SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Tree Crushes Tesla On San Mateo County Road A fallen tree crushed a Tesla in San Mateo County last night; flooding is already occurring across Santa Cruz County; and the Russian River is expected to crest today below major flood stage.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Late-Night Eats Slowly Return to SF With Dragon Horse In SoMa, Extended Hours at Beep's Burgers, and More The days of SF being moderately well appointed with 24-hour diners and late-night restaurants are well behind us, and even before the pandemic a slew of reliable, after-midnight standbys had shuttered. But that may be slowly changing.
SF Politics SF District Attorney Reverses Herself On Changes to Sanctuary City Policy Sensing the political winds might not always be in her favor, SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has done a — for her thus far — rare about-face on a policy decision, regarding SF's sanctuary city status.
SF News [Update] Goat Mystery Deepens as There Were Multiple Loose Goat Sightings In SoMa We knew there was one goat sighting Wednesday in SoMa near the Bay Bridge, but it turns out there was a whole group of goats on the loose, and SF Animal Care & Control has no leads on where they came from.
SF News Lake Oroville Is Now 61 Feet From Capacity; Rain, Snow Runoff Likely to Trigger Need For Spillway It's been a total reversal of fortune this year for Lake Oroville and the recreational houseboaters who like to hang out on the reservoir, with the water level now over 100 percent of its historical average. But Lake Oroville is returning to a point of too much of a good thing.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Getting Ready For Big Rain Our third La Niña is officially over and there is reason to believe next winter will be an El Niño season; Gov. Gavin Newsom has COVID again; and you can expect the rain to hit most of San Francisco by afternoon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Goat Spotted Running Loose In SoMa Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered a $54M contract canceled with Walgreens over their abortion drug decision; a suspect in an attempted robbery died in an Oakland crash; and a random white goat was running around in SoMa today without explanation.
SF News Person Having Mental Health Episode Shuts Down Lower Deck of Bay Bridge A person having some sort of mental health crisis was apparently pacing back and forth in lanes of traffic on the eastbound (lower) deck of the western span of the Bay Bridge Wednesday afternoon, near Treasure Island.
SF Politics New York Times Spotlights Barbara Lee and the Glass Ceiling For Many Black Women In Politics Longtime California Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) has thrown her hat in the ring to become the next Senator from California, vying for Dianne Feinstein's seat in what may become an uphill battle.
Arts & Entertainment Falcons at UC Berkeley Have Two Eggs In Nest, Third Likely Today Just an update on the peregrine falcons atop UC Berkeley's Campanile: There are already two eggs in Annie's nest, and she's ahead of the usual schedule with the laying by a week or two.
Business & Tech Tesla Faces New Federal Probe Over Possible Autopilot Crash In Walnut Creek; Also, Musk Seems to Have 'Disbanded' Their PR Department A Tesla that may have been operating in "Full Self-Driving" mode crashed into a firetruck at high speed on I-680 last month, and this has triggered a new investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Superstar Team's New Hayes Valley Spot, Teakwood, Readies For Opening The team behind Burma Superstar and Burma Love is expanding once more, this time in Hayes Valley, in the Grove and Gough corner space formerly occupied by Anka, and before that Barcino, Boxing Room, and Citizen Cake.
SF News SF Braces For More Rain, Floods; Public Works Giving Out Sandbags Again "Now is the time to prepare!" says the National Weather Service, as pretty much all of Northern California is under a Flood Watch starting Thursday, with another incoming atmospheric river that promises to drench much of the state.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Berkeley Attorney Confirmed For Federal Office A man who lit himself on fire on the Berkeley campus last week has died from his injuries; two dozen cars got flat tires on the San Mateo Bridge; and Berkeley-based white-collar attorney Ismail Ramsey has been confirmed to be U.S. Attorney of the Northern District of CA.
SF Politics AG Bonta's Office Has 90 Days to Review SF Police Shooting Case — and Jenkins's Handling of It The California Attorney General's Office has responded to a San Francisco court proceeding involving what would have been the first-ever prosecution of an on-duty SFPD officer for a fatal shooting, asking for 90 more days to review the case.
SF News Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Shannon O'Connor Allegedly Beaten Up By Cellmates The Los Gatos "party mom"/"cool mom" who is still awaiting trial for allegedly corrupting high schoolers and encouraging sexual assault has not been having the best time in jail, and was apparently injured in a beating by cellmates.
Business & Tech High-Profile Tech Layoffs Continue With Thousands More Expected at Meta This Week Facebook parent entity Meta is reportedly planning to lay off thousands more employees in a second round of cuts, possibly happening as soon as this week.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Now Looking to Get Out of Possible $878 Million Restitution Bill Yeah, so, Elizabeth Holmes doesn't really think she should have to pay back the bilked investors who lost money because of Theranos's collapse, and her lawyers' latest gambit is to try to get out of her having to pay any restitution at all.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 15th Anniversary Lineup Includes Kendrick Lamar, Odesza, Lana Del Rey, and Janelle Monae Outside Lands is celebrating 15 years in Golden Gate Park this summer, and after selling out those Eager Beaver tickets in an hour last week, the regular on-sale begins tomorrow, March 8.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Atmospheric River Rain Looks Likely By Thursday Night A dog was rescued from a house on fire near Ocean Beach this a.m.; Oakland business owners complain that the cops "don't do anything" about burglaries; and the likelihood has increased that an atmospheric river will hit with 2+ inches of rain in places on Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fire In Polk Street Building Caused By Scooter Battery SF's Dept. of Public Works says it's repairing triple the number of potholes due to all the rain; a woman killed by a fallen tree in a San Jose park has been identified, and a fire Saturday in the Polk Gulch neighborhood was caused by a scooter battery.
SF Politics Gov. Gavin Newsom Says California Is 'Done' With Walgreens Over Abortion Pill Decision Gavin Newsom took to Twitter early Monday to declare that pharmacy chain Walgreens is now on the list of entities the state won't being doing future business with, due to its decision not to ship medical-abortion drugs to women in 20 states.
SF News Alleged Bay Area Serial Killer David Misch May Face One or Two Trials For Killings of Two Women and a Nine-Year-Old Girl A court is set to decide if 61-year-old David Misch, accused in two separate Alameda County murder cases from the mid-1980s, will stand trial for both cases simultaneously, or if they will be severed.
SF News Brace for Another Rainy Week, and Possible Atmospheric River By the Weekend It's the winter that keeps on giving, wetness-wise. And if you've grown weary with all the rain, we've got some bad news for you with regards to the next week.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Boy Scout Den Mother Killed By Falling Tree A den mother was killed while hiking with a Boy Scout troop on Sunday; one person was injured in a shooting on Treasure Island; and Steph Curry returned to play with the Warriors following an injury.
