SF Politics Newsom Heads to Washington For Governors' Meeting With Biden Amid widespread talk of Governor Gavin Newsom being a potential replacement candidate should President Biden decide not to run again in November, Newsom and a group of Democratic governors are headed to D.C. for a Wednesday evening sit-down with the President.
SF News Fast-Growing Thompson Fire Threatens Oroville, Prompts 28,000 Evacuations A wildfire that began Tuesday morning has grown to over 3,000 acres and is threatening the town of Oroville as it burns up to the edges of California's second-largest reservoir.
SF News Pre-Fourth Headlines: Heatwave May Last Over a Week This heatwave we're having could go on until the middle of next week if not longer; Oakland has been paying out loads of money in settlements over pothole-related injuries; and Brazilian and Colombian soccer fans came together Tuesday at Levi's Stadium.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Joins Chorus of Democrats Expressing Cautious Concern About Biden's Candidacy For the past few days, a number of prominent Democrats in Congress have been saying out loud the things that Americans have been saying to each other and to pollsters very openly for two years: Biden's age might be a problem!
SF News Toll Fire In Napa Burns 50 Acres, Prompts Evacuations We now have a wildfire near Calistoga that broke out Tuesday morning, and it has grown to 50 acres and counting in the area of Old Lawley Toll Road.
Bay Area Sports Steph Curry Posts Emotional Instagram Story After Klay Thompson Departure Announcement Klay Thompson's fellow Splash Brother, Steph Curry, laid his emotions bare Tuesday morning posting a series of photos commemorating his time together with Thompson on the Golden State Warriors.
SF News 74-Year-Old Woman Killed After Being Pushed Into Oncoming BART Train In SF, Homeless Male Suspect Arrested An elderly woman was allegedly pushed toward an oncoming train Monday night at Powell Street Station, hitting her head and landing on the platform.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Berkeley Hills Fire Possibly Caused By Firework A vegetation fire in the Berkeley hills Monday night was possibly caused by a firework; PG&E has begun shutting off power in the North Bay; and apparently Gavin Newsom is very popular in China.
SF News Day Around the Bay: McLaren Park Grass Fire Sparked By Illegal Firework An illegal firework sparked a grass fire Sunday night in McLaren Park; Amici's East Coast Pizzeria is closing its last SF location; and President Biden condemned the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity.
Business & Tech Supreme Court Deals Second Blow This Term to Republicans Seeking to Punish Social Media Platforms Over Censorship The Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision Monday tossing two cases back to lower courts, stymieing a Republican-led effort to litigate their feelings about social media platforms' handling of the 2020 election, and of Donald Trump after January 6th.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurants Will Continue Adding Surcharges Following Last-Minute Law Signed Saturday Thanks to an emergency bill that was introduced in early June by the same lawmaker who co-sponsored the law banning "junk fees," an exception was carved out for the California restaurant industry to continue charging those unpopular surcharges.
SF News [Update] Three Coyotes Shot and Killed After Aggressive Coyote Attacks Child In SF Botanical Garden It's the second time in three years that a coyote has menaced a child in the San Francisco Botanical Garden, and this time the animal bit the child.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: One Dead In Tenderloin Fire One person died in a residential fire in SF's Tenderloin this morning; the Pride Parade on Sunday went off without a hitch; and a major heat dome is forming over NorCal that will bring some record-breaking temps in the coming days.
SF News Pride Sunday Headlines: Dolores Park Filled for Another Dyke March Day Two people were shot in Oakland Saturday evening, one fatally; the Rainbow Family has relocated to another part of Plumas National Forest; and Dyke March did happen, but it was fairly small.
SF News Saturday Headlines: Rainbow Lasers Up Market Even Brighter This Pride Former DBI plan checker just got a year in prison; the big rainbow lasers shining up Market Street this Pride Weekend are even brighter than before; and some deplorable teen tossed out an M100 or similar while dirt-biking past Mayor London Breed and the laser-light switch-on ceremony.
SF News Three 18-Year-Old Suspects Arrested After Alameda Woman Carjacked With Small Children In Car A trio of 18-year-olds allegedly crashed a BMW in San Francisco on Wednesday after carjacking the vehicle from an Alameda woman who had a two-year-old and four-year-old child in the car.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ACLU Vows to Keep Fighting Encampment Sweeps The ACLU says it will keep up its legal battle with SF following the Supreme Court's ruling on homeless encampments; Mayor Sheng Thao has a new lawyer; and Biden visited the site of the Stonewall Riots today as Pride Weekend kicks off.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Ginger's Rises Again The FiDi's only gay bar returns, Fiorella expands to Noe Valley, and longtime Mission stalwart Regalito is going to become something new in a matter of months.
SF News One Lake Merritt Shooting Victim Was a Bystander Allegedly Targeted by Teen Suspect The family of one of the victims in last week's mass shooting event at Lake Merritt is telling a disturbing story that could amount to a hate crime, and this victim was not even a participant in the unsanctioned Juneteenth party that was going on.
SF News High-Speed Rail Now Has Full Environmental Approvals For SF-to-LA Route While still sorely short on funds to actually get built, California's high-speed rail project reached a planning milestone on Thursday, with full approval now secured for a rail line linking San Francisco to Los Angeles.
SF Politics Supreme Court Ruling Could Have Broad Implications for Homeless Encampment Sweeps In California The Supreme Court has, predictably, ruled in favor of the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, weighing in for the first time on the issue of homelessness and how cities and states may legally enforce laws around public camping.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Environmental Group Sues Navy Over SF Shipyard Cleanup An environmental group has made good on a legal threat to sue the Navy over the Hunters Point Shipyard cleanup; the Supreme Court has overturned yet another huge precedent with wide-ranging consequences; and several UC Berkeley swimmers are headed to the Olympics.
SF News Pro-Palestinian March In Castro to Coincide With Sunday Pride Parade A queer- and trans-led alternate march, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, is planned for Sunday in the Castro, dubbed 'No Pride in Genocide.'
Arts & Entertainment A Brief History of Pride Weekend In San Francisco San Francisco plays host every June to one of the biggest LGBTQ gatherings in the world, reminding everyone that this city is still the epicenter of the queer universe — even if that universe has grown much bigger since the early days of "gay liberation."
SF News Rainbow Family Gathering Ordered Out of National Forest For First Time, Threatened With Fines It's not all peace, love, and mushroom tea in the Plumas National Forest, with around 500 members of the Rainbow Family gathering five miles north of Antelope Lake, and federal authorities are trying to kick them out.
