SF News Day Around the Bay: Measles Case Confirmed In Contra Costa County A person infected with measles might have exposed others at multiple Walnut Creek stores before Christmas; Benihana is opening 10 new Bay Area locations; and Republicans continue trying to erase the history of January 6th.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Rapper Budda Mack Takes Over Former Slim's Nightclub, Will Reopen It Next Month as The Budda A new club is coming to 11th Street in San Francisco's SoMa district, from Oakland-born rap artist Budda Mack, and it will be called The Budda.
Arts & Entertainment Five New Year's Eve Parties In SF That You Can Still Grab Tickets For Still don't have any New Year's Eve plans and looking to lock down some tickets and get out of the house? We have a few ideas for you, at least a couple of which won't break the bank, and a couple of which might impress your new paramour.
SF News With Rainy New Year's Eve Ahead, SF Hits 105% of Average Rainfall For the rain year to date, which began on October 1, San Francisco and Oakland are both above normal in terms of rainfall, and the rain total is only set to rise further before 2025 is out.
SF News Family Says Woman's Body Found Near Santa Cruz Is That of Missing Swimmer Possibly Killed By Shark The body of a woman was found Saturday on a remote beach north of Santa Cruz, and it is likely that of Erica Fox, the 55-year-old woman who disappeared while swimming with an ocean swimmers' group last week.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Downtown Oakland Building Burns for Second Time A building in downtown Oakland suffered a fire for the second time this year; a 4.7M earthquake in far northeastern CA was felt in Sacramento; and some siblings helped rescue a family from a fire in Menlo Park.
SF News SFO's Harvey Milk Terminal 1 Shut Down and Evacuated Due to Suspicious Item Terminal 1 at SFO was temporarily evacuated Friday morning due to a suspicious, unattended item, and passengers on airlines using the terminal were instructed to go through security at the International Terminal.
SF News Flood Risks Remain as Christmas Deluge Tapers Off Around the Bay Hilly streets turned into shallow rivers, Daly City saw significant flooding, fallen trees were reported all over, and SFO continues to see significant flight delays after the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day storms.
SF News Xmas Links: Flood Warnings Issued Across the Bay San Francisco and multiple other locales remained under flood warnings Christmas morning; multiple major roadways were closed due to flooding including westbound Highway 24; and some drivers were reportedly stranded overnight on Donner Summit.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soho House Confirms Long-Rumored New Resort In Sonoma's Kenwood Luxury members-only club brand Soho House will be landing in the Bay Area in 2027, but not in San Francisco.
Business & Tech Waymos Were Looking for Human Remote 'Confirmations' at Intersections During Blackout, Company Says It took a blackout across a huge swath of San Francisco for Waymo to figure out that its robot system for handling such situations has a key weakness, which caused huge traffic problems on Saturday.
SF News Flooding Shuts Down Hamilton Avenue In Menlo Park, Near Meta Campus A main thoroughfare through Menlo Park's Belle Haven neighborhood, adjacent to the Meta campus, flooded overnight in one of the Bay Area's first significant flooding events in this storm.
SF News Christmas Eve Morning Links: Beware the New GrubHub Email Bitcoin Scam PG&E warns of further outages during the storm; a developer seeks to build new housing in Stinson Beach; and a scam email went out to GrubHub users asking them to send Bitcoin.
Arts & Entertainment Curran Theatre Sold for $13.7M, Far Less Than Most Giants Players Make In a Year It seems the San Francisco Giants acquired the historic Curran Theatre for a song, and the sale came at a significant loss for seller Carole Shorenstein Hays.
SF News Tonight's Storm May Qualify as Bomb Cyclone, With Winds Topping 60mph Meteorologists and their weather models have not come to any agreement about whether Tuesday's incoming storm will meet the criteria of a "bomb cyclone," but suffice it to say it will be really windy and wet.
SF Politics Federal Judge Orders Homeland Security to Stop Arresting Immigrants at Courts In Northern California A federal judge who previously ruled that conditions at San Francisco's ICE facility are inhumane, has now temporarily halted all arrests of immigrants at courthouses in Northern California and the Pacific Islands, citing lack of due process and violations of civil rights.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Power Finally Restored to All Areas of SF The lights are back on for the remaining 3,800 PG&E customers without power as of Monday night; traffic was snarled for hours on I-880 Monday due to a big rig overturning; and Union Square has some big new sidewalk bollards.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Animal Rights Activist Freed From Jail Early The first candidate forum in the race for Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat is set for Jan. 7; 23-y-o animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg has been released from jail weeks after sentencing; and a veteran '60 Minutes' correspondent says a segment of hers was pulled for political reasons.
SF News Pat Montandon, SF Socialite and Philanthropist Who Had an Infamous Divorce, Dies at 96 From her days as San Francisco's "Golden Girl" about town, to her high-profile marriage to and divorce from Al Wilsey, to her third act as a philanthropist and peace advocate, Pat Montandon led a unique SF life.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best New San Francisco Restaurants of 2025 It's been a banner year, and a banner fall especially, for big restaurant openings in San Francisco, and some of the smaller ones as well give us a feeling of renaissance and reinvigoration all around.
SF News Major Rain and Wind Are Incoming on Tuesday Night, Storm Continuing Through Xmas While we will be seeing rain throughout the day Monday and Tuesday in San Francisco, this is actually the lull before the real storm arrives later on Tuesday.
SF News PG&E Blames 'Catastrophic Incident' For Outage as Over 10,000 Remain Without Power, Muni Still Disrupted The Great San Francisco Blackout of December 2025 continues into its third day for some residents, and Muni subway service remains disrupted due to ongoing impacts from the PG&E outage.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Happy (Belated) Solstice A medical emergency was disrupting BART service at Fruitvale Station early Monday; a flood advisory is in effect in San Francisco; and last night was the longest night of the year.
SF News Power Restored For All But 20,000 PG&E Customers In SF as of Sunday Morning After a widespread blackout put a damper on holiday celebrations and shopping in San Francisco Saturday, PG&E had the lights back on for many by 9 pm, but still offered little explanation for what happened.
SF News Massive Power Outage In San Francisco Leaves 200,000+ In the Dark, Disrupts Muni and BART A widespread power outage was impacting legions of San Francisco residents and businesses Saturday, and it seemed to be a cascading situation that began just before 10 am and extended into evening hours.
