SF News Easter Sunday Links: Plane Crash Near Tahoe Neighborhood Leaves Two Dead Two passengers died in a single-engine plane crash near a Tahoe residential neighborhood, although the plane missed the neighborhood; SF Carnaval's King and Queen were crowned; and SF police arrested 54 in a bust in the Tenderloin.
SF News Ex-Caltrain Employees Accused of Building Secret Homes in Stations With Public Funds The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office filed charges against two former Caltrain employees for allegedly misusing public funds to construct personal residences within train stations.
SF News Saturday Links: 3-Alarm Fire in the Mission Overnight Saturday Injures Two Two people are injured after a three-alarm fire in San Francisco's Mission District in the early hours of Saturday morning; NYT has a new profile on tech investor Garry Tan; and Bay Area officials are warning about rising measles cases.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pro-Palestinian Protesters Stage Rally at SF Waterfront Event for New Ship, USNS Harvey Milk The new navy vessel named after former SF supe Harvey Milk made its maiden voyage Thursday to SF; pro-Palestinian protesters held a rally at the ship's ceremony; and Mayor London Breed is headed to China to strengthen relations and try to get SF a giant panda in April.
SF News 11 Anti-War Protestors Who Blocked Travis Air Force Base Entrances on Friday Arrested A group of protesters tried to block people from entering Travis Air Force Base in Solano County early Friday morning until police showed up and arrested them.
SF News Pedestrian Injured After Being Struck by Car While Waiting for Bus in San Francisco's Richmond District A week after a family of four was tragically killed in a car crash at an SF bus station, another vehicle hit a pedestrian at a stop near Golden Gate Park, prompting calls for better speeding laws.
SF News Fake Post About SF 7-Eleven Stores Selling Onigiri With the Mayor's Face on Them Goes Viral An SF artist really wanted to bring rice balls to Bay Area 7-Elevens — so she made a bunch with London Breed's face on them and got the hype going.
SF News Sunday Links: First Fatal Mountain Lion Attack in 30 Years Leaves One Dead in Northern California A mountain lion attack in El Dorado County, California claimed one life and left another person injured on Saturday; the SF Giants have a new surprising hobby; and a man who was threatening people at SF's Pier 14 then jumped into the Bay was taken into custody Saturday.
SF News After February Storms, California State Officials Double Water Allocation for Most Municipalities The CA Department of Water Resources increased its forecasted allocation to 30% of requested supplies for those south of the Delta (the majority of water users) up from a 15% allocation update announced last month.
SF News Saturday Links: Santa Cruz Kids Find Ancient Giant Sloth Fossil Elementary school students found a fossil sloth arm bone while playing in the woods near the Santa Cruz mountains; six Bay Area men caught in undercover online child sex crimes sting; and the Golden Gate Bridge toll is going up (again).
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Now Has the Highest Unemployment Rate Out of All the U.S. States California's unemployment rate rose in February, although SF is still slightly below the national average; a San Francisco woman was sentenced to two years in prison for stealing $40,000 of stuff from stores; and London Breed lost a bet and sent Dungeness crab to Kansas City's mayor.
SF News West Portal Bus Stop Crash Claims Third Life, Fourth Victim Still Hospitalized Three members of a young SF family, including the married parents and a young child, have reportedly died from injuries sustained while waiting at an SF bus station that an SUV struck Saturday afternoon.
SF News Sunday Links: Supervisor Connie Chan Is Kicking Off Her (Hard) Re-Election Campaign Early The Richmond District's Connie Chan held her first campaign event Saturday; a Solano County man was arrested for two separate shootings in the Tenderloin in the past two years, and a favorite Big Sur free car camping beach is banning camping.
SF News Probation for Perpetrator in High-Profile Stabbing of Elderly Woman Sparks Controversy An SF judge gave a very lenient sentence to Daniel Cauich, who randomly stabbed a 94-year-old Asian woman in 2021.
SF News Saturday Links: St. Patrick's Day Parade in Downtown SF to Close Roads, Reroute Muni Buses Watch out for road closures in FiDi through SoMa; inflation in the Bay Area is rising less than in the pass few years but electricity costs are spiking; and a judge ordered that a third-party watchdog monitor a troubled East Bay federal prison.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UC Law San Francisco Is Suing The City Over The Tenderloin's Street Conditions (Again) The law school is mad about the drug use and tent encampments around its campus located in the Tenderloin; Mayor London Breed is gearing up for a potential election against Board of Supervisors Prez Peskin; and SF’s speed cameras locations have been announced.
SF News Oakland Police Warn of Rise In Smash-and-Grabs of Occupied Vehicles The Oakland Police Department says that it's deploying more officers in response to the uptick in crime, but department-wide response times still lag.
SF News San Jose Sharks Face New Lawsuit Over Alleged Sexual Abuse by Youth Hockey Coach A new lawsuit alleges that a 12-year-old was sexually abused by a former youth hockey coach connected to the San Jose Sharks, and accuses the owner of negligence.
SF News Catch the Oscars 2024 in Style at These San Francisco Bay Area Watch Parties From casual free watch parties at the Knockout to game-filled events at the Balboa Theater to a black-tie fete at Cinelounge Tiburon, here are some ways to watch the Oscars in and around SF Sunday.
SF News Sunday Links: Saturday Night Shooting in Tunnel on Bay Bridge Leaves One Hurt The Bay Bridge shooting left at least one woman injured and caused significant traffic delays around 8:30 p.m. Saturday; Code Pink SF had a feminist pro-Palestine march on the Golden Gate Bridge Saturday; and someone threw red liquid on VP Kamala Harris' motorcade in Arizona.
SF News San Francisco Cracks Down on E-Scooter and E-Bike Fires with New Battery Fire Codes After mobility device battery-related fires spiked in the past few years, the San Francisco Fire Department changed its codes regarding lithium-ion batteries, and they went into effect Thursday.
SF News Another United Flight From SFO Needed To Make An Emergency Landing After System Issues On Friday A United Airlines jet headed to Mexico City experienced a problem with the aircraft's hydraulic system, prompting an emergency landing at LAX on Friday afternoon.
SF News Saturday Links: SF's Union Square In Bloom With Over 80,000 Tulips for Annual Tulip Day Saturday Afternoon Tulip Day attendees can receive up to eight complimentary tulips; SF's animal shelter is at full capacity, so it's a great time to adopt a dog; and a motorcyclist fatally crashed in Golden Gate Park on Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Unemployment Hits 4% in San Francisco Amid Tech Layoff New data shows that unemployment in SF jumped to the highest levels in the past two years; a new luxury women's knitwear store is bucking trends and opening a Union Square storefront; and the recall effort for the Alameda County DA is facing self-dealing allegations.
SF News Some San Francisco Public Schools Face Closure as Enrollment Plummets The school district of San Francisco, grappling with declining students and a looming budget deficit, is set to close or consolidate an unspecified number of schools by fall 2025, Superintendent Matt Wayne said.
