SF News SF Supervisors Approve Program for New Affordable Artist Housing on Mid-Market, Courtesy of Anonymous Donor The SF Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve a new affordable-housing program based in a new building on mid-Market Street that would be dedicated to housing artists and creative types who are largely being priced out of the city.
Business & Tech Meta Wins Antitrust Battle, Does Not Have to Spin Off Instagram or WhatsApp A yearslong fight between the FTC and Meta has ended with Meta prevailing, and a federal judge declaring that the company likely does not hold a monopoly in the social media sphere anymore.
Business & Tech Amazon-Owned Autonomous Taxi Company Zoox Begins Offering Public Rides Zoox, whose funny-looking, steering-wheel-free, four-seater robocars have been roving about San Francisco for a while now, is now launching its first program to give rides to the general public.
SF News Two Injured In High-Speed Crash on Lombard Street In the Marina A three-car crash at Broderick and Lombard streets Tuesday morning left a pickup truck partially lodged in the side of the La Luna motel and two people hospitalized.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Navy Apologizes For Delay In Shipyard Radiation Disclosure The House is voting to release the Epstein files; the Navy apologized at a community meeting about "mishandling" the situation in Hunters Point; and Waymo does appear to be assisting with the Saturday night shooting investigation in the Mission.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Historic Earthquake Refugee Cottage Destroyed In Noe Valley The SF coroner succeeded in ID-ing an unidentified man found dead in SoMa; a developer has illegally destroyed a historic earthquake shack in Noe Valley, neighbors say; and the Trump administration is suing CA over the no-mask rule for ICE.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New British Gastropub, Dingles Public House, Opens Next Week In Hayes Valley At least a couple more new restaurants are expected to sneak open before the year is out, and one of those will be Dingles Public House, in the Civic Center-adjacent space in the ground floor of the Inn at the Opera.
SF News East Bay Pilot Who Nearly Brought Down Alaska Flight Sentenced to Time Served In Federal Case Joseph Emerson, the former Alaska Airlines pilot who had a bad and extra-long trip thanks to some magic mushrooms and consequently did something very dangerous while on the jumpseat inside a cockpit, has successfully avoided further jail time.
SF News What We Know About the Fatal Mission District Shooting Early Sunday A shooting on 16th Street in SF's Mission District Saturday night/early Sunday left one person dead and another critically wounded, and the crime may have been caught on camera by a passing Waymo.
SF News [Updated] Traffic Backs Up Into SF Following Two Crashes, One on Bay Bridge Approach A pair of freeway crashes Monday morning in SF, both on roadways headed in the direction of the Bay Bridge, led to injuries, a significant fuel spill, and a traffic nightmare for those trying to drive to the East Bay.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: FAA Lifts Flight Restrictions The FAA lifted its emergency restrictions on flight traffic; SF condo owners in older buildings are freaking out about a change to the fire code; and Morgan Freeman sues over AI replicas of his voice.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: All Hail Quik Dog Jack's is making a comeback as a semi-private event space, Quik Dog debuts at Mission Rock, and Goose & Gander calls it quits, all in This Week In Food.
Arts & Entertainment K-Pop Dancers, Giant Lububus Promised at Excelsior K-Pop Night Market There is a night market happening tonight, November 14, in SF's Excelsior District, and the theme is K-pop. Brace yourselves for a crowd!
Business & Tech Anthropic Says Its AI Chatbot Was Used By Chinese Hackers for Large-Scale Cyber Attack In what sounds like both a word of warning and weirdly a little bit of bragging, SF-based Anthropic says that its AI chatbot Claude was used by state-sponsored hackers in China to commit a large-scale cyberattack on American companies.
SF News Iron Dust, Which BART Says It Stopped Cleaning In 2020, Likely to Blame For Smoke Incident In August Dust that collects on and near insulator caps along BART's electrified third rail was potentially to blame for a scary August 29 incident in which a fire in the Transbay Tube led to smoke entering a moving train.
SF News Arrest Made In Shooting of Famed Laney College Football Coach John Beam Oakland police have announced that an arrest has been made in connection with Thursday's shocking shooting at Laney College, which left a beloved football coach critically wounded, and more details about the crime have emerged.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Court Blocks Immigrant License Rule Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon arrived at UC Berkeley to make a show about investigating a protest; a federal appeals court has blocked a new rule about immigrants' commercial driver's licenses; and Trump angers his base by softening on H1-B visas.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Opens Pabu-Chan, a New Sake Tasting 'Jewel Box' In Plaza of 101 California Just outside the doors of PABU, the 11-year-old izakaya that Michael Mina opened in the base of 101 California, there is a new separate sake bar and private event space, and it's called Pabu-Chan.
SF News 3.6M Earthquake Rumbles Under Vallejo, Follows Earlier Swarm of Quakes A small but noticeable 3.6-magnitude earthquake happened Thursday at 12:41 pm, with an epicenter two miles southeast of Vallejo.
Business & Tech Legal Dispute Continues Between Transamerica Building Owner and High-End Private Club That Was Set to Be a Tenant A legal battle that's been ongoing for about 18 months between upscale membership club CORE and SHVO, the developer behind the revamp of the Transamerica Building, appeared to escalate this week.
SF News [Update] SFO Sees Nearly 400 Delays, 55 Cancellations as Storm Conditions Collide With FAA-Ordered Cuts Almost 400 flights departing from or arriving at SFO have been delayed so far on Thursday, with 55 flights canceled outright — though the majority of the cancelations may be due to the FAA-mandated decrease in air traffic related to the government shutdown.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Fender-Benders Mar Morning Commute There were some car crashes during this morning's very rainy commute; Live 105 has cancelled their rebooted Not So Silent Night concert; and the government shutdown is officially over.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bye Bye, Breda Train Transit fans toast to the final rides of the last 90s-era Breda light-rail train on the J-Church line; a former Newsom aide is indicted for stealing funds from Becerra; and there was a shooting at Oakland's Skyline High School.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pigs & Pinot Returns to Healdsburg With Chefs Charlie Palmer, Emeril Lagasse, and Wolfgang Puck Cooking With Their Sons In what will be the 19th annual iteration of the festival, Bay Area chef Charlie Palmer's renowned Pigs & Pinot returns to Healdsburg in a new location in March, with a unique, all-star roster of father-son chef teams.
SF News Former Santa Clara County Undersheriff Kenneth Binder Named New San Mateo County Sheriff San Mateo County begins a new law enforcement era today with the naming of new Sheriff Kenneth Binder. Binder replaces Sheriff Christina Corpus, whose two-year tenure was rife with controversy, and who retired last month after county supervisors voted to remove her.
