SF News Victoria Jones, Daughter of Tommy Lee Jones, Died of Cocaine Overdose at SF Hotel The cause of death has been confirmed for Tommy Lee Jones's 34-year-old daughter, who was found dead at the Fairmont Hotel the night of New Year's Eve.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Nine Dead Out of Group of 15 Skiers Caught In Avalanche Nine people are missing and six were rescued from a group of back-country skiers caught in a Tuesday avalanche near Tahoe; Mark Zuckerberg is testifying in that social media trial; and a famed Monterey County winery is shutting down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sad Japantown Burger King to Be Replaced By Super Duper One of the city's sadder Burger Kings, the one at Fillmore and Post streets, has closed and will reportedly be replaced by local burger concern Super Duper Burger.
Arts & Entertainment Celebrate Mardi Gras In the Mission District Tuesday Evening It's Fat Tuesday, everybody! And for those who celebrate, or those who wish they were in New Orleans — or Rio, or elsewhere — to celebrate, there are a few festivities happening in SF.
Bay Area Sports Olympic Skiing Star Eileen Gu Reveals She Was Assaulted and Threatened While at Stanford San Francisco-born Olympian Eileen Gu, now competing in her second Olympic Games at age 22, reveals in a new interview that she has faced harassment and even death threats over her choice to ski for China instead of the US.
SF News Video: Large Ficus Tree Falls Near the Foot of Potrero Avenue A large ficus tree came down during Tuesday's storm near the intersection of Potrero Avenue and Alameda Street, near the 101 freeway overpass.
SF News 'Coldest Case Ever' Ends In Conviction For Sonoma County Rape and Murder of 13-Year-Old Familial DNA was used to solve a case that had gone cold for over 40 years in Sonoma County, the case of the 1982 murder of 13-year-old Sarah Geer in Cloverdale.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: I-80 Closed Again In Sierra I-80 was closed in both directions Tuesday morning due to heavy snow conditions; snow is also expected today on peaks around the Bay Area; and the Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at age 84.
SF News President's Day Around the Bay: Dog Mauling Convict Denied Parole Once More Marjorie Knoller, who was convicted in the notorious dog-mauling murder of Diane Whipple, has been denied parole again; a Hayward man is charged with a BART parking lot rape; and vaccine makers are pulling back on studies, because of RFK Jr.
SF News Storm Impacting Bay Area Roads; Chain Controls In Effect on I-80 In Tahoe Area In snowy Tahoe, I-80 was temporarily closed in both directions Monday morning due to multiple spinouts, and rainy conditions around the Bay are leading to ponding and road closures as well.
SF News Body of Missing UC Berkeley Graduate Student Found In Lake Anza The body of a 22-year-old UC Berkeley graduate student who had reportedly been struggling with mental health issues was found by a dive team Saturday in Lake Anza, a reservoir in Tilden Regional Park.
Business & Tech Anthropic's Pentagon Contract In Jeopardy Over Questions About AI Spying San Francisco-based AI company Anthropic, which launched as an ostensibly more ethically driven AI enterprise than competitors like OpenAI, appears to be hitting an impasse in its contract negotiations with the Pentagon.
SF News Driver In West Portal Crash That Killed Family of Four Pleads No Contest, Judge Sounds Lenient The elderly woman accused of killing a family of four with her vehicle two years ago in West Portal changed her plea Friday from not guilty to no contest, and the judge indicated that she was unlikely to get jail time.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Long Delays at SFO Due to Wind Inbound flights were delayed an average of four hours at SFO last night; the remains of a missing Santa Cruz woman have been ID'd; and a Palo Alto restaurant hosted Bad Bunny's private Super Bowl afterparty.
Arts & Entertainment Sam Smith Channels Chaka Khan, George Michael, and Bonnie Raitt In Castro Residency The great Sam Smith seemed wistful, grateful, and dare we say happy during their almost 90-minute set Friday night, and you can hear them paying tribute to generations of R&B and soul singers in multiple numbers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Diner Food on Polk A new diner debuts on Polk, Cenaduria Elvira makes a splash in Oakland's Jack London Square, and the Chronicle reviews Dingles Public House, all in This Week in Food.
SF News [Updated] Seven Injured After Car Crashes Into Oliver's Supermarket In Santa Rosa A car went through the front windows of gourmet supermarket Oliver's in Santa Rosa Friday morning, leaving seven people injured and significant damage to the store.
SF Politics Remembering When Rose Pak Used to Harangue Politicians From the Stage at the Chinese New Year Parade These days some of you only know Rose Pak as the name on a Muni station, and that is too bad. She was an elbows-out, combative political force who was never afraid to speak her mind, which was always the case at the annual Chinese New Year Parade.
SF News Harrowing Details Emerge of Final Desperate Phone Call to Family Member Before Alameda Quintuple Murder 36-year-old Brenda Natali Morales made a phone call to an uncle just minutes before her husband, Shane Killian, fatally shot her, their two sons, and Morales's parents in a drunken rage on July 10, 2024, prosecutors say.
SF News Teachers' Strike Ends After Early Morning Deal, Schools Still Closed 'til Wednesday The San Francisco teachers' union and the SF Unified School District reached a tentative deal that was announced at 6 am Friday, after four days on strike, with the union getting a key benefit they had been seeking.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Flower Market Gears Up for Valentine's Rush A 76-year-old Oakland woman was injured in a mugging; a former BART director speaks out about the station closure threat; and the SF Flower Market is in full swing for Valentine's Day.
Business & Tech AI Insiders Are Sounding Alarms, and the Guy Who Wrote That Viral Post Says He's Not Being Alarmist Is AI coming for most of your jobs? Maybe not. But some of them? Yes, probably. And we're seeing another wave of AI industry insiders speaking out publicly and making some grave statements.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant From Team Behind Trestle and Vault Coming to China Basin We now have the early news about the first big fall restaurant opening on the books for San Francisco, and its a new, unnamed project from Hi Neighbor Hospitality Group.
SF News San Francisco Sees Another Homicide, the Second In a Week San Francisco is seeing a rapid uptick in its homicide count so far in 2026, following a year with a historically low count. The latest killing occurred in the Tenderloin.
SF News Fence Controversy at Daly City Beachfront Property Escalates With Legal Filing There is now a lawsuit in San Mateo County seeking to stop the county from taking down a controversial fence surrounding some long-vacant property, and the man who put up the fence remains defiant.
