Bay Area Sports 49ers QB Brock Purdy and Wife Welcome New Baby At the young age of 25, 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy is already a father, as he and his wife Jenna just welcomed baby Millie Joleen Purdy to the family over the weekend.
SF Politics Federal Judge Issues Order Blocking Trump Bill From Punishing Planned Parenthood A federal judge in Boston has just issued an order that indefinitely blocks the Trump administration from withholding Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood, saying that the provision in the Big Beautiful Bill likely is unconstitutional retaliation.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ferry Building Fills Up Again as A16 Owner Announces New Restaurant In MarketBar Space The last large vacant space in the Ferry Building has a taker, and soon the downtown SF food hall will be fully occupied again for the first time since the pandemic.
SF News Delta Airlines Pilot Pulled Off Plane at SFO, Arrested on Child Porn Charges A Delta Airlines co-pilot was reportedly taken off a plane that had just landed at SFO on Saturday night by officers from multiple agencies, and he was reportedly arrested on charges relating to child sexual abuse material.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: It's Almost Officially the Wettest July on Record In SF SF is on track to record the most measurable rain ever in July; a new study suggests a wildfire in Berkeley could result in deadly gridlock; and song satirist Tom Lehrer has died at age 97.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Mmm, Disco Fries Precita Social readies for its close-up, San Jose's famed Burritozilla is about to go extinct, and the Chronicle's restaurant critics have published dueling reviews of State Bird Provisions, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shuggie's Is Dropping the 'Trash Pie' AKA Pizza, Retooling Its Menu Love for pizza may be universal, but chef David Murphy is looking for a challenge, and hoping to educate more diners about food waste with a new menu and a pivot at his three-year-old Mission restaurant.
SF Politics Planned Parenthood Closes South San Francisco Location, Four Others Due to Trump Budget Cuts The Republicans' abortion fight has just struck close to home with five California locations of Planned Parenthood shutting their doors due to federal funding cuts, including one in South San Francisco.
Business & Tech Tesla Is Maybe Launching Robotaxis In San Francisco This Weekend, For Testing An internal memo apparently informed Tesla employees that the company was planning to put its robotaxis, with drivers behind the wheel, on the streets of San Francisco this weekend — but do they even have a permit for this?
SF News Recently Opened Hayes Valley Restaurant Announces Closure, Departure of Chef After Dustup With TikTok Influencer For the second time this year, a social media spat between a chef and an influencer has blown up into a wider controversy, and this time is prompting the restaurant to close its doors.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Arrest Made In East Bay Freeway Shootings A 33-year-old Antioch man has been arrested in connection with two freeway shootings on Tuesday; the person who died on a Turkish Airlines flight to SFO has been ID'd; and an unexplained arrest occurred at an Oakland school.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Will Again Be Livestreamed on Amazon Prime and Twitch As it was last year, Outside Lands 2025 will once again be streamed live by Amazon Music on Prime and Twitch, all three days, starting at 1:30 pm.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink That Tesla-Branded Diner Has Opened In LA, and Predictably It Is Being Yelp-Bombed The 24-hour Tesla Diner just opened earlier this week in West Hollywood, serving smashburgers, hot dogs, chicken and waffles, breakfast tacos, and more. But apparently you can't park there unless you drive a Tesla.
SF News SF Pride's Financials Still In the Red, In Part Due to City Revoking $150K Grant As the numbers are becoming clear, it seems that SF Pride's financial situation is not so dire as it may have seemed a few months back, as corporate sponsors and parade contingents seemed to be in a Trump-inspired retreat. But that doesn't mean there isn't still a shortfall this year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hotly Anticipated Modern Cantonese Restaurant Happy Crane Sets Opening Date In Hayes Valley The much anticipated new replacement restaurant in the former Monsieur Benjamin space on Gough Street is getting set to open in two weeks.
SF Politics Ninth Circuit Shuts Down Trump's Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship, Setting Up Supreme Court Showdown The next legal step after the Supreme Court appeared to roll over multiple times to the will of President Trump this term will be answering the question of whether his executive order barring birthright citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants is unconstitutional.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SoMa Offices Filling Up Again The street closures in Golden Gate Park have begun ahead of back-to-back concert weekends; the Chronicle food critics are filing dueling reviews of State Bird Provisions; and tech startups are moving back into SoMa.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Richard Tillman's Competency Questioned In Court Richard Tillman, the San Jose arson suspect and brother of the late Pat Tillman, made a court appearance today at which his competency was called in question; an Oakland man was arrested in a Sacramento jewelry heist; and Pam Bondi apparently told Trump directly that he's in the Epstein files.
Business & Tech Sam Altman Warns of Coming AI-Created 'Fraud Crisis' OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued a fairly dire warning about how some personal security apparatuses — particularly things we use to guard our bank accounts and the like — are highly vulnerable to AI-based fraud.
SF News Lengthy Court Proceeding Over Homeless Encampment Sweeps In SF Ends With $2.8M Settlement A court case that was brought by several homeless individuals along with the ACLU and the Coalition on Homelessness led to a two-year legal battle over the city's practice of clearing encampments from public spaces. It has now ended in a financial settlement of $2.8 million.
SF News Federal Report Offers Several New Details About Capsize Incident That Left 8 Dead at Lake Tahoe Extreme waves, a dead engine, unworn life jackets, and a tragically poor position on the lake all contributed to the deaths of eight people on Lake Tahoe, according to a newly released preliminary report.
SF News Mother Speaks Out After 9-Year-Old Boy Killed By Father In San Jose Park The 9-year-old victim in last week's San Jose stabbing case has been identified and his mother has now put out a statement about the tragic loss of her son, and his father's undiagnosed mental illness.
SF News Pedestrian Killed In Mission Terrace Hit-and-Run Collision Early Wednesday morning, a pedestrian was struck and killed in the Mission Terrace neighborhood of San Francisco, and the vehicle responsible fled the scene.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Napa Father Faces Murder Charge for DUI Crash That Killed Son Two people were found dead of gunshot wounds in an East Oakland apartment; a Napa father has been charged with murder for a DUI-related crash that killed his son; and San Jose again ranks high on unaffordability list.
Arts & Entertainment IKEA-Anchored Shopping Center to Get New Event Space This Fall Ingka Centres, the mall affiliate of IKEA, just announced the activation of one more of the upper floors of the still half-vacant, six-story shopping center at 945 Market Street.
