SF News Mayor Breed Backs Ballot Measure To Build Affordable and Teacher Housing On Public-Owned Land Mayor London Breed just announced the third local proposition she's backing for the November ballot, and it would free up some 500 parcels in San Francisco that are publicly owned for the development of affordable housing.
Bay Area Sports Proposed A's Ballpark On Oakland Waterfront Clears First Legislature Hurdle The proposed new ballpark for the Oakland A's on the Howard Terminal site near Jack London Square has inched forward Tuesday in what is likely to be a complicated approval process at the state and local level.
SF News Man Killed In SoMa Collision Was 26-Year-Old Professional Skateboarder The man killed Tuesday afternoon in a collision at Seventh and Mission streets has been identified as 26-year-old Pablo Ramirez, a professional skateboarder with a local crew called GX-1000 who were profiled by GQ last year.
SF News Car Plows Into Eight Pedestrians In Sunnyvale, Arrest Made, FBI Involved A suspect has been arrested in what appears to have been a deliberate act of attempted vehicular murder Tuesday evening in the South Bay. The FBI is currently working with the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety to determine a motive.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Missing Palo Alto Woman Found Safe The local woman who shouted down the MAGA hat wearer and then had to go into hiding has said she's safe, Newsom meets with fire officials in the East Bay, and Muni gets a drubbing from the Supes.
SF News Day Around The Bay: NorCal Parents Arrested After Kids Found In Cages The new Muni cars also are having braking problems, Twitter bots came alive after the Mueller Report was released, and the Bay Area has a student debt crisis.
SF News 25-Year-Old Skateboarder Killed In SoMa Collision A skateboarder died Tuesday afternoon after a collision with a vehicle at the intersection of 7th and Mission streets.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant Opens This Week Inside Former Bank of America Vault at 555 California A new restaurant from the team behind Trestle and the recently shuttered Stones Throw is set to open on Wednesday, April 24, and it's called The Vault.
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Oakland Skater Turns Electric Board Into Miniature Bus One creative and industrious skateboarder in Oakland was spotted Monday tooling around in traffic aboard his own, personal, remote-controlled, vintage school bus.
SF News Muni Temporarily Disables Rear Doors On New Trains After several days of drama following a widely seen video of an elderly woman who got her hand caught in the door of a new Muni train and was subsequently dragged and injured, Muni is disabling the rear single doors on all 68 of the new trains.
SF News Tuesday Morning Stories: Cliffside Rescue Near the Golden Gate A huge fire is burning in a lumber yard in Stockton, Twitter beat earnings expectations, and the city is prepping the Mission for the removal of 51 ficus trees along 24th Street.
Bay Area Sports Former Warriors and Lakers Coach Luke Walton Sued For Sexual Assault Recently departed Lakers head coach, former Warriors assistant coach, and newly hired coach of the Sacramento Kings, Luke Walton, has been sued by a female sports reporter over an incident in which she says Walton sexually assaulted her.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Death At Rockridge Station Causes BART Delays A man was fatally struck by a BART train in Oakland this afternoon, a convicted cop killer was found dead in his San Quentin cell over the weekend, and Elizabeth Holmes appeared in court today.
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 9 Cool Things To Check Out This Week It's going to be a (relative) scorcher this week, so get out of the office/house and do something fun, preferably outdoors. Here are a few ideas, though some are indoors.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Reportedly Signs $60 Million Three-Project Deal With Beyonce Los Gatos-based Netflix may have some more Beyoncé movies coming out, as we now learn that the 'Homecoming' documentary of her 2018 Coachella performance was just the beginning of a three-project deal.
SF News Video: Easter Sunday Fistfight On Highway 101 Near San Jose Two men got into a knock-down brawl in the middle of Highway 101 on Sunday evening, and at least one person in a passing car recorded it.
Business & Tech Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Shut Off In Sri Lanka Following Terror Attacks After Sunday's deadly suicide bombings that killed nearly 300 people, the government of Sri Lanka shut off nationwide access to most social media sites and apps citing safety concerns and the spread of false news reports.
SF News Weather Report: Get Ready For Some 90-Degree Days (Outside the City) A warming trend this week means a couple more super warm days in SF on Tuesday and Wednesday, and some really hot weather in the North Bay and East Bay.
SF News Monday Morning Links: FEMA Opens Trailers In Paradise A hang glider died Sunday in Pacifica, Port of SF staff are recommending approval for the Navigation Center on the Embarcadero, and four shipping containers caught fire Sunday in the Port of Oakland.
SF News Palo Alto Woman Who Berated MAGA Hat Wearer Goes Missing, Likely Gone Off Grid A Bay Area woman who was caught in a right-wing media firestorm after she publicly berated an elderly man for wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat in a Palo Alto Starbucks has apparently voluntarily disappeared.
SF News Sunday Links: Oakland Authorities Hope To Stop Easter Sunday Sideshows SF opens the nation's first transitional housing facility for homeless trans youth, Planning Commission considers density for single-family 'hoods, and street trees are coming down in the Mission.
SF News A Brief History of Berkeley's People's Park, Born 50 Years Ago Today On April 20, 1969, a group of activists, Berkeley residents, and idealistic Cal students took it upon themselves to take a blighted, empty lot next to the university campus and turn it into a public park.
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco and Santa Cruz Prep For Clouds Of 4/20 Smoke UC Santa Cruz's annual "smoke out" still isn't sanctioned by the school, the state is now investigating the new Muni train troubles, and Fremont Street will be closed at night to remove Transbay Terminal shoring.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mystery Illness Strikes 50 Kids At Berkeley School Beware fentanyl-laced weed on 4/20, a truck fire causes traffic at Benecia-Martinez Bridge toll plaza, and a really ugly fence has just gone up around the fountain at UN Plaza.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Game of Thrones' Pop-Up Bar And Dinners Arrive At SoMa's 25 Lusk Though not affiliated with HBO, a Game of Thrones-themed pop-up dinner series kicked off last week at 25 Lusk. There's now a waitlist for seats, but you can stop by and get a drink next to the 27-foot dragon.
