SF News Beloved San Francisco Skate Spot 'China Banks' Set For Demolishment This Weekend Skateboarders are in mourning as a hallowed skate spot in San Francisco's Chinatown succumbs to demolition this weekend. "China Banks" — better known as the Portsmouth Square pedestrian bridge — has long served as a proving ground for serious skateboarders thanks to its steep banks and brickwork.
Bay Area Sports Outfielder Harrison Bader's Payments Suspended by San Francisco Giants Following Scooter Crash The San Francisco Giants are suspending payments to outfielder Harrison Bader following his involvement in a late-night scooter crash in Cow Hollow last weekend. Bader has been out of action since late May with plantar fasciitis in his left foot.
SF News Saturday Links: Line to Try Long-Awaited SF Jollibee's Forms Night Before Opening The 49ers are parting ways with veteran executive Paraag Marathe; SFPD uses a drone to locate a suspect in a stabbing; and a donut duel kicks off in Santa Clara.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers Sign Familiar Face, Bring Fan Favorite Wide Receiver Deebo Samuel Back Home One dead, another wounded in daytime shooting at Oakland adult school; WNBA star Brittney Griner files for divorce; and authorities release two ransom notes in Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case.
Business & Tech FTC, California Sue SF-Based Hims & Hers For False Advertising, Sharing Private Health Data SF-based telehealth company Hims & Hers is being sued by the FTC and the states of California and Utah over alleged predatory business practices, including sharing private health data with advertisers and misleading customers over charges and services.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Burdell Chef to Open Bar and Grill In Rockridge Burdell chef Geoff Davis is expanding to Rockridge and taking over the soon-to-close Wood Tavern, Jollibee draws a line near Powell BART, and Tartine's Chad Robertson is doing big things in Brooklyn, all in This Week In Food.
SF Politics Chan Gains Momentum, Trails Closely Behind Wiener In Race For Congress New polls suggest Connie Chan is now only behind by a few points in the race for Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat despite Scott Wiener's sizable fundraising advantage.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Bakery Coming to SF's Financial District In a sure sign of downtown San Francisco's upswing, much-beloved Tartine Bakery is planning to open a large outpost in the Financial District, in a former CVS.
SF Politics Ninth Circuit Weighs In on Trump's Immigrant Detention Policy, Says It Goes Against Longstanding Precedent As other appeals courts have also done over the last year as President Trump's goons go about trying to rid the country of immigrants of all kinds, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a new ruling striking down the administration's policy of detaining immigrants within the country.
Business & Tech SF AI Founder Says He ‘Messed Up’ After Persuading Job Seekers to Get Tattoo of Company Logo A local tech CEO who offered “instant interviews” to anyone who got a permanent tattoo of the company logo was quickly met with backlash, leading the founder to acknowledge that the seven people who took him up on it would’ve gotten interviews either way.
SF News Visitacion Valley House Fire Displaces Six; Vault Fire In Upper Haight Prompts Shelter-In-Place Order A fire in one of PG&E's underground electrical vaults led to some early morning emergency activity and a shelter-in-place order in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, and a one-alarm house fire in Visitacion Valley has displaced six.
SF News East Bay Man Charged With Shooting Ex-Girlfriend In Berkeley, Mother Arrested as Accessory A 19-year-old man from Hayward with an alleged history of domestic violence was charged with attempted murder in connection to the shooting of a young Berkeley woman in the face, and his mother was arrested for allegedly helping him escape.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Weekend Wind Event Could Bring Rough Seas, Fire Weather The Woodside Fire in Sonoma County is now 20% contained but almost doubled in size overnight; global tech layoffs have already surpassed all of 2025 in 7 months; and a powerful marine event will bring rough seas Saturday night into Sunday, along with potential high winds in the hills.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Anthropic Says Three of Its AI Models Hacked Into External Businesses SFO is getting private sleep lounges in the fall of 2027; SF City Attorney David Chiu is suing two hotel booking sites alleging they gouge customers; and some of Anthropic’s AI models hacked into the systems of three businesses.
SF News Ghirardelli’s SF Flagship Store Closes as Union Workers Begin Three-Day Strike Ghirardelli Chocolate closed the doors of its flagship location in SF’s Fisherman's Wharf Thursday after union workers walked off the job to launch a three-day strike over an ongoing contract dispute.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Set Times Revealed, With the Usual Conflicts Galore Music festivals on the scale of Outside Lands are not designed for people with broad or varied tastes, and once again, the set-time schedule reveals a variety of moments when fans will have to make difficult choices, and likely miss an act or two who they'd otherwise like to see.
SF News [Update] Woodside Fire Grows to 75 Acres In Western Sonoma County, Smoke Spreading East A wind-driven wildfire that began Thursday is burning into an area of heavy timber along the Sonoma County coast near Highway 1, north of Jenner and Fort Ross.
Business & Tech SF Robotics Startup Run By Ex-Cruise CEO Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Alleging Unpaid Wages Following an earlier lawsuit over a damaged Airbnb rental, former Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt's startup Botco is now facing a class-action lawsuit from former contract workers who allege unpaid overtime and termination pay.
SF News Immigrants Urged to Avoid Air Travel Amid Rise In ICE Arrests at Bay Area Airports At least a dozen immigrants have been detained by federal agents at Bay Area airports over the past month — many over expired visas rather than active removal orders, leading advocates to suspect ICE is accessing flight information.
Business & Tech Waymos Set to Return to SF Freeways Following Mishaps, Recall Waymo robotaxis are going to be popping back onto Bay Area freeways in the coming days, following a voluntary six-week recall in which the company's software was updated to better handle emergency road closures and construction.
SF News Major Traffic In Northern Marin County Following Collision Involving Downed Power Lines, Brush Fire There was a major backup on 101 Thursday morning impacting both northbound and southbound lanes, following a collision near the Highway 37 interchange in Novato that took out a power pole and sparked a small brush fire.
SF News SF Therapist Receives Felony Charges In Juvenile Hall Grooming, Sexual Abuse Case A former behavioral health clinician from San Francisco faces several felony charges for allegedly grooming a teenage client at a juvenile detention center in Contra Costa County for two years then sexually abusing him upon his release.
Arts & Entertainment 'Drag Race' Royalty Alaska Thunderf*ck to Play Mary In 'Oh, Mary!' In SF Speculation and rumors have been swirling for months now about who would play the titular role of Mary Todd Lincoln when Cole Escola's 'Oh, Mary!' comes to San Francisco this fall, and now we have an answer.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFPD Increasing Mid-Market Patrols After Shootings The SFPD is increasing patrols following a spate of shootings in the mid-Market area; a gyrocopter crashed while taking off at Petaluma Airport; and Trump appears to be dropping his nomination of Todd Blanche for AG.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sportscaster Accuses ESPN of Holding Back Shanahan Crash Story A few more details emerge in the Sheng Thao corruption case; an Amazon engineer died by possible drowning in Lake Tahoe Monday; and a sportscaster is accusing ESPN of withholding the Kyle Shanahan crash story for over a week.
