SF News Day Around the Bay: El Mencho Got His Start Selling Drugs In SF at Age 19 The Mexican cartel leader who was killed Sunday was arrested selling drugs in SF in 1986; the 'bring cars back to the Great Highway' ballot measure has filed paperwork; and Oakland is slowly on the hunt for a new police chief.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Slanted Door Group Says Restaurant Will Return to Valencia Street Next Year A little over a year after the unexpected death of founder and chef Charles Phan, The Slanted Door Group is ready to get rolling on realizing his vision to return to the Valencia Street space where it all started.
SF News BART Takes Steps to Clear Encampments Near Tracks After Sunday Fire Causes Service Meltdown BART says it is now working with the City of Oakland to "proactively address" other spots where homeless encampment fires could potentially threaten train service.
SF News California Tourists Stranded In Puerto Vallarta and Other Mexican Cities as Cartel Wreaks Revenge for Slain Leader Many flights in and out of Puerto Vallarta and other Mexican cities were canceled on Sunday, amid a wave of arson fires and other activities by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and American tourists were told to shelter in place and avoid areas of law enforcement activity.
SF News Apartment Fire on Nob Hill Leaves One Injured An early morning fire left one person injured on Nob Hill Monday, and it's unclear how badly they were injured.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Incoming Storm Tuesday Another atmospheric river is coming our way; BART is blaming Sunday's massive service meltdown on a street-level fire; and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is rumored to be mulling retirement.
SF News Remaining Three Victims ID'd In Castle Peak Avalanche as All Nine Bodies Are Recovered From Mountain The three victims who remained unidentified last week in the avalanche tragedy near Lake Tahoe, all back-country skiing guides, have now been identified.
SF News SF Police Car Crashes Into Bystander Vehicle During Chase, Injuring Driver There was a crash early Friday morning at the edge of Pacific Heights in which an SFPD vehicle collided with a car while it was chasing down a different vehicle.
SF News Arrest Made In Rincon Hill Killing of East Bay Rapper After Super Bowl San Francisco police have made an arrest in the February 9 shooting of Bay Area rapper Curnal, aka Keonte Antonio Deshawn Woods, on Harrison Street in Rincon Hill.
SF News Likely Illegal Fence Near Daly City Beach Comes Down Today A fence that was put up by a convicted felon who claims ownership rights to the property, on a beachfront site in Daly City, is being dismantled today, according to a county supervisor.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Part Time Guys Taking Over Bissap Baobab Space, Will Open Nightclub There The natural wine bar with a nightly dance party that took the Mission by storm in the last couple years is expanding in the neighborhood with a second venue, which will be a nightclub with food and cocktails.
SF News $590M In State Loan Funds Come Through For Struggling BART and Muni Systems It's a bit less than what was promised last year, but Governor Gavin Newsom has signed off on a $590 million loan package for Bay Area transit agencies, which have been facing serious budget problems since the pandemic.
SF News Six Women Who Loved the Outdoors Identified as Victims In Avalanche Six of the nine victims' names have now been released from Tuesday's avalanche tragedy in Nevada County, and they were a group of women who'd bonded over their love of skiing and the outdoors.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Supreme Court Kills Trump Tariffs The Supreme Court has struck down Trump's sweeping tariffs in a 6-3 decision; Fremont police say a dog bite prompted an unintentional officer-involved shooting; and a lecture by Bari Weiss has been canceled at UCLA.
SF News Ninth Circuit Courthouse Security Officer Shot and Wounded Man With Knife We're now learning of a shooting incident that happened last month at a federal courthouse in San Francisco in which a security officer shot a man four times.
Business & Tech Meta Team Scolded For Wearing Those Ray-Ban Glasses In Court During Zuckerberg Testimony The team attending the Los Angeles trial where Meta and YouTube execs are being tried for allegedly making their products more addictive to children to support CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed up, in the way of tech douches, wearing those Ray-Ban Meta glasses that double as video recording devices.
SF News Suspect Who Stole Mayor Barbara Lee's SUV Had Been Camping Inside City Hall For Three Days The still at-large suspect in the theft of Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee's city-owned transport vehicle apparently spent all of President's Day weekend camped out inside City Hall.
SF News Mother and Son Found Dead With Multiple Gunshot Wounds In Pleasanton A mother and son were both found dead inside a Pleasanton home on Wednesday, and the circumstances of their deaths remains unclear.
SF News Group of Ski Moms, Including One From SF and One From Marin, Among 9 Avalanche Victims A group of mothers of students at Sugar Bowl Academy, a boarding school for competitive skiers, was part of the three-day back-country skiing expedition that ended in tragedy on Tuesday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Brace for More Frigid Weather It was another frigid morning Thursday, and it will be frigid again tomorrow; a downed power line left much of Pacifica without power; and the RealReal is reopening in Union Square.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Zoo Gets New CEO The SF Zoo has named Cassandra Costello as its new CEO; Thomas Keller is pushing back on the concept of a Yountville house development; and Mark Zuckerberg once again steps awkwardly into the public eye, on the witness stand.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outta Sight Pizza Owners Taking Over Civic Center Dive Bar Down the Street Popular Tenderloin pizzeria Outta Sight may be outgrowing its Larkin Street storefront, but pizza may or may not even make it on the menu at the owners' new venture a few doors down, which will be called Reggie & Maude's.
SF News Guess What! The Phoenix Hotel Didn't Close, Has a New Operator Following a New Year's blowout bash that was framed as the end of an era, it looks like the Tenderloin's Phoenix Hotel isn't dead after all, and, in fact, remains open for business.
SF News How a Three-Day Back-County Ski Expedition Turned Deadly in the Sierra More details have been released about a group of back-country ski guides and their 11 clients who were hiking through an avalanche-prone area Tuesday morning as we learned that eight have been found dead and one remains missing.
SF Politics Latest Poll In CA Governor's Race Has Swalwell and Hilton Surging Ahead of the Pack, 21% Still Undecided A new independent poll finds Rep. Eric Swalwell overtaking Republican Chad Bianco, which is good news for those of us who don't want a Republican v. Republican governor's race.
