SF News SF Health Department Urges Queer Community to Get Vaccinated Against Mpox Ahead of Pride As the summer and Pride season are upon us, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) is urging everyone who wants to — but particularly men, trans people, and nonbinary people who have sex with men — to get the two-dose regimen of the mpox (aka monkeypox) vaccine.
SF News David DePape Offers Apology at Second Sentencing, Says He's Doing Better Mentally Following an error by a judge at the first sentencing for Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape, DePape was resentenced Tuesday morning in federal court to 30 years in prison.
SF News BART Track Work to Cause Suspension In Service Between 24th Street and Daly City This weekend, June 1 to 2, there will be no BART service — as in no trains running, bus bridge instead — between 24th Street & Mission Station and Daly City, so plan accordingly.
SF News Fatal Shooting Leads to Crash Near Oakland-San Leandro Border A man was found fatally shot Monday night after he crashed his car in San Leandro, near the Oakland border.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Firefighters Put Out Encampment Fire Inside Old Industrial Building The SFFD put out a fire inside an industrial building in the Bayview; workers on the Alcatraz ferry went on strike over the holiday weekend; and Steph and Ayesha Curry just had a fourth child.
SF News Oakland Firefighters Contain Huge Four-Alarm Blaze at Lumber Warehouse A massive fire broke out at the Economy Lumber warehouse in East Oakland Sunday night, sending thick smoke billowing over the city.
SF News Memorial Day Headlines: Neighbors Hold Fundraiser Barbecue For Fire-Displaced Dogwalker Neighbors had a block-party fundraiser Sunday for the fire-displaced family on Grove Street; an SF man was shot and critically wounded in Oakland; and 50 residents of a senior care facility in Oakley were displaced by a sewage leak.
SF News Sunday Links: Lowriders On Parade The lowriders were on parade this morning in the Mission for Carnaval; the Chronicle delves into a new wage-theft complaint at Horn Barbecue; and Bradley Cooper and Steph Curry were tossing cheesesteaks into the crowd at BottleRock.
SF News Elderly Woman Struck By Cable Car Wins $11 Million Settlement From SF A woman who was struck and injured by a cable car in Russian Hill in December 2022 has won an $11 million settlement.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Tadich Gets a Pan, But Scoma's Keeps Delivering After Six Decades Outta Sight Pizza expands to Chinatown, Bettola gets set for opening in the Inner Richmond, and Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan pans Tadich Grill but says 60-year-old Scoma's on Fisherman's Wharf is still keeping quality high.
SF News The Same Insurrectionist Flag That Flew Over Samuel Alito's Beach House Just Flew Over a Building In SF's Jackson Square In an eery sign suggesting that Trumpists and fomenters of civil war are everywhere among us, a flag that was flown by January 6th insurrectionists, and recently by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito made an appearance this week atop a building in San Francisco's Jackson Square.
SF News Big Rig's Trailer Catches Fire On Westbound Bay Bridge Near Yerba Buena Tunnel; Accident Also on Eastbound Deck There were traffic situations in both the eastbound and westbound directions on the Bay Bridge Friday morning, with a semi truck's trailer fully engulfed in flames just east of Yerba Buena Island.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Missing 70-Year-Old Oakland Woman Found Safe A 70-year-old Oakland woman who disappeared while hiking near Fort Bragg was located Thursday; the candidates for mayor of SF all gather for a Milk Club forum; and a group of Valencia merchants want the SFMTA director to resign.
SF News Homicides Were Down So Far This Year In SF, But We May Have Just Had Three In One Week Three deaths are being investigated as homicides in San Francisco, all of which occurred since last Friday.
Business & Tech Facebook Remains Bad at Restoring Peoples' Hacked Accounts If this has happened to you, then you know what an incredible pain it is to get Meta to help you get your account back. And some states' attorneys general are pushing back.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Entertainment Loses Court Battle With Insurance Company Over COVID Losses The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously today in favor of an insurance company in a case involving pandemic-related closure orders and whether property loss insurance could be applied to address economic losses from a virus.
SF News SFPD Conducts Another Prostitution Sting In the Mission, Busting Johns and Sex Workers San Francisco police are touting a new round of pointless arrests that they made last week during an eight-day operation to discourage sex work in a section of the Mission District where it has basically existed, undeterred, for three decades or more.
SF News Bicyclist Arrested For Hit and Run That Seriously Injured an Elderly Woman In North Beach A 36-year-old man is under arrest after allegedly striking a female pedestrian with his bicycle in North Beach Wednesday and then fleeing the scene.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Contra Costa Fair Workers Robbed at Gunpoint Two workers at the Contra Costa County Fair were robbed at gunpoint; UC Berkeley had a big power outage; and the Justice Department is now suing Live Nation for having a monopoly on ticket sales.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Possible Homicide Investigation In SF's Tenderloin A suspicious death Friday in the Tenderloin is being investigated as a homicide; an 18-year-old UC Davis student has gone missing in SF; and police in Atherton's employ "bait houses" to nab burglars.
Business & Tech Google's 'AI Overview' Gets Facts Wrong, Is Worse Than a Regular Search You may have noticed if you've Googled something in the last week that the search results page on the site is now topped with an "AI Overview" that purports to answer whatever question you may have been trying to get answered. The trouble is, some answers can be blatantly wrong.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owner of Two Shuttered Fisherman's Wharf Restaurants Sues City The owner of two historic Fisherman's Wharf restaurants that closed in recent years, Tarantino's and No. 9 Fisherman’s Grotto, is suing the city of San Francisco for millions of dollars, blaming multiple factors including pandemic closure orders for the restaurants' closures.
SF Politics Invites Go Out For Trump Fundraiser In San Francisco, Hosted By David Sacks The wealthy conservatives of the Bay Area who remain insane and greedy enough to want Trump back in the White House will get to gather at the Pacific Heights lair of one of Trump's biggest local champions, David Sacks in early June.
SF News Predictably, That 50-Story Skyscraper In the Sunset Is Not Happening It was clearly just a stunt from the outset, but now that 50-story tower that was proposed to be built near SF's Ocean Beach has been officially taken off the table.
SF News Former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong Announces Run For City Council In his latest bid to regain a position in city government, former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong has announced that he is now running for a city council seat in November.