SF News Bay Area Firefighters In LA as Eaton Fire In Altadena Threatens Thousands of Homes The raging fire situation in LA looked ominous for many residents this morning, even if they were not immediately in view of the flames. And while the Palisades Fire has captured coverage in the last 12 hours, the Eaton Fire in the northeastern part of the county is looking even more destructive.
SF Politics No Time to Retire, Barbara Lee Makes Her Bid For Oakland Mayor Official Confirming what was already looking likely earlier this week, recent former Congresswoman Barbara Lee announced Wednesday that she will, indeed, be running for mayor of Oakland in an April special election.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Wind-Fueled Palisades Fire Destroys 1,000 Structures The Palisades Fire raged overnight in Los Angeles destroying at least 1,000 structures; gusty winds here in the Bay toppled trees and power lines; and Daniel Lurie gets inaugurated today in Civic Center Plaza.
Business & Tech Waymo Passenger Says He Was Late to the Airport Because Robocar Kept Doing Circles In a Parking Lot This week in robocar snafus: A Waymo in Phoenix went a little haywire recently, and its passenger says he was late getting to a flight because the car refused to stop circling the same parking lot.
SF Politics Lurie Administration Faces First Potential Scandal as DUI Accusation Surfaces About Public Safety Chief Paul Yep, the retired SF police officer whom incoming mayor Daniel Lurie tapped to become the new Chief of Public Safety in the Mayor's Office, was involved in a car collision several years ago in which he rear-ended a couple, and they accused him of being drunk at the time.
Business & Tech Saying Its Content Moderation Has 'Gone Too Far,' Meta Now Set to Become Hotbed of Transphobia and Conspiracies In a shift akin to what Elon Musk has done with the platform we still call Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will soon be more of a free-for-all when it comes to misinformation, with "community notes" inserted when facts are questioned.
SF News High-Speed Rail Project, Facing More Funding Woes Under Trump, Might Now Get Linked to Vegas Rail Line There was an update, of sorts, on Monday about the California High-Speed Rail project, two weeks ahead of the inauguration of Donald Trump — which will usher in another era of Republican middle fingers held high in the direction of such projects that aren't in their states.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lazy Bear Team to Open Big New French Restaurant In SF's Design District It's a new year and with it we get the first big restaurant opening announcement for San Francisco: Coming this summer, chef David Barzelay and the team behind Lazy Bear are planning to open a grand, old-school French restaurant.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Two Charged In Marin Overdose Death Two people have been charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection with a Saturday overdose death in Marin; Latinx Democratic Club co-president Kevin Ortiz has been cleared of sexual misconduct allegations; and EDM producer Zhu will be DJing at Daniel Lurie's big block party tomorrow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Gone Girl' Kidnapper Matthew Muller Facing New Charges In Contra Costa County The suspect in the NYE homicide in the Mission District has been charged; Matthew Muller, the man convicted in the 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins, allegedly committed another kidnapping that year; and there was an attempted break-in at the Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory.
SF Politics Barbara Lee Takes a Formal Step Toward a Running For Mayor of Oakland Recently retired Congresswoman Barbara Lee has just opened a campaign account for a run for Oakland mayor, and she's reportedly close to making a final decision about whether she will seek the job.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fresh-From-the-Boat Crab Sales Begin With Long Lines at Pier 47 The commercial Dungeness crab season finally kicked off this past weekend, after a now familiar two-month delay, and San Franciscans turned out in force on Sunday to buy some of the first catch from the boats.
SF Politics Inauguration of Daniel Lurie as SF Mayor on Wednesday to Include Civic Center Ceremony, Chinatown Celebrations A changing of the guard takes place this week at San Francisco City Hall, and the festivities around the mayoral inauguration will be going on all day Wednesday.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: It's January 6th Once Again VP Kamala Harris will help to certify Trump's Electoral College win today in DC; Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is stepping down; and SF native Ali Wong took home another Golden Globe.
SF News SoMa Shooting Leaves One Critically Injured A shooting Saturday evening in SoMa prompted an emergency alert from the city and left one person with serious injuries.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Barcelona Bar Star Pops Up In SF Horn Barbecue is headed to Sacramento now as well, the Castro is getting a women's sports bar, and Oakland's Bombera wins an East Bay honor, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment Thousands Turn Out for Toro y Moi DJ Set at Downtown First Thursdays In case you missed it, singer, songwriter, and producer Chaz Bear aka Toro y Moi was the headliner at Downtown First Thursdays last night, and a major crowd showed up for the day-after-New-Year's-Day event.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Berkeley Woman Reports Attempted Kidnapping A Berkeley woman says two people tried to kidnap her son while they were walking on the street; the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf reopens Saturday; and California's population grew for the second consecutive year.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Names Paul Yep as New Public Safety Chief The new Lurie administration will include a new "czar" of public safety who will oversee SF's police and fire departments, in addition to other public safety-related agencies, and Thursday they announced their pick.
SF News First Half of January Looking Very Dry For Bay Area, After Brief Friday Rain San Francisco and the Bay Area are in for some light rain Friday as a weak new cold front moves in from Alaska, but then we're looking at an extended dry period, which isn't great news for anyone starting ski leases up in Tahoe.
SF News One Man Dies, Woman and Child Injured In Possible Domestic Incident In Bernal Heights; Two Injured In SoMa Shooting A man died and a woman and toddler were shot and injured Thursday morning not far from the parking lot where the Alemany Farmers' Market is held, in Bernal Heights.
Business & Tech Office Tower at Sixth and Market Getting Acquired By Tech Group for 'Post-AI Singularity' Vertical Village Well, this sure sounds like a positive, if kooky, sign for mid-Market as a Burning Man-esque tech collective is close to buying the 16-story building at the corner of Sixth Street that was once home to the Burning Man organization.
SF News First Homicide of the New Year In San Francisco Happened In the Mission, Arrest Made Quickly The first homicide of the year in San Francisco happened less than a half hour after midnight on New Year's Eve, at a gas station in the Mission District.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: New Orleans Death Toll Rises to 15 The death toll in the apparent terrorist attack in New Orleans Wednesday has risen to 15; a Mill Valley family says they narrowly escaped being in the area of the attack; and a 4.7M earthquake rattles Lake County.
SF News One Person Dead After Tesla Cybertruck Explodes Outside Trump Hotel In Las Vegas In a highly symbolic New Year's Day event, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded as it sat outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, leaving one person dead, and speculation is swirling about a possible link to the tragedy in New Orleans hours earlier.
