SF News SF Rec & Parks Bids Fond Farewell to Giant Cypress That Had to Be Taken Down In Golden Gate Park "Farewell to the giant!" says San Francisco's Rec & Parks Department, after announcing the demise of a 100-year-old, 90-foot cypress tree in Hellman Hollow, the enormous trunk of which had recently split, creating a dangerous situation.
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Confirms Return to Castro Theatre For 50th Anniversary Film Fest As has been expected, San Francisco's LGBTQ+ film festival, Frameline, is going to return to its old home at the Castro Theatre in 2026, and this will be for Frameline 50, marking 50 years of the world's oldest queer film fest.
SF News Wrongful Death Lawsuit Claims Grandfather Was 'Boiled Alive' By Hotel Shower In San Jose The family of a Marine Corps veteran who had traveled to San Jose to see his granddaughter graduate from college in May is suing the hotel where he was staying after he was found dead and severely scalded in the shower of his hotel room.
SF News San Francisco to Cover Gap In SNAP Funding, Assuming Checks Don't Arrive, With Help of Foundation Recipients of SNAP assistance, or food stamps, in San Francisco will not see their benefits lapse due to the federal government shutdown, thanks to a partnership between San Francisco and the charity started by billionaire Michael Moritz and his wife.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 196-Unit Apartment Complex Planned In Presidio The Presidio Trust announces plans for a new, 196-unit residential complex; a fistfight in East Oakland turned into a shooting Wednesday; and the Trump administration admits in a court filing that it has the funds the cover SNAP benefits for November.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman Leaves Baby, Walks Away From East Bay Crash Scene A woman was arrested after allegedly walking away from her crashed car on I-580, leaving an infant inside; Mayor Lurie's upcoming plan might not produce enough new units; and the death toll from Hurricane Melissa rises to 30.
SF News Berkeley Animal Rights Activist Convicted of Stealing Chickens From Petaluma Farm The trial has ended for Direct Action Everywhere activist Zoe Rosenberg, and she has been convicted of trespassing and conspiracy in connection with a 2023 raid on a Petaluma poultry farm in which she stole/rescued four chickens.
SF News Beloved Bodega Cat Allegedly Killed By Waymo In Mission District KitKat, a bodega cat who patrolled and slept alot in Randa's Market on 16th Street, was allegedly run over by a Waymo vehicle, inciting what could be a fresh wave of anti-robot sentiment in San Francisco.
SF News SFPD Reportedly Looking at Three Suspects In Golden Gate Park Assault on Child, DNA Being Tested The SFPD says it has identified three suspects in last week's restroom sexual assault on a young girl, and there's a report of a man who'd been lurking in the area and talking to young girls.
Business & Tech OpenAI Finalizes Restructuring With Nonprofit In Control, State AG OKs It After some tense months while the company was under investigation by the state attorney general's office, OpenAI announced Tuesday that it had completed its restructuring, with its nonprofit arm, the OpenAI Foundation, in control of its for-profit business.
Business & Tech Get Ready for Uber Robotaxis to Start Rolling In SF Next Year In partnership with an electric car company and an autonomous tech company, Uber is getting back into the robotaxi business, ten years after its first rushed attempt to put autonomous vehicles on the road.
SF News Humpday Headlines: North Bay Man Charged In Homophobic Attack at Bowling Alley A Cloverdale man has been charged after an apparent hate crime incident at a Rohnert Park bowling alley; Nvidia becomes the world's first $5 trillion company; and Atherton is no longer the country's priciest zip code.
SF News Witness Describes Humiliation, Bounced Paychecks That Led to Killing of Santa Cruz Tech CEO and Cannabis Farm Owner The four men accused in the October 2019 murder of Tushar Atre in Santa Cruz are all facing trial or have already faced trial this year, six full years after the crime.
SF News Three Young Men Arrested In Connection With July Homicide Near Fisherman's Wharf Three men, ranging in age from 19 to 22, have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of another man in early July near SF's Fisherman's Wharf.
SF News Sexual Assault of Child Reported In Golden Gate Park Restroom San Francisco police are investigating a reported sexual battery or sexual assault of a child in a restroom near the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park on Thursday.
SF Politics Bonta and Newsom Call Out Heartlessness of Trump Administration In Announcing Lawsuit Over SNAP Benefits California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Tuesday announced his 45th lawsuit against the Trump administration so far this year, joining two dozen states in suing the USDA for withholding SNAP benefits from low-income Americans as a consequence of the government shutdown.
Arts & Entertainment Sting to Perform Super Bowl Weekend Concert at SF's Palace of Fine Arts Music legend Sting was just announced as a headliner of the Super Bowl Weekend concert series in San Francisco, which is being put on by the NFL's hospitality provider.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Victim Identified In Santa Cruz Wharf Crash Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies fatally shot a man during a traffic stop Monday; the victim in Sunday's fatal crash at the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf has been ID'd; and Bay Area food banks are mobilizing as SNAP benefits go unpaid.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Possibly Dangerous Inmate Released By Mistake In Contra Costa County An inmate wanted in a homicide case in Seattle was mistakenly freed in Contra Costa County; a large union of federal workers has broken with Democrats over the shutdown; and Alaska Airlines is cutting five routes out of SFO.
SF News Video Shows Weird Aftermath to Shooting Involving U-Haul Truck at Coast Guard Island ICE Protest As we await further details from federal investigators about a strange incident that capped off a tense day Thursday in Oakland outside the gates of Alameda's Coast Guard Island, the Chronicle has obtained some strange surveillance video.
SF Politics Gavin Finally (Sort of) Admits He's Running For President; Kamala Strongly Suggests She Will Again, Too California Governor Gavin Newsom has been doing a good job of getting his name out there in the national media over the last year or two, in what has clearly been an orchestrated plan in preparation for a presidential run. And on Sunday he finally fessed up that yes, he's probably going to run.
Arts & Entertainment Fake, Satirical Startup 'Replacement.AI' Puts Up Haunting Billboards In SF, NYC A satirical ad campaign from some as-yet-unidentified pranksters/performance artists has spent real money on multiple billboards in San Francisco and New York that satirize some of the "stop hiring humans" messaging of actual AI startups.
SF News Air Traffic Control Staffing, Impacted By Shutdown, Leads to Ground Stop at LAX, Flight Delays In Bay Area The government shutdown is impacting air travel and may impact it even more in the coming week and beyond, as air traffic controllers miss paychecks and call in sick.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Water Main Break Floods Homes In Sunnydale A water main broke in SF's Sunnydale neighborhood Monday morning; BART had more equipment trouble today in the Transbay Tube; and President Trump admits he underwent an MRI earlier this month.
Arts & Entertainment 'Suffs' Keeps Marching on National Tour, Arriving Triumphantly In SF at a Time of Protest It is hard not to hear the many, painful echoes of our own time in the story of Suffs, the Tony-winning Broadway musical based on real events in the women's suffrage movement of the 1910s.
