SF News Humpday Headlines: Northern Lights Seen Across the Bay Area Congressional Democrats drop an Epstein bombshell involving Trump; federal enforcement of drug crime in SF has plummeted this year; and the Northern Lights were flickering around the Bay Area Tuesday night.
SF News Now the Trump Justice Department Says It Is Investigating Monday's Charlie Kirk Protest at UC Berkeley You may have seen this coming, but Monday's small dustup in Berkeley that appears to have left one t-shirt seller bloodied, and that Fox News characterized as sheer bedlam — which it was not — is now going to be investigated by the Trump Justice Department.
SF News APEC Protester Seen Being Punched By Volunteer Files Suit, Suspect Seeks Mental Health Diversion A woman who was protesting the November 2023 APEC summit in San Francisco was left with devastating injuries from being sucker-punched by a man who had just shown up to volunteer at the event. She's now suing the organizers and the man himself.
SF Politics Pelosi Calls Out Republicans Over Healthcare Subsidies, Says 400K Californians Could Be Priced Out House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi used an event Monday about Covered California open enrollment to sound alarms over the number of Californians who may lose their healthcare due to Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Flight Cancellations Continue The FAA's mandate to reduce air traffic continues unchanged this week; a significant storm is heading our way; and the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the SNAP situation.
SF News Onboard Video Shows Muni Driver Likely Asleep at the Wheel During Terrifying Incident By Duboce Park Video from a runaway Muni light-rail incident next to Duboce Park on September 24 shows that the train operator likely fell asleep at the wheel, and had been hunched over barely awake several minutes earlier.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Autopsy Suggests Mother Shot Children, Husband In Westwood Home Autopsy reports come in for the Westwood neighborhood murder-suicide; a man was sexually assaulted near the UC Berkeley campus; and a local congressman wants private jets to be grounded during the remainder of the shutdown.
Business & Tech SF-Based Furnished Apartment Rental Startup Sonder Shuts Down, Declares Bankruptcy Sonder, the San Francisco-based rival to Airbnb that had established a lucrative partnership with Marriott last year, has now lost that partnership and is shutting down entirely.
SF Politics AG Bonta Seeks Court Clarification on USDA Demand to Claw Back SNAP Benefits As poor Americans continue to be pawns in the Trump administration's gameplay over the government shutdown, California Attorney General Rob Bonta is seeking guidance from the Supreme Court over how to address the administration's latest "capricious" demand.
SF News Plan Finally Emerges For 1,800-Unit Development at Former Fillmore Safeway A developer is looking to build 3,500 housing units in San Francisco in the coming years, about half of which would be in a mixed-use development at the site of the former Safeway in the Fillmore.
SF Politics Christine Pelosi Will Not Run For Congress, Will Run For State Senate Well this is an unexpected turn of events. Christine Pelosi, the daughter of Nancy Pelosi, will not run to take over her mother's seat in the House of Representatives in 2026, as was widely speculated.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Supreme Court Will Not Reconsider Gay Marriage The Supreme Court declined to reconsider the 2015 decision affirming the right to gay marriage; the court did agree to hear a case about late mail-in ballots; and a Tesla driver allegedly stabbed a cyclist in the Marin Headlands.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Bars Coming Next Year The Quince and Cotogna team is opening Bar Coto down the street, the former Aphotic team has a cocktail bar coming down the pike, and Nyum Bai/Lunette chef Nite Yun has published a cookbook, all in This Week In Food.
SF Politics London Breed Confirms She Is Thinking of Running for Pelosi's House Seat Former San Francisco Mayor London Breed may, indeed, be among the field of candidates vying for Nancy Pelosi's seat in Congress after she retires next year.
Arts & Entertainment 'The Hills of California' Tells the Story of English Sisters and the Stage Mother Who Raised Them As they gather to await the death of their hard-charging, ambitious stage mother, three sisters, and then a fourth, estranged sister, parse through their past in playwright Jez Butterworth's 'The Hills of California,' now playing at Berkeley Rep.
SF News SFO Sees Ground Stop Early Friday, and 45 Canceled Flights Amid FAA-Ordered Traffic Reduction San Francisco International Airport was seeing widespread delays, though not extreme ones, Friday morning, and a ground stop of over four hours was ordered for incoming flights that began at 4 am.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: California SNAP Recipients See EBT Cards Filled Millions of California SNAP recipients woke up to full EBT cards Friday; Safeway is closing another Bay Area store; and RVs were seen getting towed en masse in SF's Bayview on Wednesday.
Business & Tech OpenAI Not Looking at an IPO Anytime Soon, CFO Says OpenAI, which had previously been thought to be looking at an IPO in the next two years, may be holding off on that plan, according to comments made Wednesday by the company's CFO.
SF News United and Delta Say That Mostly Regional Flights Out of SFO Will Be Impacted By Air Traffic Restrictions Airlines are telling passengers Thursday not to worry too much about pending air-traffic restrictions stemming from the shutdown and ongoing strain on the nation's air traffic controllers. But if you're scheduled to take a shorter, regional flight, you may be impacted.
SF Politics Justice Jackson Chides Fellow Supreme Court Justices for Having 'Misunderstood the Assignment' In Trans Passport Case The Supreme Court's conservative majority issued an emergency order Thursday allowing the Trump administration to stop issuing passports for trans people with their stated gender identity on them, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has again made her disgusted feelings known in a dissent.
SF News Former Dream Keeper Chief and Human Rights Commission Director Sheryl Davis Hit With Array of Ethics Charges The San Francisco Ethics Commission has now formally accused former Human Rights Commission Executive Director Sheryl Davis of a range of ethics violations that may also amount to illegal acts involving improper gifts and conflicts of interest.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Says She'll Retire After 2026 As has been mostly expected, Nancy Pelosi has announced that she will not seek reelection next year, leaving San Francisco's House seat open for the first time in 40 years.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Tahoe Likely to See Early-Season Snow Next Week The Sierra is likely to see some snow next week (and we will get rain); a person was struck by a BART train in Oakland Wednesday evening; and thieves stole dozens of rose bushes from Oakland's Morcom Rose Garden.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 68-Year-Old Sailor Rescued In Bay During Morning Storm A 68-year-old sailboater required rescue early Wednesday off Alameda; the Killers have been added to the pre-Super Bowl lineup of concerts in SF; and a UPS cargo plane went down in a fiery crash in Louisville.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ingka Centres, Which Manages the IKEA Mall, Is Dropping Their Food Hall Operator In a further indication that all is not so well with Saluhall, the food hall at SF's still newish IKEA mall, the parent company Ingka Centres is dropping the British operator of the food hall that they've been working with for a year and a half.
