SF News San Francisco Wins Preliminary Injunction to Block Oakland Airport From Using Its New 'San Francisco Bay' Name A federal judge has sided with the City of San Francisco, saying that San Francisco International Airport's trademark is likely being infringed upon by Oakland Airport's new name, which was chosen by the Port of Oakland's board this spring.
SF News Former Alameda County Officer Gets 50 Years to Life For Double-Murder In Dublin A ex-deputy in the Alameda County Sheriff's Department was sentenced Tuesday to 50 years to life in prison for the 2022 murders of a Dublin couple inside their home.
SF News Friend of Nima Momeni's Sister Contradicts Her Testimony About Sexual Assault Under cross-examination Tuesday, the friend who was with Nima Momeni's sister on the day before Bob Lee's murder told prosecutors that Khazar Momeni has a tendency to exaggerate.
Business & Tech UC Berkeley Chemists Announce Potentially Massive Discovery: A Powder That Captures Carbon From Air Chemists at UC Berkeley have just published details of a yearslong project to create a material that will effectively, sustainably remove carbon dioxide from the air, in what is potentially a major, Nobel-worthy breakthrough.
SF News BART Knife Slashing Suspect Charged With Attempted Murder The suspect in last week's scary knife attack aboard a BART train in San Francisco is being arraigned today on attempted murder and other charges.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 23andMe Lays Off 40% of Workforce Alameda County is getting set to open its first CARE court next month; 23andMe is laying off 40% of its workforce; and a light storm is on the way tomorrow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Connie Chan Keeps Board of Supervisors Seat Supervisor Connie Chan will hold on to her District 1 supervisor seat; I-80 was closed near Donner Lake today due to a snow squall; and the Walgreens at 24th and Potrero looks like it got smashed into overnight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Argentinian-Italian Spot Morella Debuts In the Marina The former Dorian space is coming alive again, and after a significant remodel, it reopened over the weekend as Morella, and Italian restaurant with Argentinian influences.
SF News Santa Cruz Boy, Now a 25-Year-Old Man, Who Killed 8-Year-Old Neighbor Maddy Middleton, Begins Trial to Determine His Fate Adrian Gonzalez, who has been jailed for nine years now for the brutal sexual assault and murder of a girl who lived in the same Santa Cruz apartment complex as him, heads to trial this week to determine if he should remain incarcerated.
Business & Tech Zoox to Begin Testing Their Funny Looking Robotaxis In SoMa Amazon-owned robotaxi concern Zoox, which is the only autonomous vehicle company to date that has put purpose-built taxis on the road that don't have steering wheels or driver's seats, is rolling out more test vehicles on the streets of SF.
SF News One Person Fatally Shot In or Around Historic Roadside Bar In Sonoma County A person was shot and killed Sunday afternoon at Ernie's Tin Bar, a small, 101-year-old bar at a crossroads in rural Sonoma County, just outside Petaluma, famous for its prohibition of using cellphones inside.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Nancy Pelosi Visits Glide Nancy Pelosi made an appearance at Glide Memorial Church's Sunday service; Oakland Unified announced the mergers of 10 schools; and there was a Dev Patel lookalike contest in Dolores Park.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Recalled, and So Is DA Pamela Price, as the Chronicle Is Calling Both Races With the recall of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao leading by a massive percentage, and in the absence of anyone else making the call, the SF Chronicle is calling the race for the recall proponents. Same, too, for the recall of DA Pamela Price.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A Fancy Wine Tasting Spot Reopens, and the Fillmore Gets a New Soul Food Spot Nia Soul Cafe opens in the Fillmore, a new Mexican-Italian spot has arrived at the Transit Center, and three holiday-themed Mistletoe bar pop-ups are popping up in different neighborhoods in December, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment Broadway Vet Carolee Carmello Makes a Phenomenal 'Kimberly Akimbo' at the Curran Theater The Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2023, Kimberly Akimbo, is already on tour. And in an opening night performance at San Francisco's Curran Theater on Thursday, star Carolee Carmello brought down the house in the hard-to-pull-off lead role.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Regrets There Was No Open Primary, Points Finger at Biden For Not Stepping Aside Earlier The blame game among Democrats had already begun Tuesday night as election returns began signaling a return to power for the outraged orange egotist. And House Speaker Emerita has already given an interview to the New York Times revealing her feelings.
SF News Police Arrest SF Man After Gunfire Incidents Near UC Berkeley, Discover Arsenal In His Home The Berkeley Police Department has arrested a San Francisco man in connection with multiple shooting incidents on October 26 in which no one was reportedly injured. And when they served a warrant at his home, they found a lot of weapons.
SF News Former Mr. Bungle Musician Theobald Lengyel Gets 25 Years to Life for Girlfriend's Murder Theobald "Mylo" Lengyel was sentenced Thursday to 25 years to life in Santa Cruz Superior Court for the December 2023 murder of Alice “Alyx” Herrmann at her home in Capitola.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: CHP Surge Extended In Oakland Governor Gavin Newsom has extended the CHP surge effort to battle crime in Oakland; an arrest has been made in a vehicular homicide in Fairfield; and the FBI is investigating a wave of racist text messages.
SF Politics London Breed Concedes Mayoral Election as Lurie Maintains Lead In Ballot Update; D1 Race Is Dead Even Daniel Lurie continued to have a comfortable lead in the ranked-choice tally for San Francisco mayor, and while incumbent Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Aaron Peskin made some small gains, Breed announced she has already conceded the race.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Critic Raves About Pakistani Restaurant In Basement Mall Food Court Both the former and the current lead restaurant critics at the San Francisco Chronicle agree: There is a hidden gem in the food court at the former Westfield mall, soon to rebrand again to become the San Francisco Centre.
SF Politics Tuesday's Election Did Not Produce Big Wins For TogetherSF, Despite Spending a Lot of Michael Moritz's Money After spending nearly $3.2 million of his own money in this election, Michael Moritz can't be extremely pleased by the results that he and his TogetherSF Action group were able to achieve.
SF News Two Boys Involved In Bodega Bay Boat Disaster Were Survivors of Rancho Tehama Mass Shooting Two of the six men and boys whose crab fishing boat sank in Bodega Bay on Saturday were survivors of a 2017 mass shooting in Tehama County. Their mother, who also survived the shooting, has also lost her husband.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFPD Seizes Four Pounds of Fentanyl In Bust As part of a bust Tuesday, SFPD made three arrests and seized a pile of suspected fentanyl; the fight over Oakland Airport's new name heads to court today; and Elon Musk got $26 billion richer yesterday thanks to the stock rally.
SF News Depression Day Around the Bay: Momeni Attorneys Move For Mistrial Defense attorneys for Nima Momeni made motions for a mistrial and acquittal today; Gov. Newsom says he'll continue to defend the Constitution against a Trump presidency; and Sam Liccardo has won Anna Eshoo's soon-to-be-former House seat.
