SF News New San Francisco Homeless Census Shows Slight Drop, But Methodology Also Changed The preliminary results of this year's point-in-time homeless count, which was conducted in San Francisco in late January, are out and Mayor Daniel Lurie is touting the 4% overall drop in homelessness since 2024.
SF News Three Men From Tennessee Indicted In Strong-arm Crypto Robbery Spree Across Bay Area and LA We still don't know who the brains are behind the operation, but three young men from Tennessee were indicted by a federal grand jury and may lead investigators to the co-conspirator or co-conspirators who guided them to holders of large sums of crypto in California.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: FIFA Marks 30 Days Until World Cup Kickoff There are flag-raising ceremonies around the Bay today to mark 30 days until the World Cup; a dog was sickened by rat poison left in a Santa Clara park; and inflation just jumped the most since May 2023.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SoCal Mayor to Plead Guilty to Being a Chinese Agent Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, CA, has admitted to working as an agent of the Chinese government; two men have been charged over an Oakland sideshow last fall; and there was a stabbing at the Redwood City Safeway self-checkout area.
SF Politics Two Former Aides Suggest Quid Pro Quo In Breed's Appointment of Stephen Sherrill to Board of Supervisors Clearly because they want to damage Stephen Sherrill's reelection prospects, two former aides of Mayor London Breed are confirming what many already suspected about her appointment of Sherrill to the Board of Supervisors a year and a half ago.
SF News Rollover Crash Near SF General Leaves Two Injured, Disrupts Muni Service A rollover crash on Potrero Hill that may have only involved one vehicle led to an emergency alert, a fallen tree in the roadway, and disrupted Muni service Monday near Zuckerberg SF General Hospital.
SF Politics Still Not Giving a Formal Endorsement, Pelosi Offers Praise For Connie Chan House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who is now mere months away from a well-deserved retirement, says she's been sitting back and trying to gauge the public's reaction to the candidates running for her seat.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Valkyries Win Home Opener Against Mercury 95-79, Salaün Shines The Golden State Valkyries had a great opening weekend for the 2026 season, beating the Seattle Storm in their first regular season game, and beating the Phoenix Mercury in the home opener Sunday.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Mayor Lurie Continues to Have High Approval Rating Mayor Daniel Lurie continues to enjoy a high overall approval rating in a new poll; authorities in Santa Clara continue to monitor the hantavirus cruise ship passenger; and gray whales seem to be hanging out longer in the Bay.
SF News Brace Yourselves For What Could Be a Really Nutty El Niño Winter Terms like "off the charts" and "record breaking" are being used to describe the coming "super" El Niño that is taking shape in the Pacific.
SF News Sunday Links: Lyft Passenger Killed After Running on North Bay Freeway A Lyft passenger was killed while running on the shoulder of I-80 in Vallejo; police in Santa Clara found a body inside a burned out home following a shooting; and Dave Coulier shares a health update.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Ciao, Del Popolo Polenta debuts in Alamo Square, Del Popolo slings its final (non-frozen) pies, and the East Bay's takeout staple Grégoire opens in the Inner Sunset, all in This Week In Food.
Arts & Entertainment Ray of Light Theatre Breathes New Life Into Longtime Jackson Square Performance Space Ray of Light Theatre, the local musical-obsessed theater group that has performed mostly at the Victoria Theater in the Mission District for much of its 25 years of existence, has a new home downtown.
SF News Evidence of Human Remains, But No Body, Found In Yard During Search Related to Kristin Smart Case Investigators continue to search the San Luis Obispo County home and backyard of Susan Flores, the mother of Paul Flores, who was convicted of killing fellow Cal Poly student Kristin Smart in 1996. And some gruesome evidence has been found.
SF News 19th Avenue Is Once Again Closed For Roadwork This Weekend Both the northbound and southbound lanes of 19th Avenue (Highway 1) in San Francisco are closed this weekend as Caltrans continues repaving the roadway.
SF News Oakland Police Shoot Suspect Who Dragged Officer With His Car A man was shot early Friday by Oakland police officers in a strange incident that began with a traffic stop, and left both officers and the suspect injured.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Sponsors Pull Out of Oakland First Fridays Sponsors are pulling out of Oakland First Fridays after last week's violent incidents; police in San Leandro fatally shot a man Thursday; and Scott Wiener leads by a large margin in a new congressional race poll.
Business & Tech SF-Based Cloudflare Slashes 1,100 Jobs, Citing 'Agentic AI Era' The steady march of Bay Area job losses to AI continues today with SF-based tech company Cloudflare, which says it is laying off 1,100 employees globally.
SF News Arizona Man Arrested In Check-Washing Scheme That Targeted Napa Residents Dozens of Napa County homeowners now have some answers as to why their property tax payments had not made it to the county tax collector this spring, and/or why the checks were getting deposited in other states.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Polenta, San Francisco's Newest Regional Italian Restaurant, Quietly Opens In Alamo Square It's still in soft-opening mode, but a much anticipated new trattoria devoted to the cuisine of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy has made a quiet debut at long last in Alamo Square.
Arts & Entertainment Chonkers the Stellar Sea Lion Appears to Have Left the Bay For Now After an unusually long stay among his smaller California sea lion brethren on the floating docks by Pier 39, which ended up making national news, Chonkers the enormous Stellar sea lion seems to have left the area.
SF News Tenderloin Corner Store Was Allegedly Selling Meth, City Seeks to Shut It Down The San Francisco City Attorney's Office filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to shut down a problematic store called The Corner Store, which in addition to selling weed and illegal flavored tobacco products, was also apparently selling meth.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Driver Arrested In Fatal Pedestrian Crash In Guerneville A suspected DUI driver was arrested Tuesday in a fatal pedestrian collision in Guerneville; a 19-year-old suspect has been arrested in a Cinco de Mayo festival shooting in Santa Rosa; and an SF streetcar collided with a minivan on the Embarcadero.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fire Breaks Out Inside Piece of Vaillancourt Fountain The suspect in last months SoMa hit-and-run has dropped his defense attorney; UCSF is building a big new hearing center in Mission Bay; and a small fire broke out during the disassembly of the Vaillancourt Fountain today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hamburger Project Closes Mission Location Following Viral Incident A long-cursed restaurant space at a prominent corner of the Mission District is vacant once more, and the curse, it seems, has not left the place.
