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Tens of thousands of FIFA World Cup fans used public transit to leave Santa Clara after Tuesday's late-night match. Thirty minutes after the match ended at 11:08 p.m., the lines stretched down Tasman Drive coming toward the Lick Mill station.

San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain caught fire as it was being disassembled on Wednesday morning, sending plumes of smoke into the sky as flames licked the sculpture’s 10-ton cantilevered arms.

Drone footage from the "No Kings" protest at Ocean Beach 🎥 Adam Pardee

Beachgoers at Crissy Field caught a surprise whale sighting in San Francisco Bay Friday afternoon.

Bay Area food company Mezzetta is recalling jars of peperoncini after a viral video appeared to show a dead rodent inside one. 🎥: Courtesy of Tiffany Grazier @reizargt on TikTok

A video shared by the Rocklin Police Department shows a herd of goats en route to their next wildfire prevention job. In Rocklin, the animals are used to clear dense, flammable vegetation in high-risk areas, offering an alternative to mechanical or chemical brush removal.

Part of the Santa Cruz pier collapsed on Monday amid powerful waves along the California coastline, the National Weather Service said on X.

The pairing of nine inch nails' raw alt rock with German Iraqi electronic producer Alex Ridha’s (who records under the moniker 𝘽𝙊𝙔𝙎 𝙉𝙊𝙄𝙕𝙀) twisted, deep house-techno couldn't have been more ingenious at Coachella.

A 90-year-old man crashed his car into a coffee shop in Los Gatos on Thanksgiving night and police say alcohol may have played a role.

In 2018, Megan Isadore witnessed a river otter drowning a brown pelican in Point Reyes, a species she said otherwise has few known predators. Isadore had never observed hunting behavior like this before.

Passenger sitting in stalled Waymo at Masonic and Geary due to traffic lights being out. Approximately 130,000 San Francisco customers are without power after an outage impacted a large swath of the city on Saturday. 🎥 Gillian Mohney / SFGATE

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Purchasing the San Francisco Giants' 9-9-9 challenge box gets you nine mini dogs, nine glasses (an estimated 3-4 ounces) and a tall can of Coors Light. But the beer is not enough to fill every glass up to the level that anyone would consider a regular pour.

On Monday, Waymo reported two 15-year-olds to the San Mateo Police Department who allegedly were drinking “afternoon libations” inside the autonomous vehicle and shooting water bead guns from the car, the department said in a Facebook post.

Five whale watchers got a front-row seat Sunday as a family of orcas tore through a pod of dolphins in Monterey Bay during an unusually intense feeding event. Their captain caught the encounter on video.

Academy Award winner Sam Rockwell was born in Daly City and raised in San Francisco, and whenever he comes back, he always hits up the Mission. The actor was in the Bay Area on Thursday for the Mill Valley Film Festival, promoting his new film “Wild Horse Nine.”

"No Kings" human banner at San Francisco's Ocean Beach on Saturday 🎥 Adam Pardee/for SFGATE

San Francisco said farewell Friday to a section of its prized oceanside boulevard, the Great Highway. The city is getting a park in its place, which is scheduled to open in April, but not everyone is happy with the trade.

Demolition began over the weekend on Chinatown's pedestrian bridge over Kearny Street — known to generations of skateboarders as "China Banks." The bridge was built by the Hilton to connect Portsmouth Square to its lobby and comes down as part of the square's overhaul.

San Francisco’s massive Fourth of July fireworks celebration was mostly hidden — in pure San Francisco fashion — by a thick fog deck.

Until this fall, visitors won’t be able to bring dogs, on or off leash, to parts of the Presidio, as coyote pups grow big enough to venture out on their own.

It’s not even 9:30 a.m. and thousands of Swiss fans are already chanting, lighting flares, drinking beers and marching down Tasman Drive towards Levi's® Stadium. Kickoff for the Bay Area’s first 2026 FIFA World Cup matches between Switzerland and Qatar is at noon.

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

In order to escape the record-setting heat, many 49ers fans are choosing to watch the game on TVs throughout the Levi's Stadium concourse 🎥 Angie Simon

Oakland Zoo’s newest addition — Crimson, a 3-week-old male mountain lion cub — was rescued last Friday after being orphaned in Southern California.

Kesha's tour of Bay Area bars continues. Last month, the pop star made an impromptu appearance at the Patio in Palo Alto, where she sang “Tik Tok.” Last week, she hit Martuni’s, the classy SF piano bar on Market and Valencia streets, for another unscheduled performance.

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.

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.