SF News Day Around the Bay: Sunset Dunes Celebrates One Year of No Cars The Academy of Art has just sold St. Brigid Church on Van Ness; there was quite a scene outside the Oakland courthouse where the Musk v. Altman trial is happening; and the California man who allegedly tried to shoot Trump on Saturday was formally charged.
SF News Arrest Made In 35-Year-Old Cold Case Rape and Murder In Placer County There has been an arrest in the 1991 murder of Cindy Wanner in Placer County, and the culprit according to the sheriff's office, is a known sex offender who had only been out of prison 10 months when Wanner was kidnapped and killed.
SF News UPS Plane at Oakland Airport Spills 250+ Gallons of Jet Fuel, Some of Which Ended Up In a Storm Drain A jet fuel spill at Oakland Airport Monday resulted in possibly hundreds of gallons of fuel flowing into a storm drain that leads out to San Francisco Bay, but officials say the spill was contained.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rose Pizzeria, Born In Berkeley, Opens Its San Francisco Location In the Richmond The much acclaimed Rose Pizzeria, a favorite of both the SF Chronicle and the New York Times as well as SFist, has just debuted its much anticipated second location in SF's Richmond District. Let the jockeying for reservations begin!
SF Politics ‘Billionaire Tax’ Qualifies For November Ballot, and One Local Billionaire Says He Supports It Proponents of the controversial “billionaire tax” measure have collected almost double the required signatures to qualify it for the November ballot. While there are many Bay Area billionaires who oppose the tax, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he’s “perfectly fine with it.”
SF News SF House That Was Site of Triple Murder-Suicide Sells for $700K Over Asking Yes, there was a bidding war for the Westwood Highlands home that was the site of a tragic murder-suicide six months ago — ghosts be damned, this is real estate.
Business & Tech Jury Selection Begins In Trial Pitting Elon Musk Against OpenAI What had sounded two years ago like a spat between billionaires over a business they both co-founded has now reached an actual courtroom and jury trial, with jury selection beginning Monday in the civil suit that Elon Musk brought against OpenAI.
Bay Area Sports Firm Owned By Jared Kushner’s Brother to Buy Minority Stake In SF Giants A third private equity firm is set to own a small portion of the SF Giants, as Joshua Kushner, brother of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, announced that his firm Thrive Eternal has agreed to purchase a minority, non-controlling stake in the team.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Backcountry Skier Dies Despite Large Rescue Effort 19th Avenue reopened several hours ahead of schedule Monday morning; around 6,000 households in the Marina lost power Sunday night; and a well known skier and Mammoth Mountain employee died while on a backcountry ski trip.
SF News Ex-IDF Soldier Visiting Stanford With Miss Israel Accused of Putting Student In Chokehold Stanford authorities are investigating an incident in which an ex-IDF soldier, who was visiting the campus last week with Miss Israel, is accused of tackling and restraining a student who took a paper sign from the booth.
SF News Sunday Links: Two Earthquakes Strike Off Coast Near San Francisco Zoo BART’s Red line and a portion of its Green line are out of service through Sunday; the pledge to have a single, Democratic caretaker candidate run to fill Swalwell’s seat fell through; and two earthquakes struck off the coast near the SF Zoo.
SF News SF Officials Warn of Counterfeit Opioids Stronger Than Fentanyl Following First Overdose The Department of Public Health issued a warning about two highly potent synthetic opioids that recently hit the streets of San Francisco, which were detected in the blood of a recent overdose victim earlier this month.
SF News Police Bodycam Footage Shows Antioch Officer Trapped With Suspect In Moving SUV Newly released bodycam and surveillance footage shows a tense incident from February when an Antioch police officer became trapped in a moving car with a robbery suspect.
SF News Central Valley Wine Mogul, Trophy Hunter Killed In Elephant Stampede In Africa Prominent Central Valley millionaire and big-game hunter Ernie Dosio was on a safari in Central Africa’s Gabon when his group was charged by a herd of elephants, which fatally trampled Dozio.
SF News Saturday Links: New ICE Detention Center Operated By GEO Group Opens In Central Valley A man with a machete was spotted on surveillance footage in San Jose and hasn’t been caught; service on the Bayview Community Shuttle has been extended for two years; and a new ICE facility operated by the GEO Group opened in the Central Valley.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tesla Signs New Leases In Fremont, San Jose A California plaintiff is suing Trader Joe’s because the labels on one of its coffees doesn’t say it contains half the caffeine; the Justice Department has added death by firing squad to the list of approved methods of execution; and Tesla signed leases in San Jose and Fremont.
Arts & Entertainment BART to Host All-Ages ‘80s Prom This Summer at Rockridge Station Hop on BART and head to Oakland this June for the agency’s all-ages ‘80s meets under-the-sea themed dance party, which will be held in the Rockridge Station parking lot.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Ghirardelli Square's Been Sold There's a taker for the Del Popolo space on Nob Hill, Saluhall has a new bar operator, Ghirardelli Square's been sold, and we have a few more details on the new Outer Richmond location of Bi-Rite, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Lower Haight Beer Mecca Toronado Gets Sold to Regular Patron Concluding a year in which the beloved beer destination Toronado was purportedly being sold to a crypto bro who was talking about installing a roof deck, and then that sale fell through, we now have word that the bar is going into good hands.
SF News Board of Supes to Consider Reopening ‘Dog Court’ as 61 Bite Cases Await Hearings As 61 dog bite cases still await trial, Supervisor Stephen Sherrill and other SF leaders are pushing to bring back canine court hearings after the court was suspended in 2024 due to lack of funding — despite bite cases already being on the rise.
SF News Memorial For Local Journalist and Longtime SFist Writer Joe Kukura Set For May 17 A celebration of life for Joe Kukura, the well known bon vivant, associate editor of SFist and a longtime contributor to multiple other San Francisco publications, has now been scheduled for May 17.
SF News Wife of SoMa Hit-and-Run Suspect Says 'My Husband Is Not a Villain' The wife of the man who now faces murder charges in connection with the vehicular death of 74-year-old Dannielle Spillman insists that the criminal charges are unfair, and says "My husband is not a villain."
SF News 19th Avenue Repaving Project to Cause Significant West Side Traffic This Weekend The ongoing project to resurface and repave 19th Avenue between Sloat Boulevard and Lincoln Way is bringing a major closure to the thoroughfare this weekend.
SF News Video: Suspect Fleeing Police Attempts to Escape By Climbing Under Bay Bridge A police drone captured dramatic footage of officers pursuing a man suspected of driving a stolen vehicle who then abandoned the car on the Bay Bridge earlier this month and began climbing the crossbeams in an attempt to escape.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Swalwell Used Campaign Money For Lawyer The Alameda County DA's office has not heard from any Swalwell accusers; Swalwell used campaign funds to pay a lawyer to defend against assault claims; and the last surviving architect of Sea Ranch has died.
