SF News Suspect Arrested In South Bay for Cold-Case 2021 Stabbing In Upper Haight The SFPD believes they have the culprit in a fatal stabbing in the Haight-Ashbury that occurred 16 months ago.
Arts & Entertainment 'Clyde's' Brings Humor to Post-Incarceration Blues at Berkeley Rep On its surface, the summary blurb on Lynn Nottage's Tony-nominated play 'Clyde's' — five formerly incarcerated people grapple with day-to-day struggles in the kitchen of a truck stop diner — doesn't sound like a setup for comedy.
SF News Half Moon Bay Shooting Suspect Admits to Murders In Jailhouse Interview, Suggests He Might Have Mental Illness Zhao Chunli, the suspect now charged with killing seven people on Monday at two mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay, admitted to the murders in a jailhouse interview with NBC Bay Area reporter Janelle Wang on Thursday.
SF News Expensively Shored-Up Berkeley Hillside Once Again Giving Way; 14 Homes Red-Tagged Due to Another Landslide A hillside in the Claremont Hills area of the Oakland/Berkeley Hills that has given way in wet winters before — and that has been shored up at great expense by at least two property owners over the last two decades — gave way to a significant landslide again last week.
SF News All That Rain, and Much of California Still Remains In Moderate Drought (Except Central Coast) You've likely heard it said that we won't be out of this historic drought without several winters like the one we've had thus far. And the latest map from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows us where we're at.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Schiff Makes Senate Candidacy Official Rep. Adam Schiff has made his candidacy for Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat official; isolated Big Sur residents are getting supplies airlifted in today; and Chinese company ByteDance (owner of TikTok) has moved into new offices in San Jose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Another Frozen Waymo Car Caused Another Traffic Jam A judge has ordered the release of audio and video from the Paul Pelosi attack; the Half Moon Bay shooting suspect was arraigned; and we have another 'Waymo car froze and held up traffic' tale from last week.
Business & Tech Facebook Is Letting Trump Back On the Platform After Two-Year Suspension Two years and change after inciting an insurrection and showing no remorse or sympathy for the deaths and injuries of Capitol Police personnel, former president Donald Trump is being allowed back on Facebook and Instagram. But the big question: Will he be invited into the Metaverse!!?!
SF News New Study Suggests Updated Booster Shots Protect Against XBB.1.5 Infection There is now good evidence to suggest that the new, bivalent boosters from Moderna and Pfizer cut infection risk by half from the so-called "Kraken variant" of Omicron, XBB.1.5.
SF News Potrero Hill Apartment Fire Leaves One Dead, Three Rescued A fire Wednesday morning in Potrero Hill has ended tragically, with one adult victim dead, and firefighters say they had significant challenges fighting the blaze.
SF News Victims' Names Released In Half Moon Bay Shooting; Details Emerge Including Note Suspect Left For Wife While police haven't revealed much publicly about Monday's tragic shooting in Half Moon Bay, a narrative is emerging about what transpired at two mushroom farms that ended with seven victims dead. And we now know the names of those victims.
SF News Monday Shootout In Oakland Took Place During Music Video Shoot, Appears Gang Related Because it occurred in such close succession with two mass shootings in California, a shooting incident in Oakland Monday night has been called a third "mass shooting," but the evidence points to something different involving more than one shooter and possible gang conflict.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Two More Half Moon Bay Shooting Victims Named A family member has identified two brothers as among those shot in Half Moon Bay; two siblings stand accused of attempting to murder their mother in Monterey County; and all 11 victims in Saturday's Monterey Park shooting have now been identified.
SF News SFPD Again Raises Reward Money for Info In 'Doodler' Case, This Time to $250,000 Following a 2021 podcast that shed some new light on the long cold Doodler serial-killer case from the 197os, the SFPD said they were "closer than ever" to solving the case at this time last year. But they are still coming up short on evidence.
SF News Half Moon Bay Shooting Suspect Allegedly Made Threats, Acted Violently Toward Coworker a Decade Ago The first bit of evidence has emerged about a volatile, violent past involving former coworkers and Half Moon Bay mass-shooting suspect Zhao Chunli, and this comes via a restraining order that was filed ten years ago.
Arts & Entertainment Music and Theater Venue PianoFight Is Closing Its SF and Oakland Locations In March While scrappy Tenderloin theater PianoFight may have survived the pandemic til now, it's been clear that the casualties are continuing to mount, and it is now adding itself to the list.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Scores Big With Oscar Noms for German-Language War Epic, But Streamers Mostly Shut Out This Year Los Gatos-based Netflix is the only one of the big players in streaming video to score big with Oscar nominations this year for their German-language WWI epic 'All Quiet on the Western Front.'
SF News President Biden Offers Condolences, Pledges Support For Half Moon Bay; First Victim Named President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden issued a statement early Tuesday expressing grief for the victims in the latest mass shooting in California — this one close to home for us on the San Francisco Peninsula. And we are beginning to learn the names of those who were killed.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 69 People Killed In Mass Shootings So Far This Year In U.S. There is still no known motive for Monday's mass shooting at two farms in Half Moon Bay; a person was fatally struck by a BART train at Lafayette Station Tuesday morning; and a shootout between individuals at a gas station in Oakland left one dead and seven injured.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dog Rescued From Under Rocks at Ocean Beach There may be more victims in the Half Moon Bay shooting from earlier today, Twitter is officially being sued by its Market Street landlord, and a dog was rescued from a curious predicament at Ocean Beach.
SF News [Update] Shootings With Eight Victims In Half Moon Bay, Suspect Arrested Details are few as of now, but at least four people are dead in Half Moon Bay in two shootings, one of which may have occurred at a cannabis farm.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Night Market-Inspired Restaurant From Former Aina Chef Debuts In the Mission Fans of chef Chris Yang and his popular former Hawaiian spot Aina (RIP), and/or pop-up projects like El Chino Grande, will be excited to hear (if they haven't already) that he's opened a new brick-and-mortar spot on Mission Street.
SF Politics Safe Drug-Consumption 'Wellness Hubs' Back on the Table In SF With New Proposed Legislation San Francisco may try to follow the "New York Model" of turning a blind eye and providing some funding for "wellness" centers that allow consumption of illegal drugs under new legislation being put forward by Supervisor Hillary Ronen.
SF News Pete Buttigieg and Nancy Pelosi Join London Breed to Celebrate $400M Federal Grant for Golden Gate Bridge Upgrades "We know that the dollars in the federal government are hard to get, which is why this funding is significant," said SF Mayor London Breed at a Monday morning event at the Roundhouse Cafe at the Golden Gate Bridge, celebrating a major new grant from the Biden Administration.
SF News Bay Area Law Enforcement Agencies Plan Increased Security at Lunar New Year Events Following SoCal Shooting The mood was subdued on Sunday at an annual Lunar New Year kickoff event in San Francisco's Portsmouth Square, after members of the Asian American community in the Southern California city of Monterey Park were senselessly gunned down amid celebrations there the night before.