SF News Day Around the Bay: Google Gets Sued for Unlawfully Harvesting Data on Schoolchildren A grass fire is wreaking havoc in the Oakland Hills; this weekend’s Coachella festival will stream some of its biggest live acts for free; and Google is getting sued for using the tools they donated to schools to spy on and track the children.
SF News Someone in Sacramento Is Selling an Old Muni Bus for $8,000, Has 'Only 41,608 Miles' On It You could be rocking down the road in your very own Muni bus for the low price of $8,000, and the seats are ripped out so it can serve as some sort of vacation RV party ride, just be warned that it “might need new batteries or a jump start.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco's Original Food Truck Market, Off the Grid, Returns Next Week Off the Grid, which predates SF's latest night-market craze by fifteen years, is coming back to life at Fort Mason Center a week from Friday, on April 18, following a lengthy hiatus.
SF News Supervisor Sauter Has Had It With These Dirt Bike Gangs, Looks to Beef Up Enforcement Laws San Francisco’s street-riding dirt bike gangs have certainly gotten more brazen since the pandemic, and Supervisor Danny Sauter is fed up enough that he’s looking to change the rules around SFPD engagement and enforcement to break up the gangs.
SF News Climate Conference Returns to SF This Month With Al Gore as Keynote A record number of attendees are expected at this year's SF Climate Week conference, which kicks off in just over a week, and Al Gore is booked to speak at one of the opening events.
SF News New Synthetic Drug Shows Up On SF Streets, Is Linked to Overdose Death Another new synthetic drug that is used as a veterinary tranquilizer, medetomidine, showed up in the autopsy of a recent overdose victim in San Francisco, though it does not yet appear prevalent in the local drug supply.
SF News Oakland Unified School District Abruptly Fires Superintendent With No Explanation Oakland schools superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell was on the verge of being the longest-serving OUSD superintendent in 65 years. But Wednesday night, the school board removed her out of the blue, in a secret session, with no explanation whatsoever.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: ICYMI, the 'California Henge' Sunrise Wednesday marked the annual event that's come to be known as California Henge, in which the position of the sunrise falls perfectly between the skyline buildings along California Street in San Francisco, making for great photo ops.
SF News Lurie Announces Market Street to Open Up to Waymos The car-free stretch of Market Street east of 10th is going to be somewhat less car-free this summer when it starts getting clogged up with confused Waymos.
SF News The Park at the Former Great Highway Now Has a New Name: Sunset Dunes The former Great Highway is now a park, and that park was officially christened Sunset Dunes at Wednesday's SF Rec and Parks meeting, ahead of its grand opening ceremony Saturday afternoon.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Two Fatal Hit-and-Runs on the Peninsula A 50-year-old man was shot multiple times in Oakland; two women have been killed in the last three weeks in hit-and-run crashes on the Peninsula; and the death toll in the Dominican Republic nightclub roof collapse has risen.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 45-Foot-Tall Nude Woman Rises at Foot of Market Street Violent crime is down in SF at a much more significant rate than elsewhere in the US; stocks rebounded because Trump predictably backed down on his tariff threat; and that giant nude woman sculpture is in the process of getting installed at Embarcadero Plaza.
Business & Tech Arnold Schwarzenegger Now a Billionaire, According to Forbes’ Latest List There’s a few show biz types who just appeared for the first time on this year’s annual Forbes billionaire list, like Bruce Sprinsteen, Jerry Seinfeld, and the former ‘Governator,’ Arnold Schwarzenegger.
SF News Likely Thanks to DOGE, Government Claims HIV-Positive SF Man Owes Them $200K In Disability Payments The federal government just cut off 62-year-old HIV activist Paul Aguilar’s disability payments, but also claims he owes them back $200,000 in benefits they’ve already paid him over the last 11 years.
Business & Tech OpenAI's Feud With Musk Escalates With New Court Filing OpenAI has asked a federal court to get estranged billionaire co-founder Elon Musk to stop publicly bad-mouthing the company — which, they say, is unlawful and is doing harm to the company.
SF Politics Supervisor Chan Proposes Possible Ballot Measure to Bring Cars Back to Great Highway, Which We Just Voted On Just five months after SF just voted to remove cars from the Great Highway, Supervisor Connie Chan floats voting on another ballot measure over cars on the Great Highway, which she would pursue if the Engardio recall makes the ballot.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Arquet Is the Name of the New Restaurant Coming to the Slanted Door Space, From the Sorrel Team The new, casual offshoot of Michelin-starred Sorrel that is getting ready to move into the prominent Ferry Building space that was formerly home to The Slanted Door now has a name and some further details.
SF News New California Bill Would Outlaw Arresting or Fining Unhoused People Camping In the Street Several California mayors (including SF’s own) cheered a June Supreme Court decision that allowed cities to arrest or prosecute those camping on the street. But a new proposed California law could bring that practice to a complete halt.
Business & Tech Sonoma-Serving Budget Airline Avelo Shuts Down Flights, Becomes Trump Deportation Contractor A budget airline that made a hub of Santa Rosa's Charles M. Schulz Airport is closing that hub and turning its attention to providing charter flights for deported migrants out of Arizona, under contract with the federal government.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Critics Admit Some Top 100 Snubs Were Because They Didn't Make It to Every Nice Restaurant As suspected, time and budget were factors that came into play in the revived Top 100 at the Chronicle, so it's less of a Top 100 restaurants ranking so much as a "Top 100 restaurants we've been to" list.
SF News Three-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots Himself In Antioch The Antioch Police Department is looking for answers over how a three-year-old boy came into possession of a gun at his grandparents' house, after the youngster shot himself in the face Tuesday night, and died shortly thereafter at a hospital.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Rare Whale Euthanized After Beaching In Bay A rarely seen whale in these parts was euthanized after beaching itself in Emeryville; DOGE is coming for all of your personal information; and UC students are protesting the revocation of visas.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor Lurie Lines Up Millionaires in Hopes of Revitalizing Downtown Trump’s largest tariffs go into effect at midnight; the 45-foot nude woman statue is now being installed at the Embarcadero; and Lurie has called in a bunch of CEO buddies to help supercharge the moribund downtown scene.
Arts & Entertainment The 'Full House' House Sells Again, This Time for $6M A few years after 'Full House' creator Jeff Franklin bought, renovated, and sold the Lower Pac Heights house originally used for exterior shots on the sitcom, the home has sold again, under its 2024 asking price.
SF News Disgraced San Jose City Councilmember Convicted of Molesting a Minor Decades Ago San Jose City Councilmember Omar Torres had already been under fire for text messages seemingly soliciting a minor before he was arrested on sexual abuse charges. This morning, he pleaded no contest and was convicted.
