SF News

Day Around the Bay: Search Underway For Missing Elderly Woman In Mill Valley

A 27-year-old San Francisco man has been convicted in the 2022 shooting deaths of his father and stepmother; Pacifica residents are in an Airbnb limbo; and a search is underway for a missing 73-year-old woman in Mill Valley.

SF News

East Bay Man Charged With Triple-Murder Over East Oakland Liquor Store Pot Deal Gone Bad

A 40-year-old man is charged with shooting and killing three people at the Sky Market corner store in Oakland's Woodland neighborhood, and the whole dispute was apparently an illicit marijuana deal gone wrong.

Business & Tech

Google Settles Class-Action Suit Over Voice Assistant Eavesdropping For $68M

Google/Alphabet has agreed to pay $68 million to customers who used its voice assistant and whose words were unwittingly recorded and shared with advertisers.

SF News

Yes, ICE Says Their Agents Will Be All Over the Place at the Super Bowl In Santa Clara

ICE may be bogged down in controversy for shooting and killing people in Minnesota, but they insist they’re not backing down on previously announced plans to have next weekend’s Santa Clara Super Bowl crawling with ICE agents.

SF Politics

Three Months Ago, San Francisco Was Hours Away From Sharing the Fate of Minneapolis

Were it not for a last-minute reversal by President Trump, brokered in secret by a couple of billionaires and SF's mayor, San Francisco and Oakland could have easily descended into the same violent chaos, provoked by an ICE invasion, that we're seeing in Minneapolis.

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SF Crypto Baron and Political Megadonor Kicks Down $5 Million to Revitalize Tenderloin's Larkin Street

Ripple Labs co-founder Chris Larsen is back with another splashy donation, this time $5 million for a plan to add new security gates to businesses on Larkin Street, plus to power-wash the sidewalks more and put up more lights.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Prominent Cafe Flore Space In Castro to Become Parasol, a California-Mediterranean Bistro

The prominent corner at Noe and Market streets that for decades was home to Cafe Flore has a new tenant moving in, with hopes to bring some life back to this terrific space.

SF News

There’s Suddenly Talk of Extending the Central Subway to Fisherman’s Wharf, Despite Muni’s Gigantic Deficit

Who’s got the appetite for another billion-dollar transit overhaul that would tear up North Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf with construction for years on end? Because the push to add more stops to the Central Subway begins today.

SF News

Two Arrested, One Suspect Still at Large In Separate Tenderloin Shooting and Stabbing Incidents

A stabbing on Saturday night in San Francisco's Tenderloin left one person injured, and a subsequent shooting on Sunday evening injured a second person. The shooting suspect remains at large.

SF News

Monday Morning Headlines: Antioch Teen Was Killed By Hit-and-Run, Police Say

A 17-year-old girl found by the side of the road in Antioch was apparently killed by a hit-and-run; Kaiser nurses walked off the job in a large strike today; and Trump sends border czar Tom Homan into Minneapolis.

SF News

All Coaches at East Bay High School to Be Let Go at End of Their Seasons, Told to Reapply Next Year

Newark Memorial High School in the East Bay began dismissing all 45 of its athletic coaches and assistants at the end of their respective seasons last month, telling them they may be rehired next year as part of a new policy.

Arts & Entertainment

K-Pop Group Twice’s Visit Prompts Viral Sales of Vintage-Style San Francisco Zoo T-Shirt

K-Pop sensations Twice, who made a surprise visit to the San Francisco Zoo Wednesday after performing two sold-out shows at the Oakland Arena last weekend, all left wearing matching vintage-style t-shirts, and the resulting social media post prompted a flood of sales.

