SF News Lowell High School Temporarily Evacuated Due to Reported Bomb Threat A "possible" bomb threat Tuesday afternoon led to the evacuation of San Francisco's Lowell High School, though this appears to have been just a precautionary measure.
SF News ICE Says Napa DUI Driver Suspected In Crash That Killed Six Was Deported Multiple Times, Has Drug Record The suspect in last month's deadly minivan crash in Napa County has a record of drug arrests and has been deported from the US multiple times, ICE says, making this case more likely to become a politically charged one.
SF News Judge Finds Multiple Grounds For Removing San Mateo County Sheriff From Office Following an administrative hearing in August, the retired judge overseeing the hearing has issued a 42-page opinion that essentially calls Sheriff Christina Corpus uncredible, and offers multiple grounds on which to remove her from office.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Federal Shutdown Impacts Air Traffic Control A medical helicopter crashed Monday on a highway in Sacramento, injuring three; Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill to give raises to Cal Fire firefighters; and the government shutdown is impacting air traffic control towers across the country.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Uniqlo Confirms Market Street Return Uniqlo confirms its return, near Union Square, to the former Old Navy flagship; the power was out today for thousands in Oakland; Bari Weiss is now the head of CBS News.
SF News Sonoma County Deputy Crashes During High-Speed Chase, Leaving Bystander Injured We have another instance of a Bay Area law enforcement vehicle engaged in a high-speed chase resulting in casualties for people not involved in that chase. This time, an elderly man was reportedly left with major injuries.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: The 25th Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Was Blessed With Great Music, Three Sunny Days It was a gorgeous late-summer weekend in Golden Gate Park as the beloved Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival rang in 25 years, with stars of bluegrass — and jazz, and rock, and country, and folk, and other genres — serenaded a grateful SF audience.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina's Luxe Bourbon Steak Redux Opens Friday, Along With Companion Bar From Steph Curry It's a fall season of splashy restaurant openings in San Francisco at last, after some quiet years on the restaurant scene. And among those is the revamp of Michael Mina's Bourbon Steak, in the grand ground floor spaces of the Westin St. Francis.
SF News One Killed, Two Critically Injured In Separate Hit-and-Run Collisions In San Francisco On Friday, two people were struck and seriously injured in a hit-and-run in the Upper Haight; and less than 5 hours later, a separate hit-and-run took one pedestrian's life in Bernal Heights.
SF News San Francisco-Based Scientist Wins Nobel Prize for Medicine A researcher based in San Francisco is one of three people who share this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine, for their work on the study of the body's immune responses and autoimmune diseases.
SF News Stanford Protesters Accused of Vandalizing University President's Office Make Court Appearance The so-called Stanford 11, the group of protesters accused of breaking into the office of the university president amid pro-Palestinian protests in June 2024, were scheduled to appear in court on Monday.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Kamala Harris Discusses Election at Masonic Event 3,000 people came to Kamala Harris's book event Sunday night in SF; the suspect in the killing of an Urban Alchemy worker had his first court appearance; and the Supreme Court has denied hearing an appeal by Ghislaine Maxwell.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Palmer's Returns In Pac Heights Palmer's Tavern reopens after two years closed in Pacific Heights, Arsicault preps a fourth location downtown, and Memphis Minnie's may be permanently closed in the Lower Haight, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Threads Connected In Story of Zizian Shot In Vermont Who Was German Math Whiz The New York Times has attempted to explain one of the still unexplained pieces of the bizarre web of Zizian "murder cult" deaths, just as a Solano County trial for two of the cult's suspects gets delayed until next year.
SF News Shooting Suspect Arrested After Lengthy Standoff In SF's Tenderloin A suspect in a shooting engaged police in a multi-hour, overnight standoff on Eddy Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin before being arrested early Friday morning.
Arts & Entertainment What You Can Bring to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass — and How to Watch From Home San Francisco's season of music festivals wraps up this weekend with Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, which this year features The Reverend Horton Heat, Lucinda Williams, and regulars Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Apple Pulls ICE-Tracking App From App Store Apple has banned an app that allows people to report and track ICE activity; an experienced 23-year-old climber died on Yosemite's El Cap; and the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a new Second Amendment case out of Hawaii.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Rosa Police Seize 5,000 Suspected Fentanyl Pills The Santa Rosa PD busted a suspected drug trafficker and found 5,000 suspected fentanyl pills; UC Berkeley is investigating a hate crime assault; and the FDA just approved a generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Queens to Do Taylor Swift Tribute In Celebration of 'Life of a Showgirl' Release Swifties and drag fans can unite at Oasis to celebrate a new studio album from Taylor Swift, her 12th, 'Life of a Showgirl' — also, Alamo Drafthouse and the Metreon are showing the 'Release Party' movie.
Arts & Entertainment Now Sam Smith Is Getting Blowback for Depicting Queer People Smoking In New SF-Shot Music Video Leave it to Bay Area denizens on Facebook, but some serious finger-wagging and multi-exclamation-point indignation is happening in at least one corner of social media about the amount of smoking seen Sam Smith's new music video, shot in SF's Castro.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Travis AFB Families to Feel Impacts of Shutdown Active duty Air Force members and businesses who depend on Travis AFB customers will feel impacts of stopped paychecks; a 47-year-old Santa Rosa woman goes missing on a hike; and the rain is supposed to stop today and give way to sun.
SF News Coastal Enclave of Bolinas Gets Its Post Office Back After Multi-Year Closure Up in West Marin, in a quiet, unincorporated town which doesn't have much to speak of besides a gallery and a couple of shops, they at least had their own post office for most of the last 60 years. But that ended in 2023, and one resident in particular held out hope they could bring it back.
Business & Tech Apple Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit Brought By Musk Over OpenAI Partnership Apple has formally replied in court to a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk and his company xAI alleging anticompetitive behavior in Apple's decision to partner with xAI competitor OpenAI.
SF News Urban Alchemy Worker Fatally Shot Outside SF Main Library A street ambassador from the nonprofit Urban Alchemy who was on patrol outside the San Francisco Main Library on Friday was shot and killed, allegedly after asking the suspect in the case to stop using drugs in public.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Muir Woods Closed Due to Federal Shutdown Muir Woods and Alcatraz are both closed today due to the government shutdown, but Alcatraz will reopen; the HUD website blames the shutdown on the "Radical Left"; and this year's La Nina could be characterized by weather extremes.
