SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 13-Year-Old Accused In Santana Row Stabbing Makes Court Appearance The 13-year-old accused in the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy at San Jose's Santana Row is back in court today; SF's population rose again slightly in 2024; and some San Franciscans who worked on Zohran Mamdani's campaign in New York speak out.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sun Moon Studio, Kiln, and Sonoma's Enclos Are Big Winners of New Michelin Stars for the Bay Area The big reveal of the new 2025 Michelin Guide for California happened in Sacramento Wednesday night, and the big local winners include a tiny restaurant in West Oakland that already won over the Chronicle's critic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco's Map, Explained Today was "Budget Day" at SF City Hall as the new budget gets finalized; the Trump Dept. of Ed is holding California's feet to the fire over trans athletes in school sports; and an aggressive black bear was euthanized in the Tahoe area.
Business & Tech Alarming Study Suggests Most AI Large-Language Models Resort to Blackmail, Other Harmful Behaviors If Threatened It's not far off from the world imagined in '2001: A Space Odyssey,' in which an AI opts to kill the humans it was working for when they are conspiring to shut it down. A new study by SF-based Anthropic suggests that such potentially harmful behaviors are common across most existing AI models.
SF News Stanford Medicine Announces 'Pause' In Providing Gender-Affirming Surgeries for Trans Youth In short order, UCSF may be one of the last, if not the last place in California for teenagers under the age of 19 to seek gender-affirming surgeries, with Stanford Medicine bowing out of the practice earlier this month.
SF News Other Boaters In Distress Describe Dramatic Sudden Storm That Left Eight Dead In Tahoe While Lake Tahoe had experienced some high winds and choppy waters on Friday, by Saturday morning, more normal-seeming, springlike weather had taken hold, giving boaters a false sense of calm before a sudden storm rolled through.
SF News Sonoma County Sees Dramatic Drop In Homeless Population, Lowest In 18 Years The homeless appear to be either continuing to leave Sonoma County or continuing to find stable housing, because for the second time in three years the county's point-in-time homeless census saw the population drop over 20%.
SF News Sunset Dunes Park Vandalized Again, Hammocks Stolen For the fourth or fifth time in recent weeks, the new public park on the former Great Highway was hit by vandals over the weekend.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Two Mountain Lions Killed After NorCal Attack on Camp Counselor Two mountain lions were killed after a Trinity County attack incident; SF is ending a program allowing residents to request traffic-calming measures; and a cargo ship carrying hundreds of electric and conventional vehicles sank off the coast of Alaska.
Business & Tech Federal Judge In SF Rules That AI Company Anthropic Did Not Violate Copyright Law In Training Its Chatbot A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that Anthropic did not break the law when it used copyrighted material to train its AI chatbot Claude. The company will have to go to trial, however, over its use of pirated copies of books.
Arts & Entertainment Rainbow Lasers, Nicknamed 'The Gaysers,' to Light Up Market Street Again Starting Friday Yes, those rainbow lasers glowing through the fog over Market Street will be returning for this Pride Weekend, and you should see them blink on Friday evening.
SF Politics BART and Muni Secure $750M Loan From State Along With Other Local Transit Agencies Some proposed cuts to transit funding are off the table, and Bay Area transit agencies including, primarily, BART and Muni, will be receiving a lifeline in the form of an interest-free loan from the state in the upcoming budget.
SF News Dyke March Returns, Officially, on Saturday After Five Years of Renegade Marches It's been quite a few years since we've seen a loud and proud throng of queer women rallying in Dolores Park and marching in the annual Dyke March, as the event was getting smaller and more disorganized before being officially cancelled last year. But it is back on for Saturday, June 28.
SF News SF-Based DoorDash Executive and His Parents Among Victims ID'd In Tahoe Boating Tragedy The eight victims in Saturday's boat-capsize tragedy on Lake Tahoe were publicly identified for the first time Tuesday, and among them was a 37-year-old DoorDash executive.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Supporters Rally to Save Castro Businesses From Eviction The eighth body has been pulled from Lake Tahoe following Saturday's tragic boating accident; the San Mateo County supervisors are having a special meeting about the sheriff ouster process; and there was a rally to support saving two longtime Castro Street businesses.
SF News Day Around the Bay: US Bombings Expose Divisions In Local Iranian American Community The three men who died jumping into a waterfall in Placer County have been identified; the US bombings in Iran expose divisions in Bay Area Iranian American community; and people are being robbed at ATMs in Pleasanton.
Arts & Entertainment SF's Mexican Museum, Still In Financial Trouble, Misses Fundraising Deadline The saga of San Francisco's Mexican Museum, which has not actually had a museum space to call home for the better part of a decade, continues to be a troubled one.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Two-Star Restaurant Sons & Daughters to Relocate to Former Osito Space In the Mission Sons & Daughters, which has operated out of a small space in the Nob Hill neighborhood since its opening fifteen years ago, has been raking in the accolades of late. And greater demand is spurring a move to a bigger, newer space that was recently vacated by another Michelin-starred spot.
SF News FBI Releases New Sketch of Person of Interest In Seemingly Random 2016 Aquatic Park Murder A cold-case murder from 2016, the killing of 20-year-old Calvin Riley in San Francisco's Aquatic Park, was taken over by the FBI two years ago, and a new lead has recently emerged.
SF News Flight From SFO to Rome Diverted to Iceland For Mechanical Issue A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Rome had to be diverted Sunday after an unexplained mechanical issue, making an emergency landing eight hours into the flight.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 3 Bodies Recovered From NorCal's Rattlesnake Falls The bodies of three men were found Sunday after they were seen jumping into the water at Rattlesnake Falls in Placer County; an LAPD officer was killed this morning while assisting with a freeway crash; and a civil grand jury report blames SF cops for not enforcing Vision Zero traffic laws.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: An Al Pastor Master Comes to Union Square Al Pastor Papi debuts in Union Square, WesBurger & More says farewell, and San Francisco gets snubbed entirely at the James Beard Awards again, all in This Week In Food.
SF News Tesla Driver Charged With Assault and Elder Abuse For Allegedly Running Down Protester at 'No Kings' March The protest and march down Market Street last Saturday was mostly peaceful for the 'No Kings' day demonstration in SF. But at least one frustrated driver not only tried to drive through the marchers, but also allegedly hit an elderly marcher and ran over their foot.
SF News Former Private Prison In SoCal Being Converted Into Largest Migrant Detention Camp In the State The mass-deportation effort by the Trump administration, which is all but certain to cost the American people much more money than it saves — and deprive multiple industries of an able and willing workforce — soldiers on.
SF News Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman's Son Accused of Rape at NYU The youngest of Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman's four children, Abe, who was raised in Berkeley, has been brought up on a criminal rape charge in New York, where he is attending college.
