SF News Day Around the Bay: California Delays Revoking Immigrants' Commercial Driver’s Licenses The SFPD has a new assistant police chief; some lady in Palo Alto is accused of pepper spraying a family in a road rage incident; and 17,000 immigrant truck drivers will not lose their licenses next week as had been planned.
SF News New Residential Tower Nearly as Tall as Transamerica Pyramid Gets Approved A new tower in the middle of the city that will change the San Francisco skyline once more gained its approvals Tuesday after being stalled for years.
SF Politics Scott Wiener’s Law Banning ICE Agents From Wearing Masks Takes Effect Thursday. Will ICE Abide? State Senator Scott Wiener got a law passed prohibiting ICE agents from wearing face coverings in California. We’ll find out when it goes into effect Thursday whether ICE agents will follow that law.
SF News Man Fatally Shot Inside East Bay IHOP Where He Worked We're now getting some details about a Monday homicide in Richmond in which a man was killed in the restaurant kitchen where he worked.
SF Politics Billionaires Going Berserk on Twitter Over Proposed California Billionaire Tax There’s a signature drive to put a 5% “billionaire tax” on the California ballot. It has not collected even one signature, but the billionaires are freaking out on Twitter with grand tantrums saying they will leave the state en masse.
SF News LGBTQ Senior Housing Concern Openhouse to Build New 15-Story Tower Near Castro Neighborhood The organization that built an LGBTQ-focused senior housing complex on Laguna Street in the last decade secured funding earlier this month for a significant expansion on the other side of Market Street, with a new 15-story, 187-unit building.
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Skrillex is Playing Pier 80 Tonight, So Expect Noise Complaints From Both Sides of the Bay Windows will likely rattle everywhere from Potrero Hill to Alameda island Tuesday night, as ravelords Skrillex and Four Tet are playing Pier 80 in a show whose sound check last night indicated that things are going to get very loud.
SF Politics Almost Would-Be SF Supervisor Beya Alcaraz Sued For Unpaid Rent In a piece of the ongoing epilogue to San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie's most high-profile blunders, his appointee to the Board Supervisors Beya Alcaraz is now being sued by a former landlord over allegedly unpaid rent for her former pet store.
SF News Car Theft Suspects Allegedly Ram Into Four San Ramon Police Cruisers; One Officer Injured, Two Suspects Arrested The attempted bust of a stolen vehicle ring went sideways in San Ramon Sunday night, as the suspects allegedly started ramming into police cars and left one officer with minor injuries, and two of the four suspects got away.
SF News San Francisco Man Arrested for Animal Cruelty After Allegedly Killing Dog San Francisco police arrested a man Monday in the area of Mission Rock for allegedly beating a dog to death, and he was booked on suspicion of felony animal cruelty.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Big Rig Overturns In Livermore A big rig overturned on an on-ramp in Livermore this morning; the fight over Trump's H-1B visa fee moves to an appeals court; and Santa Clara is getting excited about this weekend's Niners-Seahawks matchup.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Measles Case Confirmed In Contra Costa County A person infected with measles might have exposed others at multiple Walnut Creek stores before Christmas; Benihana is opening 10 new Bay Area locations; and Republicans continue trying to erase the history of January 6th.
SF News Take That, Fox News: SF Crime Was Down 25.5% in 2025, Third Straight Year SF Crime Went Down More evidence that the national narrative about crime in San Francisco is complete baloney, as the city sees its third straight year of crime rates plummeting, this year by a full 25.4% reduction in crime across the board.
SF News SF Businesses Still Fuming Over PG&E Outages, PG&E Vaguely Indicates They Might Reimburse Businesses More Coming off three SF PG&E outages in a week, west side business owners are demanding more reimbursement from the utility. PG&E says they might oblige, but businesses have to fill out an application and then just hope for the best.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Rapper Budda Mack Takes Over Former Slim's Nightclub, Will Reopen It Next Month as The Budda A new club is coming to 11th Street in San Francisco's SoMa district, from Oakland-born rap artist Budda Mack, and it will be called The Budda.
Arts & Entertainment Five New Year's Eve Parties In SF That You Can Still Grab Tickets For Still don't have any New Year's Eve plans and looking to lock down some tickets and get out of the house? We have a few ideas for you, at least a couple of which won't break the bank, and a couple of which might impress your new paramour.
SF News With Rainy New Year's Eve Ahead, SF Hits 105% of Average Rainfall For the rain year to date, which began on October 1, San Francisco and Oakland are both above normal in terms of rainfall, and the rain total is only set to rise further before 2025 is out.
SF News Remember, Everybody, Muni Is Free Again on New Year’s Eve, BART Will Be Running Extra Late-Night Trains Muni will be absolutely free on New Year's Eve for the 17th year in a row, and while BART will not be free, the BART system will let you catch trains almost up until (but not quite until) the 2 am last call at the bars.
SF News Family Says Woman's Body Found Near Santa Cruz Is That of Missing Swimmer Possibly Killed By Shark The body of a woman was found Saturday on a remote beach north of Santa Cruz, and it is likely that of Erica Fox, the 55-year-old woman who disappeared while swimming with an ocean swimmers' group last week.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Win Wild, Roller-Coaster Shootout Over Chicago Bears 42-38, Could Get No. 1 Seed In NFC A barnburner of a Sunday Night Football game saw the 49ers and Bears score a combined 11 touchdowns, but the Niners defense came through in the clutch for a 42-38 win that could give them home-field advantage all playoffs long.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Downtown Oakland Building Burns for Second Time A building in downtown Oakland suffered a fire for the second time this year; a 4.7M earthquake in far northeastern CA was felt in Sacramento; and some siblings helped rescue a family from a fire in Menlo Park.
SF News About 11,000 PG&E Customers Lose Power In SF’s Richmond, Presidio, and Golden Gate Park For the third time in a little over a week, 11,000 customers on the west side of the city experienced a power outage Sunday evening, which took about two-and-a-half hours to restore.
SF News Mammoth Ski Patroller Dies Following Friday Avalanche, Second Sierra Avalanche Buries Snowmobiler A snowmobiler riding with a group near Yosemite Sunday was airlifted to a trauma center after the group set off an avalanche, and one of the ski patrollers who was injured while performing avalanche mitigation work at Mammoth Mountain Friday has died.
SF News Sunday Links: 6,000 PG&E Customers Lose Power in Another Storm-Related Outage A body was found in Monterey Bay near where missing swimmer Erica Fox disappeared; Bay Area tech pioneer Andrew Ng says AI isn’t replacing humans any time soon; and around 6,000 households lost power Saturday following the massive days-long outage earlier in the week.
SF News Petaluma Police Arrest Suspect For Hate Crime Targeting Youth Coach and Former Globetrotter After initially suspending the case due to lack of evidence, Petaluma police arrested a suspect who was allegedly caught on video surveillance tracing racial slurs and swastikas onto the dusty windows of local youth mentor and former Harlem Globetrotter William Bullard’s SUV.
