Dozens of drivers in a Sacramento suburb are dealing with damaged and flat tires after hundreds of screws were found scattered over a highway overpass. The city of Elk Grove received numerous reports Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning of damaged tires from the loose screws, KCRA reported. Screws scattered all over a highway in … Read more
A saxophonist who’s gained a massive following on social media for playing to crowds in public spaces drew hundreds of fans to San Francisco’s iconic Palace of Fine Arts — only for officers to swoop in and shut it down. Nathanial Young, whose viral POV videos have gained him hundreds of thousands of followers on … Read more
California’s “lost” mountain towns are about to be found. An ambitious 500-mile single-track trail is being pieced together, reaching from Northern California to Western Nevada, with plans to link 15 far-flung communities once fueled by the Gold Rush, logging, and mining. The mammoth Lost Sierra Route would snake through some of the Golden State’s most … Read more
California is getting ready to turn over a new leaf. The Golden State could be in for an especially eye-popping autumn this year, with forecasters predicting vibrant fall foliage across the Sierra Nevada and parts of Northern California — and revealing when curious nature junkies should hit the road. AccuWeather’s newly released 2026 fall foliage … Read more
A Northern California town with railroad history and mountain scenery has made the national travel rankings of World Atlas, alongside thirteen other small towns in the region. The rankings highlighted the city of Dunsmuir, where it has an old downtown that sits at a Sacramento River canyon. A Northern California town with railroad history and … Read more
Before 49ers star running back Christian McCaffrey and his wife, Olivia Culpo, have their second child together, they wanted to honor another 49ers star with a role in their first child’s life. This was shown with an Instagram Story post that Olivia made on Thursday morning, before the 49ers face the Raiders in a preseason … Read more
Football legend Tom Brady’s business venture into trading cards is off to a smashing start in Northern California — for all the wrong reasons. The former New England Patriot’s brand-new CardVault store in Palo Alto was broken into over the weekend — a little over one week after Brady attended the the grand opening on … Read more
A new video game inspired by the wildly popular “Grand Theft Auto” franchise is generating buzz for letting players explore every inch of a digitized San Francisco. Thijs Simonian, a Stanford University computer science student, introduced the homemade game that he said he built with data from Apple Maps. Players can hang glide over San … Read more
United is offering two new direct flights to two exciting Japanese destinations from Los Angeles and San Francisco as part of the largest global expansion in the airline’s 100-year history. From March 2027, United will offer daily direct flights from Los Angeles LAX to Osaka, the first time an American airline has served the route. … Read more
Sections of Highway 101 in San Francisco will fully close on weekends over the next two months — with transportation officials warning drivers to “stay far away.” The California Department of Transportation has been performing repaving work along about 2 miles of the busy highway running between Cesar Chavez Street and the Mission District. Sections … Read more
Lake Tahoe is seeing so many visitors that fees could be hiked for everything from parking to hiking — inadvertently affecting the locals who are already struggling with the area’s high cost of living. The US Forest Service is proposing new or increased recreation fees at roughly 40 destinations across the Lake Tahoe region, including … Read more
San Francisco 49ers fans are still trying to unpack the fact that team owner Jed York was caught trying to pay just $140 for sex with a prostitute in a Ohio trailer park on Sunday. Comedy is often a great means of coping. 49ers fans have been utilizing this coping method on social media all day. San … Read more
Lady Gaga’s techie fiancée Michael Polansky has quietly launched a buzzy startup that harvests human skin left over from plastic surgery to help develop super-advanced cosmetic products. Polansky, the 42-year old entrepreneur and Harvard grad who got engaged to the Mother Monster in 2024, gave details on the skin-scrawling enterprise Outer Biosciences in an interview … Read more
Nick Bosa has been busy on and off the football field. The 49ers’ star edge rusher has been working his way back from soreness in his surgically repaired right knee but still hopes to play in Week 1 of the regular season against the Rams in Australia. Nick Bosa of the San Francisco 49ers stands … Read more
An unapologetically pro-America “freedom”-branded coffee shop may be opening up in the middle of San Francisco, often criticized as a symbol of lefty excess. Freedom Coffee may soon be opening up on Polk Street, according to building permits obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle. The website for Freedom Coffee does not list any information besides … Read more
Several 49ers WAGs didn’t let the looming season stop them from savoring summertime. This was made very clear by the summer getaway that George Kittle’s wife, Claire, and Kyle Juszczyk’s wife, Kristin, took to Italy, while their husbands were in the thick of training camp. Per usual, Kittle and Juszczyk were active on social media … Read more
Drivers running red lights have become such a serious issue in California’s capital that the city says it may bring back red-light cameras after shutting them down two years ago. Sacramento officials have a proposal to install up to 20 new cameras at intersections with a history of crashes and red-light violations. Potential locations include … Read more
San Francisco 49ers star quarterback Brock Purdy must get used to not being around his daughter, Millie Joleen, all the time, given that the 2026 regular season is starting soon. This will also force Purdy’s wife, Jenna, to confront a family adjustment. And she seemed to allude to this with an Instagram post from earlier … Read more
A sleepy fishing village north of San Francisco that was made famous by one of Hollywood’s most unsettling movies is suddenly the state’s hottest Labor Day getaway. Bodega Bay — the Sonoma County seaside town forever linked to Alfred Hitchcock’s horror movie “The Birds” — has landed among the fastest-rising vacation destinations in America for … Read more
California commuters have crowned the state’s ultimate traffic nightmare — and it’s not in Los Angeles. The infamous “MacArthur Maze” near the Bay Bridge has been ranked the worst commute in California, beating out the notorious freeway gridlock that routinely brings Southern California to a crawl. A new survey from Resume.io asked 3,017 employees how … Read more