SF News New Year's Eve Headlines: Person of Interest In IHOP Shooting Shoots Himself A person of interest in the East Bay IHOP shooting allegedly shot himself in front of police; a UCSF expert warns about a spike in flu; and three hikers have died on Mt. Baldy in Southern California in recent days.
SF News New Residential Tower Nearly as Tall as Transamerica Pyramid Gets Approved A new tower in the middle of the city that will change the San Francisco skyline once more gained its approvals Tuesday after being stalled for years.
SF News Man Fatally Shot Inside East Bay IHOP Where He Worked We're now getting some details about a Monday homicide in Richmond in which a man was killed in the restaurant kitchen where he worked.
SF News LGBTQ Senior Housing Concern Openhouse to Build New 15-Story Tower Near Castro Neighborhood The organization that built an LGBTQ-focused senior housing complex on Laguna Street in the last decade secured funding earlier this month for a significant expansion on the other side of Market Street, with a new 15-story, 187-unit building.
SF Politics Almost Would-Be SF Supervisor Beya Alcaraz Sued For Unpaid Rent In a piece of the ongoing epilogue to San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie's most high-profile blunders, his appointee to the Board Supervisors Beya Alcaraz is now being sued by a former landlord over allegedly unpaid rent for her former pet store.
SF News San Francisco Man Arrested for Animal Cruelty After Allegedly Killing Dog San Francisco police arrested a man Monday in the area of Mission Rock for allegedly beating a dog to death, and he was booked on suspicion of felony animal cruelty.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Big Rig Overturns In Livermore A big rig overturned on an on-ramp in Livermore this morning; the fight over Trump's H-1B visa fee moves to an appeals court; and Santa Clara is getting excited about this weekend's Niners-Seahawks matchup.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Measles Case Confirmed In Contra Costa County A person infected with measles might have exposed others at multiple Walnut Creek stores before Christmas; Benihana is opening 10 new Bay Area locations; and Republicans continue trying to erase the history of January 6th.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Rapper Budda Mack Takes Over Former Slim's Nightclub, Will Reopen It Next Month as The Budda A new club is coming to 11th Street in San Francisco's SoMa district, from Oakland-born rap artist Budda Mack, and it will be called The Budda.
Arts & Entertainment Five New Year's Eve Parties In SF That You Can Still Grab Tickets For Still don't have any New Year's Eve plans and looking to lock down some tickets and get out of the house? We have a few ideas for you, at least a couple of which won't break the bank, and a couple of which might impress your new paramour.
SF News With Rainy New Year's Eve Ahead, SF Hits 105% of Average Rainfall For the rain year to date, which began on October 1, San Francisco and Oakland are both above normal in terms of rainfall, and the rain total is only set to rise further before 2025 is out.
SF News Family Says Woman's Body Found Near Santa Cruz Is That of Missing Swimmer Possibly Killed By Shark The body of a woman was found Saturday on a remote beach north of Santa Cruz, and it is likely that of Erica Fox, the 55-year-old woman who disappeared while swimming with an ocean swimmers' group last week.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Downtown Oakland Building Burns for Second Time A building in downtown Oakland suffered a fire for the second time this year; a 4.7M earthquake in far northeastern CA was felt in Sacramento; and some siblings helped rescue a family from a fire in Menlo Park.
SF News SFO's Harvey Milk Terminal 1 Shut Down and Evacuated Due to Suspicious Item Terminal 1 at SFO was temporarily evacuated Friday morning due to a suspicious, unattended item, and passengers on airlines using the terminal were instructed to go through security at the International Terminal.
SF News Flood Risks Remain as Christmas Deluge Tapers Off Around the Bay Hilly streets turned into shallow rivers, Daly City saw significant flooding, fallen trees were reported all over, and SFO continues to see significant flight delays after the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day storms.
SF News Xmas Links: Flood Warnings Issued Across the Bay San Francisco and multiple other locales remained under flood warnings Christmas morning; multiple major roadways were closed due to flooding including westbound Highway 24; and some drivers were reportedly stranded overnight on Donner Summit.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soho House Confirms Long-Rumored New Resort In Sonoma's Kenwood Luxury members-only club brand Soho House will be landing in the Bay Area in 2027, but not in San Francisco.
Business & Tech Waymos Were Looking for Human Remote 'Confirmations' at Intersections During Blackout, Company Says It took a blackout across a huge swath of San Francisco for Waymo to figure out that its robot system for handling such situations has a key weakness, which caused huge traffic problems on Saturday.
SF News Flooding Shuts Down Hamilton Avenue In Menlo Park, Near Meta Campus A main thoroughfare through Menlo Park's Belle Haven neighborhood, adjacent to the Meta campus, flooded overnight in one of the Bay Area's first significant flooding events in this storm.
SF News Christmas Eve Morning Links: Beware the New GrubHub Email Bitcoin Scam PG&E warns of further outages during the storm; a developer seeks to build new housing in Stinson Beach; and a scam email went out to GrubHub users asking them to send Bitcoin.
Arts & Entertainment Curran Theatre Sold for $13.7M, Far Less Than Most Giants Players Make In a Year It seems the San Francisco Giants acquired the historic Curran Theatre for a song, and the sale came at a significant loss for seller Carole Shorenstein Hays.
SF News Tonight's Storm May Qualify as Bomb Cyclone, With Winds Topping 60mph Meteorologists and their weather models have not come to any agreement about whether Tuesday's incoming storm will meet the criteria of a "bomb cyclone," but suffice it to say it will be really windy and wet.
SF Politics Federal Judge Orders Homeland Security to Stop Arresting Immigrants at Courts In Northern California A federal judge who previously ruled that conditions at San Francisco's ICE facility are inhumane, has now temporarily halted all arrests of immigrants at courthouses in Northern California and the Pacific Islands, citing lack of due process and violations of civil rights.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Power Finally Restored to All Areas of SF The lights are back on for the remaining 3,800 PG&E customers without power as of Monday night; traffic was snarled for hours on I-880 Monday due to a big rig overturning; and Union Square has some big new sidewalk bollards.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Animal Rights Activist Freed From Jail Early The first candidate forum in the race for Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat is set for Jan. 7; 23-y-o animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg has been released from jail weeks after sentencing; and a veteran '60 Minutes' correspondent says a segment of hers was pulled for political reasons.
