SF News Day Around the Bay: New Civil Jury Report Finds SF Jails Woefully Overcrowded, Underfunded Authorities release identifies of two people found dead last month in a San Jose parking garage, a San Francisco civil jury finds city jails are underfunded and overcrowded, and the U.S. strikes Iran in response to Thursday's container ship attack.
Business & Tech Meta Whisteblower Files Lawsuit, Accuses Company of ‘Coercive Surveillance’ After publishing a memoir last year about her time as an executive at Meta, whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams is suing the company, saying they’ve taken extreme measures to silence, and she claims the gag order she signed is invalid.
Arts & Entertainment Giant Nude Woman Statue at SF’s Embarcadero Is Up For Sale, and It Weighs 16 Tons The time is fast approaching for the infamous 45-foot nude woman to leave her post at SF’s Embarcadero Plaza, as the 32,000-pound art piece has been put up for sale and will be disassembled in October.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Stars All Over New Michelin stars get announced, a new food hall opens in South SF, and a local brewery expands into Mission Bay, all in This Week In Food.
Arts & Entertainment Daly City Girl Plays Young Moana In Live-Action Remake That Comes Out July 10 While 17-year-old Australian actress Catherine Laga'aia is playing the lead character in Disney's live-action remake of Moana, 11-year-old Amaya Masoli of Daly City was cast as her younger self.
SF News Road Rage Incident In Richmond District Caught on Camera, Man Dangles From Passenger-Side Window An intense road-rage incident occurred Tuesday in SF's Richmond District, and was caught on camera by bystanders.
SF News Opponents Say Proposed 25-Story Marina Safeway Project May Not Be Eligible For Fast-Tracking The proposed 790-unit Marina Safeway redevelopment was granted fast-track status under a state housing law, but opponents argue the project may not actually qualify because the law requires that the majority of the surrounding land already be developed for "urban uses."
Arts & Entertainment People Are Once Again Lining Up to Get a Whiff of a Corpse Flower at the Conservatory of Flowers While it's billed as a rare event every time it happens, the blooming of one of the Conservatory of Flowers' five "corpse flowers" happens nearly every year at this point, but you wouldn't know that from the news coverage.
SF Politics SF Supes Reverse $28.5 Million In Proposed Cuts to Social Programs In New City Budget Deal About 90% of the funding cuts proposed in SF Mayor Daniel Lurie’s original city budget plan were reversed in a deal negotiated by the Board of Supes’ budget committee Thursday, with much of the credit going toward Supervisor Connie Chan.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Search Wraps Up at Humboldt Animal Shelter Mass Gravesite A search has found hundreds of dogs' remains in mass graves at a supposed "no-kill" shelter in Humboldt County; a registered sex offender allegedly assaulted a woman in Tiburon hours after getting out of jail; Disney might be moving into One Market.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hacker Hijacks Sacramento Fire X Account, Falsely Claims Terror Attack at Levi’s Stadium A 20-year-old beachgoer was struck in Half Moon Bay; Obama said he occupies "a suite" in Trump's head; and someone hacked the Sacramento Fire Department’s X account claiming a terror attack occurred near Levi's Stadium.
SF News Former SF Supportive Housing Case Manager Accused of Sexually Abusing Employees, Residents Several women say local nonprofit HomeRise ignored complaints spanning at least two years while a high-profile case manager repeatedly harassed and sexually assaulted them at its supportive housing complexes in SoMa and on Treasure Island.
SF News California Forever Team Adds Two Former Newsom Aides In Clear Political Ploy The team behind Solano County's theoretically marvelous but pragmatically very complicated new city from scratch, known as California Forever, has enlisted some help from two people who can probably whisper in the ear of the governor to help accomplish their agenda.
Bay Area Sports Former SF Giant Aubrey Huff Says 'Queers Don't Watch Baseball,' Other Homophobic Stuff After Pride Night Controversy No stranger to toxic tweeting in recent years, former Giants first baseman and outfielder Aubrey Huff has added his homophobic and royally offensive two cents to the Pride Night controversy.
SF News The Long Wait For SF’s Fancy New Trash Cans Has Been Extended, Again, to Some Time This Fall San Francisco was set to begin installing 600 of those long-awaited “Slim Silhouette” trash cans in July, but a last-minute redesign involving the new model’s locking mechanism caused a further delay until fall.
SF News San Jose Federal Judge Blocks ICE Courthouse Arrests Nationwide In Case Led By Bay Area Asylum Seekers A federal judge in San Jose barred ICE agents from making courthouse arrests nationwide, finding in a class-action lawsuit brought by asylum-seekers in San Francisco that the practice violates an 80-year-old federal statute.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Content Creator Obsessively Recreates In-N-Out Meal From Scratch An East Coast-based food influencer/content creator who makes videos for YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram recreated an entire In-N-Out meal, down to the ketchup, from scratch for her Korean parents.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Californios Elevated to Three Michelin Stars, Wolfsbane and Restaurant Naides Notch Stars In New Guide The 2026 Michelin Guide to California is out, and with it the Bay Area has gained not one, but two new three-star restaurants, bringing our regional tally back to seven.
SF News 4,000 PG&E Customers Lose Power In Castro and Corona Heights There was an unplanned power outage in central San Francisco Thursday morning that was impacting almost 4,000 households and businesses in the Castro, Corona Heights, and Cole Valley neighborhoods.
SF News Sex Trafficking Sting Tied to World Cup Tourism Leads to Five Arrests, Rescue of Oakland Minor In collaboration with local, state, and federal agencies, the SFPD arrested five suspects in three separate World Cup-related sex trafficking stings and provided assistance and resources to survivors, including a minor from Oakland.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Supreme Court Hands Two Immigration Wins to Trump The Supreme court ruled that Trump can expel Haitians and turn asylum seekers away at the border; the family of former Oakland Raider Doug Martin is suing over his death in Oakland police custody; and San Jose discusses renaming Plaza de Cesar Chavez.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mendocino County Rattled By Aftershocks This morning's earthquake up north has been followed by dozens of aftershocks; a much larger pair of quakes today in Venezuela caused widespread damage; and Mollie Stone's has bought United Markets in Marin.
Arts & Entertainment Mission Resident to Complete Four-Year Goal to Walk Every Street in SF A local gay resident, who’s been walking every street in San Francisco, including Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island for the past four years, plans to finish his last stretch along Washington Street over Pride Weekend.
Arts & Entertainment New ‘Out Museum’ In SF’s Chinatown Showcases Chinese LGBTQ Artists and Culture Chinatown's Out Museum, which opened last month and spotlights queer artists from China and the Chinese diaspora, was founded by an artist-activist who raised funds while she was still living in China, where such a museum is prohibited.
SF News One of the Zizian Cult Members Has Now Been Charged With Murdering Her Parents Michelle Zajko, a woman linked to the cultlike group that has become known as the Zizians, has now been charged with the murder of her parents three and a half years ago in Pennsylvania.
