SF News Median Rent for San Francisco One-Bedroom Apartment Hits $4,000/Mo Despite several years of really bad PR, especially in the national press, people remarkably still seem to want to live in San Francisco badly enough that they'll pay four grand a month for a one-bedroom apartment.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: New Poll Puts Becerra In Lead Well Ahead of Dems A new poll puts Xavier Becerra well ahead of the pack in the governor's race; the Concord City Council just voted to go forward on a massive redevelopment of a former Navy site; and rotavirus is surging in the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wildfire Grows In Livermore A wildfire called the Tesla Fire, because it began near Tesla Road, has grown to three acres in Livermore; Mayor Lurie has promoted a new chief of staff from within; and Trump is now having the DOJ investigate E. Jean Carroll.
SF News ‘Henry’ the Cocker Spaniel Takes Brief Joy Ride In Stolen Car In Downtown Concord A Cocker Spaniel named “Henry” had the ride of his life when his owner’s car was stolen while parked in downtown Concord, and he was recovered 12 hours later. [Update]
SF News California Educators Denounce Newsom’s Plan to Temporarily Withhold $3.9M In School Funds Education groups from across the state met in Sacramento last week to urge state legislators to reject Governor Newsom’s revised budget proposal to temporarily hold $3.9 billion in education funding, which is equal to about $643 in cuts per student.
SF sports Plans to Renovate Kezar Stadium for Golden City FC’s 2027 Debut Delayed Until December New pro soccer team, Golden City FC, announced last May it would begin its $10 million renovation of Kezar Stadium last December, which is now being pushed to this December, and some are skeptical it will be ready in time for the 2027 season.
SF Politics Pelosi Finally Says What She Thinks About Chakrabarti and Wiener In Race to Succeed Her One week out from the primary, and one week after she finally came out and endorsed Connie Chan to succeed her, Nancy Pelosi has taken the gloves off and tells us how she really feels about the other main candidates in the race.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Jose Original Joe's Restaurant Goes on the Market — Could It Rejoin Its SF Cousins? A confusing fact about the Original Joe's brand in the Bay Area is that it actually belongs to two unrelated families — and if you bring in other "Joe's" restaurants in Marin and elsewhere, the picture is murkier.
SF News Oakland Police Department May Soon Be Free of Federal Oversight For First Time In Two Decades A hearing is set for Wednesday to confirm whether the Oakland Police Department is in compliance with all 51 of its required reforms for the first time in 23 years — the longest in US history, and federal oversight could end in September.
SF Politics Yuba and Sutter County Leaders to Take Vote to Secede From Coastal California In the latest bit of symbolic and theatrical pushback on California's redistricting plan, which is intended to take five Republican-held seats in Congress and hand them to Democrats, two inland counties in Northern California are taking votes on a new secession plan.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Meta Layoffs Hitting Seattle Harder Than SF The victim in a Sunday stabbing in Oakland has been identified as a 19-year-old man; Meta's new round of layoffs is impacting Seattle more than the Bay Area; and the rate of suicide among ICE detainees is increasing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alameda’s Popular USS Hornet Hit Hard By New Restrictions District 2 candidate Lori Brooke brought up allegations in her ads that Stephen Sherill was appointed due to his connections to Bloomberg; popular athleisure brand Alo plans to open its first SF store; and new safety restrictions have affected the revenue of Alameda’s USS Hornet.
SF News Local Woman Bilked Out of Thousands After Scammers Clone Daughter’s Voice With AI An East Bay mother recently answered a call from an unknown number, which turned out to be scammers using AI and deepfake technology to sound like her daughter, whom they said had been kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel — part of a growing trend of scams.
SF News Invasive Insect Found on Costco Plants In Solano County Could Pose Threat to Napa Grapevines Grapevines and citrus plants purchased at Costco stores in Vacaville and Fairfield, as well as in Napa and Sonoma counties, have been found to be harboring infestations of glassy-winged sharpshooters, which pose a grave threat to grapevines.
SF News Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Shannon O'Connor Faces Sentencing for 48 Felonies Involving Minors Shannon O'Connor, the libertine mom with a strangely high level of interest in her teenage son's sex life, and that of his friends, could face decades in prison after her March conviction on child endangerment and sexual misconduct charges.
Arts & Entertainment SF Musician Plans to Turn Former Mission Taco Bell Into Affordable Recording Studio A local musician and recording engineer plans to turn the long-vacant site at Duboce and Guerrero into a music recording studio and creative space for independent artists, as he previously ran a similar space in the Bayview for ten years.
SF News Person Falls 100 Feet Off Cliff at Land’s End In SF, Requiring Helicopter Rescue A young adult suffered traumatic injuries in a fall off a nearly 100-foot cliff while visiting a memorial at Land’s End Monday evening and was rescued by helicopter.
SF News SFPD Officers Use Battering Ram at West Oakland Apartments Linked to Black Panthers SFPD officers were filmed busting through the glass doors of Black Panther Apartments in West Oakland while serving a warrant on a suspect whom they had already arrested — instead of waiting to speak to management.
SF Politics SF Mayor's Chief of Staff and Confidante Staci Slaughter to Step Down After 18 months on the job, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie's chief of staff, Staci Slaughter, has announced she will be stepping down from the job in June.
SF News Alcatraz Ferry Collides With Pier 31 During Docking, Shattering Windows and Frightening Passengers An Alcatraz City Cruises ferry boat had a mishap while docking at Pier 31 on Sunday evening, leaving dozens of passengers shaken and upset and shattering a row of windows on a passenger deck.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Freeway Shooting Shuts Down I-80 In Richmond One person was injured in a freeway shooting on I-80 Monday night; there was a vigil marking two months since Oakland mother Amy Hillyard went missing; and a 36-year-old man drowned in Donner Lake Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Large, Scary Crow Sculptures Installed on Panhandle as Part of 'Big Art Loop' If you haven't been to the Golde Gate Park Panhandle in the last week or so, you have not stumbled upon these large, six-foot-high crows standing, mid-caw, across from each other on the grass.
SF News Sonoma Developer Accused of Defrauding Dozens of Retirees to Be Evicted From His Estate After weeks of frustration among the victims of the Ponzi-like scheme allegedly perpetrated by Sonoma County real estate investor Ken Mattson that he was still living in the lap of luxury, Mattson and his wife are being evicted from their Sonoma estate.
SF News Memorial Day Links: Post-Carnaval Stabbing Leaves One Critically Injured A suspect was arrested following a stabbing in the Mission District Sunday afternoon; the repaving on 19th Avenue is mostly over; and Pope Leo has issued an encyclical focused on the dangers of AI.
SF News Lake County Man Arrested After Murder of Woman, Road-Rage Shooting Spree A 38-year-old Lake County man allegedly killed a woman Friday and proceeded to go on a wild road-rage shooting spree that led authorities on a chase into Napa County.
