SF News Lake Tahoe Has Risen Eight Feet In Three Years, Beaches Shrink After Snowmelt Lake Tahoe is getting very high after spring and summer snowmelt continues to fill it, and soon officials will begin releasing water into the Truckee River.
SF News Saturday Links: A Standoff Ends Peacefully In Pittsburg Laurel Village retail is struggling after the CPMC hospital moved, hundreds gathered in Oakland to protest the impending ICE raids, and BART doesn't want you trying to retrieve your own Airpods off the train tracks.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Facebook Fined $5 Billion By The FTC Mayor Breed says she'll be "monitoring the situation" with the pending ICE raids, a Muni train collided with a car and injured some passengers, and a homicide investigation shuts down a neighborhood in San Jose.
Arts & Entertainment 'Last Black Man In San Francisco' House Has Colorful History, Same Owner Since 1960s It turns out that one of the writers for Mission Local is a resident at 959 South Van Ness Avenue, the house that was used for exterior shots and a few interiors in the film The Last Black Man in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment 'Big Little Lies' Fans Flocking To Monterey From All Over The World The Bixby Bridge and a particular restaurant on Monterey's Fisherman's Wharf have been magnets for international tourists who want to see locations from HBO's 'Big Little Lies' up close.
SF News Another ICE Protest Planned Downtown Following Thursday evening's protest outside ICE headquarters on Sansome Street, another prayer vigil and rally is scheduled Friday at 11:30 a.m. to protest planned Sunday deportation raids of immigrants' homes.
SF News Multiple Great White Sharks Spotted Near Half Moon Bay Surfers and ocean swimmers are being cautioned that there have been several sightings of great white sharks near the San Francisco Peninsula — and this is the typical time of year that sharks show up in the area from their migration to the deep ocean.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: FBI Agent's Gun Stolen In Oakland Hundreds protest pending ICE raids in downtown SF, a 38-year-old man arrested for a skateboard assault in Palo Alto, and Trump officially drops effort to put citizenship question on the Census.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rally Outside ICE Headquarters On Sansome A rally is set for 5 p.m. outside ICE's SF headquarters downtown, a 51-year-old man has been found guilty of purposely running down a Tenderloin bicycle cop in 2017, and we now know the tax value of Apple Park.
SF Politics California Lawmakers Demand Trump Tax Returns, Or He Won't Be On Primary Ballot Setting the stage for another California vs. Trump showdown, state lawmakers have passed a bill that would require all candidates for president to disclose five years worth of tax returns in order to be eligible for inclusion in a state primary.
SF News North Bay Man Accused Of Child Sex Abuse Lays Down On Train Tracks, Takes His Own Life A 68-year-old Rohnert Park man who had recently been facing charges of long-term sexual abuse of the mentally and physically disabled children in his care killed himself Tuesday night by lying down across the SMART train tracks.
SF News Everyone Hates The New Double-Stacked BART Fare Gates (And They Don't Thwart Fare Evaders) BART has only installed the "double-clamp" fare gates in one station — Richmond — but the news stories and public grumbling about them continue.
SF News Postponed ICE Raids Happening In SF On Sunday Raids on undocumented immigrant families in 10 cities that were originally scheduled for last month are now reportedly happening this weekend.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up?: FCC Strikes Down SF's Broadband Law Two suspects arrested after high-speed chase through San Jose Airport, a state bill that would make gig workers employees moves ahead, and Trump is convening a "summit" today of his most ardent right-wing Twitter fans.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Juul's Pro-Vaping Measure Qualifies For November Ballot The SFMTA has named a new interim director, the angry NIMBYs of the Embarcadero have filed their lawsuit over the Navigation Center, and Juul's measure to overturn SF's vape-sales ban has qualified for the ballot.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Namu Gaji Is Moving To SoMa, Dolores Spot To Become Namu Stonepot There's an update on Namu Gaji, which closed for seismic retrofitting in its building in March — along with neighbor Bi-Rite Creamery, which has now reopened. It's not actually going to reopen as the same restaurant.
SF News SF Homicide Rate On Track For Historic Low In 2019 While it's too soon to say for sure, at the mid-year mark, San Francisco is poised to see an even lower homicide count this year than it did last year — with a murder rate lower than it's been in the city since the early 1960s.
SF News Ghost Ship Fire Defendant Derick Almena Turns Combative Under Cross-Examination Court watchers have been anticipating some drama from putting Ghost Ship fire defendant Derick Almena on the witness stand, and that drama began on Wednesday almost as soon as cross examination by prosecutors began.
SF News After Three Decades In SF, Woman Says Finding Burglars' Hypodermic Needle In Her Dining Room Is The Last Straw A woman who's lived in San Francisco nearly 30 years says she may finally be done with San Francisco after her historic home on 18th Street was broken into — and the burglars left heroin works, including a used hypodermic needle, on her dining room table.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Boot & Shoe Service Changes Name To Sister The second of two restaurants sold off amidst the #MeToo reckoning of Charlie Hallowell last year, Boot & Shoe Service in Oakland's Grand Lake district, is rebranding itself in a final step toward divorcing itself from Hallowell's history.
Business & Tech Jay-Z Signs On As Brand Strategist For Bay Area Marijuana Company A San Jose-based weed concern called Caliva has just "partnered" with rapper and Beyonce baby daddy Jay-Z, naming him Chief Brand Strategist.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland Scientist Found Dead In Greece One man was killed and another was injured in a Bayview shooting, a San Francisco sheriff's deputy was injured by two inmates, and Emeryville debates its minimum wage hike.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Trump Can't Block Anyone On Twitter Anymore, Says Judge Muni bus service resumes Saturday at the Transit Center, DNA from the "Rideshare Rapist" was obtained illegally, and a manhunt is on in Livermore after a shooting Monday night.
SF News San Francisco Man Calls Cops On Black Man Waiting In Apartment Vestibule For His Friend Setting aside for a second the inherent bias and officiousness of these actions, has this guy not paid any attention to the internet or TV in the last several years?
SF News SF Homeless Number Nearly 1,800 People Higher If Same Criteria Used As 2017 Following the quiet Friday release of the new point-in-time homeless census for San Francisco, it's come to light that the count is actually not an apples-to-apples comparison of the 2017 number. And this means that the city's homeless population has increased 30%, not 17% as previously reported.
