SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Cliff Rescue at Devil's Slide A crew of thieves hit four gas stations in Oakland in quick succession; a hiker required rescue at Devil's Slide; and the mother of the OpenAI whistleblower now says his apartment was "ransacked."
SF News Santa Cruz Mayor Isn't Committing to Rebuilding Collapsed Section of Wharf Four days after a winter swell took out a 150-foot section of the historic Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, the mayor of Santa Cruz is hedging when asked about whether a rebuilding plan is getting underway.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: End-of-Year Goodbyes Hard Knox Cafe closes its original location in Dogpatch, Lobby Bar is changing owners in the Castro, and The Forge is moving from Oakland's Jack London Square to Rockridge, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Suspect In San Francisco Carjacking Arrested In Sacramento County After Allegedly Firing at Police A suspect in a Thursday carjacking in San Francisco was spotted driving in Rancho Cordova, in Sacramento County, and when sheriff's deputies began pursuing him, he allegedly fired at them out of the car window.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Huge Pothole on I-880 Damages at Least a Dozen Vehicles A massive pothole about one lane wide opened up on I-880 south in Oakland; Oakland saw its 81st homicide of the year on Thursday; and ChatGPT experienced a serious outage.
Business & Tech Parents of OpenAI Whistleblower Don't Believe He Died By Suicide, Order Second Autopsy There is a bit more intrigue around the tragic death late last month of former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji, who was found dead in his Lower Haight apartment of an apparent suicide.
SF News Heavy Rain Now Expected Thursday Night You had your Christmas break from the rain, but it arrives back in the city later today, with a not-insignificant three-quarters of an inch set to fall tonight.
SF News Muni Will Be Free on NYE (Don't Tag Your Clipper Card) Once again, in order to encourage people to use public transit and not drive on New Year's Eve, SF Muni buses and trains will be free to ride on the evening of December 31.
SF News Amid High Surf Conditions Around the Bay, Warning Issued for Swimmers, Beachgoers Residents and visitors heading to Bay Area beaches are being warned to stay out of the water, and to stay off rocks and jetties near the water, amid a high risk for rip currents, sneaker waves, and dangerous high surf starting starting Thursday.
SF News Boxing Day What's Up: Car Collides With Golden Gate Bridge Tollbooth A building burned after an apparent explosion in Capitola Village Christmas morning; a car crashed into the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza; and the Chronicle explores "NDA wines."
SF News Christmas Day Links: Storm Brings Big Waves to Mavericks Smash-and-grab burglars hit a San Leandro restaurant for eggs on Christmas Eve; Union Square was packed with last-minute shoppers; and this recent storm brought massive waves back to Mavericks.
SF News Guy Killed By SF Police Was a Security Guard With a Gun Fetish Who Hated Gun Laws, Liberal California We now know who the deceased is in the officer-involved shooting in Union Square last week, and a few details about the bizarre and angry-sounding hit-and-run the precipitated the shooting.
SF News Early Morning Fire at Pier 28 Temporarily Shuts Down Embarcadero San Francisco firefighters responded to a one-alarm fire early Tuesday that appears to have broken out, improbably, underneath and at the edge of Pier 28 in the rain.
SF News Christmas Eve Links: After a Deluge of Rain Comes Possible Thunder Flood advisories were issued Tuesday for SF, San Mateo, and Sonoma counties; there's a chance of thunder Tuesday afternoon; and the hotel workers appear to have ended their strike with the final hotel, Hilton.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Three Rescued as Piece of Santa Cruz Wharf Falls Into Ocean A 150-foot piece of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf collapsed with people on it during high surf; Reem's is being forced to close at the Ferry Building; and hotel workers are still striking outside the Hilton.
Business & Tech As Bluesky Blows Up, So Do the Bots With rapid growth, and without a robust content moderation system, Bluesky is already entering an era of bots and misinformation.
Business & Tech Waymo Takes Another Step Toward Entering Airport Taxi Market Waymo could have one of its biggest fights to date on its hands as it pushes toward providing rides between San Francisco and SFO — but a permit process is underway to allow the company to begin mapping the airport for that purpose.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five-Year-Old Bagel Business Daily Driver Is Closing Its Doors Daily Driver, the wood-fired bagel bakery and creamery that launched in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood in 2019, just announced it is closing down its two remaining locations.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Smooth Sailing So Far at SFO Three people died in two separate collisions in one Bay Area city Sunday; President Biden just commuted the sentences of almost all the men on federal death row; and most flights have been leaving on time so far on this very busy day at SFO.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Horn Barbecue Moves Further East A new hi-fi bar and restaurant moves into the former Universal Cafe, Rose Pizzeria is opening a new cafe nearby in Berkeley, and Horn Barbecue has reopened its flagship, but in Lafayette.
SF News Alameda County DA Drops Charge Against Remaining Officer In Mario Gonzalez Case With the departure of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, the DA's office is shedding one controversial case that had been revived under Price's watch, that of the in-custody death of Mario Gonzalez in Alameda in 2021.
SF News SF Police Shoot and Kill Man Identified as Union Square Security Guard A hit-and-run incident on a sidewalk in Union Square Thursday evening was followed, hours later, by a confrontation with San Francisco police that left the driver in the alleged hit-and-run dead.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Rain Restarts Early Saturday A man was found bleeding from a stab wound at BART's Walnut Creek Station; the Milpitas family found dead in a murder-suicide has been identified; and the next series of atmospheric storms begins tomorrow.
SF News Striking Hotel Workers Reach Tentative Deal With Marriott Some of that hootin' and hollering and banging will quiet down near Union Square as some 1,500 striking hotel workers have reached a tentative deal with Marriott — a contract deal that Marriott did on its own, without Hyatt or Hilton.
SF News FiDi Restaurant Owners Accused of Using Pandemic Relief Funds to Flip Houses A husband and wife who ran a now defunct SF Financial District lunch spot have been indicted by the feds for improperly using pandemic relief funds for personal expenses, and allegedly laundering a large portion of the money through house flips.
