SF News Day Around the Bay: Car Crashes Into Historic Potrero Hill Building A car crashed into a historic brick building at 17th and Texas streets in SF; a Marin County woman has given $1M to be distributed among all Ross Valley teachers; and SF Supervisor Bilal Mahmood has been removed from two committees in what he says is retaliation for his housing development push.
Business & Tech Your Uber Eats Order Might Get Delivered By Drone Very Soon Uber is speeding toward the day when those currently ubiquitous delivery people on mini motorcycles are a thing of the past, announcing a new partnership with a drone delivery startup that has already been working with Chipotle and Walmart.
SF Politics Former Senator Kyrsten Sinema Being Sued Over Affair She Says Began at a Wine Country Airbnb An affair with a member of her security detail that began in either Sonoma or Napa County in 2024 has led to a lawsuit against former Senator Kyrsten Sinema from the security guard's ex-wife, which Sinema is trying to get thrown out.
SF News Highway 1 and Los Padres National Forest Remain Closed as Timber Fire Grows to 5,200 Acres The Timber Fire appears to be growing at a slower rate and is now 17% contained, though it continues to cut off Big Sur and Highway 1 from Northern California tourism.
SF Politics Former Congressman Eric Swalwell Did, In Fact, Have Sex With That Chinese Spy The FBI and members of Congress have known all along that former Congressman Eric Swalwell had several sexual encounters with a Chinese "honeypot" operative named Fang Fang, and he claimed once it happened while he was on Ambien.
SF News Body Pulled From San Francisco Bay Near Ferry Building A body was seen floating in the Bay near the Embarcadero Sunday evening, and was apparently seen by passersby before it was recovered by the San Francisco Fire Department.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Fire In Castro Street Garage, Dog Given Oxygen SF firefighters gave a dog oxygen Sunday after a small fire in the Castro; Oakland Pride drew thousands on Sunday; and two southbound lanes of the Golden Gate Bridge will see midday closures this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: SF Beer Master Preps New Brewpub In San Rafael A new bistro is headed to the Lower Haight called Passages, former Magnolia guy Dave McLean is opening a new brewpub for his new beer brand in San Rafael, and Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan returns from maternity leave to review Esme, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Mess Hall, With Three Restaurants, a Bar and Market, Opens In the Presidio Tunnel Tops Park on Saturday The long-awaited final piece of the Presidio Tunnel Tops Park, the food hall concession called The Mess Hall, opens this weekend with six separate food and beverage concepts inside including three restaurants.
SF News Martinez Murder Suspect Was a Successful Engineer With Spanish Citizenship; Trump's DHS Says He Slipped Through Sanctuary Law The Trump administration has chosen a particularly complicated and odd case to seize on in its neverending quest to vilify California, sanctuary laws, and Governor Gavin Newsom.
SF News Redwood City Liquor Store Fire Deemed to Have Been Murder-Suicide Investigators now say that a fire at a strip-mall liquor store in Redwood City last fall was deliberately set, and that the manager of the store who died in the fire was the arsonist, staging the scene to make it appear he was a victim.
SF News Nima Momeni Back In Court Arguing For Appeal of His 2024 Conviction In Bob Lee Murder Convicted killer Nima Momeni and his new attorney — new as of last summer, at least — were due back in court Friday for an evidentiary hearing in Momeni's appeal on the basis of racial or ethnic bias.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oracle Park Will Host 2028 MLB All-Star Game The MLB All-Star Game is officially headed to San Francisco in two years; opponents of the Marina Safeway redevelopment have a new tactic; the Solano County DA is seeking to try to the Fairfield High graduation shooting suspect as an adult.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Intimate Wine Bar Opens Inside The Academy In the Castro A new wine bar has come to the Castro, with an array of international wines by the glass or bottle, in addition to small plates and cocktails, and it's on the top floor of the nine-year-old private social club The Academy.
SF News Oakland to Pay $17M to Settle Wrongful Death Case Involving Police 'Ghost Chase' The city of Oakland has agreed to pay one of its highest-ever legal settlements to the family of a 28-year-old man who was killed four years ago in a crash that was indirectly caused by a chase initiated by two rookie Oakland police officers.
Business & Tech Tesla's Latest Aesthetic Atrocity: This Gold 'Cybercab' Spotted In SF Tesla appears to be testing its latest semi-autonomous taxi model in San Francisco, and in an effort to stand out from the competition, it has been painted gold.
SF News A Bunch of People Had Their Phones Stolen at Outside Lands and They Ended Up In LA There was a spate of cellphone thefts at this year's Outside Lands, as there probably have been at multiple years' editions of the festival. But maybe the SFPD will investigate this time as it looks like an organized crime ring.
SF News It Pays to Work For the SF Sheriff's Office, Like Over $800K Per Year for Some Some of the city's highest paid employees are part of the San Francisco Sheriff's Office, with overtime pay driving overall compensation well into the high six figures for dozens of deputies and lieutenants — as well as for SFPD officers.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 3.8M Earthquake Strikes Near San Leandro A 3.8M earthquake struck near San Leandro Thursday morning; the Timber Fire has grown to 4,245 acres in Big Sur; and hundreds packed a town hall meeting with Sen. Adam Schiff in Santa Rosa last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: One Person Shot and Wounded In SF's Western Addition One person was shot and wounded in SF's Western Addition on Wednesday; a new cost estimate is in for reopening the Great Highway; and a wildfire has broken out in Tahoe National Forest called the Talbot Fire.
SF News Jury Awards $33M to Twin Daughters of Couple Killed By Road-Racing Teen In Redwood City A jury has awarded $33 million to the young twin girls who were orphaned in a tragic 2022 crash in Redwood City, in which two young men in a street race caused the violent collision along El Camino Real.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Castro Bars Decide to 'Pause' Use of Facial Scanning Tech at the Door Two of three Castro neighborhood bars that have been using Patronscan technology at the door to improve security say that they are pausing their use of it due to privacy concerns raised by the LGBTQ community.
SF News Teen Classmate Carrying Out Some Version of Vigilante Justice May Be Tried as Adult In 2023 SF Warehouse Killing More details have emerged in the mysterious killing of a San Francisco teenager three years ago, as a judge is about to decide if the accused killer should be tried as an adult.
SF News Woman Killed By Truck While Riding Scooter on Market Street Identified The woman who was found dead on Market Street last Friday morning after a collision involving a scooter and another vehicle has been identified as a 32-year-old San Francisco resident.
SF News Humpday Headlines: San Jose City Workers May Be Headed for Strike Thousands of San Jose city workers may be headed for a strike; jury selection has begun in Meta's federal trial in Oakland over social media addiction; and Big Sur is once again being isolated by a natural disaster.
