SF News Humpday Headlines: San Mateo Safeway Gets Redevelopment Plan A warming trend begins today across the Bay, and some areas could see 90s by Monday; the SF developer seeking to turn Safeways into housing eyes one in San Mateo; and SF's District 4 voters who like Sunset Dunes don't have a supervisor candidate to vote for.
SF News Caltrain and Prologis Unveil Group of Towers With 2,500 Housing Units Proposed For Railyards Redevelopment Project A proposed development so massive that Caltrain seems afraid to show people, just yet, how big the buildings would be, gets a few more renderings this week, as the transit agency submits its application for the 20-acre Railyards redevelopment project.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bi-Rite Expanding Once More, In Process of Deal For Building In Outer Richmond SF's favorite pricy gourmet grocer, Bi-Rite, is set to become a four-location enterprise with news that they have snagged a new space on California Street in the Outer Richmond.
SF News Two Men Arrested, Including Ex-Boyfriend, In Sunnyvale Killing of Young Mother Arrests have now been made in the January 7 killing of 24-year-old Kembery Chirinos-Flores in Sunnyvale, and one of the suspects is the father of the woman's five-year-old son.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Defunct NASA Probe to Crash Onto Earth, Likely Today 350 staffers in the Berkeley Unified School District face layoffs; punk icon Jello Biafra has had a stroke and is recovering; and a 1,300-pound NASA probe is expected to reenter the Earth's atmosphere today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Attempted Murder Charge In Chinatown Stabbing A 37-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder for a stabbing last week in Chinatown; the second victim has been ID'd in the Oakland bar shooting; and chaos has erupted in New York outside the mayor's residence.
SF News Two Men Charged In Altercation With Mayor's Bodyguards In Tenderloin The two Tenderloin denizens who got into a street scuffle last week with bodyguards assigned to Mayor Daniel Lurie have been charged and will be arraigned Tuesday.
Arts & Entertainment Video: See the Drone Show That Followed Saturday's Chinese New Year Parade After technical difficulties grounded the drones in 2025, a successful drone show lit up the sky over the Bay by SF's Embarcadero in celebration of the Year of the Horse.
Arts & Entertainment How Live Nation's Antitrust Settlement Could Impact San Francisco Venues Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, has now settled its antitrust case with the US Department of Justice, and as part of the settlement the company has said it will divest some of its exclusive agreements with venues.
SF News $5M Dream Home In North Beach Was Illegally Converted From Four Units; Board of Supes to Decide Its Fate A family thought they had found a dream property in North Beach, a rare single-family home with a roof deck and four spacious bedrooms. But somewhere in its last couple of renovations, a previous owner did something they shouldn't have.
SF News Illegal Dumping Activity In NorCal Leads to One of the Largest Meth Busts In US History The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) just announced a major bust in Northern California in which federal agents seized 2,700 pounds of methamphetamine in various stages of production, marking one of the largest drug busts in US history.
Business & Tech Uber Expands Female Driver Request Feature In US as Assault Cases Rise As it continues fighting thousands of cases in which assault victims have sought to blame the company for the behavior of its drivers, Uber is making an option available nationwide to request a female driver.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Teachers Begin Strike In Dublin Teachers have begun a strike in the East Bay city of Dublin; the mourning continues for the teacher killed in Saturday's bar shooting in Oakland; and now Anthropic is suing the Trump administration.
Arts & Entertainment 'Spamalot' Returns on Tour In SF, With a Few Extra Timely References For a certain segment of the population, the absurdist humor of Monty Python has never ceased to elicit titters and full-bellied laughs. And Eric Idle's musical adaptation of 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' still delivers those.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Two-Level Castro Space Finally Has a Taker A new spot called NOVA from Bar 49's owner is coming to the Castro, Clementina makes its debut in the Richmond, and Hamburguesa Bar gets a review, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment Chinese New Year Parade Will Also Have 'Year of the Horse'-Themed Drone Show Over Embarcadero There will be a big drone light show over the waterfront Saturday night, in conjunction with the Chinese New Year Parade — and this seems to be a redo from last year, when a technical snafu canceled the drone show.
SF Politics Kristi Noem, on the Way Out the Door, Claims to Have Been In Frequent Contact With Mayor Daniel Lurie We have another clue about how and to what extent Mayor Daniel Lurie has been playing ball with the Trump administration — which we know led to Trump calling off his dogs back in October with that planned federal "surge."
SF News Stabbing In Broad Daylight In SF's Chinatown Leaves One Man Critically Injured A seemingly unprovoked stabbing Thursday afternoon in San Francisco's Chinatown left one male victim with life-threatening injuries. Police have arrested a suspect.
SF News Pedestrian Killed, Scooter Rider Injured In Collision With Vehicle In North Beach One person is dead and another was injured in a collision between a vehicle and both a pedestrian and an electric scooter Thursday night in North Beach.
SF News Mayor Daniel Lurie's Security Detail Attacked In Tenderloin Scuffle, Two Injured A strange and violent incident unfolded Thursday evening on a Tenderloin alley where SF Mayor Daniel Lurie's black SUV was reportedly blocked in by multiple people, and two of his security guards, both SFPD officers, became involved in a physical fight.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Area Residents Get First Flights Out of Dubai Bay Area residents who had been trapped in Dubai since last Saturday began returning to SFO Thursday; SF is expected to see 80-degree days this weekend; and teachers in Dublin are threatening to strike on Monday.
Arts & Entertainment 'Paranormal Activity' Brings Jump-Scares and Spooky Vibes to the Stage at ACT A stage play inspired by the Paranormal Activity film franchise arrived at San Francisco's ACT in recent weeks, and it could presage a new paradigm for the horror genre coming to the live theater.
SF News Vigilante 'Squatter Removal' Guy Faces Assault and False Imprisonment Charges In San Mateo County A self-described, extra-legal "squatter removal service" was allegedly being run by a sword-wielding, San Francisco-based guy who, along with two associates, now faces assault, burglary, and false imprisonment charges in San Mateo County.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Big Four Makes Big Return This Month on Nob Hill at the Revamped Huntington Hotel As we were getting periodic news in recent months about the reopening of the 104-year-old Huntington Hotel, the big question for those of us who won't be booking thousand-dollar rooms there has been when the moody restaurant and lounge known as The Big Four would be back open.
SF News It Will Likely Be a Year Before the Port of SF's Sinking Dry Dock #2 Can Be Demolished and Removed The Port of San Francisco is reportedly crossing its collective fingers that the massive, listing Dry Dock #2, which currently requires constant pumping to keep it from sinking, doesn't sink to the bottom of the Bay before they can remove it, a process that isn't likely to happen before next winter.
