Bay Area Sports City of Oakland Planning Big Celebrations for Gold Medal Figure Skating Champion Alysa Liu The breakout star of the 2026 Winter Olympics Alysia Liu is from the East Bay and trained at the Oakland Ice Center, so Oakland is planning a “community-wide celebration” that will act as Alysia Liu’s gold medal victory parade.
SF News Verdict May Arrive This Week In Much-Delayed Trial of Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Jurors have been deliberating now for two days in the Santa Clara County trial of Shannon O'Connor, the 50-year-old woman accused of providing alcohol to high school friends of her son, and hosting events where several girls say they were sexually assaulted.
SF News Suspect Arraigned In Tenderloin Homicide Is Claiming Self-Defense The 37-year-old suspect in a February 11 homicide on Turk Street was arraigned Wednesday, and his defense is claiming that he acted in self-defense. The victim, however, was shot in the back and was only armed with pepper spray.
Business & Tech Pentagon Trying to Force SF-Based Anthropic to Weaken AI Security for Killing Purposes, Anthropic Not Backing Down Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth complains that it’s “woke AI” that SF’s own Anthropic won’t give him AI-controlled weapons and massive domestic surveillance, and is now threatening to blacklist the company.
SF News Oakland Man Paroled Following Plea Deal In 2024 Juneteenth Shootout That Injured 14 People A 25-year-old Oakland man is getting out of jail this week after serving almost 18 months behind bars in connection with a 2024 Juneteenth shootout by Lake Merritt that left more than a dozen people injured.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Welcomes New Baby Red-Tailed Monkey In a first for the zoo, a guenon species monkey has been born in captivity at the Oakland Zoo, and it's a baby red-tailed monkey who has not yet been given a name.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF to Establish 'ICE-Free Zones' On City Property SF's Board of Supervisors voted to establish 'ICE-free zones' on city property; BART is just as loud as it used to be; Alameda police have made a whole lot of DUI arrests recently.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alysa Liu Returns to SFO, Cheering Fans Await Someone fell off Devil’s Slide and died Tuesday morning; Michael Tilson Thomas’s partner also died unexpectedly; and Oakland’s gold medal-winning figure skater Alysa Liu returned to SFO to a hero's welcome.
Arts & Entertainment Curiously, SF Supervisors Declare This Friday ‘Pokémon Day’ in San Francisco Is Pokémon even still that much of a thing? It is to some people, including the SF Board of Supervisors, who just declared this Friday, February 27, as Pokémon Day in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland’s Own Ryan Coogler Tapped to Write and Direct the Upcoming ‘X-Files’ Reboot While it's just a small-screen reboot of the ‘X-Files’ that will be on Hulu, ‘Sinners’ and ‘Black Panther’ director Ryan Coogler will be the writer and director of the upcoming streaming ‘X-Files’ reboot (or the pilot, at least).
SF News Tracy Father of Newborn Triplets Found Dead In Lake Berryessa Was Likely Victim of Mistaken Identity Authorities are now saying that Avtar Singh, the 57-year-old Tracy man who was found dead in Napa's Lake Berryessa after going missing near his home, was likely not the intended target of his abductors and killers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wildly Popular Chicken Finger Chain Raising Cane's Is Coming to Fisherman's Wharf Raising Cane's, the fast-food outfit that specializes in fried chicken of the boneless variety, is planning to open a new location in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood, a stone's throw from In-N-Out.
SF News Nob Hill Robbery and Assault Victim Dies, Suspect Now Facing Homicide Charge San Francisco just notched another homicide in what has been an unusually violent start to the year, after a man who was attacked and robbed earlier this month just succumbed to his injuries.
SF News Nob Hill and Marina Condo Owners Have Just About Secured a Delay on That Pricey Sprinkler Mandate Fire safety may be important, but irate condo owners from Nob Hill, Telegraph Hill, the Marina, and Pacific Heights stormed an SF City Hall committee hearing Monday to demand a delay on a new sprinkler mandate for their units.
Business & Tech Transamerica Pyramid Reportedly Being Sold For Second Time In Six Years Whatever drama has been ongoing at the Transamerica complex between its owner and developer/operator Michael Shvo may get wiped away with a reported deal to sell the tower.
Arts & Entertainment Napa's Latin Music Fest La Onda Canceled Two Weeks After Lineup Announcement Festival La Onda, which would have been in its third year at the Napa Valley Expo on the weekend following BottleRock, has been abruptly canceled with no explanation.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Drydock Threatens to Sink, Will Be Expensive to Demolish The Port of SF's floating Drydock #2, which used to be active in repairing ships, is listing and threatening to sink; Kaiser nurses have ended their four-week strike; and a neighborhood in Guerneville is facing a possible landslide.
SF News Day Around the Bay: El Mencho Got His Start Selling Drugs In SF at Age 19 The Mexican cartel leader who was killed Sunday was arrested selling drugs in SF in 1986; the 'bring cars back to the Great Highway' ballot measure has filed paperwork; and Oakland is slowly on the hunt for a new police chief.
SF News Third Suspect Charged In Early January Oakland Triple-Homicide, Which Police Say Was Over a $10 Bag of Weed A measly dime-bag of pot deal gone wrong left three men dead in Oakland last month, and now the marijuana dealer has been arrested too, but boy did he have a lengthy list of priors.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Slanted Door Group Says Restaurant Will Return to Valencia Street Next Year A little over a year after the unexpected death of founder and chef Charles Phan, The Slanted Door Group is ready to get rolling on realizing his vision to return to the Valencia Street space where it all started.
SF News Yet Another SF Nonprofit CEO, Who Allegedly Stole $1.2 Million, Criminally Charged With Misuse of Public Money Criminal charges just came down on a former SF homelessness nonprofit CEO accused of buying a Tesla with public money, among a slew of other financial improprieties, and she's facing nine felony charges.
SF News BART Takes Steps to Clear Encampments Near Tracks After Sunday Fire Causes Service Meltdown BART says it is now working with the City of Oakland to "proactively address" other spots where homeless encampment fires could potentially threaten train service.
SF Politics Wiener Introduces New State Legislation That Would Allow Cities to 'Breakup with PG&E' and Start Their Own Public Utilities State Senator Scott Wiener is trying to bolster his run for Congress with a new bill targeting PG&E, a bill that would allow cities to "breakup with PG&E." But does deficit-strapped SF even have the money to do this?
SF News California Tourists Stranded In Puerto Vallarta and Other Mexican Cities as Cartel Wreaks Revenge for Slain Leader Many flights in and out of Puerto Vallarta and other Mexican cities were canceled on Sunday, amid a wave of arson fires and other activities by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and American tourists were told to shelter in place and avoid areas of law enforcement activity.
SF News Body of Man Found In Lake Berryessa Suspected to Be Victim of Kidnapping After 57-year-old Avtar Singh was reported missing in Tracy last Tuesday, authorities have confirmed that a body found in Lake Berryessa on Friday is his, and surveillance video indicates foul play by three suspected kidnappers.
