SF News Air Quality District Says Benicia Refinery Has Been Emitting Hazardous Chemicals for 15 Years A recent investigation by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) found that the Valero Benicia refinery in southern Solano County has been emitting hazardous levels of toxic chemicals for years.
Arts & Entertainment New Video Game Imagines San Francisco In 3022, After 200 Feet of Sea Level Rise A new PlayStation game by Sony-owned Guerrilla Games depicts San Francisco and some other parts of the state as they might appear without so many humans, in a distant future well populated by threatening robotic dinosaurs.
SF News Oakland Woman Who Spent PPP Loans On Louis Vuitton Bags and Private Jets Gets Three Years In Federal Prison A 32-year-old Oakland woman who was arrested and charged last year in a scheme to defraud the federal government out of $4.5 million in pandemic relief funds has just been sentenced to three years in prison and will have to pay over $1 million in restitution.
SF News Santa Clara County Will Follow Rest of Region and Lift Mask Order Next Week Two weeks behind San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area, Santa Clara County will be lifting its indoor public mask mandate next week — though, like the rest of the region, unvaccinated people are still on the honor system and supposed to be masking up.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: One Dead In Fillmore District Apartment Fire A fire broke out in a row of apartments on Buchanan Street Friday morning, that spate of anti-Semitic flyers has hit two communities in Marin County, and there was a small protest in solidarity with Ukraine in San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Schlok's Bagels Set to Open Next Week Off Divisadero Schlok's, a much-awaited new brick-and-mortar bagel shop for a popular pandemic pop-up, is finally opening next week after a number of delays.
SF News Sean Penn Is In Ukraine Covering the Russian Invasion With VICE Sometime Bay Area resident Sean Penn is reportedly in Ukraine helping to film a documentary about the Russian invasion for VICE Studios.
SF News Even SF's Own City Departments Can't Agree On Neighborhood Boundaries It should come as a shock to no one that there exists no single, official, definitive map that delineates where the Inner Sunset begins and ends, or where the line is drawn between The Mission and Potrero Hill — though many of us have our own ideas.
SF News Thieves Use SUV to Ram Metal Door of Oakland Dispensary, Clean the Place Out of Product A group of pot burglars targeted a dispensary inside the old Parkway Theater space in Oakland, and the way they got inside involved using a Lexus SUV to slam a roll-up door.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Small Wildfire Breaks Out In Deep Woods Near Guerneville A small vegetation fire broke out in some woods east of Guerneville last night, Russia's attack on Ukraine is impacting local gas prices, and a Gilroy woman has been sentenced for her Jan. 6 participation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Millennium Tower Has Another Problem A woman was killed by a VTA bus ins San Jose, SF's Millennium Tower now has a one-inch gap between its top portion and its podium structure, and a right-wing truck caravan is headed for DC.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Square Pie Guys to Open Third Location, Their Biggest Yet, at Ghirardelli Square Three years after launching as a pop-up in San Francisco and then opening their first location in SoMa, Square Pie Guys have inked a lease at Ghirardelli Square for what will be their flagship location.
SF News Street Ambassador Shot In Tenderloin Near 'Safe Sleeping' Site An employee of the nonprofit Urban Alchemy, which the City of San Francisco contracts with to manage some homeless services like the "safe sleeping village" tent encampments, was shot and injured Tuesday afternoon.
SF News Battle Between Berkeley Group and UC Berkeley Over Student Population Size Heads to State Supreme Court Depending on what happens at the California Supreme Court, 3,050 fewer students might get acceptance letters from UC Berkeley this spring, because a Berkeley citizens' group is irritated with the pace of the school's growth.
Arts & Entertainment Firework Flashmob on the Bay Bridge Tuesday Night Brings Delight, Traffic A group of vehicles stopped traffic on Tuesday night and set off some fireworks in the middle of the upper deck of the Bay Bridge, and who can be mad at that?
SF News Humpday Headlines: Snow Reaches Some Bay Area Peaks Three Bay Area counties just reached the CDC's "moderate" tier for COVID transmission once again, the latest cold front brought some snow to high elevations around the Bay, and several spots saw some hail on Tuesday.
SF News SF COVID Cases Continue Downward Slide, But Still Not In 'Safe' Territory The masks have come off in many places around the Bay Area, and daily COVID case numbers continue their downward trajectory — but they haven't hit the rock-bottom levels of the early summer or late fall yet.
SF News East Bay Groups Throwing Pride Prom For LGBTQ+ Teens A PFLAG chapter in eastern Contra Costa County is hosting its first ever Pride Prom in April, inviting LGBTQ+ teens from all the local district's high schools to attend.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Two Hit-and-Run Accidents on Marin Highways In Two Days A pair of hit-and-run collisions happened on Marin County highways on Saturday and on Monday, the SF school board is taking a vote tonight about layoffs, and the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office is investigating another in-custody death.
Business & Tech Trump's Twitter-for-Bigots, Truth Social, Launches Without a Working App Remember how Trump's new media company was launching its own social network, dubbed Truth Social, and Devin Nunes left his job in Congress to help lead this company and this new thing they imagine will go toe to toe with Twitter?
SF News January 6th Lawsuit Brought Against Trump By Eric Swalwell Moves Forward A judge on Friday ruled that a lawsuit against Donald Trump filed a year ago by East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell could move forward, acknowledging that it is an unprecedented civil prosecution of a U.S. president.
SF News Sir Francis Drake Hotel to Reopen With New Name: The Beacon Grand The Sir Francis Drake Hotel in SF's Union Square, closed since the start of the pandemic, will reopen next month fully rebranded and renovated, under a new name and with new owners.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bomb Scare at San Jose's SAP Center A 36-year-old man was found shot dead in a car in the Mission District, a bomb scare disrupted the exit from a San Jose Sharks game Sunday night, and protests are continuing in Oakland over planned school closures.
SF News Next Small Chance for a Whisper of Rain Comes Tuesday After a very dry January and a crazily dry February, chances of rain coming to the Bay Area remain slim going into the last week of the month.
SF News Some Last-Minute Courtroom Drama Delays Wrongful Death Settlement for Hillsborough Heiress Apparently the lawyer who negotiated a settlement in a wrongful death suit brought by the mother of Keith Green might not have been officially representing Chinese real estate heiress Tiffany Li, and now that settlement is being delayed and possibly renegotiated.
