SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Berkeley Hills Fire Possibly Caused By Firework A vegetation fire in the Berkeley hills Monday night was possibly caused by a firework; PG&E has begun shutting off power in the North Bay; and apparently Gavin Newsom is very popular in China.
SF News Day Around the Bay: McLaren Park Grass Fire Sparked By Illegal Firework An illegal firework sparked a grass fire Sunday night in McLaren Park; Amici's East Coast Pizzeria is closing its last SF location; and President Biden condemned the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity.
Business & Tech Supreme Court Deals Second Blow This Term to Republicans Seeking to Punish Social Media Platforms Over Censorship The Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision Monday tossing two cases back to lower courts, stymieing a Republican-led effort to litigate their feelings about social media platforms' handling of the 2020 election, and of Donald Trump after January 6th.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurants Will Continue Adding Surcharges Following Last-Minute Law Signed Saturday Thanks to an emergency bill that was introduced in early June by the same lawmaker who co-sponsored the law banning "junk fees," an exception was carved out for the California restaurant industry to continue charging those unpopular surcharges.
SF News [Update] Three Coyotes Shot and Killed After Aggressive Coyote Attacks Child In SF Botanical Garden It's the second time in three years that a coyote has menaced a child in the San Francisco Botanical Garden, and this time the animal bit the child.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: One Dead In Tenderloin Fire One person died in a residential fire in SF's Tenderloin this morning; the Pride Parade on Sunday went off without a hitch; and a major heat dome is forming over NorCal that will bring some record-breaking temps in the coming days.
SF News Pride Sunday Headlines: Dolores Park Filled for Another Dyke March Day Two people were shot in Oakland Saturday evening, one fatally; the Rainbow Family has relocated to another part of Plumas National Forest; and Dyke March did happen, but it was fairly small.
SF News Saturday Headlines: Rainbow Lasers Up Market Even Brighter This Pride Former DBI plan checker just got a year in prison; the big rainbow lasers shining up Market Street this Pride Weekend are even brighter than before; and some deplorable teen tossed out an M100 or similar while dirt-biking past Mayor London Breed and the laser-light switch-on ceremony.
SF News Three 18-Year-Old Suspects Arrested After Alameda Woman Carjacked With Small Children In Car A trio of 18-year-olds allegedly crashed a BMW in San Francisco on Wednesday after carjacking the vehicle from an Alameda woman who had a two-year-old and four-year-old child in the car.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ACLU Vows to Keep Fighting Encampment Sweeps The ACLU says it will keep up its legal battle with SF following the Supreme Court's ruling on homeless encampments; Mayor Sheng Thao has a new lawyer; and Biden visited the site of the Stonewall Riots today as Pride Weekend kicks off.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Ginger's Rises Again The FiDi's only gay bar returns, Fiorella expands to Noe Valley, and longtime Mission stalwart Regalito is going to become something new in a matter of months.
SF News One Lake Merritt Shooting Victim Was a Bystander Allegedly Targeted by Teen Suspect The family of one of the victims in last week's mass shooting event at Lake Merritt is telling a disturbing story that could amount to a hate crime, and this victim was not even a participant in the unsanctioned Juneteenth party that was going on.
SF News High-Speed Rail Now Has Full Environmental Approvals For SF-to-LA Route While still sorely short on funds to actually get built, California's high-speed rail project reached a planning milestone on Thursday, with full approval now secured for a rail line linking San Francisco to Los Angeles.
SF Politics Supreme Court Ruling Could Have Broad Implications for Homeless Encampment Sweeps In California The Supreme Court has, predictably, ruled in favor of the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, weighing in for the first time on the issue of homelessness and how cities and states may legally enforce laws around public camping.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Environmental Group Sues Navy Over SF Shipyard Cleanup An environmental group has made good on a legal threat to sue the Navy over the Hunters Point Shipyard cleanup; the Supreme Court has overturned yet another huge precedent with wide-ranging consequences; and several UC Berkeley swimmers are headed to the Olympics.
SF News Pro-Palestinian March In Castro to Coincide With Sunday Pride Parade A queer- and trans-led alternate march, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, is planned for Sunday in the Castro, dubbed 'No Pride in Genocide.'
Arts & Entertainment A Brief History of Pride Weekend In San Francisco San Francisco plays host every June to one of the biggest LGBTQ gatherings in the world, reminding everyone that this city is still the epicenter of the queer universe — even if that universe has grown much bigger since the early days of "gay liberation."
SF News Rainbow Family Gathering Ordered Out of National Forest For First Time, Threatened With Fines It's not all peace, love, and mushroom tea in the Plumas National Forest, with around 500 members of the Rainbow Family gathering five miles north of Antelope Lake, and federal authorities are trying to kick them out.
SF News Fire Destroys Warehouse In West Oakland Next to Wood Street Encampment A three-alarm fire broke out Wednesday night at a roofing supply warehouse in West Oakland, and the fire appeared to have started outside the building, possibly in a debris pile.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Supreme Court Hampers More EPA Efforts A teen had to be rescued in Alameda after getting stuck in some shoreline mud; Tesla's been ordered to stop polluting; and the Supreme Court released another handful of big decisions, including one about the EPA.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Curious Coyote Wanders Onto Pink Triangle In SF Thieves used a car to ram and burglarize a cigarette store in SF's Richmond District; Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is fundraising to fight the recall; and a curious coyote wandered onto the Pink Triangle on Twin Peaks Tuesday.
SF News BART Offering 'Most Robust Service Ever' For Pride Sunday BART is planning to run trains every five minutes through San Francisco starting Sunday morning, in what it says is its "most robust service ever" for San Francisco's Pride Parade.
SF News Dyke March Officially Cancelled, But May Happen Anyway It hasn't exactly been the most organized and controversy-free event of the Pride Season, but this year's Dyke March is apparently coming with some extra organizational turmoil.
SF News Legal Dispute Could Impact Opening of Ultra-Luxe Private Club at Transamerica Pyramid A potential legal battle between the developer and owner of the Transamerica Pyramid and the high-end private club that was supposed to become a main tenant there makes it sound like all is not well with this partnership.
SF News Supreme Court Briefly Leaks Decision Indicating It Will Temporarily Allow Emergency Abortions to Continue In Idaho The Supreme Court may be sidestepping a thorny abortion case, but the result appears will be that a lower court's pause on Idaho's near-total abortion ban will continue.
