SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Day Around the Bay: Buena Vista Bartender Celebrates 50 Years of Pouring Irish Coffees Bystanders helped detain the teen suspect accused of plowing into a crowd of people in Oakland; the Sandy Fire is growing in Ventura County; and Joseph Shaw, a bartender at Buena Vista, just celebrated 50 years working at the bar.
SF Politics ...And Pelosi Finally Comes Out and Endorses Connie Chan to Succeed Her She waited a good long minute, but House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has clearly decided her chosen candidate needs a boost in the primary, and she has now offered an official endorsement.
SF News Exclusive: Man In SUV With Pro-Charlie Kirk Message Allegedly Tags Gay-Owned Castro Florist With Hateful Graffiti Over the weekend, a suspect tagged a building housing a Castro-area floral design shop with hateful graffiti and assaulted a neighbor, and the shop owners are hoping San Francisco police will bring the suspect to justice soon.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Bay to Breakers 2026, Wind and All Sunday's 113th annual Bay to Breakers foot race across the city of San Francisco brought out around 30,000 participants — a significant jump from the 20,000 or so who participated last year — and the sunny but windy Sunday made for some good times along the route.
Business & Tech Federal Jury and Judge Side With OpenAI, Dismissing Elon Musk's Case About Company's Nonprofit Mission A decision came down quickly in the federal court battle between OpenAI co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman, with the jury issuing a verdict Monday siding with Altman and OpenAI.
SF News Falling Trees and Car Crashes Lead to Five Deaths, Four Injuries In Sonoma County Windy conditions in Sonoma County and elsewhere in the Bay Area led to many reports of downed trees, and one fallen tree took the life of a Santa Rosa man.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Around 13,500 Still Without Power After PSPS Around 13,500 Bay Area PG&E customers are without power due to the first public-safety shutoff of the season; two people were killed in a shooting in Suisun City Sunday; and Santa Cruz is trying to explain a significant drop in its population.
SF News Speeding Juvenile Driver Arrested After East Oakland Crash That Killed Three Pedestrians A grisly crash Saturday night in East Oakland took the lives of three pedestrians and left three others hospitalized with injuries, and a juvenile driver was arrested in connection with the crash.
SF News Person Killed In Apparent Homicide In SF's Sunset District A fatal shooting occurred early Sunday in San Francisco's Sunset District, but few details are available so far.
SF News Sunday Links: Last Night For Those Lasers Shooting Out of the Transamerica Pyramid A small vegetation fire breaks out amid a Red Flag Warning in Sonoma County; a new Swatch collection drew a massive crowd to the San Jose Swatch store; and Illuminate's latest laser cannon display downtown ends tonight.
SF Politics Feds Reportedly Make 'Inquiries' Over London Breed's Appointment of Supervisor Stephen Sherrill The FBI has reportedly been making inquiries about an alleged quid pro quo situation involving London Breed, Michael Bloomberg, and SF Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, and it sounds like Breed's former aide and confidante Conor Johnston may be coming back to haunt her.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E May Cut Power to Parts of North Bay Due to Winds An elderly driver plowed into a Safeway store in Sunnyvale; the man accused in the deadly Oakland bar shooting in March now faces a federal charge; and PG&E is likely to have its first Public Safety Power Shutoff in the North Bay this weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A New Drinks and Dinner Spot In the Castro Parasol begins dinner service in the Castro, Saltwater Bakehop opens its first brick-and-mortar in SoMa, and The DeLuxe prepares for an opening in the Upper Haight very soon, all in This Week in Food.
SF Politics At Final Governor's Race Debate Before Primary, Becerra Gets Attacked, Porter Still Trying to Break Through On Thursday night at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco, seven of the candidates for California governor debated one last time before the June 2 primary, each trying to change their standing in the polls and become one of the top two vote-getters.
SF News Kars4Kids, Found to Be Front for New Jersey Jewish Organization That Does Little for Needy Kids, Now Banned in CA The decades-long scourge of that all-too-earwormy "1-877-KARS4KIDS" jingle is thankfully over, or almost over, for Californians at least, as a court has ruled the ads must stop running due to false advertising.
SF News Bizarre Details Emerge In Santa Clara Murder-Suicide, Which Involved Estranged Brothers The scant details about a fatal shooting and a second body subsequently found inside a burning home in Santa Clara last week told none of the story, which actually involves a man secretly renting a home next door to his estranged brother before allegedly killing him.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Prop D Could Hamper the Local Economy, Controller Says Prop D, the "CEO tax," could cost the city in terms of jobs and GDP but would likely bring in $300M annually; Vallejo police arrest woman in pepper-spray road-rage attack; and it's apparently miserable working at Meta right now.
SF News Will Cesar Chavez Street Be Renamed For Dolores Huerta? Chuck Norris?? A committee is being established to lead the process of renaming Cesar Chavez Street, 30 years after the name supplanted Army Street, and following the revelation that the workers' rights icon sexually assaulted women and girls.
SF News SF Man Charged In 27 Separate Walgreens Thefts In SF; Other Alleged Prolific Retail Thieves Also Nabbed The San Francisco Police Department Organized Retail Crime Task Force on Thursday announced the arrests of and charges against five individuals accused of prolific retail thievery in the city.
SF News Survivor of Lake Tahoe Capsize Tragedy Describes Key Mistakes That Led to Eight Drownings A newly obtained police report reveals statements that were made by a survivor of the tragic event on Lake Tahoe last June that left eight people dead, regarding the poor decisions made by the group prior to the boat capsizing.
SF News Alameda County Agrees to $36M Settlement For Son and Family of Dublin Couple Killed By Deputy The Alameda County Board of Supervisors this week voted to approve a sizeable settlement — the largest ever payout related to the Sheriff's Department — to the family of a Dublin couple killed by a former deputy in 2022 in a tragic love triangle case.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Very Windy Weekend Ahead You can expect a very windy weekend around the Bay starting Friday; Tuesday night's fire in the Tenderloin actually displaced 46 people; and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan remains stubbornly confident in the governor's race despite polling in sixth place.
SF News Day Around the Bay: LinkedIn Announces Layoffs LinkedIn is going to have some layoffs, but it's unclear how many; Eric Swalwell's wife was seen out without a wedding ring on; and Margaret Cho is bringing her new comedy tour to SF in two weeks.
Arts & Entertainment Four Healthy Peregrine Falcon Chicks Have Hatched on a Ledge at San Jose City Hall There's some good news on the local raptor front, which we all could use after a rough few years for Bay Area peregrine falcons: Four chicks have hatched this spring in the nest box atop San Jose City Hall, and biologists from UC Santa Cruz have given them a clean bill of health.
SF News Censorship Alleged at Marin County Student Newspaper Related In Part to Epstein Files Story A high school newspaper in Larkspur has been at the center of a fiery debate about the First Amendment, after teachers and students say the paper has been pressured to censor itself by the school administration.
