SF News One Man Murdered, Two Assaulted in SoMa Friday, Two Suspects Arrested There was a homicide Friday in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood and the SFPD has arrested two men in connection with the killing and the assault of two others.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Izakaya In Union Square A new izakaya lands near Union Square, the Castro gets a new Northern Thai restaurant, and the Chronicle's Cesar Hernandez gives his review of RT Bistro, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment A Who's-Who of Queer and Camp Culture Stars In New Disaster-Spoof Flick 'Stop! That! Train!' A roster of Rupaul's Drag Race alums, along with Ru herself, and a bevy of queer comedians, camp icons, and others star in the 70s-style disaster-movie send-up 'Stop! That! Train!', due out this summer.
SF News Civil Grand Jury Report Raises Questions About Yolo County Officials' Handling of Fireworks Facility A damning new civil grand jury report points the finger at Yolo County officials who, the report says, knew about the illegal fireworks storage facility in Esparto for years but failed to enforce safety codes, leading to last July's deadly explosion.
SF Politics Trump Yet Again Brings Up San Francisco, Possibly Because of Bill O'Reilly Prime Time Special We all know that Trump is highly influenced by television, and a fairly out-of-date prime time special by Bill O'Reilly on NewsNation Thursday titled "The Decline and Fall of San Francisco" is likely the reason Trump complained about the city again during a cabinet meeting.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Man Arrested For Sunset Shooting Was Biden Staffer Two SF supervisors propose law to make SFPD ID federal agents; the 25-year-old man arrested for involuntary manslaughter in a Sunset shooting was a Biden staffer; and David Sacks is stepping down as Trump's "crypto czar."
SF News Day Around the Bay: United Flight Out of SFO Had Near Miss With Helicopter Antoine Watson, who killed 84-year-old "Grandpa Vicha" five years ago, was sentenced to time served for involuntary manslaughter; a United flight out of SFO had a near miss with a Black Hawk helicopter in Santa Ana; and Saturday's No Kings march will head up Market Street at noon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Bay Area Restaurants Added to 2026 Michelin Guide The Michelin Guide has just revealed its midyear additions, giving some hints about which new Bay Area restaurants are already on the radars of inspectors and up for potential star ratings.
SF News Sacramento Bee's AI-Generated Earthquake and Wildfire News Needs Some Work The Sacramento Bee, like many publications across the country, has been experimenting with AI-generated content for its website, particularly in the realm of real-time wildfire and earthquake updates. But it seems like they may need more human eyes on this stuff.
Bay Area Sports ICYMI: The Giants' Opening Day Game Featured Star Spangled Banner Smoke Show Possibly thanks to the involvement of Netflix, the MLB Opening Day game at Oracle Park Wednesday night featured a drone pyrotechnic show during the national anthem, with the American flag — ironically? — going up in smoke.
SF News Muni Still Has Fare-Evasion Problem as Ridership Rebounds; Fare Revenue at 34% What It Was In 2015 As we've heard multiple times in recent years, Muni has a major fare-evasion problem even though ridership has rebounded somewhat since the pandemic. But the actual numbers are pretty startling.
SF News High-Speed Chase Through Santa Rosa Ends In Rollover Crash Into Vineyard The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office had their helicopter out for a vehicle pursuit Wednesday which may have escalated because they pulled the helicopter out, and thankfully no one appears to have been seriously hurt.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 'Grandpa Vicha' Killer to Be Sentenced Antoine Watson is expected to be sentenced today for the Jan. 2021 killing of 'Grandpa Vicha' Ratanapakdee; H Mart is opening its big new Dublin location; and the International Olympic Committee is officially barring trans female athletes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Big Movie Shoot Coming to Telegraph Hill That controversial Lowell High math teacher has been forced to resign; a big-budget movie shoot is happening Thursday near Telegraph Hill; and Stephen Colbert is going to be writing a 'Lord of the Rings' movie.
Business & Tech Bay Area Company Sends First Humanoid Robot to the White House, Walking Side By Side With Melania Ugh. Melania Trump thinks more robots should be teaching children, which dovetails nicely with the administration gutting the Department of Education.
Business & Tech Meta and Google Found Liable In Landmark Social Media Addiction Case; Meta Also Found Liable In Child Exploitation Case It's a bad week in the courts for Meta, and also for Google and YouTube, after juries in two states came back with verdicts against the companies in high-profile cases about the dangers of social media.
SF News Stonestown Galleria Evacuated Over Possible Threat, SFPD Sweeps Mall For Three Hours Stonestown Galleria was evacuated Wednesday afternoon due to police activity and a vague, phone-in threat — possibly involving an armed individual — and the mall eventually reopened after several hours.
SF News TSA Tipped Off ICE About Woman Forcibly Detained at SFO We now have a fuller picture of what went down at Gate E2 at SFO's Terminal 3 on Sunday night, how ICE agents ended up there, and what happened with the woman afterwards.
SF News San Francisco Sees Two Homicides In One Night, In Ingleside and Sunset Districts Tuesday was a particularly violent night in San Francisco, in what has become a relatively violent start to 2026, particularly compared to the year prior.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Judge Fines SF Public Defender For Turning Down Cases A judge has now fined SF Public Defender Mano Raju for refusing to take some new cases; the canceled gubernatorial candidate debate could impact the race; and the SF school board has voted to extend the school year by one week.
Business & Tech Developer Bets on 'Office Resort' at Revamped Building Near Embarcadero A building that's undergoing a significant renovation at 88 Spear Street, including a rooftop bar and restaurant, aims to be a new model for selling employees on going happily back to the office.
SF News Man Killed By 38-Geary Bus Near SF's Union Square After Apparent Fall Into Street A male pedestrian was struck and killed by a Muni bus early Tuesday morning near Union Square, after he reportedly fell from the sidewalk into the path of the bus.
SF News Florida Woman Convicted In Case of Botched Butt Injections That Killed Kim Kardashian Lookalike Model A Florida-based cosmetologist who came to the Bay Area to administer silicone butt injections to a 34-year-old OnlyFans model in 2023 has been convicted in San Mateo County of involuntary manslaughter.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry Hit With Class-Action Labor Suit Alleging Break and Wage Violations A former dishwasher at the French Laundry in Yountville has filed a lawsuit on behalf of 50 other employees alleging that the restaurant routinely violates state law around mandatory break times and resting facilities, and that it also failed to pay the minimum wage or overtime.
SF News Another Technical Glitch Caused False Earthquake Alerts to Go Out In Northern California For the second time in four months, a false-alarm alert about an earthquake was triggered in Northern California, and this was actually multiple alerts, but this time there thankfully were no loud alarms on cellphones rattling Bay Area residents awake.
