SF News Sausalito Cleared Homeless Out Of Marinship Park — By Paying Them Each $18,000 to Leave Sausalito managed to clear a sprawling encampment in Marinship Park this month that had been growing more unsanitary and problematic over the last two years, but they did it via a court settlement that included cash payments.
SF News Castro Merchants Threaten Tax Strike Over Vandalism, Crime, Lack of Mental Health Response From City After more than two years in which problems of vagrancy, vandalism, and petty crime have gotten only worse, Castro merchants say they're going to withhold taxes from the City of San Francisco if it doesn't address their concerns.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 4AM Last Call Bill Voted Down Once Again, This Time In the Assembly Say what you will about state Senator Senator Scott Wiener, he has been indisputably steadfast in his commitment to passing a bill extending last call at bars and nightclubs to 4 a.m. — even if it's just in SF and a couple of other cities.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Crazy Police Chase Tears Through Western Addition Walkways A police chase tore through several parking lots and pedestrian walkways in the Western Addition yesterday afternoon, a paving patch on a Presidio Heights Slow Street is a hazard to cyclists, and another study has found SF's downtown recovery is the slowest in the country.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFFD Investigates String of Five Dumpster Fires The SF Fire Department is investigating a string of dumpster fire arsons in SoMa and the Western Addition, Dreamforce is kicking off in a month and might be large-ish, and Senor Sisig's Ferry Building outpost opens Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurants, Including Rooftop Venue, Announced for Mid-Market's LINE Hotel There's finally some movement over at The LINE hotel, in the condo-hotel building known also as Serif, and 950-974 Market Street — and we have some vague details about the rooftop bar/restaurant going in about a block away from Charmaine's.
SF News Monkeypox Infections On the Decline In SF the Last Three Weeks The number of new monkeypox infections has been steadily declining for three weeks in San Francisco, leading the city's health officer to say she's "cautiously optimistic" that the city has turned a corner on the outbreak.
SF News California Set to Become the First Government In the World to Ban New Gas-Powered Cars (In 2035) California is set to become the first state in the nation, and the first jurisdiction on the planet, to officially ban the sale of new gas-powered cars, starting in 2035 — thanks to a new rule from the California Air Resources Board.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Announces More of the 2022 Lineup, Night Shows For the first time in three years, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass will return to the western meadows of Golden Gate Park the weekend of September 30, and we now have the full lineup of artists and "Out of the Park" night shows.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Five Arrested In North Bay Beauty Store Heists Five suspects including to teens from San Francisco were arrested following alleged robberies and a pursuit in Petaluma, a VTA driver who threatened "shooting" is being forced to retire, and Biden is forgiving $10K in student loans!
SF News One of the Four 'Grizzly Scout' Boogaloo Militia Men Who Conspired to Obstruct Carrillo Case Gets 10 Years In Prison One of the four men who participated in on- and off-line anti-government conspiracy and military-style drills with convicted Boogaloo murderer Steven Carrillo has now been sentenced.
SF News Poop Complaints Are Down 30% In the Tenderloin! In the name of fecal data journalism and clicks, the Chronicle is back on the poop beat this week — and there's some good news for the chronically poopy streets of the Tenderloin!
SF News [Updates] Three-Alarm Apartment Fire Injures Three, Displaces 13 at McAllister and Divisadero The news copters were out and traffic was being diverted around busy Divisadero Street in San Francisco's NoPa neighborhood due to a two-alarm apartment fire on McAllister Street.
SF News San Rafael Police Officer Seen Dropping Off Homeless, Mentally Ill Man In San Francisco A San Rafael police officer was caught on camera dropping off a homeless man and handing him his belongings in the area of Lake Street and 14th Avenue — clearly having just come across the Golden Gate Bridge to offload the man and make him San Francisco's problem.
SF News SF Likely to Move Ahead With Safe-Consumption Sites Run By Non-Profits, Despite Newsom Veto San Francisco would have neither the cover of the state nor federal governments, but city leaders are likely going to take Newsom's cue to go ahead with a model pioneered by New York City to have safe drug-consumption sites that are run by non-profits.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Vigil Held For Dentist and Mother Killed In Oakland There was a vigil Monday for Dr. Lili Xu, the dentist and mother killed in Oakland's Little Saigon on Sunday; a car explosion in Fremont was said to be caused by a "criminal" who blew himself up accidentally; and the SF police union backs Newsom's veto of safe-consumption sites.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Has Vetoed the Safe Consumption Site Bill Gov. Newsom has vetoed a bill to create a pilot program of safe drug consumption sites, BART isn't putting the fences back up at 24th and Mission, and smoke from Humboldt fires is likely to drift down over the Bay on Tuesday.
SF News Convicted Stanford Assaulter Brock Turner Goes Viral Again Via 'Whisper Network' In Ohio Brock Turner's name is once again bubbling up on social media, specifically on TikTok, where women in Ohio are using the platform to warn each other about Turner's presence in local bars.
SF News A Violent Weekend at People's Park In Berkeley With a Hate-Crime Assault, Arson and More As Berkeley's People's Park continues to be occupied by homeless individuals and others, while the UC Regents pause a planned construction project at the site, there was a weekend of multiple violent incidents there.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Three-Star Restaurant Manresa For Sale, and Chef David Kinch Is Bowing Out One of the Bay Area's six Michelin three-star restaurants, Manresa in Los Gatos, may be going away at the end of this year as executive chef and owner David Kinch has decided to step away and tend to his more casual businesses.
SF News Mission District Sees Fatal Shooting Sunday In Which Three Others Were Injured One person is dead and three others suffered injuries following an early morning shooting in the Mission District on Sunday.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Will Newsom Veto Safe-Consumption Site Bill? Today is the deadline for Gov. Newsom to sign a bill legalizing safe-consumption sites, BART saw delays on Sunday after a person entered the Transbay Tube, and a family of four needed to be rescued in Tahoe National Forest.
Arts & Entertainment Did You Know There Was an Internment Camp For Suspected Japanese Spies During WWII on San Francisco Property? One internment camp specifically for "enemy aliens" was on San Francisco property, set up in 1942 next to a municipal golf course just south of the city proper.
SF News Mohammed Nuru Could Face Nine-Year Prison Term As Sentencing Looms Next Week Disgraced former SF Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru is set to be sentenced next week, and in newly filed court documents, federal prosecutors refer to him as a "quintessential grifter" whose schemes as a city employee amount to a "tale of greed as old as time."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dalva's Bar-Within-a-Bar, The Hideout, Swings Back Open For the First Time In 2.5 Years Fans of good cocktails in cozy spaces can rejoice, at long last, over the reopening of Dalva's Hideout, the separate, semi-secret bar back behind Dalva on 16th Street that hasn't welcomed guests since early 2020.
