SF Politics Right Wing Seizes on Katie Porter Interview Where She Gets Testy With Reporter The election for California governor is over a year away, and a lot more is bound to happen before then. But the right wing on social media has seized on a clip of Democratic frontrunner Katie Porter deciding to end an interview because she didn't like its tone.
SF News Four Found Dead In San Francisco Home, Including Children, In Possible Murder-Suicide A gruesome discovery was reportedly made by a family member Wednesday in San Francisco's Westwood Park neighborhood, and while details remain slim, an entire family appears to be dead.
SF News Florida Man Arrested For 'Maliciously' Starting Palisades Fire In LA Federal authorities arrested a suspect they believe is responsible for sparking the devastating Palisades Fire in January in Los Angeles.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Resigns After 17 Months on the Job For reasons that he did not share publicly, Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell is leaving his post after less than a year and a half on the job, which leaves Oakland once again in search of a new police chief.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Two UC Berkeley Professors Win Nobel Prizes UC Berkeley professors have won Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry this week; San Jose faces complaints about the disposal of homeless people's belongings; and Nicole Kidman pulls out of an event at USF.
SF News Father of Two Charged With Murder In West Oakland Shooting of Teen Who Was Allegedly Trying to Steal a Car A 42-year-old man has been charged with murder after he allegedly shot and killed a 17-year-old boy who, along with an accomplice, had allegedly been repeatedly burglarizing cars on the suspect's block. And the suspect's family says it was self-defense.
SF News Lowell High School Temporarily Evacuated Due to Reported Bomb Threat A "possible" bomb threat Tuesday afternoon led to the evacuation of San Francisco's Lowell High School, though this appears to have been just a precautionary measure.
SF News ICE Says Napa DUI Driver Suspected In Crash That Killed Six Was Deported Multiple Times, Has Drug Record The suspect in last month's deadly minivan crash in Napa County has a record of drug arrests and has been deported from the US multiple times, ICE says, making this case more likely to become a politically charged one.
SF News Judge Finds Multiple Grounds For Removing San Mateo County Sheriff From Office Following an administrative hearing in August, the retired judge overseeing the hearing has issued a 42-page opinion that essentially calls Sheriff Christina Corpus uncredible, and offers multiple grounds on which to remove her from office.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Federal Shutdown Impacts Air Traffic Control A medical helicopter crashed Monday on a highway in Sacramento, injuring three; Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill to give raises to Cal Fire firefighters; and the government shutdown is impacting air traffic control towers across the country.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Uniqlo Confirms Market Street Return Uniqlo confirms its return, near Union Square, to the former Old Navy flagship; the power was out today for thousands in Oakland; Bari Weiss is now the head of CBS News.
SF News Sonoma County Deputy Crashes During High-Speed Chase, Leaving Bystander Injured We have another instance of a Bay Area law enforcement vehicle engaged in a high-speed chase resulting in casualties for people not involved in that chase. This time, an elderly man was reportedly left with major injuries.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: The 25th Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Was Blessed With Great Music, Three Sunny Days It was a gorgeous late-summer weekend in Golden Gate Park as the beloved Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival rang in 25 years, with stars of bluegrass — and jazz, and rock, and country, and folk, and other genres — serenaded a grateful SF audience.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina's Luxe Bourbon Steak Redux Opens Friday, Along With Companion Bar From Steph Curry It's a fall season of splashy restaurant openings in San Francisco at last, after some quiet years on the restaurant scene. And among those is the revamp of Michael Mina's Bourbon Steak, in the grand ground floor spaces of the Westin St. Francis.
SF News One Killed, Two Critically Injured In Separate Hit-and-Run Collisions In San Francisco On Friday, two people were struck and seriously injured in a hit-and-run in the Upper Haight; and less than 5 hours later, a separate hit-and-run took one pedestrian's life in Bernal Heights.
SF News San Francisco-Based Scientist Wins Nobel Prize for Medicine A researcher based in San Francisco is one of three people who share this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine, for their work on the study of the body's immune responses and autoimmune diseases.
SF News Stanford Protesters Accused of Vandalizing University President's Office Make Court Appearance The so-called Stanford 11, the group of protesters accused of breaking into the office of the university president amid pro-Palestinian protests in June 2024, were scheduled to appear in court on Monday.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Kamala Harris Discusses Election at Masonic Event 3,000 people came to Kamala Harris's book event Sunday night in SF; the suspect in the killing of an Urban Alchemy worker had his first court appearance; and the Supreme Court has denied hearing an appeal by Ghislaine Maxwell.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Palmer's Returns In Pac Heights Palmer's Tavern reopens after two years closed in Pacific Heights, Arsicault preps a fourth location downtown, and Memphis Minnie's may be permanently closed in the Lower Haight, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Threads Connected In Story of Zizian Shot In Vermont Who Was German Math Whiz The New York Times has attempted to explain one of the still unexplained pieces of the bizarre web of Zizian "murder cult" deaths, just as a Solano County trial for two of the cult's suspects gets delayed until next year.
SF News Shooting Suspect Arrested After Lengthy Standoff In SF's Tenderloin A suspect in a shooting engaged police in a multi-hour, overnight standoff on Eddy Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin before being arrested early Friday morning.
Arts & Entertainment What You Can Bring to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass — and How to Watch From Home San Francisco's season of music festivals wraps up this weekend with Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, which this year features The Reverend Horton Heat, Lucinda Williams, and regulars Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Apple Pulls ICE-Tracking App From App Store Apple has banned an app that allows people to report and track ICE activity; an experienced 23-year-old climber died on Yosemite's El Cap; and the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a new Second Amendment case out of Hawaii.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Rosa Police Seize 5,000 Suspected Fentanyl Pills The Santa Rosa PD busted a suspected drug trafficker and found 5,000 suspected fentanyl pills; UC Berkeley is investigating a hate crime assault; and the FDA just approved a generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Queens to Do Taylor Swift Tribute In Celebration of 'Life of a Showgirl' Release Swifties and drag fans can unite at Oasis to celebrate a new studio album from Taylor Swift, her 12th, 'Life of a Showgirl' — also, Alamo Drafthouse and the Metreon are showing the 'Release Party' movie.
