SF News Former Fire Marshal Who Wrote SF's High-Rise Sprinkler Mandate Now Consulting With Condos It's Impacting Not long after SF condo owners in older high-rise buildings got a reprieve of several years for getting sprinkler systems installed, it's coming to light that the guy who wrote the rules on that may now be profiting from the ensuing chaos.
Business & Tech What Happens When the Waymo You're Riding In Gets Attacked By a Robot Hater? Not Much, and You're Sort of Trapped As Waymo prepares to launch its robotaxis in 20 cities this year, we're likely going to hear more stories of Waymo passengers who become the unwitting victims of anti-AI rage.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: One Dead After Car Lands In Water In Sausalito One person died and one survived when their car went off a dock at the Sausalito Yacht Harbor; a teen boy was arrested for going 130mph on 101; and Trump says Newsom shouldn't be president because he's dyslexic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Michael B. Jordan Took His 'Sinners' Oscar to In-N-Out An adult and a child were exposed to some sort of hazardous material in Alameda; police have made an arrest in connection with the post-Super Bowl shooting in San Jose; and Michael B. Jordan headed to In-N-Out after winning an Oscar Sunday.
SF Politics SF Homelessness 'Czar' Shireen McSpadden Announces She Is Stepping Down After five years leading San Francisco's homelessness department and 23 years working in City Hall, Shireen McSpadden announced Monday that she will be leaving her role on June 30.
SF News Four Men Plead Guilty In Bayview Drive-By Shooting Case Four individuals have taken guilty pleas in connection with a 2023 drive-by shooting in San Francisco's Bayview District that left one person injured.
Business & Tech Report: Meta Planning to Lay Off 16,000 Employees In AI-Driven Move to Cut Costs The next big shoe to drop in the local tech world that is being blamed on AI is a massive layoff reportedly about to happen at Meta, where CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been investing heavily in AI over the last year.
SF News 'Marathon' Heat Wave to Last All Week, SF Likely to Break Records Buckle up and turn on those fans, kids, because the hot weather is just going to stick around through the end of the week.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Overturned Big Rig Blocks I-880 An overturned big rig was blocking several southbound lanes of I-880 in Oakland; Burlingame is taking down hundreds of aging eucalyptus trees; and a big AI conference kicks off in San Jose.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Yes, Purple Sourdough Fat Cat SF gets a permanent wine bar space in the Mission, Rize Up Sourdough readies a SoMa cafe, and night markets return in Cole Valley and the Castro, all in This Week In Food.
SF News One Person Was Fatally Stabbed Inside a Residence on Howard Street in SoMa An individual was found dead from stab wounds Friday afternoon in SF's SoMa district, and details are so far slim.
SF News Joe Kukura, Lover of San Francisco and Longtime Voice on SFist, Dies at 55 It is a sad day here at SFist as we mourn the loss of one of our own — and this is a first for a website that has been in existence 22 years. Joe Kukura, who began contributing to the site in its earliest days and became its associate editor in the last decade, has died at age 55.
Arts & Entertainment Conan O'Brien Calls SF a 'Jewel for the Arts in the United States' as He Prepares for Oscar Gig Comedian Conan O'Brien will be doing his second stint as host of the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, and he spoke with the local ABC affiliate about the Bay Area's strong showing among the nominees.
SF News Ninth Circuit Judge, Who of Course Is a Trump Appointee, Issues Vulgar Dissent In Case Involving Trans Women A Trump-appointed judge to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit wrote in vulgar terms about trans women in a dissent regarding a case about discrimination in a Korean spa in Washington State, spurring a rebuke from dozens of fellow judges.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Dublin Teachers Strike Ends The Dublin teachers' union reached a tentative agreement with the district, ending their four-day strike; one man was stabbed in a SoMa alley Thursday; and SF Public Defender Mano Raju says he'll continue to turn down cases due to unmanageable caseloads despite being held in contempt.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Homes Catch Fire In Sunset District Two homes were damaged in a fire in SF's Sunset District Thursday; the snowmelt happening in the Sierra is unprecedented in its speed and volume; and SF's emergency sirens sure would come in handy if Iran were to send a drone here, but they will not be used.
SF News Prominent Pac Heights Mansion to Be Used as Entertaining Space for the Algerian Consulate A highly visible mansion at Divisadero and Pacific in Pacific Heights has finally sold after languishing on the market for over two years, and it has sold to a foreign government.
Arts & Entertainment Mark Bittner, Writer and Musician Known for 'The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill,' Dies at 74 A local celebrity of a very particular kind, Mark Bittner, has passed away, 21 years after he helped put San Francisco's wild parrots on the map in 'The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.'
SF News Lucky Grocery Store on Fulton Street In NoPa, Near USF, Set to Close This Fall Some bad news for NoPa residents who rely on the Lucky supermarket for their groceries: The store is closing later this year because it is not financial viable, parent company Save Mart says.
Arts & Entertainment Here's How to Watch Oakland's Celebration of Olympic Gold Medalist Alysa Liu Live — With Kehlani! Oakland is having its big rally at noon in Frank Ogawa Plaza to celebrate hometown Olympian Alysa Liu, who trained at the Oakland Ice Center and grew up in nearby Richmond.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Construction Begins on 23-Story UC Berkeley Dorm The Oakland Police Commission is holding community meetings about hiring a new chief; construction is beginning on what will be the tallest building in Berkeley; and Vallejo just had its first homicide of the year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor Issues Statement About Potential Iranian Attack Mayor Daniel Lurie made a video statement about the report of a potential Iranian attack on CA; a judge has released the man accused of assaulting Lurie's security guard last week; and there was some sort of pepper-spray incident at SF's Leadership High School.
Business & Tech Meta Acquires 'Social Network for AI Agents' Moltbook, While OpenAI Hires One of Its Vibe Coders Yes, we are apparently arriving at the day, or we've already arrived there, when AI agents interact with one another and "gossip" about their respective systems on a social networking platform.
SF News Prosecutors Say Chinatown Backstabbing Was Random Attack With 'No Words Spoken' Chinatown residents are unnerved by a seemingly random attack in which a man waiting to cross the street was randomly and violently stabbed in the back by another man who said nothing and proceeded on his way.
SF News Lawyer For Man Accused In Altercation With Bodyguard Says Mayor Lurie's Street Outreach Is 'Performative' The lawyer for the man accused of assaulting Mayor Daniel Lurie's bodyguard in a Tenderloin alley last week suggests that the confrontation was entirely the mayor's fault, and he did not need to stop his vehicle to engage with the men on the street.
