SF News Day Around the Bay: ‘Suspicious’ Package Shuts Down Customs Building Near Jackson Square Some lane closures are coming to the Golden Gate Bridge Wednesday; Trump’s airstrikes on Iran apparently weren’t all that successful; and a suspicious package forced the closure of an SF US Customs and Border Protection building.
Arts & Entertainment Sadly, Great America Amusement Park Looks Like It’s Closing Permanently in 2027, Not 2033 as Previously Announced You might want to hurry on squeezing in your last trip to Santa Clara’s doomed Great American amusement park, as it now looks like the park’s on its final few years of operation after the land beneath it was sold to a real estate conglomerate.
Business & Tech Federal Judge In SF Rules That AI Company Anthropic Did Not Violate Copyright Law In Training Its Chatbot A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that Anthropic did not break the law when it used copyrighted material to train its AI chatbot Claude. The company will have to go to trial, however, over its use of pirated copies of books.
Arts & Entertainment Rainbow Lasers, Nicknamed 'The Gaysers,' to Light Up Market Street Again Starting Friday Yes, those rainbow lasers glowing through the fog over Market Street will be returning for this Pride Weekend, and you should see them blink on Friday evening.
SF News Large Warehouse Fire Raging In Oakland, Crews Allowing It to Burn Out A warehouse fire was raging Tuesday afternoon on Moorpark Street in Oakland, with 25 Oakland firefighters on the scene, but they’re not going into the warehouse to fight the fire because it’s burned so many times before.
SF News Casual Carpool Appears to Be Returning, Could Put the Pedal to the Metal Again Late This Summer The nearly 50-year-old Bay Area tradition of Casual Carpool, or getting rides to work with complete strangers who want carpool-lane privileges, was discontinued once the pandemic hit. But Casual Carpool is poised to possibly return this summer.
SF Politics BART and Muni Secure $750M Loan From State Along With Other Local Transit Agencies Some proposed cuts to transit funding are off the table, and Bay Area transit agencies including, primarily, BART and Muni, will be receiving a lifeline in the form of an interest-free loan from the state in the upcoming budget.
SF News Dyke March Returns, Officially, on Saturday After Five Years of Renegade Marches It's been quite a few years since we've seen a loud and proud throng of queer women rallying in Dolores Park and marching in the annual Dyke March, as the event was getting smaller and more disorganized before being officially cancelled last year. But it is back on for Saturday, June 28.
SF News Latest FCI Dublin Prison Controversy: Officers Getting Evicted From Mobile Homes That They Own While rumors continue to swirl that the East Bay’s shuttered Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin could be turned into a migrant detention facility, numerous officers are embroiled in a messy eviction from homes they own on the property.
SF News SF-Based DoorDash Executive and His Parents Among Victims ID'd In Tahoe Boating Tragedy The eight victims in Saturday's boat-capsize tragedy on Lake Tahoe were publicly identified for the first time Tuesday, and among them was a 37-year-old DoorDash executive.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Supporters Rally to Save Castro Businesses From Eviction The eighth body has been pulled from Lake Tahoe following Saturday's tragic boating accident; the San Mateo County supervisors are having a special meeting about the sheriff ouster process; and there was a rally to support saving two longtime Castro Street businesses.
SF News Day Around the Bay: US Bombings Expose Divisions In Local Iranian American Community The three men who died jumping into a waterfall in Placer County have been identified; the US bombings in Iran expose divisions in Bay Area Iranian American community; and people are being robbed at ATMs in Pleasanton.
Arts & Entertainment A Pretty Interesting Tall Ship Is Rolling Into SF This Weekend, and They’re Giving Tours of It for Free A one-time Nazi ship that is now property of the US Coast Guard will be spending Saturday in San Francisco, as the Coast Guard vessel Barque “Eagle” will be at Pier 17 and giving free tours all day Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment SF's Mexican Museum, Still In Financial Trouble, Misses Fundraising Deadline The saga of San Francisco's Mexican Museum, which has not actually had a museum space to call home for the better part of a decade, continues to be a troubled one.
Arts & Entertainment The Outer Sunset Is Having Another July 4th Parade, This Time on July 4th The long-dormant San Francisco July 4th parade was revived last year as a smaller family affair on the Great Highway, but it was curiously held on Pride Weekend. This year it’s back at what we now call Sunset Dunes, and it will in fact be on July 4th.
SF News Two Separate Large Brush Fires Raging In Contra Costa County, But Evacuation Warnings Lifted Two brush fires are burning 30 miles away from each other in Contra Costa County Monday afternoon, one in Rodeo that has reached more than 60 acres, and another near the foot of Mount Diablo for which the evacuation warning has already been lifted.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Two-Star Restaurant Sons & Daughters to Relocate to Former Osito Space In the Mission Sons & Daughters, which has operated out of a small space in the Nob Hill neighborhood since its opening fifteen years ago, has been raking in the accolades of late. And greater demand is spurring a move to a bigger, newer space that was recently vacated by another Michelin-starred spot.
SF News Hundreds Rally In SF to Protest Trump’s Bomb Strikes on Iran Somewhere between 200 and 300 people demonstrated at the Embarcadero Sunday afternoon in protest of the US airstrikes against Iran, with many saying Trump is committing war crimes.
SF News FBI Releases New Sketch of Person of Interest In Seemingly Random 2016 Aquatic Park Murder A cold-case murder from 2016, the killing of 20-year-old Calvin Riley in San Francisco's Aquatic Park, was taken over by the FBI two years ago, and a new lead has recently emerged.
SF News Flight From SFO to Rome Diverted to Iceland For Mechanical Issue A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Rome had to be diverted Sunday after an unexplained mechanical issue, making an emergency landing eight hours into the flight.
SF News More Details Emerge on SF Sheriff’s Chief of Staff’s Hit-and-Run Arrest; He Was Reportedly Driving City Vehicle We’re now learning that suspended SF Sheriff’’s Office Chief of Staff Richard Jue was driving a city-owned vehicle when he was allegedly involved with a hit-and-run and provided false information, and the vehicle he hit may have been a Tesla.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 3 Bodies Recovered From NorCal's Rattlesnake Falls The bodies of three men were found Sunday after they were seen jumping into the water at Rattlesnake Falls in Placer County; an LAPD officer was killed this morning while assisting with a freeway crash; and a civil grand jury report blames SF cops for not enforcing Vision Zero traffic laws.
SF News [Update] Coast Guard Suspends Search After Lake Tahoe Boat Capsizing, 7 Confirmed Dead With One Still Missing The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for two people still missing after a 27-foot powerboat capsized during a sudden storm on Lake Tahoe Saturday around 3 p.m. The incident resulted in six confirmed deaths and two hospitalizations, with a total of ten people onboard.
Politics From Yosemite to Big Sur, Millions of Acres Eligible for Sale Under Senate's Proposed ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ The Senate is expected to vote by July 4 on the “Big Beautiful” bill, which could allow the sale of up to 3 million acres of public land across 11 western states. In California, 16 million acres are eligible, including land near Yosemite and Lake Tahoe.
SF News SF Giants Pitcher Sean Hjelle Accused of Abuse and Infidelity by His Wife in Viral TikTok Video Major League Baseball is investigating allegations of abuse and infidelity made against SF Giants reliever Sean Hjelle by his estranged wife, Caroline Hjelle. The claims were made public Friday in a viral TikTok post that garnered over 3 million views before it was deleted.
