SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pete's Tavern and Pedro's Cantina Shutter Near Ballpark; Papi Rico Closes In the Castro There are a few more end-of-summer restaurant closures to chalk up, and these include yet another for the closure-prone Castro, whose residents are going to be staring at a lot of darkened storefronts for many months to come.
SF News Construction Set To Begin Next Year On 3,900-Unit Development at SF's Southern Border The long-awaited, long-delayed, enormous Baylands development in the southeastern corner of San Francisco — and across the county line in Brisbane — has finally gotten a start date.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Opens Its First East Bay Location In Berkeley's Graduate Hotel San Francisco's beloved Tartine Bakery just opened its tenth outpost Monday morning in Berkeley — the first East Bay expansion for the Tartine brand.
SF News Tiburon Man Arrested After 11-Year-Old Son Is Killed In Boating Accident An 11-year-old Tiburon boy died Sunday after being ejected from his father's boat near Angel Island.
SF News Man Dies In Fire He Allegedly Set In Adult Novelty Store In San Jose One man is dead, four firefighters are injured, and two businesses are seriously damaged after a three-alarm arson fire in downtown San Jose on Sunday.
SF News Trump Plans To Tell SF It Has a Homeless Problem During Tuesday Visit During a fundraising trip to the Bay Area this week, President Donald Trump allegedly has plans to join housing secretary Ben Carson in San Francisco to discuss solutions to our homelessness problem. What could go wrong?
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: First Rain In Four Months Arrives In The Bay A man with a walker accidentally fell in front of a BART train and was injured, flight delays were somewhat less at SFO on Sunday, and a teen driver was killed in a high-speed crash in Mill Valley.
SF News Vehicle Fire On Lower Deck Of Bay Bridge Closes Lanes, Causes Friday Night Traffic A van on fire in the far lefthand, eastbound lane of the Bay Bridge Friday night led to four out of five lanes being closed as emergency crews responded.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Shots Fired at Church and 17th Streets Photos leaked out of one of the suspects in the Rome policeman killing, Steph Curry just bought a big house, and some shots were fired on Church Street near 17th though everyone at the scene apparently scattered.
SF News Key Prosecution Witness Arrested In Peninsula Murder Case The key witness for the prosecution in the crazy-sensational murder trial of wealthy Hillsborough heiress Tiffany Li and her boyfriend Kaveh Bayat is now in police custody after contacting another witness on Instagram.
Arts & Entertainment Why 'OverheardSanFrancisco' Is Both the Best, and the Worst Of all the meme accounts out there giving you LOLs on Instagram, the accounts that purport to post overheard conversations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York offer both a modicum of self-deprecation and civic pride for the people who live in those cities.
SF News SFO Delays Might Lessen This Weekend As Runway Work Gets Ahead Of Schedule Crews at work on rebuilding and repaving Runway 28L have gotten the message and they are reportedly 48 hours ahead of schedule on the project, and one intersecting runway will reopen Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Rocker Eddie Money Dies at 70 Eddie Money, a hitmaker of the 1980s pop rock scene with songs like "Take Me Home Tonight" and "Two Tickets to Paradise," has died at the age of 70. The cause was complications from esophageal cancer.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: PG&E Reaches $11B Settlement With Fire Insurers A person died in the trackway at the 24th Street BART station Thursday, California legislators passed a bill to outlaw private prisons, and PG&E has reached a tentative settlement with insurers over the 2017 and 2018 wildfires.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lodi Winery Says No To Gay Weddings, Then Has Change Of Heart Alaska Airlines is giving out free vouchers at Giants games this weekend, Twitter broke the law by spray-painting ads on SF sidewalks, and a Lodi winery has decided it does allow gay weddings after all.
SF News Hillsborough Murder Suspect Tiffany Li Expected In Court Next Week Over three years after she and a boyfriend allegedly plotted to kill the father of her two children, Hillsborough-based heiress Tiffany Li is finally due to stand trial for the murder — but the start of the trial has just been delayed an extra week.
Arts & Entertainment The Rolling Stones Give The Finger To Levi's Stadium, Say They Won't Be Back Regardless of how many more years of touring the band realistically has left in them, the indefatigable Rolling Stones say they will not be coming back to Levi's Stadium after the bullshit they had to deal with during their August 18 appearance there.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Say Fondue! Matterhorn Restaurant Set To Reopen This Month Under New Owners Van Ness stalwart Matterhorn is getting ready for a reopening, a full year after it bid adieu, complete with a careful remodel and under a pair of new owners.
SF News Muni Apologizes For Diverting Bayview Buses For Chase Center, Offers Free Rides Muni got called out Tuesday night after the supervisor who represents the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods found out that bus drivers were being siphoned away from the bus lines that service those neighborhoods in order to cover the new event-night shuttle routes for the Chase Center.
SF News Instagram-Famous Pug Stolen From Mission District Apartment, Found After Owner Offers $15K Reward This pug who has more followers on Instagram than you probably have (over 16,000) was apparently stolen out of his human's apartment in the Mission District on Wednesday night, and the dog has now been safely returned after a frightening ordeal.
SF News OMG: The Central Subway Has Been Delayed Again, Pushed to 2021 The Central Subway now will not be opening until mid-2021, a full three years behind schedule, and a year and a half later than we were last told. Construction isn't even set to be finished until the middle of next year, and then a year of train testing begins.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Brock Turner Judge Fired From Tennis Coaching Gig An SFPD motorcycle cop was injured in a Duboce Triangle collision, an historic rent-control bill is headed to the governor's desk, and one of the dismissed Ghost Ship jurors speaks out.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Warm Weather Arrives Again The cable cars all go offline for 10 days starting Friday, Trump decides to ban e-cigarettes, and that RV and homeless vehicle "triage" lot near Balboa Park BART has been approved by the Supes.
SF Politics SFPD Says It Wants To Do Better Responding To Racially Biased, 'BBQ Becky'-Style Calls The SFPD brass, along with community members and policy makers, convened a meeting on Tuesday to come up with a policy statement concerning non-emergency police calls that could result in "bias by proxy."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink South Park Cafe Gets New Life With Backing From Credit Card Startup Brex South Park's go-to lunch and dinner spot, South Park Cafe, shuttered two years ago when its owners retired, and now some fintech guys have reopened it for the benefit of the 'hood.