SF News Bay Area, Santa Cruz Residents Comprise Most Of Those Presumed Dead In SoCal Boat Fire We're learning today that the majority of the 34 people aboard the Conception, the boat that caught fire early Monday off the Santa Barbara coast, were local residents, including the daughter of the tour company founder.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Diplo Pimps Popeyes Chicken Sandwich At Burning Man, Via Instagram It happens every year that people publicly do things that are in violation of Burning Man's basic rules around commercial promotion. And this year, it was DJ/producer Diplo who proudly enabled Popeyes to advertise their new chicken sandwich from the playa.
Arts & Entertainment Pretty Much None of the 900 Parking Spots At the Chase Center Are For the Public In case the word hasn't gotten out far and wide enough, I'm just going to say it again here: Do not drive to games and concerts at the Chase Center.
SF News Tuesday Morning Updates: Ghost Ship Trial Deliberations Restart Yet Again A man who crashed through security gates and drove across the tarmac at Oakland Airport over the weekend was found dead in the Oakland Estuary, and Austin Vincent, the SoMa assault suspect, is due back in court.
SF News Labor Day Links: Huge Weekend Sideshow Busted In Contra Costa County The BART track replacement project knocked out a major power line along Highway 24 near Lafayette, a man dove into the Bay after driving across Oakland Airport last night and evaded capture, and 71 people were arrested in a Contra Costa sideshow bust.
SF News New Zealand Man Died Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning at Burning Man The man was burned Saturday night and many Burners are packing up and heading out of the desert today. But for one Burning Man camp, Sunday night's Temple burn will take on even more somber significance than usual.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Beloved Sacramento Restaurateur Biba Caggiano Dies The Embarcadero homeless Navigation Center construction is well underway, a huge new British ad agency is moving into SF, and Gordon Ramsay is opening a restaurant in Tahoe.
SF News Van Ness Stabbing Suspect Released From Jail; SoMa Murder Suspect Also Freed The cases of two dead homeless men in San Francisco are now both "pending further investigation" as the suspects believed responsible for their deaths have been let out of jail.
Business & Tech Hackers Seize Jack Dorsey's Twitter, Make Bomb Threats, Praise Hitler Some hackers compromised Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account on Friday and used the platform to make racial slurs, bomb threats, and otherwise be grossly offensive.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chow Replacement Cook Shoppe Is Closing On Church Street; Owner Jailed For Being A Fugitive Three-month-old Castro area restaurant Cook Shoppe is already dunzo, and the unfolding story behind it is totally nuts. The owner of record, Mark White, has apparently been using an alias, and someone he opened the restaurant with is in jail now.
Business & Tech CDC Issues Broad Warning About Vaping, and SF-Based Juul Is Not Having the Greatest Summer Some 200 people have come down with serious respiratory illnesses in recent months that are linked to street-purchased vape products. The CDC has now taken the unusual step of issuing a warning about vaping, despite there being no single product that's been identified as the culprit.
SF News Death at Burning Man Being Investigated As Suspicious A man was found dead at Burning Man on Thursday, and was declared dead by event medical staff before the local county coroner arrived on the scene.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Palo Alto Teen Arrested For Threatening To 'Shoot Up' His School An early morning fire damaged businesses in downtown Los Gatos, Ronen and Haney want a hearing about mental health beds, and local hotels are getting more angry with Airbnb.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Neighborhood Terrorized By Cows DeMarcus Cousins has been charged with domestic violence threats, a Mountain View landlady who staged a home invasion to scare her tenants appears in court, and one more victim has been found in the Gilroy shooting.
Business & Tech Uber's Half-Billion-Dollar Marketing Campaign Reportedly Hasn't Helped Its Reputation Uber laid off 400 people on its marketing team last month, and a big reason for that is likely the fact that efforts to turn around public sentiment about the company don't appear to have worked. Like, at all.
SF News Law Firm Investigates Possible Sexual Misconduct At SF's University High School Going Back Decades A sexual misconduct investigation is underway stemming from the revelation earlier this year that a former soccer coach at SF's prestigious University High School (SFUHS) had multiple allegations against him from his time at another Bay Area prep school.
Arts & Entertainment Some Companies Are Letting Employees Expense Trips To Burning Man Some Bay Area companies have "chief culture officers," and some of these party mavens think that Burning Man is the perfect place for coworkers to bond and unwind over a few hallucinogens.
SF News Assault Suspect Austin Vincent Ordered To Remain In Jail Despite Second Set of Charges Being Dropped There was some bizarre hot-potato action at the Hall of Justice Thursday morning as a herd of reporters followed along as a hearing in the case of Austin Vincent got bounced to three different courtrooms in less than an hour.
SF News Somebody Warn The Tourists: Cable Cars To Go Offline For 10 Days In September San Francisco's cable cars are all going out of service for ten days next month as part of a gearbox rehabilitation project — and anyone coming to town and hoping to take a ride on one will be sorely disappointed, and offered a bus ride instead.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: BART Gets Federal Funds For San Jose Project A 6.3M earthquake struck off the coast of Oregon this morning, a drunk guy apparently set a house on fire while burning a flag, and the Federal Transit Administration is giving $125 million more to BART.
SF News Day Around the Bay: RV Triage Lot Proposal Heads To Planning Newsom drops a plan to hire a "homeless czar," three credit-card-skimming devices were found at a Peninsula gas station, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of the 2020 race.
SF News Trump Is Coming To The Bay Area For The First Time In Three Years President Trump is scheduled to appear at an as-yet-undisclosed location in the Bay Area for a campaign fundraising luncheon on September 17, and this will be the first time he's dared set foot anywhere here since he became President.
SF News Millennium Tower Homeowners Receive 'Significant Payments' In Settlement As Foundation Work Moves Forward Condo owners at the leaning and tilting Millennium Tower are getting big payouts as the developer and the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) are settling around 200 lawsuits this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Belden Place to Get New Mexican Spot Called Tin Cactus Belden Place, the quaint and charming alley adjacent to the Financial District, is getting a new restaurant tenant this fall, and it's a full-service Mexican restaurant called Tin Cactus.
Business & Tech 50 San Francisco Blocks Are Now Being Surveilled By 1,000 Private Security Cameras What began as a network of just six cameras in Union Square has grown to cover entire neighborhoods in SF in a private-security surveillance network that's been tapped by law enforcement on a daily basis.
