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Driver Who Entered Duboce Muni Tunnel Could Be Fined $55,000 For Big Oopsies

A renegade car that entered a Muni tunnel last month at Duboce and Church Streets — well-lit "DO NOT ENTER" sign be damned — will face a fine of $55,000 to

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Day Around The Bay: College Dropout Mark Zuckerberg Will Say Words At Harvard Graduation

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With High-Speed Rail On Hold, Transbay Transit Center Daunted By Operating Budget

The future of the over-budget and oversize $2.5 billion Transbay Transit Center is a fearful topic for the Chronicle's Matier and Ross, with the twinning mustache journalists writing that

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Secret Members-Only Tinder 'Select' Is Just Tinder For Hotter, Richer, Shallower People

Just when you thought Tinder could be no shallower, TechCrunch breaks it to you that within the dating app is a secret members-only version "for celebrities and people who do really

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Fort Point Beer Co. Expanding Ferry Building Kiosk To Full Beer Garden

After dropping anchor in the Ferry Building just over a year ago, Fort Point Beer Company is already in expansion mode, doubling the size of what's now a kiosk area operation

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Supervisor Tang's Breastfeeding Bill Would Require Businesses To Provide Lactation Spaces

Joined by some of her youngest constituents, infants held by their mothers, Supervisor Katy Tang took to the steps of City Hall today to announce her plans to introduce legislation requiring all SF

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Vintage Mustang Discovered In Mexico Is Lost Car From 'Bullitt', Ford Experts Verify

After an epic chase, a treasured prop — or character, nearly — from the 1968 Steve McQueen classic Bullitt has been rediscovered, car experts say. Two models of the '68 Mustang were bought for

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BBC Reports Explicit Images Of Children To Facebook; Facebook Reports BBC To UK Police

Facebook criticised after failing to remove sexualised images of childrenhttps://t.co/zn8eVZG3Na pic.twitter.com/79xzA476Ez — BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) March 7, 2017 As part of a BBC investigative report on Facebook&

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Report On Richmond Chevron Refinery Flares That May Have Caused SF Stench Are Released

After a mysterious, sulfurous scent from god knows where had San Franciscans plugging up their noses in two December incidents, fingers were pointing at Richmond's Chevron refinery. Were two flareups there

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Former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan And Her Husband Plot Outer Sunset Pot Dispensary With Apothecarium Team

Quondam Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, the first woman elected to that office in 2011 after her work as a member of Oakland's City Council, has some new, shall we say, high

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Homeless Woman Addresses Letter To DPW, SFPD As They Clear Her Encampment

In a sweep of homeless encampments described by the Coalition on Homelessness, the Department of Public Works and the SFPD cleared 30 tents near San Bruno Avenue and Alameda Street on Sunday morning

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State Bill To Repeal Limitations On Rent Control Has Some Local Landlords Fuming

San Francisco landlords were getting heated Friday in protest of a State Assembly bill that would repeal limits on rent control that have been in effect since 1995. AB 1506, at least in

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Hail Returns Today As Bay Area Mountain Peaks Get Dusting Of Snow

Sledding at Mt. Diablo. #snow #brrr #eastbay pic.twitter.com/GgYHp8Ofbw — Lilian Kim (@liliankim7) March 6, 2017 As the mercury dropped Sunday, the strange, mercurial precipitation — with rain one moment, rainbows the next,

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Day Around The Bay: Since September, Twice As Many San Franciscans See City 'Headed In Right Direction'

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Yelp Feature Will Tell Users If Businesses Have Gender-Neutral Bathrooms

San Francisco-based ratings company Yelp is getting five stars from LGBTQ advocates today. After stepping up yesterday to participate in an amicus brief supporting trans student Gavin Grimm in his lawsuit against

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Off The Grid's Food Truck Caravan Returns To Fort Mason Tonight

If there's one thing that helped formalize and reinforce the food truck fad, it's Off the Grid, a network — or perhaps better to say wagon train — of food entrepreneurs

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Uber Evaded Authorities In Multiple Cities With Secret, Potentially Illegal 'Greyball' System

Well, well, well. Uber has really done it this time. Four current and former employees of the ride-hailing giant reveal to the New York Times that for years during the company'

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Golden Gate National Recreation Area Among The 10 Deadliest National Parks

Nature, even confined to the boundaries of a park, is red in tooth and claw. No, it wasn't bears, mountain lions, or anything so dramatic as wildlife predators that were responsible

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Oh, So NOW Uber Wants DMV Permits For Self-Driving Car Tests In CA

Two months after deploying self-driving cars to pick up customers in San Francisco with disregard that bordered on contempt for DMV permits, the company is abruptly hitting reverse. The San Jose Mercury

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After Internal Investigation Into Hacks, Yahoo Denies Marissa Mayer Millions In Bonus And Stock Awards

An update regarding the internal, independent board committee investigation of two massive Yahoo hacks, released yesterday along with a 10-K financial filing for the company for 2016, reveal a little more about

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These 12 Airbnb Boxes In the Outer Sunset Make A Great Case For Short-Term Rental Regulation

Matthew Schutte, your host at 4229 Moraga Street, identifies himself on his Airbnb listing as "a political theorist, a privacy advocate, a big wave surfer and an innovation coach." But Schutte

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Babu Ji Closes NYC Flagship Location Amid Wage Theft Lawsuit

The owners of hit New York City Indian restaurant Babu Ji, which expanded in November to San Francisco, are closing their East Coast location amid a wage theft lawsuit, the second being faced

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Mayor Never Convened Promised Working Group On Airbnb Regulations

A working group to propose improved Airbnb regulations that Mayor Lee promised to set up by the end of February 2017 when he vetoed the 60-day rental cap is nowhere to be

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Day Around The Bay: New Oakland Police Chief Is Surprised To See So Many Homeless People

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Google Patents Camera Hat, Triggers Painful Google Glass Flashbacks

Google was rightfully and properly shamed out of the business of getting people to wear facecomputers, but after Snapchat found success in the wearables arena with its hardware product Spectacles, Google might be