SF News Audit Finds PG&E Diverted $123 Million From Required Safety Upgrades PG&E can’t account for what it actually did with that $123 million, which was supposed to be spent on building underground power lines less prone to starting wildfires.
SF News One Puppy Found, One Still Missing After Stolen Van Incident in the East Bay Of the 28 puppies and full-grown dogs that went missing in a pet transport van that was stolen on Sunday night, 27 have now been recovered. But one cute brown bulldog puppy remains missing, having apparently been sold in Oakland by a suspect who is now in custody.
SF News Man Threatening to Jump From Building at Market and Gough Causes Major Traffic A man has reportedly climbed to the top of a building at Market and Gough Streets in San Francisco and refuses to come down. Police are warning people to avoid the area.
SF News Jamaica Hampton, Shot By SFPD, Remains In Critical Condition As Family Seeks Answers We're learning more about the 24-year-old man who was shot and critically wounded in an altercation with San Francisco police on Saturday morning. And the SFPD continues to be cagey about the situation as the man remains in critical condition at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital.
SF News Oakland Councilwoman Suggests Housing 1,000 Homeless on Cruise Ship Oakland city councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan wants to employ a novel method of quickly creating emergency housing that has previously been used after natural disasters: cruise ships docked at the Port of Oakland.
SF News Humpday Headlines: More Details Emerge In East Bay Home Invasions A woman was found shot in her car in Oakland, a poll shows that 90 percent of Bay Area residents want PG&E changed, and there's a high surf advisory on the way tomorrow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Board of Supes Passes Mental Health SF The Supervisors voted to approve a new Office of Emerging Technologies, Sup. Shamann Walton introduced a bill to fund 300 classes that have been cut at City College, and two suspects in a string of East Bay home invasions appeared in court.
Arts & Entertainment 'Hacked' Is the Dry Bay Area Hacker Movie Spoof We Didn't Know We Needed A couple of local filmmakers have just delivered a short film that takes the late-90s/early aughts genre and parodies with Amazon and contemporary SF tech culture as the objects of its dry humor.
SF News Lucky 13 Survives a Little Longer, but Developer Wants to Triple the Apartment Complex The building owner starts still wants raze Lucky 13 and build an apartment complex, but instead of 33 units, now they want 90 units.
SF News Man With Bad Dreadlocks Arrested For 'Prolific' String of Burglaries in SF The SFPD announced Tuesday that it had arrested a 43-year-old man last week who is suspected in a series of commercial burglaries in and around Chinatown and Nob Hill.
Business & Tech San Francisco Loses Major Convention, Oracle's OpenWorld, to Las Vegas Following several years in which the convention bureau has been decrying the visible homelessness on downtown streets as a deterrent for organizers of lucrative professional conventions, the city is losing one of its longstanding mainstays, Oracle's OpenWorld.
Business & Tech Apple Rolls Out Its Most Expensive Computer Ever, Topping Out at $53K The newest Mac Pro desktop models go on sale today, and while the base model costs just a dollar under six grand, add-ons bring the top-of-the-line version to $52,599.
Business & Tech Facebook Says It Will Fight Disinformation About the 2020 Census It's not only an election year next year, it's also a census year, and Facebook is saying that it plans to treat the census like a high-profile election — only in this case it will actually take down ads that spread lies.
Arts & Entertainment It Looks Like 'Matrix 4' Will Be Shooting In SF In February The much-anticipated fourth installment of the Matrix franchise appears to be scheduled do some shooting in San Francisco early next year — though it's not clear where.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Standoff Ends Peacefully In Inner Sunset A suspended Cal football player is in trouble for a bizarre incident involving a Berkeley police officer, unlicensed contractors got nabbed in Santa Rosa... oh, and the House just dropped two articles of impeachment.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Zeitgeist to Close Next Month For Earthquake Retrofit A hazmat situation in Emeryville, a 79-year-old woman was struck and killed over the weekend by a car in the Bayview, and tensions are mounting in Oakland over the homeless.
Arts & Entertainment Two San Franciscans, Linda Ronstadt and Michael Tilson Thomas, Honored at Kennedy Center Also, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got to take Trump's place at the event — he hasn't shown up in two years — and her introduction from the stage was met with a standing ovation.
SF News Undocumented, Critically Ill Bay Area Woman Allowed to Remain In US A Concord woman with a rare genetic disorder who faced deportation following a Trump edict in August has been granted "deferred action" by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and can remain in the Bay Area to receive medical treatment for another two years.
SF News SF Seniors Sad as City College Announces the End of Its Older Adult Classes City College of San Francisco has long been a unique institution in many ways. But now its chancellor has announced the cancellation of its beloved Older Adults program, which provided 64 free, non-credit courses to around 2,000 SF residents in their 70s and 80s.
SF News Judge Overturns Six-Month Jail Sentence for Man Who Ate a Leftover Cookie The public defender’s office has successfully undone a bizarre six-month jail sentence for a man who nibbled a leftover cookie after preparing free lunch for the homeless.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blue Bottle To Test Eliminating Single-Use Coffee Cups Next Year Blue Bottle Coffee just announced that it will be doing away with all disposable coffee cups and coffee-bean bags at two pilot locations in the Bay Area in 2020.
SF News Stolen Van Full of 30 Dogs Recovered In Oakland, 3 Dogs Missing A cargo van full of dogs who were being transported cross-country was stolen out of a hotel parking lot in Fremont Sunday, and while the van has been found with most of the dogs still inside, owners of the dogs are naturally freaking out.
SF News 50-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot In Bayview A shooting on Saturday evening took the life of a 50-year-old man in the Bayview district.
SF News PG&E Reaches $13.5 Billion Settlement for Victims of Wildfires, Ghost Ship Fire PG&E announced Monday that it had reached a settlement valued around $13.5 billion to compensate victims of wildfires in 2015, 2017, and 2018 that have been linked to the utility's equipment, as well as to families of the victims of the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: West Portal Cleans Up After Saturday Flood A tourist from SF captured the eruption of the White Island volcano on camera, BART police are conducting sweeps for fare evaders at Embarcadero, and the 49ers eked out a dramatic win against the Saints.
