SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: AT&T Cell Network Has Major Outage CHP is investigating the death of a homeless man found on an I-80 onramp in San Francisco; the AT&T cellular network experienced a nationwide outage early Thursday; and Sen. Alex Padilla reintroduced the Housing For All Act.
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Falcon Living on Berkeley's Campanile Tower Named After Archie Williams A former Contra Costa County deputy has taken a plea deal in a felony case; Biden told supporters to stay focused on the fight against Trump at an LA event; and the new male mating with falcon Annie on the Berkeley campus has been named Archie, following a naming contest.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico to Open New, Unnamed Restaurant In Mission Rock Development We now have news of another high-profile restaurant tenant for one of the previously unclaimed ground-floor spaces in the new Mission Rock development, and it's the folks behind Che Fico.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A16 Opens New Roman-Style Pizza Outpost at SF's Ferry Building The new openings continue at San Francisco's Ferry Building, and popular Marina District Italian restaurant A16 has just opened A16 La Pala, specializing in Roman-style pizza al taglio and paninis.
SF News Supporters of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Push Back on Recall Campaigners, Comparing Them to 'Right-Wingers' Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao held a press conference Wednesday to announce a state grant supporting a street-ambassador program, but protesters were on hand calling for Thao's recall, and the event turned into a shouting match.
SF News After Pushback From Chinatown Residents, Breed Cancels Plan For Sober Living Facility at Hotel North Beach Less than two weeks after announcing plans to convert the Hotel North Beach into the city's first sober living facility for formerly homeless people, SF Mayor London Breed has canceled those plans due to community objections.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Santa Clara Shooting Victim Was Three-Year-Old Boy The victim in Tuesday's shooting in Santa Clara was a three-year-old boy and the suspect is the mother's boyfriend; Katie Porter came out swinging for Adam Schiff in their final debate; and a bit more rain may be passing through today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonoma County Is Getting Its First Shake Shack Next Week As Shake Shack continues its California expansion, the first outpost of the burger chain is opening in Santa Rosa on February 29.
SF News SF Under Flash Flood Warning As Water Seen Bubbling Up From Manholes in Cow Hollow and Hayes Valley Multiple parts of San Francisco were experiencing urban flooding of various degrees Tuesday afternoon after some major downpours.
Business & Tech Why Did Musk's 'Free-Speech Absolutist' X Platform Take Down New Account From Alexei Navalny's Widow? It is hard to say where we are in the evolution/devolution of Xitter under the leadership of Elon Musk. But in the absence of a robust human team dealing with content moderation, odd contradictions in policy are bound to occur.
SF News Boston-Bound United Flight Out of SFO Makes Emergency Landing After Piece of Wing Flap Tears Off A Boston-bound flight out of San Francisco Monday evening experienced a scary mid-flight situation after a visible chunk of a wing flap tore off, necessitating an emergency landing in Denver.
SF News Weather Warnings Issued for Marin and Sonoma as More Severe Storm Cells Arrive This latest storm system isn't done with us yet, and Tuesday morning came with a special marine advisory to look out for possible waterspouts and a severe thunder cell off the Point Reyes coast.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Fatal Shooting Leads to Arrest at Santa Clara Apartment Complex There was a fatal shooting early Tuesday at the Riley Square Apartments in Santa Clara; thousands lost power last night amid a severe thunderstorm in Santa Rosa; and you can expect more periods of moderate to heavy rain today as the last of the storm system passes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gaza Ceasefire Protest Blocks Central Freeway In SF A protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza spilled onto the Central Freeway at Octavia Boulevard in SF; a 16-year-old girl who was missing in SF has been found safe; and the 19-year-old son of a former YouTube CEO died on the UC Berkeley campus last week.
SF News Almost 3,000 People Exited Homelessness In San Francisco Last Year, But Many Leaving Shelters Have Unknown Outcomes San Francisco and its nonprofit network are doing an increasingly better job of guiding homeless individuals toward services and into temporary or permanent housing, with figures now in from 2023. But one group is calling out the trend of "unsuccessful" outcomes for those seeking shelter.
SF News 90-Year-Old Man Found Dead In Overturned Truck In Dublin Creek An elderly man whom neighbors had not seen in about a week was found deceased on Sunday, having apparently crashed his pickup truck into a creek in Dublin.
SF News President's Day Headlines: More Rain and Possible Thunder Coming Through Trees were down all over the Bay on Sunday including on Highway 13 in Oakland; tornadoes are possible in the Central Valley today; and COVID and flu infections are on the wane around the region.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Chinatown Sees Some Fresh Energy It's Lunar New Year, people have been banqueting, spring has been in the air (sort of), and we have some exciting news to share from the world of Bay Area food, including two new spots in SF Chinatown.
SF News Congressman Says His Opposition Is 'Even Stronger Now' to California Forever Development Plan After Ballot Filing Two local Congressmen are continuing to express their concern and extreme displeasure over the proposed California Forever "new city" plan in Solano County, which continues to take shape as it heads for its first hurdle at the ballot box.
SF News Family Killed In San Mateo Murder-Suicide Identified The husband and wife and twin sons who were killed last weekend in a home in San Mateo have been identified, and they reportedly moved into the home in 2020 shortly after the boys were born.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Marks One Year Without a Police Chief Oakland still has no police chief, one year after LeRonne Armstrong's dismissal; an employee of an SF sober living facility died of an overdose; and Joe Machin announces he will not run for president.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tony's Launches 'Pizza Around the World' Tasting Menu (For Parties of Six) Tony's Pizza Napoletana in North Beach, which has long had an encyclopedic selection on its pizza menu that makes ordering decisions difficult, will for the first time offer a tasting experience that will let diners taste across multiple styles.
Business & Tech Big Investor and Protégé of Warren Buffett Looks to Buy 3 Million Square Feet of SF Office Space A man whose family fortune was built in part on investing in New York real estate during the dark days of the 1970s in the city is reportedly bargain hunting right now in the San Francisco office market.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: East Bay Cities Form Crime-Fighting Task Force Law enforcement in East Bay cities from Richmond down the 880 corridor to Fremont are teaming up for a crime task force; SF City Hall had 'Winter of Love' celebrations on Wednesday; and there's an upzoning fight brewing in the Marina.
SF News Two Killed After Car Stalls on Eastbound Bay Bridge, Traffic Backed Up Into SF Two people were killed in a Mini Cooper early Thursday on the lower deck of the Bay Bridge, reportedly after the car stalled and was struck by a pickup truck.
