SF News Berkeley Schools Superintendent Called to Testify Before Congressional Committee Over Antisemitism Claims Much like the presidents of Harvard, UPenn, and Columbia have in recent months, the superintendent of the Berkeley Unified School District is being called to testify before a Republican-led House committee.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Lake Oroville Reaches Capacity for Second Straight Year Lake Oroville, California's second-largest reservoir, hit full capacity on Monday; the president of SF State sat down to have a dialogue with student protesters; and Elizabeth Holmes got a few months shaved off her sentence for good behavior.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Ranked Worst In Nation For Driving A new study ranks Oakland as the worst city in the US for driving; an Oakland McDonald's is the subject of a strike by employees over rodents; and Jack Dorsey has departed the board of Bluesky.
SF News Family Fears the Worst After Man Goes Missing While Staying In SF's Tenderloin A 30-year-old North Carolina man who had come to San Francisco to audition for a band has been missing for six days, and his family is afraid that foul play may have befallen their loved one.
SF News [Update] Swarm of Cops on SF's Sixth Street Looking for Shooting Suspect, Who Is Still at Large Some sort of raid or major police action was happening Monday afternoon at a residential building on Sixth Street between Market and Mission streets.
SF News Jetway Collapses at SFO, Damaging Hawaiian Airlines Jet A jet bridge collapsed last Thursday at SFO, just before a deplaning process was about to begin for an arriving Hawaiian Airlines flight from Maui.
SF News Warming Trend Could Bring Beach Days By End of Week A welcome week of balmy May weather is in store, with an area of high pressure that should ensure the marine layer stays at Bay for a couple of beach-worthy days.
SF News 61-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot While Driving Minivan By Oakland's Lake Merritt A 61-year-old man was shot and killed Sunday, just before noon, along the shore of Lake Merritt in Oakland, near the county courthouse.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Lightning Strikes NorCal Mobile Home A Hayward man has been arrested for an April murder; lightning struck a home in a mobile home park in Placer County on Saturday; and four people were rescued in Tomales Bay on Sunday after their boat capsized.
Arts & Entertainment 'Funny Girl' at the Orpheum Is Carried By the Star Power of Its Very Talented Lead Some shows are made or broken by their lead actor, and that is certainly the case with 'Funny Girl', the recent Broadway revival of which is now on tour and opened this week at SF's Orpheum Theatre.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Go Duck Yourself Opens Its Dining Room The Slanted Door is no more (at the Ferry Building at least), Go Duck Yourself is open for dining in Bernal Heights, and a new "beach bistro" is coming to the Outer Sunset.
SF News Nancy Pelosi Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom Alongside Al Gore, Michelle Yeoh House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is receiving the highest civilian honor from President Biden at the White House Friday afternoon, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
SF News Shootout With Suspect Leaves Two San Jose Police Officers Injured, One Critically Two San Jose police officers engaged in a shootout Thursday night with a suspect which left the suspect and both officers injured.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Mayor Responds to Protest, Adds Funding For City Clinic to Bond Measure SF Mayor London Breed said that funding would be added for City Clinic in her proposed bond measure; the USPS is offering a reward in connection with a mail carrier robbery in Oakland; and thousands turned out for Downtown First Thursdays.
SF Politics Honey Mahogany Tapped to Lead SF's Office of Transgender Initiatives Onetime District 6 supervisor candidate and longtime veteran of City Hall, Honey Mahogany, is joining the London Breed administration as the new executive director of the Office of Transgender Initiatives.
SF News Sonoma County Man Arrested After Allegedly Stealing Ambulance, Leading Cops on Chase With EMT Stuck In Back Well this sounds pretty meth-y. A Sonoma County man who had asked police to get him an ambulance because he was having a panic attack allegedly ended up stealing that ambulance and taking it for a crazed trip through Santa Rosa.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Slanted Door, a Longtime Anchor of the Ferry Building, Is Not Reopening While some restaurateurs are still making big bets on downtown, Charles Phan has, after several years of foot-dragging, made it official that he is not reopening The Slanted Door at its longtime Ferry Building space.
SF News Rally Planned to Protest Mayor Breed's Omission of City Clinic Relocation Funds In Proposed Bond Measure LGTBQ health advocates, along with City Clinic doctors and members of the Harvey Milk Democratic Club are rallying today outside the clinic on Seventh Street to protest Mayor London Breed's omission of clinic funds in a proposed bond measure.
SF News Fire Burns Three-Story Apartment Building In Nob Hill A fire broke out Thursday morning at a residential building on Jackson Street near Leavenworth in SF's Nob Hill neighborhood, and it was disrupting cable car service.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: LAPD Descends on UCLA Encampment; 2 Injured In Scuffle at UC Berkeley Camp The LAPD cleared the encampment at UCLA early this morning after facing heavy resistance; a tussle broke out at the UC Berkeley encampment Wednesday night between two opposing groups; and the Bay Lights are set to come back on on the Bay Bridge next March.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Evan Low Beats Out Joe Simitian By Five Votes In Recount of Congressional Race for Second Place Evan Low has beat out Joe Simitian in the recount of their primary congressional race for second to go against Sam Liccardo in November; crime is trending down in Oakland so far this year; and Pamela Price is calling for a state probe into the recall backers' funding.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Nightclub With Rooftop Bar, Dante's Inferno, May Be Coming to Former Destino Space on Mint Hill A new bar and nightclub serving Caribbean food, and featuring a rooftop cocktail lounge, is in the works at 1815 Market Street, near the Castro Safeway on Mint Hill.
Arts & Entertainment Civic Joy Fund Hopes to Liven Up SF's Downtown With Launch of Downtown First Thursdays A new event is happening Thursday with the goal of bringing some foot traffic and liveliness to SF's downtown, and it's called Downtown First Thursdays.
SF News San Francisco's Population Ticks Up, and So Does California's After three pandemic years of population decline in California, things have turned around, and 2023 was the first year of slight population growth since 2019.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Surcharges Are Set to Disappear This Summer Under New State Law Unless the attorney general backtracks in any way, come July, restaurants in California will no longer be able to add service charges and other surcharges to customers' checks — and this will mean that the price of drinks and dishes will likely go up significantly.