SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Firefighters Rescue Wild Parrot That Got Stuck Monterey County authorities are searching for a 38-year-old man wanted for sex crimes and the death of an infant; the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead to continue on Trump's ballroom; and SF firefighters rescued a wild parrot that got stuck on a balcony on Telegraph Hill.
Arts & Entertainment SF Camerawork Set to Reopen Next Month Weeks After Announcing Closure Legacy photography institution SF Camerawork is reopening in September after previously announcing it would be closing its doors August 31, following a last-minute effort by supporters to keep it operating.
SF News Next Week Brings Chance of West Coast Hurricane Amidst Super El Niño Season A tropical disturbance that is forming off the tip of the Baja peninsula has a chance of becoming a hurricane, which in turn has a chance of setting its sights on California — a rarity that might gain fuel from the super El Niño cycle in the Pacific.
SF Politics Newsom’s Plan To Limit Utilities’ Wildfire Liability Thwarted In Eleventh-Hour Deal A contentious portion of Newsom’s wildfire proposal would have reduced utility companies’ financial liability when their equipment causes wildfires, but California lawmakers rejected the provision during a last-minute deal Friday night.
SF News Plaskett Fire Now at 15,500 Acres; Evacuation Zone Hits County Border The five-day-old Plaskett Fire near Big Sur is now the third-largest active wildfire in California, having grown five-fold since Friday, and it continues burning steep, remote, barely accessible terrain filled with thick vegetation.
SF News The Latest Fight Over a Large, Upzoned Housing Development Comes to West Portal San Francisco's pseudo-suburban neighborhoods are on edge as ever-increasingly dense and tall developments are being proposed, and the latest is a proposed apartment tower in West Portal that just almost tripled in size.
SF News Two Men Found Dead In Tomales Bay After Late-Night Canoe Trip to View Bioluminescence A San Francisco man was identified as one of two people found dead in Marin County after taking a late-night canoe trip to view bioluminescent creatures Saturday, while the other man remains unidentified.
SF News Man Engages In Shootout, Standoff With Oakland Police Before Setting Fire to Abandoned Home A man who allegedly threatened to kill a woman at an Oakland park Sunday exchanged gunfire with police, the OPD says, before barricading himself inside an abandoned house where he set a fire during an hourslong standoff.
SF News Shooting on 101 In San Carlos Caused Massive Sunday Evening Backup A freeway shooting on northbound Highway 101 in San Carlos caused a massive traffic backup Sunday evening, shutting down all northbound lanes for around two hours.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Double Stabbing Near Powell Street BART Two people were stabbed in the Tenderloin on Sunday near the Powell Street BART station; a Pokémon pin giveaway had to be shut down on Saturday at Moscone due to the massive crowd; and two have been confirmed dead in a flash flood in the Grand Canyon.
Business & Tech Google Maps Now Shows 'Lake America' Instead of Lake Ontario to US Users Users searching Google Maps in the US are now seeing "Lake America" in place of Lake Ontario after President Trump signed an executive order renaming the Great Lake “effectively immediately" earlier this week. The bizarre move comes as Trump and Canada continue to engage in an escalating trade war.
Business & Tech Pabst Blue Ribbon Claims 40,000 Pounds of Beer Stolen in SoCal Warehouse Theft Authorities are investigating two separate claims of cargo theft at an Anheuser-Busch distribution center in Montclair earlier this month that apparently included the loss of 40,000 pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. The total value of the missing cargo is estimated to be $70,000.
SF News Sunday Links: Three Bay Area Residents Among Four Dead in Alaska Plane Crash Vacaville woman killed after driver allegedly went wrong way on I-505; lengthy waits for those trying to enter Burning Man; and Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop debuts its first eat-in location in San Diego.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Sought Shanahan Crash Police Report Prior to Public Disclosure, Records Reveal A historically bad week for the San Francisco 49ers continued Friday as newly-published public records reveal that team officials repeatedly sought to obtain head coach Kyle Shanahan's police report from Palo Alto authorities for 11 days before disclosing news of his car crash to media outlets.
SF News New Plan Emerges to Rename Embarcadero Plaza After Former SF Mayor Art Agnos A new plan officially introduced on Friday calls for San Francisco's Embarcadero Plaza to be renamed Art Agnos Plaza in honor of the former mayor who championed the removal of the Embarcadero Freeway following the damage it sustained in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
SF News Saturday Links: Berkeley to Lose Local Coverage as 'Daily Planet' Ends Publication The daughter of former longtime KGO radio host Ronn Owens pleads guilty to four felonies related to false pregnancy claims; Oakland to host new show from anonymous street artist Banksy this fall; and far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is deported back to United Kingdom.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Opera Orchestra Demands 'Fair' Contract, Threatens Strike The new king of Norway is a former UC Berkeley student; the Trump administration is considering selling off a piece of Yosemite; and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee says Nashville Airport will be renamed to honor the late Dolly Parton.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Cinderella (Bakery) Story Cinderella Bakery opens their big new location in the Mission, Prelude calls it quits in the FiDi, and Mister Jiu's is relaunching their fancy coffee window, all in This Week in Food.
Business & Tech Startup Claims X Abandoned Twitter Brand, Launches New Social Network Under the Name Virginia-based startup Operation Bluebird is rolling out a new social media site under the Twitter name despite a pending legal fight with X over the brand.
SF News Man Accused of Posing as Wealthy 49ers Player to Lure Women Into $1.3 Million Scam A man suspected of taking on the persona of a 49ers player to lure women he met online into an alleged fraudulent investment scheme — dating back to 2022 and spanning four states — has been charged with wire fraud.
SF Politics Milo Yiannopoulos Deported, Apparently Because of Laura Loomer Feud Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, a British citizen who has made attention-getting stunts and far-right American politics his raison d'être over the last decade, has ironically been caught up in the sort of ICE action he's vocally supported.
Arts & Entertainment Danville to Cosplay as Stars Hollow for First Ever 'Gilmore Girls'-Inspired Fall Event A weekend-long festival inspired by the small-town autumn coziness of 'The Gilmore Girls' will double as a rare tourist draw for the East Bay hamlet of Danville this October.
SF News Meta Suspends Another Queer SF Venue’s Accounts Amid Growing Censorship Concerns Amid escalating reports that Meta’s recent policy changes have led to the disproportionate suppression of queer content, the company suspended the accounts of another local LGBTQ venue, Powerhouse, Thursday.
SF News 17-Year-Old Suspect Arrested In Shooting at Morgan Hill Birthday Rave That Left One Dead A juvenile suspect has now been arrested in connection with the July 25th mass shooting at a birthday party for a Twitch streamer in a Morgan Hill field that had been promoted on social media.
SF News Sprouts Market Plans First SF Store at Former Nordstrom Rack Site on Ninth Street SF’s South of Market neighborhood will be getting a new grocery store in 2028, as Sprouts Farmers Market is moving into the former Nordstrom Rack at 555 Ninth Street, next door to Trader Joe's.
