SF News Humpday Headlines: ICE Agents Ask San Jose Police For Help With Protesters ICE called the police in San Jose when they encountered protesters during an operation Tuesday; a man was arrested in New York in connection with the Palm Springs clinic bombing; and an East Bay croissant maker took the top prize in a contest Sunday.
SF Politics San Leandro City Councilmember Notified By Feds He Is Under Investigation, Could Be Indicted In a federal investigation scandal that bears some clear similarities to the one that, at least in part, led to the recall of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo is now officially under investigation by the feds.
Business & Tech It’s Not Your Imagination, Your Waymo May Be Driving More Like a Human The behavior of Waymo’s self-driving taxis has apparently shifted in recent weeks or months, based on safety data collected by the company, and it means the cars are doing certain things more like real people do behind the wheel.
Arts & Entertainment 'Mountainhead' on HBO Draws Eerie Parallels Between Billionaire Bros and Zizian Cult 'Mountainhead,' the timely new film on HBO/Max by 'Succession' creator Jesse Armstrong, is a somewhat satisfying if deeply unsettling sendup of tech-bro oligarchy and the convoluted-logic-as-wisdom rhetoric of their podcasts.
SF News Stanford Student Killed While Riding E-Bike on Campus A Stanford sophomore was killed over the weekend in a collision while riding an electronic bicycle on the school's campus.
SF News Bay Area Father of Three, Who Lived Here 25 Years, Detained By ICE at Routine Appointment In SF This week brings another heart-wrenching story of a local man, who was undocumented but who is married to a US citizen and has spent decades battling to get legal status, who has been thrown into ICE detention.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Fatal Crash Shuts Down I-580 East In Livermore A fiery, fatal crash briefly shut down I-580 eastbound in Livermore early Tuesday; City College is struggling to find a new chancellor; and a major real estate developer is seeking approval for a huge industrial project in SF's Bayview.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Emergency Work on Richmond Bridge Slows Traffic Roadwork closed several lanes of the Richmond Bridge Monday; a suspect in a fatal shooting in the South Bay appears to be on the run; and a couple dozen Bay Area cities are on the Trump administration's list of "sanctuary jurisdictions" they want to target.
SF Politics More Nonprofit Drama: SF Zoo Board Members Resign, City Hall Decries 'Dysfunction' There is ongoing turmoil and now some amped-up drama at the nonprofit that runs the San Francisco Zoo, as several board members attempted to oust the longtime executive director and CEO, but failed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Beloved Fog City Diner Has Closed After 40 Years The restaurant originally known as the Fog City Diner, and in the last decade simply as Fog City, has shut its doors after 40 years on the Embarcadero. The last night of service was Friday.
SF News Davis Stabbing Suspect Takes Stand In His Own Defense In an unusual move several weeks into the trial of 23-year-old Carlos Dominguez, his defense attorneys have put him on the witness stand to testify about his mental state.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two More United Flights Diverted After Takeoff at SFO Two Palo Alto residents were awakened to a burglary in progress in their home; a pair of United Airlines flights were diverted for maintenance out of SFO; and Italy's Mount Etna began a major eruption earlier today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Some Good Oakland Tacos Come West Ciaorigato sets an opening date, a famed LA doughnut spot is coming to the Bay Area, and Oakland's own Tacos El Ultimo Baile is opening a temporary SF outpost, all in This Week in Food.
Business & Tech X/Twitter Goes Down for Third Time In a Week, Just as Musk Drug Story Drops Xitter had something of a meltdown Friday, with many users reporting a total outage on the platform in the US, India, and elsewhere.
SF News If You Visited the H Mart In North San Jose or the Trader Joe's In Milpitas Last Week You May Have Been Exposed to Measles Public health officials in Alameda and Santa Clara counties have put out an alert about possible measles exposure that could have occurred at several retail locations in the last nine days.
Arts & Entertainment Comedy Writer Harper Steele, Longtime Friend and Documentary Partner of Will Ferrell, Named SF Pride Grand Marshal Harper Steele, the former head writer for 'Saturday Night Live' who gained national attention last year for the Netflix documentary 'Will & Harper,' has just been named the Celebrity Grand Marshal of San Francisco Pride.
SF News Victim In CHP Chase Crash Identified as Oakland Math Teacher, as More Details Emerge The victim in Wednesday's fatal hit-and-run crash in Oakland stemming from a chase initiated by California Highway Patrol officers has been identified as a high school math teacher.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Man In Wheelchair Struck In San Jose Hit-and-Run A 72-year-old man in a motorized wheelchair was struck by a car and seriously injured Friday morning in San Jose; a Catholic university on the Peninsula is selling its campus to UC; and the recall math isn't great for Engardio.
SF Politics SF City Hall Faces First Major Layoffs In 15 Years as Mayor Lurie Proposes Cutting 1,400 Jobs San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced his intention to eliminate as many as 1,400 city jobs in order to close the current budget deficit, though the vast majority of those positions are currently unfilled.
SF News Bayview Community Activist Arrested In Four Killings Spanning 17 Years There was a potential major break in four separate cold cases this week in San Francisco with the arrest of a 44-year-old man who stands accused of a fatal shooting in 2019 and three killings 17 years earlier.
SF News Suspect In Assault at Beanie Babies Billionaire's Mansion Was In Court In SF a Decade Ago The man accused of breaking into the Montecito mansion owned by Beanie Babies billionaire Ty Warner last week and assaulting a woman, putting her in a coma, was living in San Francisco a decade ago after reportedly threatening his wife.
SF Politics SF's First Recall Election of a Sitting Supervisor Gets a Date With the necessary signatures now certified, SF Supervisor Joel Engardio will now face a recall election in three and a half months.
SF Politics Supreme Court Rules That Environmental Impact Reports Must Focus on Project at Hand A unanimous Supreme Court, with one justice recused, ruled Thursday that the 1970 environmental law often used to stymie or slow down infrastructure and housing development does not require review documents that take into account secondary and tertiary effects of a project on other businesses.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Federal Court Says Trump's Tariffs Aren't Legal A panel of judges on the US Court of International Trade ruled today that Trump doesn't have the authority to impose his tariffs; Elon Musk departs the White House with parting shot; and Sonoma Ponzi scheme suspect Kenneth Mattson has been granted $4M bail.
SF News Honduran National Sentenced to Four Years For Gun Incident Outside Mission District Bar A 37-year-old man has been sentenced to federal prison in connection with an April 2023 incident in which he fired a gun into the air outside of a San Francisco bar, and appeared to point a gun at arriving police officers.
