SF News Five Men Arrested In San Francisco In Child-Exploitation Sting Operation Five men were arrested and charged in an undercover sting operation by the San Francisco Sheriff's Office after allegedly communicating on social media with officers posing as children.
SF News Alameda County Pays Out $12M Settlement Over Tragic Death of Eight-Year-Old Sophia Mason The horrific story of a young girl who was failed by the child protection apparatus of Alameda County has come to an end with the county paying out its second-largest-ever settlement to the girl's grandmother.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Gann Fire Doubles In Size In One Day The Gann Fire in Calaveras County has grown to over 7,000 acres; the FBI is now involved in the Morgan Hill mass shooting investigation; and Alameda County supervisors are balking at a $30 minimum wage ballot measure.
SF News Boy Saved From Crashing Waves By Santa Cruz Lifeguard Doing OK, Blames Woman For Telling Him to Swim 10-year-old Nathaniel Rai has recovered from the dramatic July 25 incident at Seabright Beach, captured on viral video, in which he needed to be pulled from a set of violent waves by a 16-year-old lifeguard.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Campaign Launches Connie Chan AI Chatbot, Highlighting Chan's Voting Record as Supervisor The campaign supporting Scott Wiener for Congress has launched a new interactive, parody AI chatbot that poses as rival candidate Connie Chan, and mocks her stances and votes on various issues.
SF News 55-Year-Old SF Woman Sentenced For Murdering Roommate Who Wouldn't Leave A San Francisco woman who was convicted in April for the 2018 murder of her roommate, was sentenced on Monday to 31 years to life.
Two 17-Year-Old Suspects Arrested In Central Valley Following Monday Shooting at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk A pair of juvenile suspects has been arrested in Stanislaus County in connection with a Monday night incident in which multiple shots were fired in a parking lot adjacent to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
SF News Wildfire Smoke Incoming From Pacific Northwest, Will Likely Stink Up Bay Area By Wednesday Smoke from the dozens of wildfires now burning in the Pacific Northwest is already fouling the air to our north, and it is set to start fouling ours in the next 24 hours.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Lucky Store In NoPa Sets Closing Date The Lucky grocery store at Fulton and Masonic now has a closing date; BART had another equipment problem Tuesday morning on the Yellow Line; and the Gann Fire in Calaveras County has grown to 3,000 acres.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CA Dems Endorse Billionaire Tax, Defying Newsom A GrowSF-sponsored poll finds that San Franciscans approve of police drones; the CA Democratic Party has broken with Newsom and endorsed the billionaire tax; and Trump might be firing Jeanine Pirro.
SF News GoFundMe Campaign For Beloved Bay Area Radio Personality Ronn Owens Largely Used to Pay Non-Medical Bills, Court Official Finds Longtime KGO AM radio host Ronn Owens and his wife, longtime news radio personality Jan Black, have been dragged into a still-unfolding drama involving their daughter, Laura Owens, who is facing criminal charges in Arizona.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Wave-Riding Dogs Duke It Out at Annual World Dog Surfing Championship In Pacifica Saturday brought the World Dog Surfing Championship back to Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica, and a legion of impressive pooches was out on the waves, along with a thousand or so human fans.
SF News Residents In One Vallejo Neighborhood Fed Up With Regular, Dangerous Sideshows In One Intersection A sideshow early Sunday morning in east Vallejo was far from an isolated incident, and residents of the area say they're fed up and afraid someone will be seriously hurt.
SF News Another Planet Entertainment In Ongoing Legal Dispute With Castro Theatre Contractor For Alleged Faulty Work, Over-Billing Another Planet Entertainment (APE) has now filed multiple lawsuits against the contractor who worked on the Castro Theatre renovation, the latest accusing the contractor of falsely advertising its work on the project.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Feliz Fire Under Control, Evacuation Orders Lifted The Feliz Fire in Mendocino County has reached 30% containment; two homes were lost in last week's Woodside Fire in Sonoma County; and residents of San Jose have until tonight to submit new names for Plaza de Cesar Chavez.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Burdell Chef to Open Bar and Grill In Rockridge Burdell chef Geoff Davis is expanding to Rockridge and taking over the soon-to-close Wood Tavern, Jollibee draws a line near Powell BART, and Tartine's Chad Robertson is doing big things in Brooklyn, all in This Week In Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Bakery Coming to SF's Financial District In a sure sign of downtown San Francisco's upswing, much-beloved Tartine Bakery is planning to open a large outpost in the Financial District, in a former CVS.
SF Politics Ninth Circuit Weighs In on Trump's Immigrant Detention Policy, Says It Goes Against Longstanding Precedent As other appeals courts have also done over the last year as President Trump's goons go about trying to rid the country of immigrants of all kinds, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a new ruling striking down the administration's policy of detaining immigrants within the country.
SF News Visitacion Valley House Fire Displaces Six; Vault Fire In Upper Haight Prompts Shelter-In-Place Order A fire in one of PG&E's underground electrical vaults led to some early morning emergency activity and a shelter-in-place order in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, and a one-alarm house fire in Visitacion Valley has displaced six.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Weekend Wind Event Could Bring Rough Seas, Fire Weather The Woodside Fire in Sonoma County is now 20% contained but almost doubled in size overnight; global tech layoffs have already surpassed all of 2025 in 7 months; and a powerful marine event will bring rough seas Saturday night into Sunday, along with potential high winds in the hills.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Set Times Revealed, With the Usual Conflicts Galore Music festivals on the scale of Outside Lands are not designed for people with broad or varied tastes, and once again, the set-time schedule reveals a variety of moments when fans will have to make difficult choices, and likely miss an act or two who they'd otherwise like to see.
SF News [Update] Woodside Fire Grows to 75 Acres In Western Sonoma County, Smoke Spreading East A wind-driven wildfire that began Thursday is burning into an area of heavy timber along the Sonoma County coast near Highway 1, north of Jenner and Fort Ross.
Business & Tech Waymos Set to Return to SF Freeways Following Mishaps, Recall Waymo robotaxis are going to be popping back onto Bay Area freeways in the coming days, following a voluntary six-week recall in which the company's software was updated to better handle emergency road closures and construction.
SF News Major Traffic In Northern Marin County Following Collision Involving Downed Power Lines, Brush Fire There was a major backup on 101 Thursday morning impacting both northbound and southbound lanes, following a collision near the Highway 37 interchange in Novato that took out a power pole and sparked a small brush fire.
Arts & Entertainment 'Drag Race' Royalty Alaska Thunderf*ck to Play Mary In 'Oh, Mary!' In SF Speculation and rumors have been swirling for months now about who would play the titular role of Mary Todd Lincoln when Cole Escola's 'Oh, Mary!' comes to San Francisco this fall, and now we have an answer.
