SF News Man Rescued From Cliffside By Helicopter Near Marin Headlands The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office lent some helicopter support to a dramatic rescue operation in Marin County Sunday evening, in which a man was stuck on a cliff.
SF News Kitchen Flue Catches Fire at Indian Oven Restaurant In Lower Haight A one-alarm fire that appeared to start in the kitchen of Indian Oven in the Lower Haight injured one person and has temporarily closed the restaurant.
SF News SFO Officials Push Back On Proposed Name Change For Oakland Airport Oakland Airport has been seeking ways to boost its profile among travelers, and on Friday the Port of Oakland announced that it was considering a name change to incorporate "San Francisco" into the name. And officials at SFO are not having it.
SF News Road Collapse On Highway 1 Strands Around 1,600 People In Big Sur Over Holiday Weekend Anyone who took a daytrip to Big Sur on Saturday, or those who were perhaps spending a weekend there, were surprised to learn they were stranded Saturday evening.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Mayor Wants to Choose Next Police Chief Without Commission Input Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao wants to make a change to the city charter regarding the police commission; that $20/hour minimum wage for fast food workers takes effect today; and two people died in a wrong-way crash on I-580 Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Trendy L.A. Seafood Spot Comes to Ghirardelli Square Broad Street Oyster Co. just opened its first Bay Area location at Ghirardelli Square, a hot taqueria from Richmond arrives in the Castro, and the Chronicle reviews Z&Y Peking Duck.
SF News Gay Dad From Danville, Turned In By His Husband For 1998 Murder, Sentenced to 16 Years A man who had been living the suburban dream in the East Bay with twin daughters and a doctor husband ended up in a messy divorce. And perhaps in a bid for custody of their children, his husband turned him in to police for a crime he had privately confessed to years earlier.
SF News One of Two Alleged Smoke Shop Burglars Charged With Murder In Wrong-Way Crash Near Bay Bridge Two men who were in a vehicle driving the wrong way up an I-580 ramp near the Bay Bridge toll plaza earlier this month and collided with a BMW, killing the driver, are facing multiple charges, and one has been charged with the BMW driver's murder.
SF News Fatal Shooting at Powell Street Station In SF Leaves One Dead There was a homicide Thursday night in Hallidie Plaza, outside the Powell Street BART/Muni station, and it is under investigation.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Juul Settlement Money Going to SFUSD The SF Unified School District is getting a bunch of money from that Juul settlement; an arrest was made in a Wednesday freeway shooting in the East Bay; and Biden's fundraiser with Clinton and Obama in NYC raised $25 million.
Arts & Entertainment Green Day Doing Small Show Tuesday at The Fillmore to Raise Awareness of Climate Change Impacts Bay Area music legends Green Day are putting on a show next week at the historic, and very intimate Fillmore, and tickets are available to the public.
Arts & Entertainment The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, Playing Sold Out Shows at Chase Center Tonight and Sunday Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are in San Francisco for shows tonight and Sunday, and in their honor, the city has temporarily renamed Warriors Way, aka South Street, in the band's honor.
SF News Concord Man Found Guilty In Bizarre North Beach Pipe-Bomb-Throwing Incident An East Bay man now faces up to 14 years in state prison for an unhinged incident last fall that began at Saints Peter and Paul Church in North Beach.
SF News One Last Storm to Come Before Rainy Season Officially Ends Sunday The rain is still coming as California's typical rainy season is winding down, and rainfall totals show an above-average season for parts of the Bay Area, which is great news for mitigating the drought.
Business & Tech Disgraced FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years Fallen crypto mogul and Bay Area native Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday morning to 25 years in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $11 billion.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Daniel Lurie Gets Endorsement From Former Mayor Frank Jordan Mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie got an endorsement from former mayor Frank Jordan Wednesday; a pedestrian was struck and killed on 101 in San Jose; and a documentary is being made about the disappearance of Alexis Gabe.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Reward Raised For Info In 2022 Crocker-Amazon Shooting Benecia police announced the arrests of three people connected to a bank robbery; the reward has been upped to $250K for information in a 2022 shooting case in SF; and a mountain lion sighting in South SF was just a big gray cat.
SF News Family of Murdered Dublin Couple Outraged Over Attempt to Reduce Charges for Former Alameda County Deputy The family of double-murder victims Maria and Benison Tran, who were fatally shot in their Dublin home in September 2022, were protesting Wednesday over a reduced charging decision by Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price.
SF News Pacifica Woman Allegedly Shoots Son, Drives Off, and Is Killed By Police An officer-involved shooting occurred in Pacifica Wednesday morning, and reportedly the person shot was a woman who had just shot her adult son.
SF Politics East Bay Man With Habit of Threatening Federal Officials, Including Nancy Pelosi, Gets 11 Months In Prison A Concord man who left threatening messages on the office voicemails of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has pleaded guilty and received a sentence of 11 months in federal prison.
SF Politics SF Bar Association Says DA Brooke Jenkins Is Inflaming Controversy Over Light Sentence; Judge Now Getting Death Threats A light sentence for a high-profile stabbing suspect led to a protest outside San Francisco's Hall of Justice last week. But some legal experts and judges say that District Attorney Brooke Jenkins overstepped by criticizing the sentence.
SF News SF Condos Are Starting to Sell Again, and the Twisty Mira Tower Is Almost Sold Out While condo sales, especially in downtown San Francisco high-rises, were sluggish at best through the pandemic, things appear to be turning around. And one notable tower only has a handful of units left to sell.
SF News Humpday Headlines: New Oakland Police Chief to Be Formally Introduced New Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell is being introduced at a public event today; Oakland's downtown economic outlook is worse than SF's; and designer Ken Fulk's loft and office space on 7th Street is on the market at a reduced price.
Business & Tech Instagram and Threads Now Making You Opt In If You Want to See Political Content, or Anything Related to Anything Important It turns out that Meta's definition of "political content" is quite broad, as the company rolls out a new feature — or, some would say, involuntary content filter — that will scrub your feeds of most anything that isn't cat/dog videos.
Business & Tech Denver-Bound United Flight Out of SFO Suffers Bird Strike, Returns to Gate After Takeoff Another United flight out of SFO had an issue on Saturday morning, but this one was due to natural causes, or, rather, a random collision with nature.
