SF News How a Three-Day Back-County Ski Expedition Turned Deadly in the Sierra More details have been released about a group of back-country ski guides and their 11 clients who were hiking through an avalanche-prone area Tuesday morning as we learned that eight have been found dead and one remains missing.
SF Politics Latest Poll In CA Governor's Race Has Swalwell and Hilton Surging Ahead of the Pack, 21% Still Undecided A new independent poll finds Rep. Eric Swalwell overtaking Republican Chad Bianco, which is good news for those of us who don't want a Republican v. Republican governor's race.
SF News California High-Speed Rail Authority CEO Caught Up in Some Manner of Domestic Battery Incident The CEO of California’s High-Speed Rail Authority was apparently arrested earlier this month on suspicion of domestic battery, and though he won't face charges, he’s taking a leave of absence anyway.
SF News Victoria Jones, Daughter of Tommy Lee Jones, Died of Cocaine Overdose at SF Hotel The cause of death has been confirmed for Tommy Lee Jones's 34-year-old daughter, who was found dead at the Fairmont Hotel the night of New Year's Eve.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Nine Dead Out of Group of 15 Skiers Caught In Avalanche Nine people are missing and six were rescued from a group of back-country skiers caught in a Tuesday avalanche near Tahoe; Mark Zuckerberg is testifying in that social media trial; and a famed Monterey County winery is shutting down.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yes, That Was a Hail Storm Tonight in San Francisco Bruce Springsteen is bringing his anti-Trump road show to the Chase Center; San Jose is getting an all-you-can-eat Wagyu steak restaurant; and San Francisco just saw hail, thunder, and lightning in a freak aspect to today’s winter storm.
Business & Tech AT&T Moving Back Into the Exact Same Union Square Flagship Store They Just Left in 2023 An unlikely tenant is stepping forward to move into the Union Square cable car turnaround’s vacant One Powell Street storefront — the very AT&T store that moved out of that storefront two and a half years ago
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sad Japantown Burger King to Be Replaced By Super Duper One of the city's sadder Burger Kings, the one at Fillmore and Post streets, has closed and will reportedly be replaced by local burger concern Super Duper Burger.
SF News Several Back-Country Skiers Missing After Tuesday Morning Avalanche Near Tahoe An unknown number of back-country skiers are missing after an avalanche hit Tuesday morning in the Castle Peak area near Donner Pass, as some parts of the Sierra experience their harshest winter conditions in three years.
Arts & Entertainment Celebrate Mardi Gras In the Mission District Tuesday Evening It's Fat Tuesday, everybody! And for those who celebrate, or those who wish they were in New Orleans — or Rio, or elsewhere — to celebrate, there are a few festivities happening in SF.
Bay Area Sports Olympic Skiing Star Eileen Gu Reveals She Was Assaulted and Threatened While at Stanford San Francisco-born Olympian Eileen Gu, now competing in her second Olympic Games at age 22, reveals in a new interview that she has faced harassment and even death threats over her choice to ski for China instead of the US.
SF News Video: Large Ficus Tree Falls Near the Foot of Potrero Avenue A large ficus tree came down during Tuesday's storm near the intersection of Potrero Avenue and Alameda Street, near the 101 freeway overpass.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Pride Dissolves Its Board And Goes Kaput, New Oakland Pride Will Be Mid-August The Oakland Pride Parade and party just declared itself finished, but a new leadership organization immediately sprang up in its place, and the long and the short of it is that Oakland Pride will now be Sunday, August 16.
SF News 'Coldest Case Ever' Ends In Conviction For Sonoma County Rape and Murder of 13-Year-Old Familial DNA was used to solve a case that had gone cold for over 40 years in Sonoma County, the case of the 1982 murder of 13-year-old Sarah Geer in Cloverdale.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: I-80 Closed Again In Sierra I-80 was closed in both directions Tuesday morning due to heavy snow conditions; snow is also expected today on peaks around the Bay Area; and the Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at age 84.
SF News President's Day Around the Bay: Dog Mauling Convict Denied Parole Once More Marjorie Knoller, who was convicted in the notorious dog-mauling murder of Diane Whipple, has been denied parole again; a Hayward man is charged with a BART parking lot rape; and vaccine makers are pulling back on studies, because of RFK Jr.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Marry Lisa’ Billboard Woman Still Very Much In Hunt for Husband, Being Pretty Choosy About It 42-year-old Lisa Catalano has been at it for six months now with the “Marry Lisa" billboards up and down Silicon Valley's US-101, and she’s still paying for them while looking for a husband, but her viral fame is a mixed bag.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Pair of Giant Horse Statues Ring In the Lunar New Year ‘Year of the Horse’ In SF Meet all the horse statues just installed around San Francisco to celebrate the Lunar New Year’s Year of the Horse, as these intricately designed horse monuments now adorn SF parks, markets, and public spaces.
SF News Storm Impacting Bay Area Roads; Chain Controls In Effect on I-80 In Tahoe Area In snowy Tahoe, I-80 was temporarily closed in both directions Monday morning due to multiple spinouts, and rainy conditions around the Bay are leading to ponding and road closures as well.
SF News Body of Missing UC Berkeley Graduate Student Found In Lake Anza The body of a 22-year-old UC Berkeley graduate student who had reportedly been struggling with mental health issues was found by a dive team Saturday in Lake Anza, a reservoir in Tilden Regional Park.
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.
