SF News Saturday Links: Shark Smacks Surfer in Marin County, Leaves Imprint on Surfboard Tolls on seven Bay Area bridges will increase by 50 cents January 1; a hiker in the South Bay was found safe after he went missing for twelve hours the night of Christmas Eve; and a shark smacked a surfer’s board from below in Marin, but the surfer wasn't injured.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Brentwood Police Fatally Shoot Armed DUI Suspect on Christmas Eve UC Santa Cruz’s famed Lick Observatory was damaged by 114 mile per hour winds; a person in Arkansas is the winner of the $1.8 million Powerball jackpot but hasn't claimed it yet; and an armed DUI suspect was killed by police in the East Bay city of Brentwood.
Arts & Entertainment Christmas Miracle: Oasis Nightclub Saved From Closure With Multi-Million Dollar Philanthropic Gift Just six days before its scheduled permanent closure, popular SoMa nightclub Oasis has been saved with a seven-figure donation to keep the club open, though it’s still closing for the next few months for renovations.
SF News Tahoe and Sierra Ski Resorts Get Much-Needed Snow, But With It Comes Avalanche and Dangerous Traffic Conditions The snow finally arrived in time for Christmas for powder-staved Tahoe skiers, but with that snow came some very treacherous driving conditions, and an avalanche that hospitalized two Mammoth Mountain ski patrollers.
SF News Swimmer in Suspected Monterey Shark Attack Was a Triathlete, Swam at Same Beach for 20 Years The 55-year-old swimmer who went missing during a presumed shark attack in Pacific Grove Sunday was identified as Erica Fox, a triathlete who took part in Escape From Alcatraz for 20 years and swam at Lovers Point every Sunday for two decades.
SF News Four People Injured In Early Friday Morning Shooting In San Jose The O'Brien Tract neighborhood of San Jose saw four people shot on the street in a 3:30 am Friday morning incident, and all four have been hospitalized as police look for answers and for a suspect.
Arts & Entertainment Family of Toddler Killed by Car In Hayes Valley Honors His Legacy With ‘Good Deeds’ Fundraiser Following Islamic tradition, the family of Muhammad Alghazali, the one-and-a-half-year-old boy who was struck and killed by a driver in SF’s Hayes Valley on the morning of December 14, is raising funds for a variety of charities in his name.
SF News SFO's Harvey Milk Terminal 1 Shut Down and Evacuated Due to Suspicious Item Terminal 1 at SFO was temporarily evacuated Friday morning due to a suspicious, unattended item, and passengers on airlines using the terminal were instructed to go through security at the International Terminal.
SF News Flood Risks Remain as Christmas Deluge Tapers Off Around the Bay Hilly streets turned into shallow rivers, Daly City saw significant flooding, fallen trees were reported all over, and SFO continues to see significant flight delays after the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day storms.
SF News Boxing Day Constitutional: 120K Bay Area Households Lost Power on Christmas Day Waymos went out of service in SF again on Christmas Day; Mayor Lurie continues his airing of grievances with PG&E, and that utility also struggled with the storms Thursday with more than 120,000 Bay Area customers losing power.
SF News Tanker Overturns, Leaks Tons of Fuel, and Blocks Traffic For Hours on 101 in South San Jose A driver of a fuel tanker, who was allegedly speeding, collided with a pickup truck on Highway 101 in South San Jose early Christmas morning. Southbound lanes were closed until early Friday morning as authorities in hazmat suits worked to clean up more than 600 tons of spilled fuel.
Arts & Entertainment Redditors Join Forces to Help Abandoned Dog Near Google’s Sunnyvale Office on Christmas Eve When a pit bull, nicknamed “Google,” was abandoned outside Google’s Sunnyvale office the morning of Christmas Eve and animal control was closed, Bay Area Reddit users came together to give it food and water and find it shelter with the help of Sunnyvale police.
SF News Xmas Links: Flood Warnings Issued Across the Bay San Francisco and multiple other locales remained under flood warnings Christmas morning; multiple major roadways were closed due to flooding including westbound Highway 24; and some drivers were reportedly stranded overnight on Donner Summit.
SF News Christmas Eve Around the Bay: Another PG&E Substation Fire and Outage in the South Bay, Power Now Restored A confused Trump Justice Department just “found” a million more Epstein documents; ICE agents shot two people in Maryland; and things go from bad to worse for PG&E as another substation fire knocks out power for 21,000.
Arts & Entertainment Who Knew? Epic Soundtrack to ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ Was Composed by SF Musician, Choir Was From San Rafael The Bay Area’s beagle-prints are all over what is arguably the greatest Christmas album of all time, the ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ soundtrack, as jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi lived here when he wrote and recorded it.
SF News Hayward DUI Suspect Charged With Killing Woman and Seriously Injuring His Own Son, Though He’s Not in Custody An alleged DUI driver stands accused of a drunken 88 MPH crash in Hayward that killed his 20-year-old passenger, seriously injured his own son, and left another passenger comatose. Though oddly, he was released from jail.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soho House Confirms Long-Rumored New Resort In Sonoma's Kenwood Luxury members-only club brand Soho House will be landing in the Bay Area in 2027, but not in San Francisco.
Business & Tech Waymos Were Looking for Human Remote 'Confirmations' at Intersections During Blackout, Company Says It took a blackout across a huge swath of San Francisco for Waymo to figure out that its robot system for handling such situations has a key weakness, which caused huge traffic problems on Saturday.
SF News Staff at Fillmore Low-Income Housing Complex Accused of Stealing Tenants’ Christmas Gifts There was some next-level Grinchy behavior at a Fillmore District housing complex, with the maintenance staff apparently caught on camera pilfering the tenants’ Christmas gifts, and the low-income tenants are now out thousands of dollars.
SF News Flooding Shuts Down Hamilton Avenue In Menlo Park, Near Meta Campus A main thoroughfare through Menlo Park's Belle Haven neighborhood, adjacent to the Meta campus, flooded overnight in one of the Bay Area's first significant flooding events in this storm.
SF News Christmas Eve Morning Links: Beware the New GrubHub Email Bitcoin Scam PG&E warns of further outages during the storm; a developer seeks to build new housing in Stinson Beach; and a scam email went out to GrubHub users asking them to send Bitcoin.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Christmas Eve Powerball Jackpot Will Be $1.7 Billion There’s a massive storm rolling in if you haven’t noticed; the latest Epstein file drop is chock full of Donald Trump mentions; and the Christmas Eve Powerball drawing will be for a cool $1.7 billion.
Business & Tech Report: Elon Musk’s DOGE Did Not Decrease Government Spending, Actually Increased It A detailed new analysis finds that the federal government is spending more money than it did before Elon Musk’s “eliminating waste" DOGE program came to town, and that most of the supposed cost savings were simply just math errors.
Arts & Entertainment Let’s Look Back at the 1978 Christmas Eve Art Heist at the de Young Museum, Where the Thieves Never Got Caught On Christmas Eve 1978, burglars stole tens of millions worth of paintings from the de Young Museum. This is their story, though the Rembrandt painting they stole ended up being worth little, because Rembrandt didn’t paint it.
Arts & Entertainment Curran Theatre Sold for $13.7M, Far Less Than Most Giants Players Make In a Year It seems the San Francisco Giants acquired the historic Curran Theatre for a song, and the sale came at a significant loss for seller Carole Shorenstein Hays.
