SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Meta Layoffs Actually Impact 3,200 In Bay Area The actual number of Bay Area layoffs in Meta's most recent round is 3,200; former ABC 7 journalist Cecilia Vega has been ousted from '60 Minutes'; and Pam Bondi is facing more Epstein questions before a House committee.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Fest Drops 2026 Lineup and ROBYN IS HEADLINING Yes, the great and magical Swedish dance diva Robyn will be the Saturday headliner at this year's Portola Festival in SF, and, appropriately, Swedish House Mafia will do headlining duty on Sunday.
SF News Landlord Arrested In Connection With Outer Sunset Homicide of Well Known Neighborhood Figure A 68-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the May 17 slaying of Eric Bigone, a city employee, boxing enthusiast, and well known fixture in the Outer Sunset neighborhood.
Business & Tech Google Employee Charged With Fraud After Winning Big on Polymarket Bet Using Insider Info A Google information security engineer who had advance access to Google's year-end round-up of popular searches, is accused of making $1.2 million on a Polymarket bet based on that insider info.
SF News Median Rent for San Francisco One-Bedroom Apartment Hits $4,000/Mo Despite several years of really bad PR, especially in the national press, people remarkably still seem to want to live in San Francisco badly enough that they'll pay four grand a month for a one-bedroom apartment.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: New Poll Puts Becerra In Lead Well Ahead of Dems A new poll puts Xavier Becerra well ahead of the pack in the governor's race; the Concord City Council just voted to go forward on a massive redevelopment of a former Navy site; and rotavirus is surging in the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wildfire Grows In Livermore A wildfire called the Tesla Fire, because it began near Tesla Road, has grown to three acres in Livermore; Mayor Lurie has promoted a new chief of staff from within; and Trump is now having the DOJ investigate E. Jean Carroll.
SF Politics Pelosi Finally Says What She Thinks About Chakrabarti and Wiener In Race to Succeed Her One week out from the primary, and one week after she finally came out and endorsed Connie Chan to succeed her, Nancy Pelosi has taken the gloves off and tells us how she really feels about the other main candidates in the race.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Jose Original Joe's Restaurant Goes on the Market — Could It Rejoin Its SF Cousins? A confusing fact about the Original Joe's brand in the Bay Area is that it actually belongs to two unrelated families — and if you bring in other "Joe's" restaurants in Marin and elsewhere, the picture is murkier.
SF Politics Yuba and Sutter County Leaders to Take Vote to Secede From Coastal California In the latest bit of symbolic and theatrical pushback on California's redistricting plan, which is intended to take five Republican-held seats in Congress and hand them to Democrats, two inland counties in Northern California are taking votes on a new secession plan.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Meta Layoffs Hitting Seattle Harder Than SF The victim in a Sunday stabbing in Oakland has been identified as a 19-year-old man; Meta's new round of layoffs is impacting Seattle more than the Bay Area; and the rate of suicide among ICE detainees is increasing.
SF News Invasive Insect Found on Costco Plants In Solano County Could Pose Threat to Napa Grapevines Grapevines and citrus plants purchased at Costco stores in Vacaville and Fairfield, as well as in Napa and Sonoma counties, have been found to be harboring infestations of glassy-winged sharpshooters, which pose a grave threat to grapevines.
SF News Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Shannon O'Connor Faces Sentencing for 48 Felonies Involving Minors Shannon O'Connor, the libertine mom with a strangely high level of interest in her teenage son's sex life, and that of his friends, could face decades in prison after her March conviction on child endangerment and sexual misconduct charges.
SF Politics SF Mayor's Chief of Staff and Confidante Staci Slaughter to Step Down After 18 months on the job, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie's chief of staff, Staci Slaughter, has announced she will be stepping down from the job in June.
SF News Alcatraz Ferry Collides With Pier 31 During Docking, Shattering Windows and Frightening Passengers An Alcatraz City Cruises ferry boat had a mishap while docking at Pier 31 on Sunday evening, leaving dozens of passengers shaken and upset and shattering a row of windows on a passenger deck.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Freeway Shooting Shuts Down I-80 In Richmond One person was injured in a freeway shooting on I-80 Monday night; there was a vigil marking two months since Oakland mother Amy Hillyard went missing; and a 36-year-old man drowned in Donner Lake Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Large, Scary Crow Sculptures Installed on Panhandle as Part of 'Big Art Loop' If you haven't been to the Golde Gate Park Panhandle in the last week or so, you have not stumbled upon these large, six-foot-high crows standing, mid-caw, across from each other on the grass.
SF News Sonoma Developer Accused of Defrauding Dozens of Retirees to Be Evicted From His Estate After weeks of frustration among the victims of the Ponzi-like scheme allegedly perpetrated by Sonoma County real estate investor Ken Mattson that he was still living in the lap of luxury, Mattson and his wife are being evicted from their Sonoma estate.
SF News Memorial Day Links: Post-Carnaval Stabbing Leaves One Critically Injured A suspect was arrested following a stabbing in the Mission District Sunday afternoon; the repaving on 19th Avenue is mostly over; and Pope Leo has issued an encyclical focused on the dangers of AI.
SF News Lake County Man Arrested After Murder of Woman, Road-Rage Shooting Spree A 38-year-old Lake County man allegedly killed a woman Friday and proceeded to go on a wild road-rage shooting spree that led authorities on a chase into Napa County.
SF Politics City Backs Off Deal to Operate Fillmore Community Center After Major Pushback Some drama erupted this past week over a deal, seemingly backed by a broad swath of city leaders, to hand over operational control of a beloved Fillmore neighborhood community center to a nonprofit without seeking community consensus.
SF News Sunday Links: State of Emergency For Orange County Chemical Leak Gov. Newsom declared a state of emergency over a chemical leak at a facility in Garden Grove; two people were found dead in a car in San Jose; and the Maryland man who reportedly fired shots outside the White House and was killed has had multiple run-ins with the Secret Service.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Napa Restaurant From SPQR's Matt Accarrino on Its Way A new Napa restaurant is on the way from SPQR's Matt Accarrino, Casa Sofia Kitchen & Bar just debuted near the ballpark, and Che Fico's cocktail bar Golden Rule opens this weekend next to the Chase Center, all in This Week In Food.
SF News Woman Suspected of Burglarizing Gym Lockers In SF Gets Arrested, Has Rap Sheet A woman who is suspected of breaking into gym lockers in San Francisco and across the Bay Area and stealing credit cards has been taken into custody.
Business & Tech Waymo Temporarily Suspends Freeway Service After Weird Construction Zone Incident Goes Viral Waymo announced that it was pulling its autonomous taxis off of freeways in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Miami, saying that software improvements need to be made to improve the vehicles' performance in construction zones.
