SF News SF City Leaders Hold Rally, Reiterate Plan to Prosecute Fentanyl Dealers For Homicide A plan that was announced last fall to begin prosecuting fentanyl dealers for homicide in cases of fatal overdoses is moving forward, and a law enforcement task force dedicated to the project is set to launch soon.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Port of Oakland Cranes From China Could Pose Cybersecurity Risk, White House Says California's now at 105% of its average rainfall for this winter, but LA is at 159%; some container cranes at the Port of Oakland, made in China, could pose a cybersecurity risk; and Macy's has plans to close 150 stores in the next two years.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wrong-Way Crash On 280 In SF Snarls Traffic A wrong-way injury crash involving at least three cars shut down much of southbound 280 in SF; Bob Lee stabbing suspect Nima Momeni's sister reportedly had multiple drugs in her system during a November crash; and Santa Rosa police are seeking a shooting suspect from an incident last week.
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac Returns to Bay Area Stage With a Devotional Four-Hour Song Cycle on Queer History "Don't try to understand it all," Taylor Mac said during Friday's performance of his latest, epic performance piece, Bark of Millions. "I wrote all of it and even I don't understand it all."
SF News Major Landslide Takes Out Cliffside Trail and Parking Lot In Humboldt County A landslide that has been ongoing since mid-January took a dramatic turn over the weekend, reaching all the way to a trailhead parking lot where some sightseers got dangerously close to the collapsing cliff edge.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Launches Not-Particularly-Helpful AI 'Chowbot' For Food Recs Artificial intelligence and restaurant recommendations would seem like a pretty natural fit — at least in terms of crowdsourcing things with good reviews. But a new AI bot launched by the SF Chronicle seems to be pretty limited in its food intelligence so far.
SF News Calm Weather Week Will Switch Back to Possibly Intense Storm on Thursday You'll have a few more chances to get outdoors and enjoy some sunshine this week before Second Winter returns with more rain — and some major snow in the Sierra.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: San Pablo Neighborhood Locked Down After Shots Fired A neighborhood in San Pablo was under a lockdown this morning; a Target store in Vallejo has been closed down after an arson incident; and BART set a new post-pandemic ridership record on Saturday.
SF News Developer Shares Expanded Plan For 560-Unit Residential Project on Former CPMC Campus in Laurel Heights Plans have shifted for the former California Pacific Medical Center campus at the edge of Laurel Heights and Presidio Heights after a new developer bought the property over a year ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Chef Anthony Strong Returns to the Mission We have news this week that Anthony Strong's Pasta Supply Co. is expanding to the Mission District, a dairy-free soft-serve chain from Honolulu is coming to Noe Valley, and West Portal is getting a new wine bar from the couple who owned La Ciccia for decades.
Business & Tech Google Suspends Gemini Image Module After Backlash Over Diverse Depictions of Founding Fathers, Nazis In case you missed the hubbub on Xitter, many people including Elon Musk have been flipping out this week over historic inaccuracies being produced by Google's Gemini chatbot image generator, which have included racially diverse images of "the Founding Fathers."
Arts & Entertainment Free Muni Rides and Multiple Streets Closed For Chinese New Year Parade Lunar New Year celebrations culminate on Saturday in San Francisco with the annual Chinese New Year Parade, and multiple streets will be closed to traffic for the event.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: PG&E Profits Soar After Rate Hikes PG&E profits soared in 2023 after hiking rates for customers; Biden attended another high-ticket fundraiser on the Peninsula before leaving the Bay Area; and a new poll finds Katie Porter and Steve Garvey in a dead heat for second place in the Senate race.
SF News BART Survey Finds Rider Satisfaction Over 80% For First Time In a Decade BART is touting a recent survey of passengers that found over 80% of them fairly happy with their train service — a major improvement since passenger satisfaction began taking about six years ago.
Arts & Entertainment The Academy of Sciences' First Corpse Flower Is Getting Set For Its First Stinky Blooming One of several, exotically bizarre corpse flowers owned by a San Francisco institution is about to unfurl its first ever unholy-smelling blossom next week, and once again people are probably going to line up for this.
SF News Biden Meets With Widow and Daughter of Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny In San Francisco President Joe Biden, still in town after several days of big-money fundraising with California's wealthiest Democrats, met with the widow and daughter of Alexei Navalny in San Francisco, and posted a photo of the meeting.
Arts & Entertainment Zendaya Gives $100K to Struggling Cal Shakes Emmy Award-winning actress and Oakland native Zendaya has just given a $100,000 gift to Cal Shakes, a.k.a. the California Shakespeare Theater, where she first got her start taking acting classes.
SF News Three East Bay Residents Identified In Bay Bridge Crash The three people killed in an early morning crash on the lower deck of the Bay Bridge have now been identified.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: AT&T Cell Network Has Major Outage CHP is investigating the death of a homeless man found on an I-80 onramp in San Francisco; the AT&T cellular network experienced a nationwide outage early Thursday; and Sen. Alex Padilla reintroduced the Housing For All Act.
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Falcon Living on Berkeley's Campanile Tower Named After Archie Williams A former Contra Costa County deputy has taken a plea deal in a felony case; Biden told supporters to stay focused on the fight against Trump at an LA event; and the new male mating with falcon Annie on the Berkeley campus has been named Archie, following a naming contest.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico to Open New, Unnamed Restaurant In Mission Rock Development We now have news of another high-profile restaurant tenant for one of the previously unclaimed ground-floor spaces in the new Mission Rock development, and it's the folks behind Che Fico.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A16 Opens New Roman-Style Pizza Outpost at SF's Ferry Building The new openings continue at San Francisco's Ferry Building, and popular Marina District Italian restaurant A16 has just opened A16 La Pala, specializing in Roman-style pizza al taglio and paninis.
SF News Supporters of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Push Back on Recall Campaigners, Comparing Them to 'Right-Wingers' Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao held a press conference Wednesday to announce a state grant supporting a street-ambassador program, but protesters were on hand calling for Thao's recall, and the event turned into a shouting match.
SF News After Pushback From Chinatown Residents, Breed Cancels Plan For Sober Living Facility at Hotel North Beach Less than two weeks after announcing plans to convert the Hotel North Beach into the city's first sober living facility for formerly homeless people, SF Mayor London Breed has canceled those plans due to community objections.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Santa Clara Shooting Victim Was Three-Year-Old Boy The victim in Tuesday's shooting in Santa Clara was a three-year-old boy and the suspect is the mother's boyfriend; Katie Porter came out swinging for Adam Schiff in their final debate; and a bit more rain may be passing through today.
