SF News Oakland Sees Violent End to the Year, Beginning of a New One, With Four Murders In 24 Hours While Oakland saw a drop in homicides in 2024, the city unfortunately made up some of that gap in the final hours of the year on Tuesday.
SF News New Year's Day Links: At Least 10 Killed In Apparent Targeted Attack In New Orleans At least 10 people were killed when a pickup truck drove into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans; a suspect has been arrested in an East Oakland shooting of an elderly man; and a fisherman was caught with an illegal haul in SF.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Six Best New Bars In San Francisco, 2024 San Francisco always has been a drinking town, and 2024 brought a collection of cool new watering holes in which to wet one's whistle — and one where you can also get your dance on.
SF News Two Deplorable Teens Arrested In Brentwood Carjacking and Robbery Brentwood police say they have arrested two teenagers, one male and one female, following an alleged assault, kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery last week, and the two teens were apparently known to police.
SF News New Year's Eve Links: Drive-By Shooting In Antioch A drive-by shooting in Antioch left behind 53 shell casings but no one was injured; a house fire near Hayward left a firefighter injured; and the Watsonville man killed by storm debris on a Santa Cruz beach has been identified.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best New Restaurants In San Francisco of 2024 A few buzz-worthy spots had locals doing their usual line-standing or jockeying for tables online this year, and we've seen a collection of terrific new restaurants despite an overall quiet year on the food scene.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Waymo Hasn't Had to Physically Eject Any Passed-Out Passengers... Yet People have passed out in the back of Waymos, but so far they've woken up; the city of Oakland hasn't collected over $1M in fines issued for illegal dumping; and it's going to be very chilly around the Bay Tuesday morning.
SF News Security Guard Appeared to Pull Gun on Officers In SFPD Bodycam Footage of Union Square Incident The security guard whom SFPD officers fatally shot in a bizarre incident two weeks ago appeared to pull a gun and move to aim it at officers as they were attempting to detain him, as seen in bodycam footage.
SF News Matthew Muller, the Man Convicted In Denise Huskins Kidnapping and Assault, Faces New Charges In Santa Clara County Matthew Muller, the man at the center of what was, at first, the very mysterious 2015 disappearance and subsequent return of a Vallejo woman, Denise Huskins, is now heading back to court to face charges relating to alleged assaults from six years earlier.
Business & Tech Now the Proper Hotel on Mid-Market Appears to Be In Financial Distress One of two boutique, luxury hotels that were meant to be part of a renaissance on mid-Market Street — which never really materialized — the Proper Hotel at Seventh and Market, now looks like it might fall into the hands of its lender.
SF News Norovirus Cases on the Rise Across the Country as Holiday Travels Wrap Up Many Americans have had an unpleasant surprise during these past couple celebration-filled weeks, and that surprise was a gastrointestinal virus.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Cliff Rescue at Devil's Slide A crew of thieves hit four gas stations in Oakland in quick succession; a hiker required rescue at Devil's Slide; and the mother of the OpenAI whistleblower now says his apartment was "ransacked."
SF News Santa Cruz Mayor Isn't Committing to Rebuilding Collapsed Section of Wharf Four days after a winter swell took out a 150-foot section of the historic Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, the mayor of Santa Cruz is hedging when asked about whether a rebuilding plan is getting underway.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: End-of-Year Goodbyes Hard Knox Cafe closes its original location in Dogpatch, Lobby Bar is changing owners in the Castro, and The Forge is moving from Oakland's Jack London Square to Rockridge, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Suspect In San Francisco Carjacking Arrested In Sacramento County After Allegedly Firing at Police A suspect in a Thursday carjacking in San Francisco was spotted driving in Rancho Cordova, in Sacramento County, and when sheriff's deputies began pursuing him, he allegedly fired at them out of the car window.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Huge Pothole on I-880 Damages at Least a Dozen Vehicles A massive pothole about one lane wide opened up on I-880 south in Oakland; Oakland saw its 81st homicide of the year on Thursday; and ChatGPT experienced a serious outage.
Business & Tech Parents of OpenAI Whistleblower Don't Believe He Died By Suicide, Order Second Autopsy There is a bit more intrigue around the tragic death late last month of former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji, who was found dead in his Lower Haight apartment of an apparent suicide.
SF News Heavy Rain Now Expected Thursday Night You had your Christmas break from the rain, but it arrives back in the city later today, with a not-insignificant three-quarters of an inch set to fall tonight.
SF News Muni Will Be Free on NYE (Don't Tag Your Clipper Card) Once again, in order to encourage people to use public transit and not drive on New Year's Eve, SF Muni buses and trains will be free to ride on the evening of December 31.
SF News Amid High Surf Conditions Around the Bay, Warning Issued for Swimmers, Beachgoers Residents and visitors heading to Bay Area beaches are being warned to stay out of the water, and to stay off rocks and jetties near the water, amid a high risk for rip currents, sneaker waves, and dangerous high surf starting starting Thursday.
SF News Boxing Day What's Up: Car Collides With Golden Gate Bridge Tollbooth A building burned after an apparent explosion in Capitola Village Christmas morning; a car crashed into the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza; and the Chronicle explores "NDA wines."
SF News Christmas Day Links: Storm Brings Big Waves to Mavericks Smash-and-grab burglars hit a San Leandro restaurant for eggs on Christmas Eve; Union Square was packed with last-minute shoppers; and this recent storm brought massive waves back to Mavericks.
SF News Guy Killed By SF Police Was a Security Guard With a Gun Fetish Who Hated Gun Laws, Liberal California We now know who the deceased is in the officer-involved shooting in Union Square last week, and a few details about the bizarre and angry-sounding hit-and-run the precipitated the shooting.
SF News Early Morning Fire at Pier 28 Temporarily Shuts Down Embarcadero San Francisco firefighters responded to a one-alarm fire early Tuesday that appears to have broken out, improbably, underneath and at the edge of Pier 28 in the rain.
SF News Christmas Eve Links: After a Deluge of Rain Comes Possible Thunder Flood advisories were issued Tuesday for SF, San Mateo, and Sonoma counties; there's a chance of thunder Tuesday afternoon; and the hotel workers appear to have ended their strike with the final hotel, Hilton.
