SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurants Opening In SF's Financial District Point to Optimism For Downtown Recovery A bevy of recent and upcoming openings in and around the FiDi, including a new Osha Thai and a new Wayfare Tavern, point to some bullishness about things picking up downtown.
Arts & Entertainment TreasureFest Returns to Treasure Island In February After Lengthy Pandemic Hiatus The monthly, two-day vendor/flea market with live music and food trucks on Treasure Island, born over a decade ago, is returning next month after a four-year absence.
SF News Early Morning Fire on Divisadero Contained to Ground Floor, No Residents Displaced From Units Above A small fire at a mixed-use building on Divisadero was quickly contained Tuesday morning, and was kept from spreading to residential units. Meanwhile, a house fire in Portola displaced a family of five.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Supes to Vote on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution Many protesters spoke at an SF supervisors' committee meeting Monday ahead of a Gaza ceasefire resolution; Oakland saw its fourth homicide in 48 hours Monday; and West Oakland is mourning the shooting death of a corner store operator.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Special Election Set For Kevin McCarthy's Seat SF health officials announced the season's first flu death; Gov. Newsom announced a May 21 date for the special election to fill Kevin McCarthy's House seat; and the wall around People's Park is nearly complete.
Business & Tech Cruise Is Offering $75K to Settle CPUC Investigation Into Crash In Which Woman Was Dragged General Motors-owned robotaxi outfit Cruise is offering $75,000 to "resolve" an investigation by California regulators into a gruesome October 2 crash incident involving one of its vehicles, which set off a cascade of negative impacts on the company's operations.
SF News New California Parking Law Could Trip Up Car Owners In SF If They're Not Paying Attention A new law that took effect on January 1 in California is going to mean that more feet of curb space in San Francisco is likely to turn red in the coming year — and even if it isn't painted red, drivers parking their cars will be expected to respect a 20-foot buffer zone near every crosswalk.
Arts & Entertainment SF Native Ali Wong Wins Golden Globe For Dramatic Role In Netflix Series 'Beef' Comedian Ali Wong has become a legit actor in recent years, and her dramatic turn as a vengeful, rage-hungry suburban businesswoman and mother in Netflix's 'Beef' just won her her first acting award, at the Golden Globes.
SF News Two Die In Wrong-Way Crash On I-280 In Daly City Two men died Monday morning in a head-on collision caused by one driver going the wrong way on the I-280 freeway.
Arts & Entertainment Stevie Nicks, Ed Sheeran, Pearl Jam, Megan Thee Stallion and Maná to Headline BottleRock The lineup for this year's BottleRock dropped Monday morning, and it includes Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Pearl Jam and Stevie Nicks, mega-star Ed Sheeran, and Megan Thee Stallion, who returns after headlining Outside Lands in 2023.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Warriors Booed In Loss to Raptors A crash involving two cars near where U.S. 101 meets South Van Ness cause major traffic Sunday; the Warriors got booed at the Chase Center; and BART is making some minor schedule changes starting next week.
SF News Remains of Zodiac Killer's Possible 'Victim 12' From Lake Tahoe Casino Finally ID'd A skull that was discovered in Placer County nearly four decades ago was recently identified through relational DNA tracing, and investigators say it belongs to a young woman who disappeared from a Lake Tahoe casino hotel in 1970.
SF Politics Supreme Court Says It Will Rule on Trump's Eligibility for Colorado and Maine Ballots The Supreme Court said Friday that it will, as predicted, take up the question of whether Donald Trump should be disqualified from running for president because of his role in the January 6th insurrection.
SF News San Francisco's Only Adidas Store Closing at Former Westfield Mall The block of Market Street between Fourth and Fifth will have another vacancy soon, with Adidas announcing that it is closing its only San Francisco store next week — and they're having a liquidation sale.
SF News Retired East Bay Cop Pleads Not Guilty After Two-Day Pleasant Hill Standoff and Shooting That Injured Wife Attorneys for retired Pittsburg police detective Chunliam Saechao are arguing that he suffered severe post-traumatic stress in retirement and didn't receive adequate support from his former employer.
SF News Tahoe to Get First Big Snowstorm of the Season on Saturday San Francisco will get a sprinkling of rain starting Saturday morning, but the storm system moving in from the north will be bringing the first major snowfall of the winter season to the Sierra.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Teen Killed In NYE Fireworks Accident ID'd The 18-year-old who was killed in a fireworks mishap on Treasure Island has been identified; the 10-year-old boy in Sacramento who fatally shot a friend with his father's gun will not be charged; and the Pacifica Pier is closed for a damage assessment.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Fast-Casual Cafe and Pizzeria With Golden Gate Views Opening In the Presidio A new cafe, with pizza, cocktails, beer and wine, is opening January 15 in the former Transit cafe space at the Presidio Transit Center (215 Lincoln Blvd.), right at the entry of the Presidio Tunnel Tops.
SF News Fillmore Safeway to Close to Make Way for Housing, Depriving Neighborhood of Its Only Grocery Store A long troubled but still very active and popular Safeway location in the Fillmore neighborhood is slated to close in early March, with the site being sold to a residential developer.
SF Politics Florida Man Arrested After Threatening to Kill Rep. Eric Swalwell's Kids A 72-year-old Florida man (and likely Trump supporter!) has been arrested after allegedly making criminal threats against Bay Area Congressman Eric Swalwell and his family.
SF News People's Park Once Again to Become Flashpoint of Protest as UC Berkeley Moves to Wall It Off We are likely to see another few days of protest at Berkeley's People's Park, after campus and city police descended Wednesday night to execute an elaborate operation in which 160 shipping containers are to be used to wall off the park on all sides.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Men Charged In Oakland Cop Killing Make Court Appearance The two men charged in the killing of OPD Officer Tuan Le make their first court appearance; there was a vigil in SF for the 13-y-o boy killed in a pre-Christmas hit-and-run in Antioch; and House Democrats release report showing millions Trump received from foreign governments.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sonoma Teens Caught Stealing Cow-Crossing Sign, Others A judge has ruled that DA Pamela Price has to recuse herself from prosecuting a former employee; the Valencia bike lane saw a significant drop in usage; and some Sonoma County teens got caught stealing road signs, because they got stuck in some mud.
SF News 27-Year-Old Stockton Man Arrested In Fatal Shooting of Oakland Cop Served Five Years For Another Oakland Shooting The suspect who Oakland police say fired the gun that killed Oakland Police Officer Tuan Le on Friday morning has now been publicly identified, and it turns out he already served time for killing another man a decade ago, when he was still a juvenile.
SF News Naked Man Reportedly Shooting Off Gun Amid Mental Health Crisis In Outer Richmond A man who was reportedly naked and having a mental health crisis was firing off a gun on New Year's Eve morning, and he was arrested and thankfully no one was struck by any of the bullets.
