SF News [Update] Elderly Pedestrian Killed In Scooter Collision at 6th and Market Identified A 77-year-old pedestrian was killed late last week in a collision with a person on a scooter near the intersection of Sixth and Market streets.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Person Drowns at SF's Aquatic Park A man's body was pulled from the water at SF's Aquatic Park Monday night; a San Jose man with Chinese dual citizenship has pleaded guilty to stealing sensitive defense secrets; and a hotel in the Delta says 37 of its peacocks were stolen.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Animal Care Seeks Suspect Seen Chasing Raccoon With Blowtorch SF Mayor Daniel Lurie gets a high approval rating in a new poll; the FAA is investigating a near miss between a commercial jet and a military bomber; and SF Animal Care & Control is investigating a possible animal abuser who was seen chasing a raccoon with a blowtorch.
SF News New Details Emerge In Case of Oakland Parole Officer Shooting Death The man facing a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of a state parole officer last week in Oakland was a parolee who had appearently missed an appointment with his parole officer one day earlier.
SF News Alaska Airlines' Operations Halted For Three Hours Sunday Night Due to IT Problem, Impacts Continue It clearly wasn't as bad as Delta Airlines' meltdown last summer, or the Southwest Airlines meltdown in December 2022, but Alaska Airlines had an IT "outage" Sunday evening that led to a three-hour ground stop for all its planes.
Arts & Entertainment Queer SoMa Nightclub Oasis Set to Close After 10 Years, Citing Declining Attendance In some very sad news for the queer nightlife scene in San Francisco, Oasis, the nightclub co-founded in 2015 by D'Arcy Drollinger and the late Heklina, is planning to shut its doors after New Year's Eve.
SF News 102-Year-Old East Bay D-Day Veteran and TikTok Star 'Papa Jake' Larson Has Died A late-in-life star of TikTok, a resident of Lafayette, and one of the country's last surviving veterans of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, "Papa Jake" Larson, died late last week at the age of 102.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: The Bay Area Is Having Its Mildest Summer In Decades This summer has been unusually cool for much of the Bay Area, so far; three people died on rivers in NorCal on Saturday; the Gilroy Garlic festival returns, in smaller form, on Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Don't Sleep on Hyphy Burger Onsen brings back dinner service, Luka's Taproom is coming back in "remixed" form in Oakland, and Hyphy Burger sets a date for a grand opening after being softly open this month, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beer Festival Featuring 20 Local Breweries Comes to Presidio This Weekend A beer festival with a bevy of local brews, live music, and food trucks is descending on the Parade Ground at the Presidio Saturday, and it should be a pretty good time.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge to Undergo Final Phase of Seismic Retrofit Project, South Tower to Get Fresh Coat of Paint Over the next ten years, there will be a fair amount of construction activity happening on the main span of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, as a project to protect it from significant damage in an earthquake gets underway.
SF News Big Rig Fire Spreads to Vegetation Near Altamont Pass, Causing Temporary Freeway Closure A big rig somehow caught fire on the shoulder of I-580 early Friday morning in Livermore, near the Altamont Pass, and the fire spread to an adjacent hillside.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Woman Shot While Walking Dogs In East Bay A woman was fatally shot while walking her dogs in San Leandro; a man who was suffering from a gunshot wound collided with a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy; and Trump says he's pulling high-speed rail funding.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Osito Chef Seth Stowaway Announces Casual Diner Concept Centered on Chicken-Fried Steak In WesBurger Space Seth Stowaway isn't wasting any time since closing his Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant in the Mission. In addition to launching a private dining club, he'll be opening a new, more casual restaurant tentatively called Chicken-Fried Palace.
SF News Mother and Son Found Safe After Getting Lost and Then Stuck on a Remote Logging Road In the Sierra Nevada Foothills A mother and son who had set out to attend a Boy Scouts camp in Calaveras County got quickly lost thanks to a questionable GPS unit, and then got stuck on a remote logging road deep in the Sierra woods with no cell signal.
SF News Appeals Board Rejects Attempt to Boot Prison Operator From Historic Compton's Cafeteria Site; Activists Vow to Fight On The SF Board of Appeals heard an appeal Wednesday from a coalition of trans activists, historians, and others hoping to preserve the former Compton's Cafeteria site in the Tenderloin as a landmark of trans and queer activism.
SF Politics Justice Department Seeks Lists of Undocumented Jail Inmates From SF Sheriff and Others in CA The Trump administration is going to try to have a showy showdown over sanctuary policies in California, and likely elsewhere, and they're now setting their sights on county jails and sheriffs in large jurisdictions.
SF Politics In Distraction From Epstein Files Uproar, AG Pam Bondi Comes to SF to Tour Alcatraz The clown show continues today with the Trump administration waving its hands in the direction of Alcatraz in an attempt to distract the more distractable members of the public from all the terrible shit they're doing.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Senate Votes to Rescind NPR, PBS Funding A fire broke out Wednesday night in Oakland's Chinatown; San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan says he uses ChatGPT to write speeches; and the Senate voted overnight to claw back $1 billion in funding for NPR and PBS.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Officials Making Visit to Alcatraz Nancy Pelosi says Trump's vision of reopening Alcatraz is the administration's "stupidest" idea yet; an eerie photo has been released of three teens who were in that Cybertruck crash in Piedmont; and an Oakland group struggled with having an invite to the Kennedy Center.
SF News Charges Upgraded to Murder for Napa Woman Whose Children Died In Alleged DUI Crash Murder charges have now been filed against the 31-year-old Napa woman whose two children died in a solo vehicle crash in March in which she was allegedly driving under the influence.
SF News San Jose Activist and Tattoo Artist Wins Brief Reprieve From ICE Detention, Judge to Rule on Case Thursday The complicated story of a 31-year-old San Jose man who has been in this country, undocumented, since he was six years old, has drawn hundreds of supporters as he faces possible deportation.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Family of the Late Michael Chiarello Files Lawsuit Over Restaurant Ownership There is some legal drama happening in the local restaurant world, with the widow and children of late celebrity chef Michael Chiarello filing suit against three investors in Chiarello's restaurant group who they say wrested control of his businesses "in a hostile takeover" after the chef's death.
SF News San Jose Homeless Population Numbers Largely Unchanged From Two Years Ago After two years in which homelessness remained a top priority for city leaders in many parts of the Bay Area, the number of people living on the street in San Jose remained virtually unchanged.
SF News Humpday Headlines: COVID Summer Surge Is Happening A summer surge of COVID cases is underway in the Bay Area; budget airline Avelo, which is now doing deportation flights, is ending all commercial service in California; and police in Greece continue seeking out the gunman who killed a Berkeley professor.
