San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced that Waymo has received a permit to begin testing for the expected launch of robotaxi service to International Airport.

Waymo has spent years locked in back-and-forth negotiations with SFO, the biggest airport serving its home base of Silicon Valley.

The 308-foot-long “pleasure craft,” called AV, departed from Vancouver and arrived in the Bay Area earlier this month, MarineTraffic.com’s website says. Bearing a Cayman Islands flag, it’s been previously spotted in Cabo, Ibiza, and San Diego, among several other international locations, photos uploaded by users show.

A San Francisco supervisor who pushed to turn a 2-mile stretch of highway into a car-free park faces a recall vote in his district.

The charges are in connection with a deadly stabbing that happened on Sept. 10​ at the intersection of Junipero Serra and Ocean Avenue.

SAN FRANCISCO - Summer is over but tourism in California and San Francisco is not. One of the driving factors this year is large events like the Workday Rising conference at the Moscone Center, which kicks off Monday and goes through Sept. 18. Workday said they are expecting 30,000 attendees from 76 countries.

San Francisco voters on Tuesday will get the chance to weigh in on the recall election of Supervisor Joel Engardio.

A minor, 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 3 p.m. Pacific time about 5 miles east of Clayton, Calif., data from the agency shows. U.S.G.S. data earlier reported that the magnitude was 3.5.

Robert Paul Byrd II, 35, had picked up his 8-year-old son at the school shortly before 5 p.m. The two were walking, holding hands, in a crosswalk at Junipero Serra Boulevard and Ocean Avenue when Byrd was stabbed by a man with whom he’d had “an altercation,” according to police.

For chef Samin Nosrat, the Bay Area and its restaurants represent key moments through the last 30 years of her life. “I was born and grew up in San Diego, and I moved to the Bay Area in 1997,” she says,