SF News 79-Year-Old Peninsula Woman With Dementia Still Missing After Five Days Over 100 volunteers have logged over 3,000 miles in the last four days searching for 79-year-old Elaine McKinley, who went missing from her hiking group in Portola Valley on Thursday.
SF News Wiener: Trump's Alcatraz Idea 'Absurd,' Would Be 'Domestic Gulag In the Middle of San Francisco Bay' Yet again, after all these years, the media is compelled to jump and respond to Trump's every mis-capitalized tweet from the toilet, and this time it was a ridiculous idea floated on Sunday to turn Alcatraz back into a federal prison.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: High Winds Expected This AM A scooter rider was killed in a hit-and-run collision in Oakland Sunday; a small earthquake rattled part of the North Bay this morning; and there's a high-wind advisory for parts of the Bay through 2 pm.
SF News Drug Much Deadlier Than Fentanyl, Carfentanil, Linked to Death In Santa Clara County The Bay Area has recorded its first death attributable to an overdose from a much more potent and deadly fentanyl analog, carfentanil.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Hayes Valley Sees One Restaurant Open, Another on the Way The Rich Table team is expanding once more, there's a new restaurant in the former Petit Crenn space and it opened this week, and Daytrip Counter debuts next week in Oakland, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Sherri Papini Now Trying to Recant Confession, Says FBI Had It Wrong About Her Faked Kidnapping It maybe should not come as a surprise that convicted liar and self-kidnapper Sherri Papini, now out of prison, continues with the funny business with regard to her 2016 "kidnapping."
SF News 79-Year-Old Peninsula Woman Missing After Hike With Partner and Friends In Portola Valley An elderly woman with dementia reportedly ran ahead of her group while on a hike for her partner's birthday Thursday afternoon and has not been seen since, and the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office is conducting a search.
SF News Elderly Person and Dog Struck and Killed by Vehicle on Howard Street In SoMa A pedestrian and their pet were struck and killed in the area of Howard and Seventh streets in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood Thursday afternoon.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Lake Shasta Hits Capacity Once More CA's largest reservoir has hit capacity for the third year in a row; Santa Rosa police engaged in an intense standoff with a residential burglar; and Trump wants to rename Veterans Day.
Business & Tech Sam Altman's World Networks Wants Union Square Shoppers to Come Get 'Scanned' and Prove They're Human A decidedly creepy but maybe ahead-of-the-curve business opened next to Macy's on Geary Street Thursday, across from Union Square Park, where a set of high-tech orb devices scan your iris and let you prove your own humanity.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Makes Initial Pitch to Rally Democratic Unity In SF Speech The woman who could have spared us the mess the country is currently in, former Vice President Kamala Harris, gave her first significant post-election speech on Wednesday in San Francisco, and it was an I-told-you-so moment for sure.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Trump Is Firing Waltz CHP put out a new alert about a missing Oakland 3-year-old; May Day protests are happening around the Bay; and Trump is firing his first top aide, national security advisor Mike Waltz, the one who added the Atlantic guy to the Signal chat.
SF News Behavioral Health Emergency Temporarily Shuts Down Lower Deck of Bay Bridge An abandoned car and a "behavioral health emergency" led to a major traffic backup on the Bay Bridge and into downtown San Francisco Wednesday afternoon and evening.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Warehouse Fire Sparked In Oakland Firefighters were battling a warehouse fire on Oakland's waterfront that sent thick smoke across the city; a Walgreens in the Mission is bearing a large pharmacy burden; and Trump insists in a new interview that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has an MS-13 tattoo.
SF News 60-Year-Old Man Shot By Police In South San Francisco Is Identified as Death Metal Bandmember The man who allegedly engaged police in a shootout Monday in South San Francisco and was fatally shot himself has been publicly identified.
SF News Three Suspects Sought After Attempted Robbery and Shooting on 17th Street San Francisco police are looking for three male suspects after an attempted robbery that turned violent early Wednesday in the Mission District.
SF News Oakland Teachers' Union and District Reach Deal to Avert One-Day Strike A planned one-day strike by teachers in Oakland is now being called off after a last-minute deal was announced by the teachers' union.
Arts & Entertainment Actor Jeremy Renner Describes Tahoe Near-Death Experience In New Memoir Oscar-nominated actor Jeremy Renner was as close to death as one can get after his 2023 snowplow accident in Tahoe, as he describes in his new memoir My Next Breath — and he may have, in fact, briefly died.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Reptile Shop Finds Rare Two-Headed Snake A pet store in Berkeley that lays claim to the title of oldest reptile shop in the US, the East Bay Vivarium, has been taking care of a California king snake with a rare mutation — and even more rare is that it has survived over six months.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Harris Planning to Lay Into Trump In SF Speech Kamala Harris is reportedly planning to sharply criticize Trump in a speech in SF tonight; Oakland teachers are still intending to strike tomorrow; and we can expect some rain this weekend around the Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Couple Seeks to Create Dinner Party Vibe at New, Music-Centric Potrero Spot Side A A new restaurant serving bistro and comfort-food classics, done up with a Californian attention to freshness and seasonality, along with a side of live DJs takes over the former Universal Cafe space as of this week.
SF Politics Trump Administration Now Looking Into Building Immigrant Detention Camp In Solano County As part of its broader plan to use military facilities to house immigrants before systematically deporting them, the Trump administration is reportedly looking into creating a detention camp at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield.
Business & Tech Meta Launches Standalone AI App, Hopes It Will Compete With ChatGPT If the Meta brand weren't so tarnished, one could see its standalone AI app doing fairly well. But will anyone actually care or use this thing?
Arts & Entertainment Designer Ken Fulk Has Not Sold His 'Magic Factory' In SoMa, Will Start Throwing Events There Again It looked like the end of an era for Ken Fulk's loft-like office and event space on Seventh Street in SoMa when he put it on the market three years ago. But it has not sold, and Fulk now says he's going to get back to throwing parties there.
SF News Police Fatally Shoot Armed Man Who Was Firing Gun In South San Francisco South San Francisco police shot and killed a man Monday evening in what's been described as a shootout.
