SF News This Is Shaping Up to Be One of the Driest Januarys on Record In San Francisco Dry January in more ways than one! January 2025 in San Francisco is starting to look a lot like the drought Januarys of a few years ago, with clear skies and sun nearly every day, and no rain in sight.
SF News Toppled Fire Hydrant Creates Huge Geyser In Downtown Berkeley A ruptured fire hydrant created quite the water show on Shattuck Avenue in downtown Berkeley Monday morning.
SF News SFPD Vehicle Crashes Into Building During Portola Car Chase, Two Officers and One Suspect Injured An early morning SFPD car chase in Portola at about 3:40 am Monday ended when the suspect car and an SFPD SUV both crashed into a building at San Bruno and Paul avenues, sending two officers and the suspect driver to the hospital.
Arts & Entertainment Justin Timberlake, Noah Kahan, and Green Day to Headline BottleRock 2025 As tickets go on sale this week, the lineup for BottleRock Napa Valley 2025 is out, and it includes East Bay hometown stars Green Bay, Justin Timberlake, and rising folk star Noah Kahan.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART Train Schedule Changes Today Two people were hospitalized after an early Sunday shooting in East Oakland; as BART implements a modern train-control system, there are slight changes to the BART schedule; and Steven Bannon is calling Elon Musk "evil."
SF News Sunday Links: Pacifica, Imperiled by the Ocean, Is Divided on Its Future Pacifica is unsure of its response to rising sea levels; a retail theft ringleader received her sentence; and Gov. Newsom issued an order aiding reconstruction efforts in LA.
SF News 3.7M Earthquake, This One Centered In East Bay, Shakes Bay Area Sunday Morning Another small earthquake struck on Sunday morning, two days after a couple of morning shakers rattled the Bay Area coming from a different direction.
SF News Saturday Links: Palisades Fire Shifts Direction, Forcing More Evacuations An update on the LA fires; San Francisco has the second-worst traffic in the country; and the 49ers are strongly interested in Robert Salah returning to his former DC role.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gov. Newsom Orders Inquiry Into L.A. Fires Gov. Newsom is ordering an investigation into the lack of available water to battle the LA fires; a beloved Oakland Zoo elephant recently died; and President Biden just issued temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands.
SF News That Vacant Union Square Express Space Will Reopen as Shoe Palace In a Matter of Weeks Express closed its Powell Street store in October 2023, but the space will become a Shoe Palace, and sneaker-heads may relish that it will be open in time for next month’s NBA All-Star Game festivities.
SF News Presumptive Case of Bird Flu Found In Child In San Francisco Another probable case of H5N1 bird flu has been detected in the Bay Area, though this has not been confirmed by the CDC, and the patient has already fully recovered.
SF News This Whole Panda Thing at the SF Zoo Appears to Be In Jeopardy, as Major Zoo Donor Revolts The dream of bringing pandas to the SF Zoo did not get London Breed reelected as mayor. And the reality of bringing pandas to the zoo is now in doubt with Breed gone, Mayor Lurie lukewarm to the idea, and a top zoo donor declaring full-throated opposition.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Pizza and Burger Favorites Head Downtown Outta Sight Pizza expands to Chinatown, Lazy Bear expands into French cuisine, and a wildly popular smashburger pop-up gets a brick-and-mortar outpost at IKEA's food hall, all in This Week In Food.
Arts & Entertainment 'Some Like It Hot' Marries New Values With Old-Broadway Razzle Dazzle at SF's Orpheum Fans of the Billy Wilder classic film 'Some Like It Hot' will find plenty that's familiar in the plot of the Tony-winning Broadway musical adaptation, which just opened Thursday in its first American tour at SF's Orpheum Theater.
SF News Union Square Macy’s Escapes the Ax In Latest Macy’s Closure List, But Its Days Are Likely Still Numbered Department store chain Macy’s just announced they’re closing more than 60 stores nationwide, and while the SF Union Square store is not on the imminent closure list, it is still clearly on the chopping block.
SF Politics SF’s Two Biggest Billionaire-Backed Political Agitator Groups Are Merging After Getting Thumped In Election After two big-bucks moderate political action committees spent nearly $10 million on failed attempts to elect Mark Farrell and pass Prop D, the groups Neighbors for a Better San Francisco and TogetherSF are licking their wounds and merging into one.
SF News Mayor Lurie Names New Fire Chief, Dean Crispen, a 34-Year Veteran of the SFFD In his first department-head appointment of his tenure as mayor, Daniel Lurie on Friday announced the appointment of second-generation firefighter and 34-year veteran of the city's fire department Dean Crispen as the new fire chief.
SF News Woman Injured By Firecracker During Lurie Inauguration Celebration It seems the festivities Wednesday didn't go off entirely smoothly in Chinatown, with news that a woman was injured and possibly multiple people were struck by a string of firecrackers that were lit outside a celebratory banquet.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Supreme Court to Decide Fate of TikTok The Supreme Court was hearing arguments about the TikTok ban today; Trump was officially sentenced, though his sentence was discharged, in the hush money case; and the Sonoma-founded Watch Duty app found huge popularity amid the LA fires.
SF News 3.7M Earthquake Rumbles Across SF, Centered Off the Coast — Aftershock Follows You may have been jostled awake, or you may have been up and felt the rumble of this morning's earthquake, which gave San Francisco a small shake at 7:02 am. You also might not have felt it.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Anti-LGBTQ Crusader Anita Bryant Has Died The Southern California fires are now nearly as large as San Francisco itself; Kohl’s is closing five Bay Area stores; and Anita Bryant, who famously took a pie in the face from a gay rights activist in 1977, has reportedly died.
SF News Two Stalled Waymos Gummed Up Lurie’s Chinatown Inauguration Party, But Cops Just Jumped In Them and Drove Away Police can apparently now hop into stalled, confused Waymo robotaxis and drive them away manually, and this reportedly happened twice Wednesday night at Mayor Daniel Lurie’s inauguration party.
SF Politics San Mateo County Sheriff Drama Continues as County Leaders Scoff at Lawsuit Threat San Mateo County officials put out a statement this week in response to a government claim by embattled Sheriff Christina Corpus, a claim which, they say, is riddled with "incorrect and misspelled names" and "is largely devoid of any alleged facts supporting its conclusions."
SF Politics Lurie Announces City Hall Hiring Freeze on First Full Day in Office, Fentanyl Emergency Order Coming by Tuesday New SF Mayor Daniel Lurie declared a City Hall hiring freeze (but not for cops or firefighters) on Day One of his administration that faces a $876 million deficit, and he says he’ll have his fentanyl crackdown plan ready to pass on Tuesday.
SF News Attempted Murder Charges Filed In Two SoMa Shootings In two separate shooting incidents that have occurred since the new year began in the SoMa neighborhood, two suspects are now facing attempted murder charges.
