SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Zoo Makes Guests Shelter-In-Place Following Threat A wildfire near the Yolo-Solano county border has grown to 360 acres; Prop D has officially been declared a failure; and the SF Zoo had a shelter-in-place situation Monday after a "swatting" incident or similar sort of phoned-in threat.
Business & Tech OpenAI Has Filed For an IPO, Company Says Timing Remains Up In the Air Following rumors about a pending IPO filing, and following the announcement of an IPO filing by competitor Anthropic, OpenAI has confirmed that it has made its confidential pre-IPO filing with the SEC.
Arts & Entertainment New SF Symphony Music Director Elim Chan Given Effusive Welcome at First Concert Since Being Hired Though she won't officially start her tenure as SF Symphony Music Director until next year, Elim Chan conducted her first two concerts at Davies Symphony Hall over the weekend in her capacity as Music Director Designate.
SF News Two Dead, One Oakland Police Officer Injured In High-Speed Crash In East Oakland A stolen SUV that was speeding and driving recklessly on the streets of East Oakland Monday reportedly crashed into an Oakland Police Department SUV, killing two passengers in the stolen vehicle and injuring an Oakland officer.
SF News Shooting at Kaiser Medical Offices In San Jose Leaves Two Injured A man and a woman were reportedly shot and critically injured Monday morning in what police are calling an isolated incident at a Kaiser medical office building in San Jose.
SF Politics Willie Brown Says Kamala Should Have Run For Governor; Other Dems Not Thrilled About Her Possible 2028 Run Former Vice President Kamala Harris could have a serious uphill climb, even within her own party and among Democratic donors, should she decide to run for president once again in 2028.
SF News Parts of North Bay Could See Power Shutoffs Wednesday as Hot and Windy Conditions Arrive We're having an early kickoff to fire season this year and/or there is no distinct fire "season" anymore, with an offshore wind event expected to raise wildfire risks across Northern California this week.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 17-Year-Old Killed In SF Crash Had Just Graduated The 17-year-old boy killed in a May 30 freeway crash in SF has been identified; a 7.8M earthquake in the Philippines created no tsunami danger for the US coast; and thieves stole a bunch of rare Pokemon cards from a Brentwood store.
SF News 73-Year-Old East Bay Man Sues Alameda County Over Wrongful Conviction, Decades on Death Row A 73-year-old Black man is suing Alameda County and its District Attorney's Office for what he argues was an unconstitutional jury selection process that helped to ensure his conviction 35 years ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A New Bar and Restaurant Arrives Near the Ballpark Bar Malone's has softly opened in the former District space on Townsend Street, Goop Kitchen is opening a second location in SoMa, and there may be some movement, finally, over at Anchor Brewing, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nopa, the Restaurant Anchor of a Neighborhood, Celebrates 20 Years Nopa, the bustling restaurant at the corner of Divisadero and Hayes in the Western Addition sub-neighborhood that came to be known as NoPa two decades ago, is celebrating 20 years in business this week, and they had a big bash to mark the occasion on Thursday night.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Adds Extra Security For First Fridays Event After Multiple Violent Incidents Oakland officials and law enforcement are bolstering security for tonight's First Fridays event, after several post-event incidents in which violence has broken out near the event area.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Becerra and Hilton Continue Leading Governor's Race Vote Count After the latest ballot count on Thursday, Hilton and Becerra remain neck and neck and Steyer still trails; voters in the North Bay continue to support the SMART train; and a new report says Super Bowl LX generated $720M in local economic activity.
SF News Prominent North Beach Eyesore, the Verdi Building, Cleared for Partial Demolition A burned-out and long-blighted property facing Washington Square Park in North Beach is finally going to see a partial demolition and redevelopment, following an appeal from a single North Beach resident.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Prix-Fixe Restaurant Noodle In a Haystack Quietly Closes as Owners Plot Fast-Casual Venture An acclaimed Japanese prix-fixe restaurant that most of us were not lucky enough to dine at, Noodle In a Haystack, has closed, and its owners are going the fast-casual route in the hopes of finally turning a decent profit.
SF News Daly City Man Accused In at Least Two Violent Incidents Arrested for Alleged Battery of Castro Bar Doorperson A 24-year-old Daly City man has been arrested in connection with a mid-April incident in which he allegedly punched a woman who was working the door at the bar Midnight Sun in the Castro neighborhood.
SF News 27-Hour Clipper Outage In May Caused By Unpaid AT&T Bill An extended outage on the Clipper card system that became a major point of frustration for BART riders last month appears to have been caused by an account being shut off due to an unpaid bill.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Richmond Apartment Sees 90% Rent Hike The latest governor's race numbers still have Steyer trailing; SF firefighter Ken Jones has lost his cancer battle, after his drawn-out battle with Blue Shield; and a Richmond couple says their new landlord is hiking their rent 90%.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Charges Filed Against Cop-Shooting Suspect The San Francisco DA has filed a litany of felony charges against the Oakland man suspected of shooting and injuring an SFPD officer; a body was found at a Waste Management facility in San Leandro; and BART's new fare gates are getting ads.
Arts & Entertainment An Ariana Grande Pop-Up Merch Shop Opens Thursday on Powell Street Ahead of her three shows at Oakaland Arena this weekend and next week, pop singer Ariana Grande and her team have opened a pop-up merch shop in Union Square, which will be open for the next week.
SF Politics Chakrabarti Concedes Race for SF's Congressional Seat Saikat Chakrabarti is the subject of many headlines today calling out the massive amount of personal money he spent coming in a distant third in Tuesday's primary for California's District 11 House seat. And rather than wait for more numbers to come in, he is bowing out of the race today.
SF Politics SF Election Turnout Looking Historically Low, and Why Does No One Vote on Election Day Anymore? Mid-year special elections and primaries aren't often huge draws when it comes to voter turnout, but San Francisco has a major decision to make about a Congressional seat that could be held by the same person for decades. Was that not enough of a motivator?
SF News Pair of Significant Early Morning Earthquakes Strike Off NorCal Coast There were two earthquakes early Wednesday morning with magnitudes over 5.0 that rumbled under the Pacific Ocean off the Northern California coast.
SF Politics [Updated] Wiener and Chan Are Headed to the November Ballot For SF's Congressional Seat We will still be getting updated vote counts over the coming days and the final tally is not yet in, but as of election night, state Senator Scott Wiener and SF Supervisor Connie Chan were in solid first and second places in the race to succeed Nancy Pelosi.
SF News Post-Election Headlines: Governor's Race Too Close to Call Becerra and Hilton hold the leads in the governor's race but Steyer may still be alive with millions of votes still to count; SF's props C and D both look to be failing; and incumbent supervisors Alan Wong and Stephen Sherrill hold solid leads so far in their ranked-choice contests.
