SF Politics In Latest PR Effort, California Forever Opens Healthcare Clinic In Rio Vista As they attempt to win over hearts and minds to their plan to build a new city in eastern Solano County, the group California Forever has just pledged to bolster healthcare access in the county.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Dry Lightning Striking All Over California One California county saw 1,000 lightning strikes overnight; Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's comms guy has left his job; and Elon Musk has fathered yet another kid, his twelfth.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Attorney Says He's No Longer Representing Oakland Mayor Attorney Tony Brass has fired Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao as a client, after she decided to make some combative public statements Monday; the 30-year-old KlaasKids Foundation is shutting down; and you may hear some thunder around the Bay tonight.
SF News SFUSD May Lay Off 600 Teachers and Staff In the Next Two Years Under Budget Plan As the San Francisco Unified School District submits to state oversight amid an ongoing budget crisis, we're now learning that the current plan to close a major deficit may include around 610 layoffs over the next two years.
SF News BART Police Confront and Arrest Stabbing Suspect Outside Powell Station A woman was arrested Monday morning on Market Street outside of the Powell Street BART station after she allegedly slashed a man on the train platform with a knife after the two exited a train.
SF News Doctors at UCSF Battle Over Opinions of the Gaza War, Question Whether Protest Should Happen at a Hospital As at many university campuses around the country, protests have broken out at the University of California San Francisco over the war between Israel and Hamas, only UCSF is, uniquely, mostly a medical institution with no undergraduate student body.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Gives Fiery Press Conference, Demands to Know Why the FBI Needed to Raid Her House Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao made her first public statements since last week's FBI raid on her home, offering some stern words for the agency and the proponents of the recall effort, though she did not take questions from the press.
SF News UC Says No to Proposed Campus In SF's Downtown A kind of moonshot proposal to install a new University of California campus in downtown San Francisco — one of a number of ideas that have been thrown out there in the last year by the mayor to bring new life to downtown — has been declined by the university.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Avocado Truck Overturns on 101 A truck carrying 16,000 pounds of avocados overturned in the northbound lanes of 101 in San Mateo; SF officials pushback on study calling SF the country's "worst-run city"; and a 30-year-old McDonald's has closed at Stonestown.
SF News Sunday Links: Yet Another Sideshow Shuts Down Bay Bridge There was yet another sideshow on the Bay Bridge early this morning; four people were injured in a shooting in Vallejo; and a two-acre grass fire broke out in San Francisco Saturday night.
SF News Paul Pelosi Attacker David DePape Found Guilty In State Trial It's a second guilty verdict for David DePape, the man who attacked Paul Pelosi two years ago who was earlier convicted in federal court, and he is likely to spend the remainder of his life behind bars.
SF News One Killed In Shooting In SoMa, Near SF's Civic Center One person was killed Friday evening in a shooting in SoMa, and this fatal shooting followed an earlier one that occurred just a few blocks away.
SF News Saturday Links: World's Ugliest Dog Crowned at Sonoma-Marin Fair A three-time second-place winner named Wild Thang won the World's Ugliest Dog contest Friday; an attorney for Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao says the raid on her home was "bad optics"; and beloved local chef and food writer Narsai David has died.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Castro and North Beach Both Welcome New Bars New bars have opened in both the Castro and North Beach neighborhoods, Lazy Bear is set to close this summer for a renovation, and the Chronicle's critic sees a lot of greige at RH's Palm Court restaurant.
SF News Air Taxi Service Plans 2025 Launch In Bay Area, Offering Rides Between Napa, Livermore, San Jose, and South SF A new electric air taxi service is looking to launch in the Bay Area, with its first taxi-port to be built at a South San Francisco office complex — and they have plans to offer 10-minute rides to San Jose and 15-minute rides to Napa.
SF News The Rainbow Family Gathering Is Happening In a Northern California Forest and Locals Are Freaking Out An area north of Antelope Lake in Plumas National Forest is going to play host to around 10,000 unwashed hippies next month, and area residents and the local sheriff are sounding alarm bells and wondering what kind of mess they'll be cleaning up.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Heat Wave Descends on Bay Area Parts of the East Bay could see 100-degree temps this weekend; the CPUC says AT&T has to continue being the carrier of last resort for rural communities; and KTVU says goodbye to Julie Haener.
SF News California Supreme Court Blocks Anti-Tax Ballot Measure In Rare Move, Siding With Newsom and Legislature The California Supreme Court has struck down an anti-tax measure that had qualified for the November ballot through a signature drive, saying that it violates state constitutional procedure.
SF News East Bay 'Scholar-Activist' Arrested for UC Berkeley Arson Incidents That Were Possibly Linked to Pro-Palestinian Protest A 34-year-old man was arrested Monday in connection with multiple arson incidents and the firebombing of a campus police vehicle at UC Berkeley, and these may have been acts of protest over the university's treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters.
Arts & Entertainment Tyler, the Creator Drops Out of Outside Lands Lineup, Will Be Replaced By Sabrina Carpenter A lot of tickets have already been sold, and fans of Tyler, the Creator will be disappointed to learn that he will not be making a return visit to Outside Lands this year after all.
SF News FBI Agents Raid Home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Not sure what's going on here, but hours after a shooting at Lake Merritt, and less than a day after signatures were verified in a recall campaign against her, the FBI raided the home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao.
SF News [Update] 14 People Shot at Unsanctioned Juneteenth Event at Oakland's Lake Merritt Fourteen people were injured, one of them critically, in a shooting Wednesday evening after a fight broke out during an unsanctioned Juneteenth gathering by Lake Merritt in Oakland — which also devolved into a sideshow. This is the second Juneteenth shooting in Oakland in three years.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: COVID Summer Swell Arrives Like 'Clockwork' The annual rise in COVID infections is arriving along with summer gatherings as it has before; Sonoma County sees an 11% uptick in homelessness; and Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to ban cellphones from schools statewide.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Club Q Shooter Takes Plea Deal on Federal Hate Crime Charges A juvenile was shot and injured at 15th and Market streets Tuesday night; Assemblymember Matt Haney is being called out for lavish spending on sporting events; and the Club Q shooter has taken a plea deal on federal hate crime charges after previously pleading guilty in state court.
SF Politics How Many 'Ambassadors' Does the City Need? SF Community Ambassadors Rally to Save Their Jobs A fight is ongoing over SF Mayor London Breed's new proposed budget, in which she is attempting to cut the 14-year-old program Community Ambassador Program in order to close a major deficit.
