Arts & Entertainment Livermore Native Ashley Padilla Is Winning the Newcomers' Race on 'SNL' Now in her second season on Saturday Night Live, Bay Area native Ashley Padilla has proven to be a versatile and hilarious cast member who's already beating out all her castmates this season in total screen time and sketch appearances.
SF News Bystanders Describe Horrific Scene Where Toddler Was Killed In Mission Bay Intersection A mother was badly injured and her two-year-old daughter was killed in a pedestrian crash Friday in Mission Bay/Mission Rock, and bystanders allege that the driver appeared to try to flee the scene.
Business & Tech Waymo Safety Concerns During Emergencies Being Discussed In SF Hearing Concerns about the behavior of Waymo's autonomous taxis, following the December blackout in which the cars clogged intersections and created potential hazards, are being raised at a Monday hearing at SF City Hall.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: One Dead In North Oakland Shooting Oakland marked its 12th homicide of the year to date on Sunday; there was a rally at SF's Ferry Building in support of the US and Israel's attack on Iran; and Congress is having a war powers debate, a little late.
SF News Avalanche Survivors Fill In Key Pieces of the Story of What Happened Before Nine Were Buried Two of the survivors of last week's deadly avalanche near Castle Peak in the Sierra Nevada Mountains have now spoken out about the group's decision to venture out in blizzard conditions.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Say Bye to We Be Sushi SF awaits the openings of Maria Isabel and JouJou, We Be Sushi closes, and the Chronicle's Top 100 is getting its annual update very soon, all in This Week In Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink JouJou, the New French Brasserie From the Lazy Bear Team, Lands In the Design District Next Friday One of last year's buzzed-about openings that slid into the new year, JouJou, is now ready for its debut, and Lazy Bear chef David Barzelay and his team are ready to bring back some old-fashioned glamour and pomp to the French brasserie.
Arts & Entertainment Popular Sunset Night Market Returns With Lunar New Year Celebration The mega-popular Sunset Night Market, which became a victim of its own popularity last year when organizers called it off because it was becoming untenable, is returning Friday night with a Lunar New Year edition.
SF News One Dead In Potrero Drive-By Shooting, Two Others Injured One person was killed Friday morning and two others were injured in an apparent drive-by shooting in SF's Potrero Hill neighborhood, near the affordable housing projects on Dakota Street.
Business & Tech Oakland-Based Fintech Block Lays Off Nearly Half Its Staff, Because of AI It could be the first of many canaries in this coal mine, but Block announced a mass layoff on Thursday. And CEO Jack Dorsey is making no secret that this is about AI supplanting the need for human workers.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Teachers Avert Strike The Oakland teachers' union has reached a tentative agreement with the district ahead of a planned strike; BART's board approved its doomsday scenario plan; and Netflix shares rise after the collapse of the Warner Bros. deal.
Business & Tech ChatGPT Has Now Been Used In Two High-Profile, Violent Attacks, Raising Serious Safety and Liability Questions Not only did the unstable Green Beret with PTSD who blew up his Tesla outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas last year use ChatGPT to plan his attack, the Canadian woman who committed a mass school shooting earlier this month also asked the chatbot for help.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Maria Isabel, the New Mexican Restaurant From the Dalida Chef Couple, Opens In Presidio Heights Next Week The much anticipated second restaurant from chef couple Laura and Sayat Ozyilmaz, the pan-Mexican concept Maria Isabel, is readying for an opening early next week on Presidio Avenue in San Francisco's Presidio Heights.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands to Do 'Loyalty Presale' Next Week, Giving Past Attendees Early Bird Access Along With Lineup If you've purchased tickets for Outside Lands in the last five years, you'll be eligible to see the 2026 lineup and pay presale prices ahead of everyone else this year — and there is a second presale that gives everyone early-bird access as well.
SF News BART Service Restored After Melting Down, Yet Again, Between Oakland and San Francisco It's been a bad week/month/year for BART. Around 8:20 am on Thursday, all train service was halted between West Oakland and 24th/Mission stations due to a communication issue.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland School Board Approves 400 Layoffs Oakland's school board voted Wednesday to approve 400 layoffs, not including teachers; San Jose police release details about a murder-suicide; and Trader Joe's remains SF's cheapest grocer.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF's First Lady to Lead Day of Service This Summer SF First Lady Becca Prowda, who has kept a low public profile, will be leading a citywide day of service; Steph Curry stopped at a food truck in Mission Bay; and Trump's nominee for surgeon general is, of course, vague about her vaccine views.
SF Politics Republican-Turned-Democrat Marie Hurabiell Joins Race for Nancy Pelosi's House Seat Billing herself as an "actual moderate" to contrast with the three other main candidates running for San Francisco's seat in the US House of Representatives, former Republican Trump appointee to the Presidio Trust Marie Hurabiell seems to think she has a shot in November.
SF News Verdict May Arrive This Week In Much-Delayed Trial of Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Jurors have been deliberating now for two days in the Santa Clara County trial of Shannon O'Connor, the 50-year-old woman accused of providing alcohol to high school friends of her son, and hosting events where several girls say they were sexually assaulted.
SF News Suspect Arraigned In Tenderloin Homicide Is Claiming Self-Defense The 37-year-old suspect in a February 11 homicide on Turk Street was arraigned Wednesday, and his defense is claiming that he acted in self-defense. The victim, however, was shot in the back and was only armed with pepper spray.
SF News Oakland Man Paroled Following Plea Deal In 2024 Juneteenth Shootout That Injured 14 People A 25-year-old Oakland man is getting out of jail this week after serving almost 18 months behind bars in connection with a 2024 Juneteenth shootout by Lake Merritt that left more than a dozen people injured.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Welcomes New Baby Red-Tailed Monkey In a first for the zoo, a guenon species monkey has been born in captivity at the Oakland Zoo, and it's a baby red-tailed monkey who has not yet been given a name.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF to Establish 'ICE-Free Zones' On City Property SF's Board of Supervisors voted to establish 'ICE-free zones' on city property; BART is just as loud as it used to be; Alameda police have made a whole lot of DUI arrests recently.
SF News Tracy Father of Newborn Triplets Found Dead In Lake Berryessa Was Likely Victim of Mistaken Identity Authorities are now saying that Avtar Singh, the 57-year-old Tracy man who was found dead in Napa's Lake Berryessa after going missing near his home, was likely not the intended target of his abductors and killers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wildly Popular Chicken Finger Chain Raising Cane's Is Coming to Fisherman's Wharf Raising Cane's, the fast-food outfit that specializes in fried chicken of the boneless variety, is planning to open a new location in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood, a stone's throw from In-N-Out.
