SF News Day Around the Bay: Union Square Macy’s Holiday Tree Is Lit Back Up Again, Everybody The rain returns Wednesday in all likelihood; BART is jacking up its parking lot prices by as much as 30% on January 1; and the Macy's Union Square Holiday Tree was lit back up again Monday night with marginal fanfare.
SF News Utah Woman Has Been Missing From Santa Cruz For Five Days, Authorities Begin to Suspect Foul Play A 35-year-old Utah woman last seen at a beach bonfire the night of Thursday, November 6 at Rio Del Mar Beach has been missing for five days, and authorities are now finding reason to suspect her disappearance may have been foul play.
SF News Now the Trump Justice Department Says It Is Investigating Monday's Charlie Kirk Protest at UC Berkeley You may have seen this coming, but Monday's small dustup in Berkeley that appears to have left one t-shirt seller bloodied, and that Fox News characterized as sheer bedlam — which it was not — is now going to be investigated by the Trump Justice Department.
SF News Tahoe Black Bear Makes Self at Home on Holiday Ice Rink at Heavenly Ski Resort Before the ice rink at the Tahoe ski resort Heavenly had even opened to the public, a well-known local bear named Charlie decided to test the ice out for himself, and no one was going to tell him he had to leave.
SF Politics Lurie’s New Supervisor Appointee Faces Bizarre Scandal Over Filthy Conditions, Dead Animals at Pet Store As new SF supervisor Beya Alcaraz faces a fresh new scandal about a freezer full of dead animals and a mouse infestation, it seems Mayor Daniel Lurie may not have background-checked his new District 4 supervisor pick very thoroughly.
SF News APEC Protester Seen Being Punched By Volunteer Files Suit, Suspect Seeks Mental Health Diversion A woman who was protesting the November 2023 APEC summit in San Francisco was left with devastating injuries from being sucker-punched by a man who had just shown up to volunteer at the event. She's now suing the organizers and the man himself.
SF Politics Pelosi Calls Out Republicans Over Healthcare Subsidies, Says 400K Californians Could Be Priced Out House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi used an event Monday about Covered California open enrollment to sound alarms over the number of Californians who may lose their healthcare due to Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.
SF Politics Fistfight Kicks Off Charlie Kirk Tribute Event In Berkeley, Four People End Up Getting Arrested The Charlie Kirk traveling memorial show had its stop in Berkeley Monday night, and one guy hawking Jesus t-shirts got bloodied up in a lone fistfight, though it was otherwise a long night of garden-variety Berkeley rabble-rousing.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Flight Cancellations Continue The FAA's mandate to reduce air traffic continues unchanged this week; a significant storm is heading our way; and the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the SNAP situation.
SF News Onboard Video Shows Muni Driver Likely Asleep at the Wheel During Terrifying Incident By Duboce Park Video from a runaway Muni light-rail incident next to Duboce Park on September 24 shows that the train operator likely fell asleep at the wheel, and had been hunched over barely awake several minutes earlier.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Autopsy Suggests Mother Shot Children, Husband In Westwood Home Autopsy reports come in for the Westwood neighborhood murder-suicide; a man was sexually assaulted near the UC Berkeley campus; and a local congressman wants private jets to be grounded during the remainder of the shutdown.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo’s Glowfari Is More Expensive This Year, Thanks to Trump’s Tariffs Donald Trump’s tariffs are making it a zoo out there on Americans' finances, as the Oakland Zoo’s holiday spectacular Glowfari is more expensive this year because of Trump’s tariffs on illuminated display equipment from China.
SF News SFPD Raid Yielded 86 Arrests But Only One Drug-Dealing Charge, and That Person Was Just Found Not Guilty A very anticlimactic ending to that much-ballyhooed February SFPD raid of Jefferson Square Park where 86 people were arrested: Only one suspect actually faced felony drug charges, and he was just acquitted of those charges.
Business & Tech SF-Based Furnished Apartment Rental Startup Sonder Shuts Down, Declares Bankruptcy Sonder, the San Francisco-based rival to Airbnb that had established a lucrative partnership with Marriott last year, has now lost that partnership and is shutting down entirely.
SF News Renowned SF Filmmaker Kevin Epps Went On Trial Today for 2016 Murder Charge ‘Straight Outta Hunters Point’ director Kevin Epps saw his life go sideways, from making movies with Spike Lee to being charged with a 2016 homicide. This odd tale continues as his murder trial began today.
SF Politics AG Bonta Seeks Court Clarification on USDA Demand to Claw Back SNAP Benefits As poor Americans continue to be pawns in the Trump administration's gameplay over the government shutdown, California Attorney General Rob Bonta is seeking guidance from the Supreme Court over how to address the administration's latest "capricious" demand.
SF News Plan Finally Emerges For 1,800-Unit Development at Former Fillmore Safeway A developer is looking to build 3,500 housing units in San Francisco in the coming years, about half of which would be in a mixed-use development at the site of the former Safeway in the Fillmore.
SF News Watch: Memorial for the Late, Great Local Broadcaster Belva Davis All the big local news outlets were live-streaming today’s memorial service for the West Coast’s first Black female TV reporter, Belva Davis, after the trailblazing 92-year-old’s death in late September.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Get Boat-Raced by Rams 42-26, Giving Up Six Touchdowns In One Afternoon The 49ers lost some pretty significant ground in the playoff race with a 42-26 loss to the LA Rams on Sunday, and are now nearly two games behind those Rams and the Seahawks in the NFC West standings.
SF Politics Christine Pelosi Will Not Run For Congress, Will Run For State Senate Well this is an unexpected turn of events. Christine Pelosi, the daughter of Nancy Pelosi, will not run to take over her mother's seat in the House of Representatives in 2026, as was widely speculated.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Supreme Court Will Not Reconsider Gay Marriage The Supreme Court declined to reconsider the 2015 decision affirming the right to gay marriage; the court did agree to hear a case about late mail-in ballots; and a Tesla driver allegedly stabbed a cyclist in the Marin Headlands.
SF News Unprovoked Dog Bite Leads to Officer-Involved Shooting of Man, Dog in SF’s Union Square A confrontation near O’Farrell and Market streets between the SFPD and a homeless man, whose large, off-leash dog allegedly bit a bystander in an unprovoked attack, led to one of the officers shooting both the man and dog in the legs.
Arts & Entertainment Ten-Year-Old Beekeeper Prompts City of Santa Rosa to Amend Zoning Laws After Months-Long Battle When the city of Santa Rosa told 10-year-old beekeeper Nicholas Bard he had to get rid of his beloved backyard bees — an impressive colony consisting of thousands, he took on a months-long battle to change the city’s zoning laws, and won.
SF News Sunday Links: Sunnyvale Official Sends Snarky Reply to Campaign Text, Gets Cussed Out San Ramon was the center of at least seven small earthquakes; the Trump administration is demanding that states give their SNAP money back after the latest ruling; and a Sunnyvale city councilmember opened a can of worms when he responded disparagingly to a campaign text message.
SF News Shots Fired During Fight Near Outer Richmond Safeway, Five Injured, Including One Critically A little before 9 pm Saturday night, gunfire erupted when a fight broke out between a group of people near the Safeway supermarket at Fulton and La Playa streets in SF’s Outer Richmond neighborhood. At least five people were injured, including one critically.
