SF News Tilting Millennium Tower To Now Tilt Less, Engineer Says, With Piles Hitting Bedrock The long saga of SF's sinking and leaning Millennium Tower may soon come to a happy end, with the building still mostly upright and residents able to feel more secure.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: This Chilly Weather Isn't Going Away The Arctic air mass currently chilling much of the country isn't lifting off of California before Thursday, Everett Middle School is getting a schoolyard makeover, and Trump's legal tactics aren't working for him so much anymore.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo to Reopen Friday After Sinkhole Situation An employee at Pizza Squared who denied service to SFPD officers has been fired, charges have been filed against the man who allegedly drove his family off a Pacifica cliff, and the Oakland Zoo is opening up again Friday with Glowfari extended.
SF News Weekend Homicide In SF's Potrero Hill Happens Amid a Barrage of Gunfire One man was killed by gunfire in SF's Potrero Hill neighborhood on Saturday night, in the same Potrero Annex complex where a fire claimed one life last week — and a barrage of bullets was later found having hit homes and vehicles.
Arts & Entertainment 'Dear Evan Hansen' Still Packs a Punch, But a Smaller One The soaring, anthemic musical numbers and hyper-contemporary book of Dear Evan Hansen still feel relevant and powerful in the latest touring production to arrive in SF. But it's starting to show a little wear, seven years out from its initial run.
SF News Oakland Homeless Woman Found Dead In Tent Following Cold Night The Bay Area saw a major cold snap overnight with frost and hard-freeze warnings in various locales. And in Oakland, CHP officers found a homeless woman dead this morning in her tent, possibly because of the cold.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Closure of Hawker Fare Adds to Darkened Restaurant Storefronts in the Mission Hawker Fare, chef James Syhabout's often bustling, casual Northern Thai and Lao restaurant at Valencia and 18th, served its last meals on Sunday, adding to a string of closures across the Mission.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Downtown Oakland Once Again Sees Big Protest Over Police Killing Many hundreds (thousands?) gathered in Downtown Oakland Sunday to protest the police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis; Elon Musk has apologized for linking to a conspiracy story about the Paul Pelosi attack; and three years ago today the WHO first declared COVID a global emergency.
SF News Pelosi Attacker David DePape Puts Out Defiant, Loony Statement Saying 'I'm Sorry I Didn't Get More of Them' The suspect in last fall's hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, David DePape, is doing himself no favors in terms of that "not guilty" plea with a phone call he made from jail Friday to a KTVU reporter.
Arts & Entertainment 12 Memes That Were Born In the Bay Area It makes some sense that the country's primary hub of technology and social media, the San Francisco Bay Area, would be a font of meme fodder and a haven for the creators of viral memes. And indeed, it has been.
SF Politics $1.7 Million Noe Valley Public Toilet Will Now Only Cost the City $300K The city of San Francisco is reportedly being gifted a pre-fab public restroom to install at a small park in Noe Valley, saving the design and construction costs that helped jack up the price tag on the project to $1.7 million last year. But it's still going to cost $300K?
SF News Dispute That Triggered Half Moon Bay Shooting Was Over $100 Damage Charge Adding to the tragic narrative about underpaid farmworkers and the socioeconomic situation underpinning Monday's shooting in Half Moon Bay, we now learn that the triggering dispute that occurred between the suspect and his supervisor was over $100.
SF News Video Footage of Attack On Paul Pelosi Released By Court Order We now have the disturbing video of the hammer assault on Paul Pelosi that took place in his San Francisco home on October 28, and the immediate aftermath.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Rain and Then Frigid Cold On the Way Sunday We could be in for some light rain Sunday followed by some very cold temps; there was a vigil in Chinatown for the Half Moon Bay victims; and the oldest person in the world is a woman born in San Francisco.
SF News Suspect Arrested In South Bay for Cold-Case 2021 Stabbing In Upper Haight The SFPD believes they have the culprit in a fatal stabbing in the Haight-Ashbury that occurred 16 months ago.
Arts & Entertainment 'Clyde's' Brings Humor to Post-Incarceration Blues at Berkeley Rep On its surface, the summary blurb on Lynn Nottage's Tony-nominated play 'Clyde's' — five formerly incarcerated people grapple with day-to-day struggles in the kitchen of a truck stop diner — doesn't sound like a setup for comedy.
SF News Half Moon Bay Shooting Suspect Admits to Murders In Jailhouse Interview, Suggests He Might Have Mental Illness Zhao Chunli, the suspect now charged with killing seven people on Monday at two mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay, admitted to the murders in a jailhouse interview with NBC Bay Area reporter Janelle Wang on Thursday.
SF News Expensively Shored-Up Berkeley Hillside Once Again Giving Way; 14 Homes Red-Tagged Due to Another Landslide A hillside in the Claremont Hills area of the Oakland/Berkeley Hills that has given way in wet winters before — and that has been shored up at great expense by at least two property owners over the last two decades — gave way to a significant landslide again last week.
SF News All That Rain, and Much of California Still Remains In Moderate Drought (Except Central Coast) You've likely heard it said that we won't be out of this historic drought without several winters like the one we've had thus far. And the latest map from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows us where we're at.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Schiff Makes Senate Candidacy Official Rep. Adam Schiff has made his candidacy for Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat official; isolated Big Sur residents are getting supplies airlifted in today; and Chinese company ByteDance (owner of TikTok) has moved into new offices in San Jose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Another Frozen Waymo Car Caused Another Traffic Jam A judge has ordered the release of audio and video from the Paul Pelosi attack; the Half Moon Bay shooting suspect was arraigned; and we have another 'Waymo car froze and held up traffic' tale from last week.
Business & Tech Facebook Is Letting Trump Back On the Platform After Two-Year Suspension Two years and change after inciting an insurrection and showing no remorse or sympathy for the deaths and injuries of Capitol Police personnel, former president Donald Trump is being allowed back on Facebook and Instagram. But the big question: Will he be invited into the Metaverse!!?!
SF News New Study Suggests Updated Booster Shots Protect Against XBB.1.5 Infection There is now good evidence to suggest that the new, bivalent boosters from Moderna and Pfizer cut infection risk by half from the so-called "Kraken variant" of Omicron, XBB.1.5.
SF News Potrero Hill Apartment Fire Leaves One Dead, Three Rescued A fire Wednesday morning in Potrero Hill has ended tragically, with one adult victim dead, and firefighters say they had significant challenges fighting the blaze.
SF News Victims' Names Released In Half Moon Bay Shooting; Details Emerge Including Note Suspect Left For Wife While police haven't revealed much publicly about Monday's tragic shooting in Half Moon Bay, a narrative is emerging about what transpired at two mushroom farms that ended with seven victims dead. And we now know the names of those victims.
