding dresses or nothing at all. Bay to Breakers, a 12K race from the Embarcadero to Ocean Beach, has been run in the city since 1912. Runners left the starting line at 8 a.m., with the first finishers reaching Ocean Beach in less than 40 minutes. Less serious athletes meandered through the hills of San Francisco, stopping for the occasional tipple along the way. After...