SF News Self-Driving Google Car Crashes Into Bus, Robot Likely At Fault Although not the first time one of Google's self-driving cars has been involved in a collision, the Valentine's Day crash on a public street in Mountain View, California may be the fist time
SF News SFFD Rescues Adorable Dog From Fort Funston Cliff With Fort Funston in the news recently as one of the many parks to possibly restrict dogs under proposed new National Park Service rules, it is important to remember that the prime dog-walking
SF News New Muni Buses Can't Handle San Francisco's Hills On a beautiful Earth Day last year, SFMTA officials excitedly unveiled the first of sixty brand new electric trolley buses purchased by the city of San Francisco. In conjunction with 61 new biodiesel-electric
SF News Day Around The Bay: Woman Finds Rare Pearl In Her Dinner A Washington State woman found a rare, gem-quality Quahog purple pearl, valued at $600, in her Italian seafood dinner at Montalcino Ristorante Italiano in Issaquah, WA. [NY Post] Muni wants a new training
SF News Nancy Pelosi Weighs In On Dogs On Beaches Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, it would seem, has a (figurative) dog in this fight. The San Francisco Representative to Congress has weighed in on the public battle currently being waged between dog owners and
SF News Lead-Contaminated Water At Healdsburg Elementary Alarms Parents Toxic levels of lead have contaminated the water at Healdsburg Elementary School since at least November, a fact which school officials are just now making public. The water, with contamination levels reportedly 59
SF News Family Sues Oakland Police Claiming Drunken Officer Tried To Break Into Their Home An Oakland family is suing the Oakland Police Department after a bizarre December incident allegedly involving two intoxicated OPD officers. The district attorney has yet to decide whether or not to file charges
SF News San Francisco Jail Lacking Many 'Basic Security Functions' San Francisco County jails have a problem, and it's one that goes beyond the much talked about seismically unsafe Jail No. 4 that's in need of replacement. It appears that since 2014, the
SF News Bill Seeks To Abolish Daylight Saving Time In California If one California lawmaker has his way, daylight saving time could soon be a thing of the past. Assemblyman Kansen Chu of San Jose has introduced a bill that, if passed, would put
SF News ISIS Threatens Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey A video surfaced today that appears to show the faces of Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg, the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook respectively, riddled with bullet holes. The alleged group behind the threat?
SF News Google Fiber Is Coming To San Francisco Google Fiber is finally coming to San Francisco. Well, sort of, anyway. Director of Business Operations at Google Fiber, Michael Slinger, announced in a blog post today his intention bring the company's super-fast
SF News Police Searching For Uber Driver Who Allegedly Assaulted Man After Dispute In San Jose San Jose Police are on the lookout for a man they believe to be an Uber driver after a dispute last Thursday regarding speeding got heated. According to police, a worker at Mineta
SF News Zenefits Tells Employees To Stop F**king At Work San Francisco-based HR-platform startup Zenefits has lately been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Fresh off the resignation earlier this month of the company's CEO and founder Parker Conrad, and the
SF News 'Likes' Are Passé: Facebook's 5 New 'Reaction' Buttons Are Here Social media and advertising giant Facebook today rolled out its long-in-the-works update to one of its defining features: The "Like" button. After limited testing in select countries, Facebook settled on five new reaction
SF News Video: Google-Owned Boston Dynamics Improves Their Terrifying, Terminator-Like Robots Alphabet/Google-owned robotics company Boston Dynamics, the people behind those crazy robot war dogs, has just unleashed upon us yet another bit of nightmare fuel. Specifically: The new and improved Atlas Robot. Watch
SF News City Spits On, Rejects $80 Million In State Funds Intended For New Jail Though expected, we now know that the Board of Supervisors' December vote to kill the proposed new jail means that San Francisco will definitely turn down $80 million in state grant money that
SF News Fort Funston, Ocean Beach To Partially Ban Dogs Under Proposed Rule Change Under a set of new rules proposed yesterday, large swaths of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area are set to become entirely dog-free — this includes not insubstantial sections of popular dog-walking spots Fort
SF News Threatened Eviction Of 97-Year-Old Woman Prompts Community Outpouring Marie Hatch is 97 years old, currently fighting cancer, and has lived in the same Burlingame home for 66 years after her original landlord and friend promised her a lifetime lease. Now, thanks
SF News Second Pro-Apple Rally Planned For Tonight In Downtown SF Growing group of folks at the SF Apple Store. Showing support of Apple's decision to protect encryption for users. pic.twitter.com/UKIwf5qYPK— Doctor Popular (@DocPop) February 18, 2016 Less than a week
SF News As Chicago Plan Stalls, Oakland Hints At Second Bid For Lucas Museum For several years now, filmmaker and extremely rich person George Lucas has been working to create a massive museum dedicated to showcasing his collection of movie memorabilia, illustrations, and graphic art. After his
SF News Day Around The Bay: E-40's Malt Liquor Will Make You Go Dumb A study claims that black drug dealers in the Tenderloin are arrested more frequently than their white or Latino fellow dealers. [SF Weekly] Bay Area rap legend E-40 has a "craft malt liquor,
SF News Video: Watch These Robots Build A Tesla Model X Fremont-based Tesla Motors yesterday released the above video depicting the partial assembly of a Model X, the electric car manufacturer's latest addition to its line of vehicles. Besides just being cool, the short
SF News Recology Intentionally Told Schools To Trash Millions Of Recyclable Trays Recology instructed San Francisco school officials to not recycle the recyclable plastic trays the district uses daily to serve students food. So reports the Chronicle, which details the policies of the city-contracted waste
SF News San Francisco Soda Tax Likely Headed Back To Ballot The popular but ultimately failed San Francisco soda tax may be bubbling back up. A petition calling for the addition of such a tax to the 2016 November ballot is circulating and appears
SF News Feds: All Hoverboards Are Unsafe It may have been but a matter a time. A February 18 statement by the Consumer Product Safety Commission asserts that tweens' favorite mode of transportation, the hoverboard, poses a fire hazard and
