SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SFO Runway Officially Reopens There was a report of shots fired on the San Jose State campus not long after a heavily armed student was arrested Thursday, nurses are on strike at three East Bay hospitals, and Bill DeBlasio has dropped out of the 2020 race.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Sues Two Travel Sites The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and Folsom Street Events have made up, a SoMa market owner describes being bitten twice by homeless people, and an armed San Jose State student was arrested.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Brewery Gets Cease-and-Desist Letter From 'Great British Bake Off' Star Mary Berry Esteemed British baker and former judge on the Great British Bake Off, Mary Berry, has had her lawyers issue a cease-and-desist letter to Richmond, California-based Armistice Brewing Company.
SF News Lyft Driver Escapes Carjacking As Suspect Is Seen Shooting At Fleeing Car A carjacking attempt went awry for one suspect in Richmond last week after he allegedly instructed a Lyft driver, at gunpoint, to stop at a gas station for snacks.
SF News Person Struck By Train Closes Powell Station, Causes BART Snarl A "major medical emergency" was reported at the Powell Street BART Station Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m., with the whole station shut down and emergency personnel on the scene.
SF News Luxury Downtown SF Condo Sells For $200,000 Less Than Its 2014 Sale Price While the circumstances around this one two-bedroom condo in downtown's Infinity building may be specific, a price slashing may point to a larger issue for similar properties.
Arts & Entertainment Endangered Baby Monkey Born At SF Zoo A rare François langur monkey was just born at the San Francisco Zoo, and boy is s/he cute.
SF News Trump Threatens San Francisco With EPA Violation Related To Homelessness The president's latest soundbite for Fox News is that he's putting San Francisco "on notice" over the homelessness problem, claiming the city is violating environmental rules by letting used hypodermic needles end up in the Pacific Ocean.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Treasure Island Could Have Been a Superfund Site A fatal stabbing at an Oakland gas station, Bruce Bochy wins his 2,000th game as Giants manager, and Nancy Pelosi has a plan to lower prescription drug costs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CBS Refuses All Advertising From Juul Obama stresses the need for nuance in SF speech, UC President Janet Napolitano is stepping down next year, and Beto O'Rourke was at San Quentin today.
SF News Public Defender's Office Issues Complaint To Sheriff About Deputy-Involved Shooting That Killed Dog A situation that unfolded inside a Polk Street SRO earlier this month has pitted the San Francisco Sheriff's Department against the Public Defender's Office over what the latter says was the "preventable and unnecessary" killing of a man's dog.
Business & Tech Gig-Worker Bill Signed By Governor, Rideshare and Delivery Apps Unhappy As expected, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 5 into law today, meaning that, at least in theory, companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash will not be able to relegate the majority of their workforces — the drivers — to contractor status.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Market Nightclub Mr. Smith's Quietly Closes As Neighborhood Struggles With Rampant Drug Use Mr. Smith's, the small, two-level nightclub that debuted on Seventh Street just off Market back in the days when the new Federal Building was under construction, has called it quits after 15 years in the neighborhood where it was once one of the first signals of gentrification to come.
Arts & Entertainment Santa Clara Ramps Up Fight With 49ers, Votes To Take Over Control Of All Non-Football Events At Levi's Stadium Oooo some drama is happening down in Santa Clara following that widely read story about the Rolling Stones never wanting to play at Levi's Stadium again.
SF News Barack Obama To Make An Appearance Near Union Square Wednesday Former President Barack Obama has a speaking engagement at August Hall (a.k.a. the former Ruby Skye on Mason Street) today, at an invitation-only tech conference.
SF News [Update] Father and Daughter Die In Mission Terrace House Fire An overnight blaze in the Mission Terrace neighborhood has claimed the life of a father and daughter, as well as the family dog.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Delay-Causing Runway Work at SFO To Finish A Week Early An escaped inmate from a facility in Mendocino County has been found in Vallejo, this morning's cold front and rain should pass by afternoon, and the repaving work at SFO is set to be done by Thursday night, eight days ahead of schedule.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Single-Game Warriors Tickets Go On Sale The homeless suspect in last month's assault near the Embarcadero has been ordered to stand trial, Ben Carson's SF visit was met with protests, and Barry Zito admits to rooting against the Giants in the 2010 World Series.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Says 'Gourmet Ghetto' Name Ought to Go Finally joining the fray in a debate about whether the North Shattuck neighborhood of Berkeley — longtime home of Chez Panisse and the Cheese Board Collective — should continue to be nicknamed the "Gourmet Ghetto," Alice Waters agrees with the young folk: the name needs to go.
SF News Trump Fundraiser Went Down At Portola Valley Home Of Sun Microsystems Cofounder Scott McNealy The 32,000-sf compound owned by Sun Microsystems cofounder Scott McNealy and his wife, which hit the market last year for $96.8 million, was the setting for President Trump's fundraising luncheon in Portola Valley this afternoon. And yes, the big Baby Trump balloon followed him there.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bon Appetit Snubs San Francisco For The First Time This Decade On Best New Restaurants List You can take it as another symptom of a restaurant culture in crisis in the ever-more expensive environs of San Francisco, or you can see it as indicative of SF's recent decline in the national imagination. But any way you slice it, Bon Appetit just released its Hot 10 for 2019 and we're not on it.
SF News Witness In Peninsula Murder Case Loses Plea Deal, Will Not Testify Against Heiress and Her Boyfriend Olivier Adella, the MMA fighter and former bodyguard who was set to be a key witness for the prosecution in the 2016 murder of Keith Green, has lost a plea deal that he struck to testify against defendants Tiffany Li and Kaveh Bayat.
SF News Trump Likely Only Touching Down in Bay Area For Three Hours; Ben Carson Headed To SF The details of the Trump fundraiser luncheon in the Bay Area today remain secretive, with even Republican donors who are planning to attend being kept in the dark about the exact location, but we do know one thing: Air Force One is landing in Palo Alto around 11 a.m.
SF News Tuesday Morning Updates: Last Ever Football-to-Baseball Switch At Oakland Coliseum Gov. Newsom issued an executive order for a vaping awareness campaign, a trial date has been set for a civil trial against PG&E related to Tubbs Fire injuries, and the adult store arson in San Jose was likely connected to an eviction notice.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Baby Trump' Balloon To Fly During President's Bay Area Visit Gov. Newsom penned an open letter to Trump asking for more federal funding to combat homelessness ahead of the President's California visit, and SF's libraries are doing away with all overdue book fines.