SF News

Woman Sues Luxury SF Apartments Where Alleged Sex Trafficking Took Place, Says They Knew

A California woman filed a federal lawsuit against a company that owns two upscale apartment complexes in SF’s South Beach neighborhood — Avalon Mission Bay and South Beach Marina Apartments, saying they were aware that she was being sex trafficked there at age 17

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Sunday Links: Trump Will Not Be Attending Super Bowl, Calls Halftime Performers ‘Terrible Choice’

A man was arrested in Sonoma County for allegedly wearing Wolverine-style metal knuckles; a Cybertruck driver in Oakland reported his back passenger door flying open while on the highway; and Trump says he won’t attend the Super Bowl in Santa Clara.

SF News

SF Giants’ Jung Hoo Lee Takes Players, Executives on Tour of South Korea, Then Gets Detained at LAX

SF Giants players and executives embarked on a goodwill tour of South Korea led by Giants center fielder Jung Hoo Lee, bolstering the team’s visibility in Asia and showing support for Lee, a fan favorite — who was briefly detained at LAX upon arrival back in the US this week.

SF News

Mysterious Fence With Sign Stating Trespassers ‘Will Be Shot’ Blocks Public Access to Daly City Beach

Daly City residents are urging city officials to take down an eight-foot-tall fence that recently appeared, blocking a public path near Thornton State Beach and featuring a handmade cardboard sign with a drawing of a gun and a message stating trespassers will be shot on sight.

Arts & Entertainment

Field Notes: Ancient Star Map, New Cat Cafe, San Jose’s Batman, and Disquiet in Suburbia

This week: Polynesian dance in Fremont, a new cat cafe in SF, a South Bay Batman, book clubs of the Peninsula, and California pollinators. Also, examining an ancient Greek star map using physics; supporting stroke survivors; and highlighting the unsettling parts of suburban life.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Top-Notch Bagels From Meadowood Chef Coming to Jackson Square

Loveski Deli, purveyors of the delicious and excellently textured bagels that have been the talk of Napa and Marin for several years, is expanding to San Francisco with a new location in Jackson Square.

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Saturday Links: ‘Pizza Box’ Trash Cans Launch in North Beach, Rest of SF Still Awaiting Actual Trash Cans

Legendary 49ers quarterback John Brodie, who played with the team a record-breaking 17 seasons, died at age 90; the White House posted a doctored image to social media of a Minnesota protester crying; and North Beach launched some special "pizza box" trash cans.

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Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo’s Tiger Lola Euthanized After Infection From Injured Paw

Tesla Cybertruck sales decreased by 48% in 2025; Trump’s latest Truth Social post frenzy involved TikTok and Newsom; and one of Oakland Zoo’s tigers has died from an infection that spread after a foreign object became lodged in her paw.

SF News

SF Backs Off Plan to Landmark Noe Valley Church From the Movie ‘Sister Act,’ Because SF Archdiocese Doesn’t Want It Landmarked

We’ve never seen an SF institution offered historical landmark status but then reject the offer, but the SF Catholic Archdiocese is fighting a landmark designation for their Noe Valley church featured in the movie ‘Sister Act.’

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Two-Car Collision on Mid-Market Leaves Car Flipped, Muni Service Disrupted

A Friday afternoon crash on Market Street at the intersection of Ninth and Larkin streets ended with a large SUV flipped on its side in the middle of the street, but reportedly injuries were minor.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

This Week In Food: Fresh Pastry Near Union Square

A new Nepalese and Indian restaurant is on the way to the Marina, Union Square gets a fancy new French patisserie, and there's a pop-up fish market on the docks at Fisherman's Wharf, all in This Week in Food.

Arts & Entertainment

New Book Explores the Bay Area's First Cult, Which Called Santa Rosa Home

The first creepy cult to take root in California, about 25 years after statehood, had its origins in upstate New York in the 19th Century, which was a hotbed of religious zealotry and cults.

Arts & Entertainment

SFMOMA Cuts Free Admission on First Thursdays, Currently Lacking Sponsor

The museum says that its longstanding tradition of free admission on the first Thursday of every month is “temporarily paused,” and though it may return someday, signs point to this being a budget cut due to a lack of sponsors.