SF News Heads Up, BART Fare is Increasing by 6.2% Starting on January 1, 2026 Wait, didn’t BART just raise their fares on January 1 this year? Yes they did, and they’re going to do it again on January 1, 2026, the second consecutive New Year’s Day fare increase for the cash-strapped transit system.
SF Politics Federal Court Hearings Start Today For Republican Attempt to Overturn Gavin Newsom’s Prop 50 Redistricting After voters overwhelmingly approved Gavin Newsom’s redistricting ballot measure last month, Republicans are looking for a do-over in court to halt the new maps, as the GOP fears a blowout in the 2026 midterm elections.
SF News ‘Straight Outta Hunters Point’ Filmmaker Kevin Epps Found Not Guilty of 2016 Murder, But Guilty of Voluntary Manslaughter In a packed SF Superior Court room, SF filmmaker Kevin Epps was found not guilty of the murder of his one-time brother-in-law, but was still found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, which comes with a three- to eleven-year prison sentence.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Rout a Very Sorry Tennessee Titans Team 37-24, Remain Right In the Thick of Playoff Race The San Francisco 49ers beat probably the worst team in the NFL Sunday with a 37-24 win over the Tennessee Titans, maintaining some good-but-not-great playoff positioning.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: Kesha Showed Up at SF Piano Bar Martuni's Last Night, Performed a Live Number It's going down, I'm yelling 'Timber!' Dance-pop star Kesha just happened to pop into the piano bar Martuni’s last night, and indeed she came up and belted out a song for the stunned Thursday night crowd.
Arts & Entertainment Popular SF Therapy Dog Brixton Has Died, and His Thousands of Instagram Followers Are In Mourning SF’s most Instagram-famous dog, 12-year-old golden retriever Brixton, passed away on Monday, after a long career as an SFO therapy dog, doing Opening Day appearances at Giants games, and looking dapper at SF events.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Caffe Trieste Co-Founder Ida Giotta Has Died at Age 101 The first espresso house on the West Coast, North Beach's Caffe Trieste, has lost its grande dame. The cafe’s co-founder Ida Giotta recently passed away, barely a month after her 101st birthday.
SF News Anheuser-Busch Closing 50-Year-Old Budweiser Plant in Fairfield Next Month There will be no more Clydesdales a’clopping in Fairfield, as the Budweiser plant that opened there in 1976 will fully close down in January, because parent company Anheuser-Busch is pulling a national downsizing on production.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFO Taking Heat for African-American Art Display That's Just AI Trump just struck down all of California’s AI regulations; that new Bang & Olufsen just opened in Union Square; and people are suddenly mad about an African-American-themed art exhibit at the SFO Museum that’s just basically AI.
SF News Proposed 160-Acre, $700 Million Indian Casino in Vallejo Held Up by Lawsuits, Trump Administration A proposed mega-casino in Vallejo from the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians has faced legal challenges from tribes that run rival casinos, and now the Trump administration says the casino’s approval may have been based on a “legal error.”
SF News Tenderloin Attack Spurs Dog Drama, Which Ends Happily, as Dog Has Been Located A 65-year-old man was viciously attacked in the Tenderloin Sunday, and so was his dog, who ran off in fear. The victim has life-threatening injuries, but at least the dog has been located safe and sound.
SF News Former SF Mayor Ed Lee Getting a Bust at City Hall, to Be Unveiled Friday Eight years to the day after Mayor Ed Lee died of a heart attack while in office, Lee will have a bronze bust of him unveiled at SF City Hall, and it will be officially introduced to the world on Friday.
Business & Tech Waymo Stowaway: Man Found Hiding In Waymo Trunk, Offers Little Explanation Why He Is There A Los Angeles woman made a curious discovery when trying to put her daughter in a Waymo, which was a man hiding in the vehicle’s trunk, bringing up serious questions about how easy it is to just hop inside a Waymo and hide there.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Endorses D2 Supervisor Sherrill Long Before 2026 Election. Is He Worried About Sherrill's Odds? SF Mayor Daniel Lurie made the unusual move to endorse Supervisor Stephen Sherrill seven months before the election, a gesture he has made to no other supervisors, and perhaps a canary in the coal mine regarding Sherrill’s chances.
Arts & Entertainment The SantaCon Red Tide Returns Saturday, But Dozens of SF Bars Now Actually Welcoming the Santas You better watch out, as Santacon is back on Saturday. But many SF bars are actually rolling out the red carpet to welcome the Santas, a pretty remarkable culture shift for this jolly old event that had gotten too blitzened.
Arts & Entertainment San Jose Christmas Decoration Thief Is Stealing Specifically Only Disney-Themed Decorations, Remains at Large Some goofy burglar in the San Jose area appears to be on a mission to steal Disney items — and Disney items only — off local lawns, and some families say their lawns have been looted of more than $1,000 worth of Disney lawn ornaments.
Bay Area Sports Bay Area World Cup Schedule Announced, and Team USA Might Play One Game Here We now know who’s playing in the six World Cup games at Levi’s Stadium in late June and early July, and we’re mostly just hosting teams like Paraguay and Qatar, but there’s a chance we’ll host Team USA for a knockout game on July 1.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman Gives Birth to Baby While Riding Inside Waymo Jurors have gone into deliberations in the murder trial of the “Straight Outta Hunters Point” director; KRON4 nuked Santa Claus in an unearthed 42-year-old TV ad; and a woman reportedly gave birth while taking a Waymo to UCSF.
Business & Tech Report: SF-Based Instacart Charging Some Customers as Much as 23% More for the Same Items, Thanks to AI Pricing People buying the exact same item from the exact same store are sometimes paying a price as much as 23% higher on the platform Instacart, thanks to AI algorithms that show buyers different prices.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Comes Out Swinging Against Proposed 25-Story Marina Safeway Megadevelopment SF Mayor Daniel Lurie is picking a fight with big-money development interests for maybe the first time since he took office, and he has nothing but contempt for the 800-unit double tower proposed for the Marina Safeway site.
Arts & Entertainment Vaillancourt Fountain Gets One Last Chance at Survival, as Demolition Gets Appealed to Board of Supervisors There is one more last-gasp, hail mary attempt to save the Embarcadero's crumbling and controversial Vaillancourt Fountain, as preservationists have appealed the decision to remove it to the SF Board of Supervisors.
SF News Trial Finally Underway for 2021 Killing of 84-Year-Old ‘Grandpa Vicha’ Ratanapakdee Nearly five full years after the unprovoked killing of an 84-year-old Thai immigrant in Anza Vista, the long-delayed trial for the murder of Vicha Ratanapakdee got underway Monday at SF Superior Court.
Business & Tech SF-Based Catering Website Swaps Restaurants’ Real Food Pictures With AI Pictures, Restaurants Get Pissed These bagels claim to be Boichik Bagels on the catering website Forkable, but they are fake AI-generated bagels, as perhaps evidenced by the oddly uniform size of the bagel slices, all slightly larger than a normal bagel half. Now restaurants listed on the website are furious.
Business & Tech Watch: Two Waymos Appear to Collide In SF, Then Cause Traffic Jam That Traps Residents on Street The latest Waymo dustup is a Saturday incident where two Waymos appear to have collided with one another, resulting in three Waymos just stopping in place, and blocking a dead-end street so residents could not drive out.
SF News Dive Teams Searching Lake Merritt for Gun Used to Kill Condor Club Manager A strange twist in the investigation of the murder of the Condor Club strip joint manager, as while the shooting happened in Santa Rosa, police now believe that the murder weapon may be lying at the bottom of Lake Merritt.
