Business & Tech SF-Based Cloudflare Slashes 1,100 Jobs, Citing 'Agentic AI Era' The steady march of Bay Area job losses to AI continues today with SF-based tech company Cloudflare, which says it is laying off 1,100 employees globally.
SF News Arizona Man Arrested In Check-Washing Scheme That Targeted Napa Residents Dozens of Napa County homeowners now have some answers as to why their property tax payments had not made it to the county tax collector this spring, and/or why the checks were getting deposited in other states.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Polenta, San Francisco's Newest Regional Italian Restaurant, Quietly Opens In Alamo Square It's still in soft-opening mode, but a much anticipated new trattoria devoted to the cuisine of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy has made a quiet debut at long last in Alamo Square.
Arts & Entertainment Chonkers the Stellar Sea Lion Appears to Have Left the Bay For Now After an unusually long stay among his smaller California sea lion brethren on the floating docks by Pier 39, which ended up making national news, Chonkers the enormous Stellar sea lion seems to have left the area.
SF News Tenderloin Corner Store Was Allegedly Selling Meth, City Seeks to Shut It Down The San Francisco City Attorney's Office filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to shut down a problematic store called The Corner Store, which in addition to selling weed and illegal flavored tobacco products, was also apparently selling meth.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Driver Arrested In Fatal Pedestrian Crash In Guerneville A suspected DUI driver was arrested Tuesday in a fatal pedestrian collision in Guerneville; a 19-year-old suspect has been arrested in a Cinco de Mayo festival shooting in Santa Rosa; and an SF streetcar collided with a minivan on the Embarcadero.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fire Breaks Out Inside Piece of Vaillancourt Fountain The suspect in last months SoMa hit-and-run has dropped his defense attorney; UCSF is building a big new hearing center in Mission Bay; and a small fire broke out during the disassembly of the Vaillancourt Fountain today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hamburger Project Closes Mission Location Following Viral Incident A long-cursed restaurant space at a prominent corner of the Mission District is vacant once more, and the curse, it seems, has not left the place.
SF News New Search Warrant Served In Kristin Smart Murder Case as Hunt For Remains Continues Nearly 30 years to the day that she disappeared, and just over three years after Paul Flores was convicted in her killing, the body of Kristin Smart has still not been found, and authorities in San Luis Obispo County continue their search for it.
SF Politics Becerra Takes Attacks From All Sides, Porter Defends Against Criticism at Latest Gubernatorial Candidate Debate Former Congresswoman Katie Porter tried to stand apart and make her case at Tuesday night's governor's race primary debate hosted by CNN, while all the candidates appeared to gang up on Xavier Becerra.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurants at Transamerica Complex, Ama and Cafe Sebastian, Abruptly Close as Developer Gets Pushed Out After just seven months in business, Miami chef Brad Kilgore's showy Italian-Japanese fusion restaurant Ama has closed at the Transamerica complex, along with the more casual daytime spot Cafe Sebastian.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Shooting at Cinco de Mayo Party In Santa Rosa Injures One A shooting at a Santa Rosa Cinco de Mayo celebration left one man injured; Muni is adding more fare inspectors; and Barack Obama was on Colbert talking about aliens.
SF Politics Tom Steyer Gets Endorsement From Willie Brown as NYT Looks Into His Fossil Fuel Fortune Billionaire Tom Steyer has emerged as a frontrunner in the race for California governor, in no small part because of the millions of dollars of his own money that he's spent on ads before we've even had a primary.
SF News 20-Year-Old Texas Man Accused of Firebombing Sam Altman's House Enters Not Guilty Plea The man accused of flying to San Francisco to try to save humanity from AI by tossing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house made a court appearance Tuesday and entered a plea of not guilty.
SF News Fourth and Final Defendant Sentenced to Life In 2019 Santa Cruz Murder of Tech/Weed Entrepreneur Joshua Camps, the last defendant to face trial in the 2019 kidnapping and murder of tech and cannabis entrepreneur Tushar Atre, was sentenced Monday after being convicted in March.
Arts & Entertainment Another Oakland First Friday Sparks Violence, Street Fights, and Organizers Again Defend the Event Oakland First Fridays, an event that began as a beloved, arts-driven street fair that activated a long dormant Uptown, continues to attract and/or inspire conflicts among attendees, and last Friday's was no exception.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Clearer Skies Coming A deadly five-car pileup in San Jose was likely caused by a driver's medical emergency; the suspect in the Palisades Fire was a fan of Luigi Mangione; and warm weather is coming behind the rain and clouds.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Doris Fisher, Co-Founder of Gap, Dies at 94 Katie Porter pokes fun at a viral video moment in a new ad; the Chronicle wins another Pulitzer; and Doris Fisher, the co-founder of Gap a creator of its signature style, has died.
Arts & Entertainment Olivia Wilde Addresses Unflattering Red Carpet Photo From SFFILM Screening Actor-director Olivia Wilde, whose third feature film was the opening night screening of the SFFILM festival the other weekend, just fell victim to a tragically bad angle and bad lighting, she says, after the internet flipped over one of her red carpet photos.
SF Politics First Arrestee/Patient Arrives at SF's Controversial New Sobering Center The first individual was brought to the new RESET (Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation, and Triage) Center in SoMa Monday morning, and we'll have to see how this experiment goes.
SF Politics More Accounts Emerge of Creepy Behavior Toward Young Women By Eric Swalwell We certainly haven't heard the last of the accusations against former Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, following at least two assault accusations that exploded his political career last month.
SF Politics Former Pelosi Staffer Says Chakrabarti Was Fired From AOC's Staff Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's lack of an endorsement for her former chief of staff in the San Francisco House race was already playing an outsized role in this primary season, but now we get a bit more to the story.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Supreme Court Restores Abortion Pill Access By Mail, For Now The Supreme Court has temporarily restored access to abortion pills by mail; 67 homes in Mountain View have been without usable water for 10 days; and former Gov. Jerry Brown is not a fan of SF's Prop B.
SF News May Day Protest Shuts Down Departure-Level Roadway at SFO International Terminal, SF Supervisors Arrested A planned May Day protest at SFO was causing a bit of a disruption for air travelers Friday, with cars being redirected at the International Terminal and several city officials were among the arrestees after SFPD intervened.
SF News Lost Dog Rescued In Vallejo After Ending Up In Well, Treading Water For Hours A lost dog named Fiona fell into a well under an abandoned home in Vallejo on Monday, and needed to be rescued after treading water for about two hours.
