SF News Day Around the Bay: Pickett Fire Cause Possibly Identified Investigators may have identified a possible cause of the Pickett Fire near Calistoga; Victor Aenlle testifies in the San Mateo Sheriff hearing; and the SF school board rejects a proposed Mandarin-immersion school.
SF News Tourists Still Coming to San Francisco — But Not So Many From Abroad, Canada Tourism to San Francisco hasn't totally tanked in the first seven months of Donald Trump's second term, despite his success in alienating and offending Canadians and international travelers broadly.
SF News BART Touts Nearly 50% Drop In Property Crime, 36% Drop In Violent Crime A new report by BART and its police department finds that crime is down overall on the BART system, with the most significant decrease happening in property crimes. Also, fare evasion citations are down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Handroll Project Closes After Three Years, Pivots to Hamburger Project The team behind Ju-Ni has given up on its fun and seemingly popular sushi handroll concept at 18th and Guerrero, and the location will now become a second Hamburger Project.
SF News East Bay School Locked Down After Shooting Incident Nearby, Teen Arrested An elementary school in San Pablo was locked down for four hours as a precaution on Tuesday after gunfire rang out a block away Tuesday morning.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Barbara Lee Proposes New 'Office of Homelessness Solutions' Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee has a new five-point plan to address homelessness; the Pickett Fire in Napa County reaches 25% containment; and Visa has committed to holding an annual conference in SF through 2030.
SF News Body of 35-Year-Old Missing Swimmer Found Near SF's Aquatic Park The body of an avid swimmer who was last seen swimming in San Francisco Bay on Saturday morning was found Tuesday morning near Aquatic Park Cove.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Confirms Return of Bourbon Steak to Westin St. Francis, Plus New Cocktail Bar by Steph Curry We now have confirmation from chef Michael Mina and his restaurant group that Bourbon Steak will indeed be returning to the space at the Westin St. Francis, which has been undergoing renovations for the last year. And where a wine bar used to be will be a fancy new cocktail spot from Steph Curry.
SF News Pickett Fire Continues Burning Mostly In Glass Fire Burn Scar, Now 17% Contained The growth of the wildfire burning northeast of Calistoga was slowed overnight on Monday, thanks to the marine layer moving inland, and Cal Fire said they had reached 17% containment as of Tuesday morning.
SF News City Conducts Sweep of Tents, Homeless on and Around SF's Sixth Street Mission and 16th is likely to get a bit busier today, as are other hangout spots around the Mission and Tenderloin, as the city conducts a fresh "sweep" on Sixth Street.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: There's a Matcha Shortage The hearing over the potential removal of San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus enters its 7th day; Waymos can start picking up and dropping off on Market Street; and apparently there's a matcha shortage affecting local tea shops.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pickett Fire Smoke Likely to Spoil Some of the Grape Harvest Sheryl Davis, the disgraced former head of SF's Dream Keepers initiative, is still hanging around City Hall; Recology had a small fire this morning; and smoke from the Pickett Fire is likely going to cause smoke taint for some vineyards' entire harvests.
Arts & Entertainment Legendary North Beach Punk Venue Mabuhay Gardens Could Possibly Reopen A building that has been home to a generic nightclub and venue for years, but which was once home to the local epicenter of the Bay Area punk scene, is back in play with a group of investors looking to revive it as a music venue.
SF News Local Arson Case In San Jose Dropped Against Richard Tillman as Federal Case Moves Forward The local criminal case against 44-year-old Richard Tillman, the brother of the late former NFL player and Afghan War vet Pat Tillman, was officially dropped on Monday following a a bizarre crash into a San Jose post office in July.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Skysurfer 'Grinds' on Bay Bridge Cables — to Promote Red Bull A stunt skysurfer jumped out of a helicopter over the weekend, and parachuted with his skysurfing board onto the cables of the western span of the Bay Bridge, briefly sliding down them.
Business & Tech Elon Musk and xAI Sue Apple and OpenAI Claiming Anticompetitive Scheme In the ongoing feud between Elon Musk and seemingly every other player in the AI realm, but specifically OpenAI, his company xAI has now filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Second Body Found After San Rafael Apartment Fire A second body has been found in Thursday's suspicious fire at a San Rafael apartment complex; police in Nevada busted a guy allegedly carrying a large haul of drugs to Burning Man; and Apple is suing Chinese phone maker Oppo over trade secret theft.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Alamo Square to Get a Friulian Restaurant A small restaurant devoted to the cuisine of Friuli (in Italy) comes to Alamo Square, San Francisco celebrates Tomato Week, and the Chronicle decides to do a blind bagel ranking, all in This Week in Food.
SF Politics Trump, Gunning For More Legal and Militaristic Chaos, Doubles Down on Threat to Bring Troops to SF Whether he's legally permitted to or not, Herr Trump is doubling down on his earlier threat to send National Guard troops to combat "crime" in Chicago, New York City, and San Francisco.
SF News Parents of Baby Reported Missing In Southern California Arrested on Suspicion of Murder A seven-month-old infant was reported missing by his mother last week, kidnapped outside of a Big 5 Sporting Goods store in San Bernardino County. The case has grown stranger, and now both the child's parents have been arrested.
SF News Pickett Fire, Which Began Thursday In Calistoga, Grows to 2,133 Acres A wildfire that is burning in a remote area of Napa County in northern Calistoga grew overnight to over 2,100 acres, and it is currently 0% contained.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Musk Agrees to Pay Severance to Fired Twitter Employees Elon Musk and X have reportedly agreed to pay out severance that was denied to some 6,000 former Twitter employees; CHP makes a human trafficking arrest during a traffic stop in Oakland; and Erik Menendez was denied parole.
SF News Livermore Father Deported By ICE Gets Some Help From Congressman Eric Swalwell, Awaits Hearing In October A Livermore man who has lived in the Bay Area his entire adult life and raised three children here remains in Mexico, where he has no family, after being deported, while his wife and family here await his next immigration hearing.
Business & Tech People Like Sam Altman and Eric Schmidt Are Calling Out the AI Bubble, Just as Meta Pauses AI Hiring Big names in Silicon Valley collectively seem to be saying the same thing about the AI boom lately, namely that it is looking more and more like a bubble, and that the rush to AGI (artificial general intelligence) may be very misguided.
SF Politics The Trump Administration Tried to Subpoena Medical Records of Children Seeking Gender-Affirming Care In one of the most disgusting and fascistic moves by this second Trump administration — which is saying a lot! — a new report details how the Justice Department tried to subpoena the medical records of children seeking gender-affirming care in Philadelphia.
