SF Politics With Swalwell Out, New Governor's Race Poll Has Republicans In Lead, But Democrats on the Rise Several Democrats in the race for California governor gained some ground in a new poll conducted just in the last two days, following the swift downfall of Eric Swalwell, but the two Republican candidates still hold a small lead.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Yolo County Explosion Defendants Make Court Appearance Six of the people indicted last week in Yolo County over last July's fireworks explosion are appearing in court; two Inner Sunset buildings had to be evacuated due to an electrical pole fire; and a missing Berkeley man has been found alive.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Snap Inc. Lays Off 1,000 Employees, Because of AI BART has had two major train issues during rush hour in the last day; a wealthy benefactor in LA kicked Eric Swalwell out of his house; and Snap Inc. is laying off 1,000 employees.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Philz CEO Says Pride Flags Still Are Coming Down, Despite Pushback, and 'Unifying' Artwork Will Replace Them It's hard to understand where Philz CEO Mahesh Sadarangani is coming from other than a place of fear and Trump-inspired bigotry, but in a confidential memo to employees he's apparently digging in on this Pride flag issue, controversy be damned.
SF News Video Suggests SoMa Hit-and-Run Death Was Intentional Video that was posted to Reddit appears to show the moments before, during, and after a woman was killed near the intersection of Mission and South Van Ness on Monday.
SF News Case of Measles Found In San Francisco Infant Following International Travel An infant in San Francisco has contracted the measles virus and is infectious, according to the SF Department of Public Health, in the first known measles case in the city since 2019.
Business & Tech Anthropic's New Model, Mythos, Is So Dangerous It Isn't Being Released to the Public Anthropic's latest AI model, named Claude Mythos Preview, is capable of hacking into major banking systems, perhaps many at once, and doing massive damage if it fell into the wrong hands. Banks are being encouraged to test it out.
Business & Tech Allbirds, Which Was a Shoe Company, Is Becoming an AI Company Well that's what you'd call a pivot. Allbirds, the once buzzy Silicon Valley shoe brand, is not going to make shoes anymore (though the brand may live on?), and instead it's going to become an AI company.
SF Politics Special Election Set For August to Replace Eric Swalwell In Congress Eric Swalwell's seat in Congress, which he officially vacated on Tuesday, will remain empty until late summer, and now a special election date has been set.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART Sees Early Morning Disruption From Disabled Train BART had an early morning service disruption due to a disabled train in SF; the parents of the 20-year-old man who allegedly tried to firebomb Sam Altman's house speak out; and San Jose authorities begin clearing out "The Jungle" once again.
SF News Expect Weird Traffic This Weekend as Section of I-80 In San Francisco Will Be Closed For Two Days Caltrans is doing ongoing construction on a section of I-80 through the middle of San Francisco, and a portion of eastbound I-80 will be completely closed for 55 hours this weekend, forcing motorists onto surface streets to get to the Bay Bridge.
Arts & Entertainment SF Rare Coin Dealer Announces Third Annual Citywide Scavenger Hunt It's another adult scavenger hunt, kids, and the prizes this time are worth a grand total of $50,000, if you're the first to solve the riddles and find the coins.
SF Politics Eric Swalwell Could Now Face Rape Charge In Los Angeles as New Accuser Comes Forward A fifth accuser has come forward with potential criminal charges against former Congressman Eric Swalwell, one day after he announced his resignation from the House, and two days after he suspended his bid for California governor.
Business & Tech Young Man Who Allegedly Came From Texas to Kill Sam Altman Makes Court Appearance on Attempted Murder Charge The man who allegedly tossed a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's Russian Hill home last Friday was scheduled to make his first court appearance Tuesday on attempted murder and other charges.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Pac Heights Mansion Sells for $56M Pac Heights just saw its most expensive home sale since 2024; one person died in a high-speed chase that ended in Gilroy; and this massive typhoon in the Pacific could be a sign of things to come this El Nino season.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Billionaire Michael Moritz Eyes Union Square Building Michael Moritz may be leasing the former Barney's building for his family foundation; a big rig overturned blocking southbound I-238 near Hayward; and Trump refuses to acknowledge that the AI image he posted depicts him as Jesus.
SF Politics Eric Swalwell Resigns From Congress, But Says That Effort to Swiftly Expel Him Is 'Wrong' The implosion of the political career of Eric Swalwell, following 13 years in Congress, took only three days, and as of Monday afternoon he had announced his resignation from Congress.
SF News Man, Possibly Homeless, Struck and Killed By Vehicle at South Van Ness and Mission A male pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle Monday in the busy area of South Van Ness and Mission Street, which led to a large police response and the disruption of vehicle and transit traffic.
Arts & Entertainment New Hill Bomb Event Pops Up on Telegraph Hill, Lots of Cops Show Up The notorious skateboard hill-bomb event that used to happen on Dolores Street next to Dolores Park, and which last year became a smaller, city-sanctioned event on Twin Peaks, inspired a new version at another location this past weekend.
SF News Former Saks Store on Union Square Might Become a Nordstrom San Francisco's downtown mall may be dead, and Union Square may remain beleaguered and full of vacant storefronts, but that seems poised to change in the not-too-distant future.
SF News Sonoma County Real Estate Investor Ken Mattson to Take Guilty Plea In Federal Fraud Case Almost a year after he was arrested by federal agents and charged with fraud and money laundering, Sonoma County developer Ken Mattson appears to be taking a plea deal.
SF Politics Saikat Chakrabarti's Big Ad Push Puts Him Five Points Behind Wiener In New Poll While it's still Scott Wiener's race to lose, the relative newcomer to San Francisco politics, progressive candidate Saikat Chakrabarti, is apparently gaining traction.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: North Beach Caught Off Guard By Surprise Fireworks A private company's celebration fireworks rattled North Beach and Telegraph Hill for the second year in a row; former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has a new gig; and Kevin McCarthy says Swalwell was known in DC to prey on young staffers.
SF Politics [Update] Eric Swalwell Suspends Campaign For Governor, Continues to Deny Assault Allegations Congressman Eric Swalwell had been digging in all weekend casting the sexual assault allegations against him as a political conspiracy, but Sunday evening he announced he was suspending his gubernatorial campaign.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Everyone Loves a Bakery Rose Pizzeria's SF location is nearing its opening, the Caché team is expanding downtown, and Sol Bakery opens this weekend in Hayes Valley, all in This Week in Food.
