SF News Here We Go Again: Vaillancourt Fountain Fans Sue SF In Yet Another Last-Gasp Attempt to Save Fountain Just when you thought that SF was absolutely, positively getting rid of that 710-ton some-would-say-eyesore known as Vaillancourt Fountain, a group of preservationists is suing the city to keep the damn thing there.
Business & Tech Anthropic's Pentagon Contract In Jeopardy Over Questions About AI Spying San Francisco-based AI company Anthropic, which launched as an ostensibly more ethically driven AI enterprise than competitors like OpenAI, appears to be hitting an impasse in its contract negotiations with the Pentagon.
SF News Driver In West Portal Crash That Killed Family of Four Pleads No Contest, Judge Sounds Lenient The elderly woman accused of killing a family of four with her vehicle two years ago in West Portal changed her plea Friday from not guilty to no contest, and the judge indicated that she was unlikely to get jail time.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Long Delays at SFO Due to Wind Inbound flights were delayed an average of four hours at SFO last night; the remains of a missing Santa Cruz woman have been ID'd; and a Palo Alto restaurant hosted Bad Bunny's private Super Bowl afterparty.
SF News Oakland Nonprofit Debuts Mobile Clinic for Exploited Youth, Hosts Town Hall With Local Leaders Dream Youth Clinic in Oakland launched a mobile clinic offering free reproductive health services to teens and young women who've experienced sex trafficking, and it also recently hosted a first-ever town hall providing a forum for girls to speak directly to local leaders.
SF News Surf Legend from Prominent Santa Cruz Surfing and Farming Family Killed in Costa Rica Home Kurt Van Dyke, a well-known surfer from a prominent Santa Cruz family of surfers who also own Van Dyke Farms in Gilroy, was killed by armed intruders Saturday in his home on Costa Rica's Caribbean Coast where he was a longtime hostel owner.
SF News Sunday Links: Local Investor Under Investigation for Allegedly Trafficking at Least Ten Women The Bay Area is getting hit with several days of solid rain; Assemblymember Diane Papan is working to close a loophole that allows e-bikes to operate at excessive speeds; and a social-climing local entrepreneur has been dubbed “the Epstein of the West.”
SF News Ghirardelli Workers Hold One-Day Strike on Valentine’s Day at SF’s Fisherman’s Wharf Ghirardelli workers took part in a one-day strike at the company’s flagship location at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf Saturday demanding a new contract that includes wage increases and preserving their union-run health plan, for which they’ve been bargaining for months.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: 124-Year-Old Light Bulb, UC Davis’ Cheeto the Cat, and ‘Trash Falcons’ Art Exhibit This week: Hip-hop at Yoshi’s, coastal trails, national park sweethearts, and a Muni beer crawl. Plus, turning Lake Merritt trash into art, repairing bikes for kids, a light bulb that never goes out, and the big cat on campus.
Arts & Entertainment Sam Smith Channels Chaka Khan, George Michael, and Bonnie Raitt In Castro Residency The great Sam Smith seemed wistful, grateful, and dare we say happy during their almost 90-minute set Friday night, and you can hear them paying tribute to generations of R&B and soul singers in multiple numbers.
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco Tech Company Launches $8,000 Laundry-Folding Robot Asian American communities are celebrating the Lunar New Year across the Bay Area; an SUV driver wearing a boot cast crashed into a Santa Rosa store; and a new $8,000 laundry-folding robot will fold most clothing and small linens.
SF News Day Around the Bay: MC Hammer Jumps Aboard Honorary Black History Month Cable Car Amazon ended its deal with Ring after that creepy Super Bowl commercial; the Vallaincourt Fountain preservationists have filed a lawsuit pausing demolition; and MC Hammer made an appearance on a Black History Month cable car.
SF News Newsom and California Sue Trump Administration Again, This Time Over Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trump’s EPA is running roughshod over all California’s environmental protections, so the state is suing to keep as many of them as intact as possible, the latest being our rollback of how much greenhouse gases can be emitted into the environment.
Arts & Entertainment The Internet Can’t Get Enough of the Bushes from Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Bad Bunny took the world by storm during his Super Bowl Halftime Show, and so did the 400 mostly local performers in the now-famous “grass bunny” costumes who are sharing their experiences all over the internet, with one performer listing the prized costume on eBay for $5,000.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Diner Food on Polk A new diner debuts on Polk, Cenaduria Elvira makes a splash in Oakland's Jack London Square, and the Chronicle reviews Dingles Public House, all in This Week in Food.
SF News [Updated] Seven Injured After Car Crashes Into Oliver's Supermarket In Santa Rosa A car went through the front windows of gourmet supermarket Oliver's in Santa Rosa Friday morning, leaving seven people injured and significant damage to the store.
SF Politics Remembering When Rose Pak Used to Harangue Politicians From the Stage at the Chinese New Year Parade These days some of you only know Rose Pak as the name on a Muni station, and that is too bad. She was an elbows-out, combative political force who was never afraid to speak her mind, which was always the case at the annual Chinese New Year Parade.
SF News Harrowing Details Emerge of Final Desperate Phone Call to Family Member Before Alameda Quintuple Murder 36-year-old Brenda Natali Morales made a phone call to an uncle just minutes before her husband, Shane Killian, fatally shot her, their two sons, and Morales's parents in a drunken rage on July 10, 2024, prosecutors say.
SF News There’s Fresh Friction Between Lurie and PG&E Over Day-of-Blackout ‘Nutcracker’ Performance A PG&E executive testified that Mayor Lurie demanded the lights be turned back on during the Dec. 20 blackout for his daughter's ‘Nutcracker’ performance, but now PG&E is backtracking on that claim.
SF News Teachers' Strike Ends After Early Morning Deal, Schools Still Closed 'til Wednesday The San Francisco teachers' union and the SF Unified School District reached a tentative deal that was announced at 6 am Friday, after four days on strike, with the union getting a key benefit they had been seeking.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Flower Market Gears Up for Valentine's Rush A 76-year-old Oakland woman was injured in a mugging; a former BART director speaks out about the station closure threat; and the SF Flower Market is in full swing for Valentine's Day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pride Flag Re-Raised at Stonewall After Trump Administration Tore It Down A teen was charged with last November's shooting at Ocean Beach, the Puppy Bowl got higher ratings than Kid Rock’s halftime show; and activists just replaced the Stonewall Pride flag that the Trump administration tore down.
SF Politics Sup. Dorsey Threatening to Censure or Even Remove Mystery Supervisor He Says Leaked Information A ho-hum item on Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors agenda has turned into a full-blown witch-hunt for Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who says he’s launching an investigation into some fellow supe he claims leaked confidential info.
Business & Tech AI Insiders Are Sounding Alarms, and the Guy Who Wrote That Viral Post Says He's Not Being Alarmist Is AI coming for most of your jobs? Maybe not. But some of them? Yes, probably. And we're seeing another wave of AI industry insiders speaking out publicly and making some grave statements.
SF News Protesters Confront Sonoma County Sheriff During Meet-and-Greet for Cooperating With ICE Sonoma County Sheriff Eddie Engram held a meet-and-greet in Bodega Bay Wednesday, which was met with a group of local protesters and community members denouncing the sheriff for handing over 70 people to ICE in 2025, urging him to support a proposed non-compliance ordinance.
