SF News Close Calls on SFO Runways Are Just Tip of the Iceberg In Broader National Trend An investigation by the New York Times has found an extremely alarming trend of increasing near-misses at U.S. airports in recent years, with a major airline catastrophe getting likelier with each one.
SF News Smoke From NorCal Fires Beginning to Impact Bay Area Air Quality It's that time of year again, and wildfire smoke primarily coming from lightning-caused fires that broke out last week in far Northern California is now starting to impact air quality in the Bay Area.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NoPa's Automat Closing After Less Than Two Years A well-received cafe, bakery, and restaurant in the NoPa neighborhood with Michelin pedigreed talent behind it, which had received a ton of advance press prior to its delayed 2021 opening, is closing its doors after just 21 months.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Palm Springs, Other Desert Cities Cut Off By Floods California's desert cities are isolated by flooding roads following Tropical Storm Hilary; only one death from the storm has been reported so far in Mexico; and Scott Wiener is shelving a bridge toll hike he proposed to help transit agencies' budget woes.
SF News California DMV Steps Into Autonomous Taxi Debate, Tells Cruise to Halve Its Fleet In SF After a series of concerning incidents involving Cruise autonomous vehicles, the California Department of Motor Vehicles issued an order late Friday asking Cruise to reduce its fleet of AVs in San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OG Celebrity Chef Martin Yan to Revive M.Y. China in Chinatown One of the Bay Area's original food celebrities, chef Martin Yan of Yan Can Cook fame, says he is on the hunt for a new space in Chinatown where he plans to revive his dormant M.Y. China restaurant concept.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yes, There Will Be Meatballs (and Plant Balls) When IKEA Opens Next Week Never fear, ye fans of IKEA's Swedish meatballs: The new downtown SF IKEA store will be serving them immediately upon opening next Wednesday.
SF News Driverless Bus Shuttle Now Being Tested on Treasure Island A fairly cute, compact, autonomous bus is now taking passengers around a loop on Treasure Island, as part of a pilot program exploring how autonomous vehicles (AVs) can supplement public transportation.
SF Politics Trump May Do Interview With Tucker Carlson on X Next Week, Upstaging Republican Debate Donald Trump has reportedly made plans to do an online interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, on a platform still to be determined, in a middle-finger move to upstage the first Republican candidate debate.
SF News Video Captures Thieves On Bipping Spree Near Fisherman's Wharf Word apparently really hasn't spread, at this late date, about not leaving anything in a parked car in San Francisco. Just watch as a couple of suspects work their way down several blocks in Fisherman's Wharf, finding car after car with stuff to grab inside.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Woman's Body Found In Oakland Hills A woman's body found in the Oakland hills Wednesday night is being investigated as a homicide; an arrest has been made in a long-cold case in Modesto; and one office investor is confident downtown SF is already turning around.
Arts & Entertainment 'We Love SF' Campaign Launches to Counter Negative Narratives About the City A small-scale campaign that seems to be part PR and part event promotion, dubbed WeLoveSF, is seeking to upend the "doom loop" and drug-crime narratives that have dominated media coverage about San Francisco all of this year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owners of Beer Hall On Polk Take Over Former Mikkeller Brewpub Near Union Square The space that was home to beer bar and gastropub Mikkeller at the foot of Mason Street is going to be coming alive again soon, once again as a brewpub.
Business & Tech Judge Asked Whether Elon Musk Wanted to 'Cozy Up' to Trump By Refusing Order In January 6th Case We just learned this week that Special Counsel Jack Smith definitely got Donald Trump's DMs from his defunct Twitter account, but now we're getting court transcripts showing how it went down.
SF News 71-Year-Old Woman Arrested For SF Crash That Killed Young Girl San Francisco police have arrested the driver of an SUV that crashed into a family crossing the street near Caltrain and Oracle Park on Tuesday, killing a four-year-old girl.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Paradise Gets Fire Warning Sirens Paradise, California is getting a wildfire alert siren system; another wildfire near the Oregon border has grown to 1,000 acres; and Cruise is now blaming a Friday incident on human interference with its cars.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Brands Suspend Ads on X Over Pro-Nazi Content At least two big brands, Adobe and Gilead, have suspended their ads on Twitter/X over Nazi content; Twitter apparently did give up some of Donald Trump's DMs; and another Cruise car drove into a construction site in SF.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Corzetti, a New Italian Spot From Adriano Paganini, Comes to Hotel G In Union Square A new Italian restaurant from the restaurant group behind hit spots like Beretta, A Mano, and The Tailor's Son, called Corzetti, has taken over the space at the corner of Geary and Mason, in the rebranded Hotel G.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After Two Years as Rotating Pop-Up Venue, Lord Stanley Returns In October In Slightly New Form The formerly Michelin-starred Lord Stanley on upper Polk Street will be reborn this fall with a new chef in the kitchen, and a slightly different concept from the one it had before shuttering during the pandemic two years ago.
SF News Head Fire In Siskiyou County Grows to Over 3,000 Acres, Triggers Evacuations The largest of over a dozen lightning-caused wildfires in far northern California has now prompted an evacuation order for 325 square miles, in an area of Klamath National Forest, west of Yreka.
SF News Widow and Daughter of SF Man Killed With His Sons In Excelsior In 2008 Were Just Killed In a NorCal Crash A tragic connection has emerged between a violent vehicle collision that occurred last week in Calaveras County and a case of mistaken identity that led to a gang killing of a man and his two sons in San Francisco 15 years ago.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Person On BART Tracks In Downtown SF Causes Delays BART was experiencing serious delays in all directions due to a person who was walking on the tracks in downtown SF; Alameda County law enforcement are looking for five carjackers; and the Maui fire death toll hits 106.
SF News Four-Year-Old Girl In Stroller Struck and Killed Near Caltrain Station In SF A family visiting from out of town was crossing the intersection at Fourth and King streets in San Francisco Tuesday when an SUV making a turn struck a child being pushed in a stroller.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Off the Grid Fort Mason Returns With Theme Nights, Starting With 'I Heart SF' Event Featuring Classic SF Fare After taking a summer hiatus, Off the Grid returns to the Fort Mason Center on eight Friday nights in September and October — and there's a new VIP-esque option that lets you reserve tables and get table service.
SF News Man Killed at Lake Merritt BART Station Allegedly Because of Fight Over E-Scooter A fatal shooting last week outside the Lake Merritt BART station was apparently the result of a fight over an e-scooter, according to BART Police.
