SF News Project to Redevelop Divisadero Car Wash Site Looks Alive Again, With 203-Unit Building Proposed The same day that we hear about signs of life at a large residential project at Van Ness and Market, another long-stalled, presumed-dead development project on Divisadero appears to be stirring awake as well.
SF News 'One Oak' Tower at Foot of Van Ness Might Get Built After All, But With Smaller Affordable Component A long-stalled residential tower slated to go into a lot at Van Ness and Market, which we thought was completely dead, may get revived by a new developer who is now taking a fresh look at the project's feasibility.
SF News San Jose Police SUV Destroyed By Rowdy Sideshow Participants There's often a hefty amount of "Why didn't the police do anything?" talk when footage of the latest sideshow comes out, and police frequently respond that unruly crowds can get dangerous for officers, especially lone officers, when they try to intervene on the party.
SF News Point Fire In Sonoma County Grows to 1,100 Acres as Seven Major Wildfires Burn Across the State Cal Fire firefighters are contending with multiple large wildfires across the state that all broke out over the weekend, and it seems like fire season is already in full swing, though it's still mid-June.
SF News Monday Morning Links: Stanford Graduates Walk Out of Their Graduation A group of Stanford students walked out of their graduation in protest of the war in Gaza; an SF venture capitalist is snapping up a group of Sonoma properties from an embattled investor; and the other half of Harvey Milk Terminal 1 opens to travelers today.
SF News NorCal Woman Killed By Black Bear Had Been Complaining About Animal Stalking Her Home For Months A 71-year-old woman became the first person in recorded California history to be killed by a black bear last fall. Following an investigation and interviews with people who know her, we now know the bear had been hanging around in the vicinity and stalking the woman's home for a while.
SF News Sunday Links: One Killed In Mission District Shooting One person was fatally shot early Saturday on Wiese Street in SF's Mission District; parts of Solano County are under a Red Flag Warning; and BART riders witnessed a scuffle over a gun on Saturday afternoon at 24th Street Station.
SF News Saturday Links: Downtown Mall Movie Theater May Have a Taker A security guard at a Fremont CVS was fatally shot on the job; Capitol Police will pay the SFPD to guard the Pelosis' house; the former Westfield mall movie theater may not be vacant for much longer.
Arts & Entertainment The EndUp Turns 50 and They're Taking Over Union Square With a Dance Party Saturday That venerable, inimitable, sloppy palace of bad decisions The EndUp was born 50 (and a half) years ago, and they're now getting around to celebrating — appropriately kinda late — with a Union Square takeover dance party.
SF News Juvenile Arrested In Civic Center Convenience Store Shooting; Store Part of Proposed Corner Store Curfew Legislation San Francisco police say they arrested a juvenile in connection with a Tuesday night shooting near Civic Center that occurred inside a corner store that is at the center of a potential Tenderloin crackdown.
SF Politics Clarence Thomas Quotes Dianne Feinstein In Ruling on Bump Stocks, Argues Congress Should Act to Ban Them The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling that overturns a Trump era ban on bump stocks, largely because it was done by a federal agency and not by Congress. In writing for the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas notes that the late Senator Dianne Feinstein predicted this would happen.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Feds Expand Crackdown In SF's Tenderloin Federal law enforcement is expanding its 'All Hands on Deck' initiative in SF's Tenderloin; there was a vigil Thursday for a hit-and-run victim in Bernal Heights; and two female Apple employees are suing over gender-based wage gaps.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, That Is Peaches Christ on Top of Salesforce Tower If you happen to catch a glimpse of Salesforce Tower just after midnight this month — and from dusk until dawn during Pride Week — you will see the giant head of drag queen Peaches Christ, and a video of her silhouette dancing.
SF News Transamerica Pyramid Set for Public Reopening In September, Lands TED's AI Conference The $400 million makeover of the Transamerica Pyramid is nearly complete, and while we don't know too much about the new restaurants on the way, we've got some new details about the renovation.
Business & Tech Tesla Shareholders Sue Elon Musk For Starting Competing AI Company, xAI Elon Musk has often said that Tesla is an AI company, and not just a car company, and now some shareholders in Tesla want to hold him to that.
SF News SF's Downtown Mall Markets Itself to Small Businesses, Signs Seven New Leases There's some good news on the retail front for San Francisco, with the Union Square-adjacent Emporium Centre San Francisco having signed seven new leases in recent weeks to fill some of the abundant vacancy in the troubled mall.
SF News Former Mr. Bungle Musician to Stand Trial For Girlfriend's Murder as More Details of the Crime Emerge In Court A preliminary hearing has concluded, and a Santa Cruz County judge has concluded that there is enough evidence to put 54-year-old Theodore Lengyel of El Cerrito on trial for the murder of a Capitola woman he was in a relationship with.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Pill Access The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of upholding women's access to mifepristone; there was a fatal motorcycle crash on westbound I-580 in Livermore causing a major backup; and the Oakland City Council approved the sale of the Coliseum complex.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Caltrain's Electrified Trains Set to Begin Rolling In September Caltrain says its electrified trains will be launching on September 21; an SF supervisor introduces legislation to try to save Queer LifeSpace in the Castro; and Alaska Airlines will begin service out of SFO's Harvey Milk Terminal 1 next week.
Arts & Entertainment Duran Duran Fans Delighted at Discovery of 'Rio' Album Cover Model, Who Happens to Run a Napa Winery A young model whose image was used by artist Patrick Nagel for the illustration that adorns the cover of Duran Duran's seminal 1982 album 'Rio' has been revealed after years of sleuthing, and she lives right here in the Bay Area.
SF News Mission District Stabbing Follows Shooting In Potrero Hill One man was injured in a shooting Tuesday morning in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood; another man was stabbed in the Mission District Tuesday evening, and the suspects in both crimes remain at large.
SF News DA Pamela Price Reassures Public That Men Who Allegedly Shot Five-Year-Old Will Be Held Accountable Embattled Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price seemed to be trying to quash rumors when she insisted in a new statement that three alleged gang members accused in an April 2023 freeway shooting that left a five-year-old girl dead will indeed be prosecuted.
SF News Board of Supervisors Approves Mayor's Plan to Tap Wealthy Donors and Companies For Panda Money The SF Board of Supervisors on Tuesday signed off on Mayor London Breed's plan to raise $25 million to bring some pandas over from China to reside temporarily at the San Francisco Zoo.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Declared a Sanctuary City For Transgender People San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted to make the city a sanctuary for transgender people; a new poll finds Mark Farrell leading in the SF mayor's race; and In-N-Out has raised its prices in California to cover the state's minimum-wage requirements.
SF News A Federal Building By UN Plaza Might Be Named After Dianne Feinstein The naming-things-after-Dianne-Feinstein movement is not letting up just yet, and California's two senators just introduced a bill to name a federal building in San Francisco after her.
