SF News Day Around the Bay: First Spare the Air Day of Spring Called for Thursday Thursday is the first Spare the Air day of the season; Oakland police are investigating a downtown homicide; and a person was shot and gravely injured in SF's Oceanview neighborhood this afternoon.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Proposes Novel Method to Crack Down on Sideshows: Drones SF Supervisor Rafael Mandelman proposed a new idea Tuesday to potentially crack down on and deter sideshows in the city, without putting police or participants in unnecessary danger while they're occurring.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Petit Crenn Reopens For Prix Fixe 'Pop-Up' In Hayes Valley The reservations went fast, but the good news is that Dominique Crenn's cozy Hayes Valley restaurant, Petit Crenn, is coming back alive for the first time in three years.
SF Politics After Ethics Censure, Longtime City Commissioner Gwyneth Borden Resigns A longtime commissioner on both the Planning Commission and the SFMTA board of directors, Gwyneth Borden, has decided to step down from the SFMTA board following her censure by the Ethics Commission over an undisclosed lobbying job.
SF News Amtrak Train Crash In Fairfield Leaves One Dead, Multiple Others Injured A crash Wednesday morning in Solano County involving an Amtrak train and several vehicles has left one person dead, and multiple other people injured.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Files Another Last-Ditch Appeal, Earning Her a Possible Few Extra Weeks Before Entering Prison With few options left but one last legal reprieve available, Elizabeth Holmes has avoided having to report to prison tomorrow, but she likely won't avoid it for long.
SF News Charges May Be Dropped Against Homeless Man Who Struck Former Fire Commissioner With Metal Pipe The family of former SF fire commissioner Don Carmignani claims that charges are going to be dropped against the man who hit him with a metal pipe earlier this month, and they say that Carmignani himself may face charges.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Bay Area Men Arrested After High-Speed Chase In Capitola A high-speed chase in Capitola ended in the arrest of four Bay Area men; another high-speed chase in Oakland ended in an arrest Tuesday; and Chief Justice John Roberts defends SCOTUS's ethics code in a letter to the Senate.
SF News SFPD Makes Multiple Narcotics Busts, Seizing a Total of 15.5 Pounds of Drugs The SFPD Narcotics Unit has been busy the past week, and between four busts officers have netted 15.5 pounds worth of meth, fentanyl, and other drugs, as well as some guns.
SF News Anthropologie on Market Street Set to Close In May; Also, Downtown Office Depot Two more major retail closures are hitting downtown, one of them sort of predictable and the other not.
SF News North Beach Shooting Happened During Attempted Mugging, One Suspect Now In Custody San Francisco police now seem to know the outlines of what occurred Sunday night near the Condor Club in North Beach, when five people ended up with gunshot wounds, one of them fatal. And one suspect has been arrested.
SF News Victim In Wrong-Way Crash On 280 Involving Naked Suspect Identified as San Francisco Mother The victim in one of three wrong-way freeway crashes in the Bay Area last weekend, the one that occurred on I-280 in Woodside, has been identified as a 54-year-old San Francisco woman, and her 14-year-old son was also injured in the crash.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Civic Center Whole Foods Employees Say Store Didn't Close Just Because of Crime Much like Walgreens before them, Amazon-owned Whole Foods may be scapegoating San Francisco's petty crime problem and feeding into a narrative in order to avoid talking about the economics of the store they just shut down.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Richmond's Historic International Hotel Burns Down Nima Momeni's arraignment was scheduled today in the stabbing of Bob Lee but it's been delayed again; Great America is now requiring everyone under age 15 to have a chaperone; and Richmond's historic International Hotel, once a hub of Black labor organizing, went up in flames early Tuesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Possible Former Girlfriend Said Nima Momeni Had 'Mood Swings' We now know that the man who died in Sunday's North Beach shooting was 23 and from Solano County; the SF Board of Supes' Land Use Committee once again delayed a Castro Theatre vote; and an unclaimed Powerball jackpot in the South Bay has been claimed.
SF News Possibly Sickly Gray Whale Has Been In San Francisco Bay For Two Months Whale-watching season has begun, and much as in previous years, a few whales have already been sneaking into San Francisco Bay, likely to feast on anchovies. But one whale who's been hanging out in the Bay since February looks possibly unhealthy.
Business & Tech Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Elected Officials Can Block People On Twitter Our current, staunchly conservative and largely older Supreme Court is going to show the world how much they understand about social media next term, taking up a case about who can block whom on social media.
Arts & Entertainment Ten Years After It Was Commissioned, 102-Foot Twisting Sculpture Installed at 4th Street Central Subway Station A dramatic, stainless steel tendril, seemingly growing out of the ground and reaching toward the sky, was just installed Sunday morning in the plaza outside Moscone Station, at Fourth and Clementina streets.
SF News [Update] Sunday Night Shooting In North Beach Leaves One Dead, Four Wounded There was a shooting or shootout of some kind Sunday night at the busy intersection of Columbus Avenue and Broadway in San Francisco's North Beach, and a preliminary investigation has found five victims, one of them deceased.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: G'Bye For Now, Tucker Carlson Supporters for Alameda Co. DA Pamela Price rallied on Sunday; there may be a clue about the mystery tenant negotiating for The Cliff House; and Tucker Carlson has "parted ways" with Fox News.
SF News Mother and Daughter Killed In Domestic Dispute In Oakland, Another Child Injured A mother of four and her teen daughter were both fatally shot in an Oakland apartment Saturday night, and the daughter's friend, who was at the home for a sleepover, was also wounded.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Certain Mission Brewpub Is Now Serving Up Rice-a-Roni Arancini, Cioppino, and $2 Oysters In the last nine months, Fort Point Beer Co.'s Valencia Street brewpub — which opened pre-pandemic, then closed for most of it — has ramped up its food offerings and become more of a full-fledged restaurant.
SF News Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Wants an 8-Year Plea Deal, as Victims Speak Out In Court Pushing for More and More Charges Get Filed The apparently troubled woman at the heart of a sensational case in the South Bay, Shannon O'Connor, was back in court Friday, and she was made to hear directly from some teenage victims.
Business & Tech Musk Plays Favorites With Blue-Check Purge, Says He's Paying for Stephen King, LeBron James, and William Shatner to Keep Theirs Elon Musk's plan to remove "Verified" blue checkmarks from all the celebrities who've had them for a decade unless they coughed up $8 likely wasn't that well thought-out.
SF News More Retired SFPD Officers Being Deployed as 'Ambassadors' In a Half Dozen SF Neighborhoods The SFPD's Community Ambassador Program, in which retired, civilian officers are deployed to do foot patrols and deter crime, is expanding by 50 percent, as Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott announced Friday.
