Bay Area Sports Guess What! The A's Will Have 'Sacramento' on Their (Alternate) Jerseys Starting Next Season After a first interim season in the state capital, the former Oakland Athletics are still not going to start calling themselves the Sacramento A's in 2026, but they will have 'Sacramento' emblazoned on their alternate jerseys, in a nod to the local crowd.
SF News Sonoma Commuters Rejoice as a 30-Year Freeway-Widening Project Gets Finally, Finally Finished Pretty much anyone who has lived in the Bay Area any length of time and has done some driving on 101 north to Sonoma County is familiar with the infamous forever traffic situation you run into right at the Marin-Sonoma border.
SF News Two Men Implicated In Oakland Gas Station Shooting That Killed Two Get Off With Probation The complete details of the case haven't been made public, but due to reportedly extensive legal issues with the case, neither of the two men who were jailed in connection with a deadly June 2023 shootout at an Oakland gas station are going to serve any significant time.
Arts & Entertainment Mermaid Sculpture Unveiled Next to Ferry Building as Part of New 'Waterfront Art Walk' Another piece of public art has come to the Embarcadero this week, with the official unveiling Tuesday of 'Coralee,' a larger-than-life-size mermaid made of metal and other materials, by artist Dana Albany.
SF News East Bay Man Gets Two Years for Assaulting Woman He Lured Here With Promise of OnlyFans Job An East Bay man has taken a plea deal in a case in which a Georgia woman was lured to fly to the Bay Area with the promise of $5,000 for an OnlyFans gig.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Harbor Porpoise Swims Up Napa River A harbor porpoise has been spotted in the Napa River; Bay Area fans are psyched about Bad Bunny coming for the Super Bowl; and a second victim has died in last week's Dallas ICE facility shooting.
Arts & Entertainment Sam Smith, Who Was Just Shooting a Music Video Around the Castro, to Do Castro Theatre Residency Grammy-winning singer Sam Smith is the opening act for the reopening of the newly renovated Castro Theatre, which the singer teased in a Monday TikTok post.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Adds More Cars to Accommodate Crowds BART is adding more cars to trains as ridership increases; Toni Atkins is bowing out of the governor's race; and Oregon is suing the Trump administration over a National Guard deployment threat.
SF Politics After Release of Memoir, Kamala Harris Sets Up Tense Days Ahead Between Her and Gavin Newsom One of the biggest takeaways from Kamala Harris's new book '107 Days' is that there's no love lost between her and Governor Gavin Newsom, after each has risen separately out of the same political orbit over the past 25 years.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Woman Spends Untold Thousands on Billboard Campaign Seeking Husband Many of us are familiar with the frustrations of dating apps, and the seemingly endless cycle of not-quite-right matches and quick ghostings they bring with them. One Bay Area woman has taken matters into her own hands and gone analog with her search for a mate, on a fairly grand scale.
Business & Tech Jared Kushner Partners With Saudis to Buy Bay Area-Based Game-Maker Electronic Arts Redwood City-based Electronic Arts could be taken private in a $55 billion deal announced Monday that's backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, and private equity firm Silver Lake.
Arts & Entertainment MAGA Hissy Fit Over Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show Should Further Alienate Young and Latino Voters The NFL made the bold decision to book Puerto Rican megastar Bad Bunny for this year's Super Bowl Halftime Show when the game is played in Santa Clara, and suffice it to say conservative pundits are apoplectic.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two Beach Rescues In Sonoma Sonoma County Sheriff's rescuers performed two separate beach rescues Sunday; tiny coffee window in North Beach closed by the health department; and BART had more maintenance disruptions on Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Seven Bay Area Spots Make North America's 50 Best The arrival of Via Aurelia, a new bottle shop comes to NoPa, North America's 50 Best list honors seven Bay Area spots, and Wilkommen says auf wiedersehen in the Castro, all in This Week In Food.
Arts & Entertainment 'Kim's Convenience' at ACT Is a Hilarious, Taut Tale of an Immigrant Family Originally written 20 years ago and first performed 14 years ago, leading to a popular Canadian TV show adaptation, 'Kim's Convenience' remains a funny and powerful piece of theater about the immigrant experience.
SF News Trump Now Threatening to Move 2026 World Cup Matches Out of 'Dangerous' SF Bay and Seattle It could be an empty threat and more blowhard BS from President Donald Trump, or it could be something he'll actually try. But Trump mentioned on Thursday that he might want to move next year's World Cup matches out of cities that are "even a little bit dangerous."
SF News Fireballs Seen In Evening Sky Thursday Over the Bay Were Just More Space Trash From Elon Musk Many residents of the Bay Area and beyond, even as far east as Reno, reported seeing a meteor-like fireball in the sky that broke apart just before 8 pm Thursday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Starbucks Closing 120 Underperforming Locations Starbucks is closing over 120 locations around the country, including some in the Bay Area; a mistrial has been declared in a stabbing case outside a Santa Rosa bar; and a car wash owner is suing over an ICE raid.
SF News Sarah Jane Moore, the Unassuming Radical Who Took a Shot at the President In SF, Dies at 95 Sarah Jane Moore, one of two would-be assassins who took aim at President Gerald Ford in the span of three weeks in the summer of 1975, died on Wednesday in a nursing home in Tennessee at the age of 95.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Via Aurelia, the Huge New Tuscan-Focused Restaurant From the Che Fico Team, Opens In Mission Bay Next Week One of the most anticipated and buzzed-about restaurant openings of the year is coming in on schedule. Via Aurelia, from Che Fico partners David Nayfeld and Matt Brewer, will be opening September 30 in Mission Bay.
SF News 25-Person Mob-Style Robbery of Jewelry Store In San Ramon Part of Larger Pattern A 25-person mob committed an armed robbery at a jewelry store in San Ramon on Monday, ransacking the store and reportedly making off with $1 million worth of merchandise. The crime is part of a larger pattern repeating itself across California.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Parking Cop Finder App Gets Shut Down An app created to track SF parking cops in real time has been shut down; Kamala Harris faces protesters on the first night of her book tour; and trailblazing local journalist Belva Davis has died.
SF News Passengers Describe Scary Runaway Muni Train Incident By Duboce Park Passengers on Muni's N-Judah line reportedly experienced a harrowing ride Wednesday morning when the train seemed to accelerate out of control and was unable to stop.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Second Jury Deadlocks In Trial of Ex-Dublin Guard The jury in the second trial, like the first one, has deadlocked on the guilt or innocence of former FCI Dublin prison guard Darrell Wayne Smith; 101 California is now for sale; and another restaurant closes in the SF Centre mall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Spot For Reubens and Bagels Arrives In the Marina, With Jewish Deli-Inspired Cocktails Super Mensch, the latest venture by Causwells chef-owner Adam Rosenblum, is a labor of love and a return to his roots for Rosenblum, and it opened Wednesday next door to the Presidio movie theater.
