SF News Another Person Has Died After a Boat Capsized In Bodega Bay Two weeks after a pair of boats capsized in Bodega Bay, killing five on one boat and two people on another, another capsize has occurred in the bay killing one person.
SF News Massive Hilton Hotel Near Union Square Could Become Housing, After Sale Goes Through San Francisco's largest hotel, which is also one of the country's largest hotels outside of Las Vegas, the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, is headed for auction. And there are some hints that a buyer could convert it into apartment housing.
SF Politics DA Pamela Price Concedes, Accepts That She Has Been Recalled After appearing to have lost against a recall effort by a wide margin, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price finally conceded Monday at a press conference in Oakland.
SF News Nima Momeni Back on Witness Stand, Answering Questions From Jury Accused murderer Nima Momeni returned to the witness stand Monday morning answering written questions submitted by jurors about the night he stabbed Bob Lee in April 2023.
SF News Atmospheric River Likely to Bring Much Rain to North Bay, Two Inches to SF The first big winter storm of the season appears to be headed our way, but it won't be a direct hit, and there are still some variables that could affect how much rain we actually get.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Man Arrested for Burglary and Homicide in Rural Sonoma County A man was arrested for allegedly breaking into a home and murdering someone in Sonoma County; a coalition of unions is protesting proposed Oakland budget cuts; and now carrots are being recalled due to E.coli contamination.
SF News SF Firefighters Put Out Encampment Fire Along South Van Ness On-Ramp Near 13th Street San Francisco firefighters were called to the scene of an encampment fire along a freeway on-ramp at the edge of the Mission District on Saturday afternoon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Multiple New Openings Ahead of the Holidays In addition to Morella and Kayah by Burma Love opening in San Francisco this week, we have news of a splashy new, Michelin-hopeful prix-fixe spot opening around the corner from Sonoma Square in early December, all in This Week In Food.
SF News Golden Gate University Campus, Once Slated to Become 50-Story Tower, Sits In Limbo The Brutalist building at 536 Mission Street that houses Golden Gate University was up for sale in recent years, and university leaders thought it was a potential goldmine, given that it had been rezoned for up to 700 feet in the Transit Center District Plan.
SF News [Update] Dogs on the Loose Create Chaos In Fillmore District After Biting Two People An apparently vicious dog was shot by police in the Fillmore District and led to an alert from the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management Friday morning due to other dogs on the loose.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jaja's African Hair Braiding' at Berkeley Rep Is a Timely, Poignant Comedy About the Immigrant Experience 'Steel Magnolias' first showed the theatrical and storytelling potential of the hair salon. And Jocelyn Bioh's 2023 play 'Jaja's African Hair Braiding' adapts the concept to a modern-day hair-braiding shop in Harlem, where most of the characters are African immigrants.
SF News Woman Stabbed In Fight at Fifth and Mission Streets It's been a spate of knife crimes in San Francisco the past couple of weeks, and now we have a report of a woman who was stabbed in SoMa on Thursday afternoon.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: San Mateo County Assistant Sheriff Resigns The assistant sheriff in San Mateo County, Matthew Fox, has now resigned amid the drama surrounding Sheriff Christina Corpus; bail was denied for a San Jose city councilmember accused of molestation; and cold temps are on the way Saturday.
SF Politics CNN Throws San Francisco Under the Bus In Nation's Rightward Shift, Casts Lurie as Law-and-Order Conservative Democrats' post-mortems after this election were already exhausting last Wednesday, and they've only continued for the last nine days. And on networks like CNN, they have had to hammer home the reasons why Dems lost so terribly, in terms of losing control of the House and Senate.
SF News Second Southwest Flight In a Week Makes Emergency Landing In Bay Area It's Southwest Airlines' turn at being the one with all the publicized problems this week, with two of its jets flying out of the Bay Area needing to make emergency landings due to mechanical issues.
SF Politics Can Daniel Lurie Save Macy's? With the big tree-lighting ceremony in Union Square this week, the pall hanging over the celebration is the impending planned closure of Macy's, with this potentially being the last Great Tree lighting in the square, at least by Macy's.
SF News On Witness Stand, Nima Momeni Says a 'Bad Joke' Caused Lee to Suddenly Try to Stab Him Defendant Nima Momeni took the stand in his own defense Wednesday, in a move that could prove damaging to the defense, depending on how his cross-examination plays out.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFPD Chief Denies Retirement Rumors SFPD Chief Bill Scott says rumors of his retirement are "not coming from me."; the San Mateo County Sheriff spoke defiantly at a county board of supervisors meeting about not stepping down; and the UC system has a major budget shortfall.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Murder Suspect Tracked Down In Philadelphia The District 11 supervisor race in SF remains a matter of 200 votes; an Oakland murder suspect was tracked down in Philadelphia; and conservative attorney Ted Olson, who argued against Prop 8, has died.
SF News Oakland Sees First Homicide In Eight Weeks Despite the reputation that Oakland, and especially East Oakland, has for violent crime, the stats this year have trended downward. But there was one homicide Wednesday afternoon in Oakland, the first in almost two months.
Arts & Entertainment Sam Bankman-Fried Story Getting Turned Into a Movie, Adapted By Lena Dunham We learn this week that Apple and A24 are moving forward with a film adaptation of writer Michael Lewis's book about Sam Bankman-Fried, and Lena Dunham has been tapped to write the script.
Arts & Entertainment Contemporary Jewish Museum In Downtown SF to Lay Off Much of Its Staff, Close for One Year or More San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum announced Wednesday that it is shutting down next month for "at least one year," saying that it is facing a severe budget shortfall and declining revenue.
SF News Nima Momeni Takes the Stand In His Own Defense In Bob Lee Murder Trial Accused killer Nima Momeni took the stand Wednesday morning to tell his version of events in the April 2023 killing of Bob Lee, claiming he turned the knife on Lee in self-defense.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Man Arrested for Attack on Female Safeway Employee A female employee at the Ocean Beach Safeway was brutally attacked on Sunday; whooping cough is on the rise in the Bay Area; and Intel has brought back free coffee and tea for workers to "boost morale."
SF News Man Found Fatally Stabbed Near Embarcadero BART Station A man was fatally stabbed Wednesday morning on Market Street, and was found outside one of the entrances to the Embarcadero BART station, and a subsequent search for a suspect caused significant train delays.
