SF News Day Around the Bay: Three Rescued as Piece of Santa Cruz Pier Falls Into Ocean A 150-foot piece of the Santa Cruz Municipal Pier 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.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Brace For a Parade of Storms A series of around six atmospheric river storms are lining up back to back; a man was arrested on suspicion of arson in Healdsburg; and last weekend's storm toppled 98 trees in city parks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pixar Series Sees Trans Storyline Axed The SFPD has made arrests in two recent homicides; Disney is cutting a trans storyline out of a Pixar series that was made for Disney+; and Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a bird flu emergency.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dogpatch Stalwart Piccino Is Expanding to the Presidio, and Marin For 18 years, Piccino has been one of the reliably delicious favorites of the Dogpatch neighborhood, and now, after nearly two decades, the owners have decided to expand.
SF News Scientists Discover East Bay Squirrels Preying on Other Mammals for the First Time Researchers have found a population of California ground squirrels in an East Bay park that are actively hunting and eating voles, a behavior that has shocked squirrel experts.
SF News After Arrest of Teen Suspect, Details Emerge About Two-Year-Old Murder of 18-Year-Old In SF Warehouse An 18-year-old who was living in the Tenderloin went missing in early January 2023, only to turn up dead a few weeks later in a warehouse basement in the Bayview District. We have not heard anything about the case since then, but an arrest was just made late last month.
SF News Rev. Amos Brown Says SF Should Step In and Prevent Sale of Fillmore Safeway Onetime SF supervisor and Black community leader the Reverend Amos Brown is gunning for Safeway following the announcement of its planned closure date in the Fillmore, and its plans to sell its land there for an enormous profit.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Dense Tule Fog Blankets the Bay A dense fog advisory was in effect for the Bay Area Wednesday morning; one person died in a house fire in Forestville Tuesday; and a new private school is taking over part of a downtown SF office building.
SF News Still Very Tall Building Proposed for Sloat Boulevard Site The Outer Sunset could still end up with a very tall, somewhat out-of-scale new residential development on the site of Sloat Garden Center, where a previous developer had proposed an insanely tall, 50-story tower.
SF News In a Sign of Climate Change Chaos, Scientists Were Caught By Surprise With Scotts Valley Tornado A rare, damage-causing tornado made landfall Saturday afternoon in a town south of the Bay Area that had not even been under a tornado warning hours earlier, as San Francisco had been. How was there no warning?
SF Politics SF DA Brooke Jenkins Gets In Dig at Elon Musk After Momeni Verdict Before he became Trump's temporary lackey, Elon Musk was just your average bandwagon-jumping, San Francisco-hating tech CEO on Twitter, trying to tell the world that the city that birthed his company and many others had gone to hell overnight.
SF News Jury Finds Nima Momeni Guilty of Second-Degree Murder of Cash App Founder Bob Lee After seven days of deliberations, the verdict in the trial of Nima Momeni was read Tuesday morning, and the jury found him not guilty of first-degree murder in the April 2023 killing of Bob Lee, but guilty of second-degree murder.
SF News Tuesday Morning What's Up: Sheng Thao Serves Final Day as Oakland Mayor It's Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's last day in office; a man was found dead in a burning RV on Wood Street in West Oakland; TikTok has asked the Supreme Court to block the law that wants to shut down its US operations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vallejo Wants CHP's Help Too Vallejo residents are calling on Newsom to send in the CHP to help their city's crime problem; a man escaped from a psych ward in San Leandro on Friday and is still missing and at-risk; and an Oakland smoke shop got busted for selling drugs.
SF News Verdict Reached In Bob Lee Murder Trial, Won't Be Read Until Tuesday Morning After a seventh day of deliberations, the jury said they had reached a verdict Monday in the trial of Nima Momeni for the killing of Bob Lee in April 2023. But the verdict won't be read until Tuesday morning.
