SF Politics AOC Declines to Endorse Former Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti In Awkward Video Maybe this was a strategic decision on her part, but Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clearly declined to offer an endorsement of Saikat Chakrabarti when asked by a reporter this week about his primary race in SF.
SF News Eight Years Later, the First of Those Fancy New Trash Cans Arrive on SF Streets After the very long and some would say unnecessary selection, design, public comment, and fabrication process, the first of those fancy new, custom-made rubbish bins have arrived on San Francisco streets.
SF News SF Now Second Only to Baltimore In Overdose Deaths New data from the Centers for Disease Control finds that Baltimore and San Francisco are, among major cities, home to the highest concentrations of overdose deaths in the last year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Philz Coffee Reverses Pride Flag Policy After Backlash, Boycott Threats After a truly baffling decision by its CEO to demand the removal of Pride flags and other flags from all of its stores, Philz Coffee will go back to allowing the flags, and the CEO has issued an apology.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: California Schools See Enrollment Drops Enrollment is down across the board at California schools, both public and private; an at-risk 80-year-old woman is missing in SF; and singer D4vd has been arrested for the murder of his underage girlfriend who went missing in 2024.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Ramon Earthquakes Causing Widespread Leaks The swarm of small earthquakes in San Ramon has been causing more underground damage than previously realized; that AI-run boutique in Cow Hollow gets bad reviews; and Utah is seeing a whole lot of measles.
Business & Tech Meta Is Creating an AI Version of Mark Zuckerberg to Attend Meetings for Him Imagine a world where your boss says she doesn't have time to meet with you, but she's sending her AI to meet with you instead. That world may not, in fact, be too far in the future.
SF News Mercedes Driver Charged With Murder After Hit-and-Run In SoMa The 30-year-old man who allegedly ran into and then ran over an elderly woman in SoMa on Monday has now been charged with murder.
SF News Disturbing Details Emerge In Death of 37-Year-Old Woman on Big Sur Camping Trip Friends say they're heartbroken and details remain sketchy following the death last week of a 37-year-old woman in the Ventana Wilderness area of Los Padres National Forest, near Big Sur.
SF Politics With Swalwell Out, New Governor's Race Poll Has Republicans In Lead, But Democrats on the Rise Several Democrats in the race for California governor gained some ground in a new poll conducted just in the last two days, following the swift downfall of Eric Swalwell, but the two Republican candidates still hold a small lead.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Yolo County Explosion Defendants Make Court Appearance Six of the people indicted last week in Yolo County over last July's fireworks explosion are appearing in court; two Inner Sunset buildings had to be evacuated due to an electrical pole fire; and a missing Berkeley man has been found alive.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Snap Inc. Lays Off 1,000 Employees, Because of AI BART has had two major train issues during rush hour in the last day; a wealthy benefactor in LA kicked Eric Swalwell out of his house; and Snap Inc. is laying off 1,000 employees.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Philz CEO Says Pride Flags Still Are Coming Down, Despite Pushback, and 'Unifying' Artwork Will Replace Them It's hard to understand where Philz CEO Mahesh Sadarangani is coming from other than a place of fear and Trump-inspired bigotry, but in a confidential memo to employees he's apparently digging in on this Pride flag issue, controversy be damned.
SF News Video Suggests SoMa Hit-and-Run Death Was Intentional Video that was posted to Reddit appears to show the moments before, during, and after a woman was killed near the intersection of Mission and South Van Ness on Monday.
SF News Case of Measles Found In San Francisco Infant Following International Travel An infant in San Francisco has contracted the measles virus and is infectious, according to the SF Department of Public Health, in the first known measles case in the city since 2019.
Business & Tech Anthropic's New Model, Mythos, Is So Dangerous It Isn't Being Released to the Public Anthropic's latest AI model, named Claude Mythos Preview, is capable of hacking into major banking systems, perhaps many at once, and doing massive damage if it fell into the wrong hands. Banks are being encouraged to test it out.
Business & Tech Allbirds, Which Was a Shoe Company, Is Becoming an AI Company Well that's what you'd call a pivot. Allbirds, the once buzzy Silicon Valley shoe brand, is not going to make shoes anymore (though the brand may live on?), and instead it's going to become an AI company.
SF Politics Special Election Set For August to Replace Eric Swalwell In Congress Eric Swalwell's seat in Congress, which he officially vacated on Tuesday, will remain empty until late summer, and now a special election date has been set.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART Sees Early Morning Disruption From Disabled Train BART had an early morning service disruption due to a disabled train in SF; the parents of the 20-year-old man who allegedly tried to firebomb Sam Altman's house speak out; and San Jose authorities begin clearing out "The Jungle" once again.
SF News Expect Weird Traffic This Weekend as Section of I-80 In San Francisco Will Be Closed For Two Days Caltrans is doing ongoing construction on a section of I-80 through the middle of San Francisco, and a portion of eastbound I-80 will be completely closed for 55 hours this weekend, forcing motorists onto surface streets to get to the Bay Bridge.
Arts & Entertainment SF Rare Coin Dealer Announces Third Annual Citywide Scavenger Hunt It's another adult scavenger hunt, kids, and the prizes this time are worth a grand total of $50,000, if you're the first to solve the riddles and find the coins.
SF Politics Eric Swalwell Could Now Face Rape Charge In Los Angeles as New Accuser Comes Forward A fifth accuser has come forward with potential criminal charges against former Congressman Eric Swalwell, one day after he announced his resignation from the House, and two days after he suspended his bid for California governor.
Business & Tech Young Man Who Allegedly Came From Texas to Kill Sam Altman Makes Court Appearance on Attempted Murder Charge The man who allegedly tossed a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's Russian Hill home last Friday was scheduled to make his first court appearance Tuesday on attempted murder and other charges.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Pac Heights Mansion Sells for $56M Pac Heights just saw its most expensive home sale since 2024; one person died in a high-speed chase that ended in Gilroy; and this massive typhoon in the Pacific could be a sign of things to come this El Nino season.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Billionaire Michael Moritz Eyes Union Square Building Michael Moritz may be leasing the former Barney's building for his family foundation; a big rig overturned blocking southbound I-238 near Hayward; and Trump refuses to acknowledge that the AI image he posted depicts him as Jesus.
