SF News Fatal Shooting at Larkin and Golden Gate A man was found shot in the Tenderloin Monday evening and he was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
SF News Panhandling and Busking Ban Gets Thumbs Up From BART Staff Report A proposed ban on all panhandling and busking on BART trains appears to be moving forward as a new report from the transit agency's legal staff finds that a ban should pass muster if it's only for paid areas like platforms and trains.
SF News Tuesday Morning Updates: RBG Speaks At UC Berkeley Gov. Newsom is launching an investigation into high gas prices, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton appear at a book event in San Ramon, and Klay Thompson is likely out for the season.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Mateo County Added To Potential Power Shut-Off List An Atherton couple has pleaded guilty at the last minute in the Varsity Blues scandal, Oakland police will investigate a violent arrest of a former councilman, and Marin and Solano counties won't be facing PG&E shutoffs this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Hayes Valley Trader Joe's Might Actually Happen Trader Joe's has cleared a hurdle to potentially move into the ground-floor space at the new 555 Fulton complex in Hayes Valley — bringing a much-needed grocery store to the neighborhood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Señor Sisig Opens First Brick-and-Mortar Spot at Valencia and 21st Next Month Popular Filipino-Mexican fusion truck Señor Sisig is opening its first brick-and-mortar outpost in the Mission in just over two weeks, nine years after the business began.
SF Politics Attitudes In California Toward Homeless Are Increasingly Hostile, Says NYT As homelessness continues to feel more and more visible and intractable in San Francisco, San Jose, and Los Angeles, the broader liberal populace seems to be showing signs of being less charitable.
Arts & Entertainment Tracy Man Is At It Again With Crazy Halloween Light Show Set To Skrillex A former music teacher in the East Bay who has made a habit over the last decade of making elaborate light-show sequences at his home set to music for both Halloween and Christmas is back at it again with a new Halloween display set to Skrillex's "Bangarang."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flora to Close In Oakland's Uptown After 12 Years A restaurant that was a pioneer in Oakland's revitalized Uptown before the Fox Theater had reopened, Flora, is set to close in two weeks, and it will be replaced by a new concept from the owner of The Kon-Tiki.
SF News PG&E Announces More Possible Shutoffs Wednesday As Dry, Windy Conditions Return Northern California remains pretty parched despite some passing mists last week, and wind conditions coming to mountain areas this week mean that more proactive power shutoffs are likely in our future.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Felicity Huffman Has First Family Visit In Prison The organization behind the Honduran drug enterprise in the Tenderloin, the Academy of Art is selling off some vintage cars, and today is the deadline to file wildfire claims against PG&E.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Body Found Near San Rafael Park A local bartender discusses the difficulty of the job in this political age, Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd has died, and Hillary Clinton and Tulsi Gabbard are now at war with each other.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Empress of China Space in Chinatown To Be Revived As Empress By Boon A former chef at upscale Chinese spot Hakkasan is slated to open a new upscale venture in the iconic Empress of China space on the sixth floor of 838 Grant Avenue, which has sat empty for five years.
Bay Area Sports Meet the 49ers' Emotional Support Pup, Zoe Get ready to squee, Bay Area, as the San Francisco 49ers have just become the first NFL team to employ the services and snuggles of an emotional-support pet. Her name is Zoe, and she is a Frenchie.
SF News Suspect Arrested in West Oakland Following Box-Cutter Slashing On BART An apparently mentally disturbed suspect was arrested Friday afternoon after an incident in which a woman was stabbed or slashed with a box-cutter on board a BART train.
Arts & Entertainment Multiple Whales Were Breaching Wildly In Monterey Bay Right After Tuesday Earthquake Moments after the Tuesday afternoon 4.7M earthquake near Hollister, at least seven humpback whales were spotted simultaneously breaching, six of them in pairs, off the Monterey coast. Coincidence?
SF News SF Sends Out Citywide Alert Test to Everyone's Cellphone, Slightly Late On Thursday evening, a scheduled test of a new citywide emergency alert system took place, 30 to 60 minutes behind schedule, but nonetheless seemingly successfully. Still, it freaked a lot of people out.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Lake County Wildfire Contained PG&E will sit down with regulators in SF today, another Bay Area resident has pleaded guilty in the college admissions scandal, and a 25-acre wildfire that prompted an evacuation in Lake County last night has been contained.
SF News Day Around the Bay: City College Evacuated For Bomb Threat The city of SF has filed a motion to dismiss the NRA's lawsuit over that 'domestic terrorist' designation, Juul suspends internet sales of fruity vape pods, and no one knows what bad things we breathed in because of the refinery fire.
SF News Loma Prieta at 30: Bay Area Residents Remember Where They Were When The Quake Struck To wrap up our commemorative coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake today, SFist brings you some memories sent in from readers of what their October 17, 1989 experiences were like here in the Bay Area.
SF News Hayward Fault Earthquake Scenario Imagines 52,000 Homes On Fire, 800 Deaths In commemorating the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, it can't be all about the memories and history. A bigger earthquake is going to hit the Bay Area, and we can't be in denial about the kind of destruction it could leave behind.
SF News Loma Prieta at 30: 'I Was the Guy Driving the Pickup Behind the Disappearing Car in the Video on the Bay Bridge' An immediately famous bit of video shot on the Bay Bridge in the moments after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake showed two cars driving on the damaged eastern span, with one, a sedan, dropping into the gap created when a 50-foot segment of the upper deck collapsed.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch a Menagerie of Creatures Feasting on a Whale Carcass Near Monterey Bay While exploring Davidson Seamount, an undersea mountain off the Central California coast, researchers with the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary came upon an active feeding frenzy.
SF News Earthquake Early Warning System Launches 13 Years After Project Began Today, on the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, Governor Gavin Newsom, State Senator Jerry Hill, and a group of scientists announced the official launch of California's Earthquake Early Warning System.
SF News Gang of Suspects In Halloween Masks Attempt Two Assaults In Noe Valley A group of men in a white or silver SUV, some wearing Halloween masks, attempted assaults on two men walking on the street in Noe Valley Monday night.
