SF News Environmental Group Secures Option to Buy Former East Bay Racetrack, Will Turn It Into Park Rather than turning it into housing, a local environmental group has secured a deal to purchase the former Golden Gate Fields property and transform it into a public park.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Bay Area City Giving Away Ring Cameras Supervisor Jackie Fielder's situation has almost no parallels in local history; Anheuser-Busch owes a fine for its emissions in Solano County; and the Supreme Court shoots down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF's 911 System Briefly Has Difficulty With Cellphone Calls SF's 911 call center was having difficulty Monday with cellphone calls being disconnected; the three victims in Saturday's DUI crash in Napa have been ID'd; and a semi truck was dangling precariously in Crockett after a crash.
SF News Video: Windsurfer Hits Gray Whale, Wipes Out Near Crissy Field 'Tis the season for gray whales swimming around the Bay, and windsurfers and kitesurfers can take this as a word of warning to not go barrelling around too fast without knowing how many whales might be in your midst.
SF News Six-Month Runway Closure at SFO May Cause Some Delays It's time once again for some runway repaving at SFO, and that may mean some unexpected delays for the next six months, with the airport being short one of its four runways.
SF News Sheryl Davis, Human Rights Commission Director and Dream Keeper Chief Under Breed, Arrested on Felony Charges The former Human Rights Commission executive director and leader of the Dream Keeper initiative, Sheryl Davis, who has been facing an array of city ethics charges over the alleged misuse of funds, is now officially facing criminal charges.
SF News Miami, Like Austin Before It, Feels Pendulum Swing on Tech Migration If you moved from the Bay Area to Miami or Austin during the pandemic, chances are you've left by now. First of all, it's too damn hot in both places. Second of all, the jobs aren't there.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Victim In Sunnydale Shooting Identified The victim in last Tuesday's fatal shooting in the Sunnydale housing complex has been ID'd; the man killed by an SUV that jumped the curb in Chinatown has been ID'd; and the woman rescued near the Cliff House last week tells her story.
SF News One Man Murdered, Two Assaulted in SoMa Friday, Two Suspects Arrested There was a homicide Friday in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood and the SFPD has arrested two men in connection with the killing and the assault of two others.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Izakaya In Union Square A new izakaya lands near Union Square, the Castro gets a new Northern Thai restaurant, and the Chronicle's Cesar Hernandez gives his review of RT Bistro, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment A Who's-Who of Queer and Camp Culture Stars In New Disaster-Spoof Flick 'Stop! That! Train!' A roster of Rupaul's Drag Race alums, along with Ru herself, and a bevy of queer comedians, camp icons, and others star in the 70s-style disaster-movie send-up 'Stop! That! Train!', due out this summer.
SF News Civil Grand Jury Report Raises Questions About Yolo County Officials' Handling of Fireworks Facility A damning new civil grand jury report points the finger at Yolo County officials who, the report says, knew about the illegal fireworks storage facility in Esparto for years but failed to enforce safety codes, leading to last July's deadly explosion.
SF Politics Trump Yet Again Brings Up San Francisco, Possibly Because of Bill O'Reilly Prime Time Special We all know that Trump is highly influenced by television, and a fairly out-of-date prime time special by Bill O'Reilly on NewsNation Thursday titled "The Decline and Fall of San Francisco" is likely the reason Trump complained about the city again during a cabinet meeting.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Man Arrested For Sunset Shooting Was Biden Staffer Two SF supervisors propose law to make SFPD ID federal agents; the 25-year-old man arrested for involuntary manslaughter in a Sunset shooting was a Biden staffer; and David Sacks is stepping down as Trump's "crypto czar."
SF News Day Around the Bay: United Flight Out of SFO Had Near Miss With Helicopter Antoine Watson, who killed 84-year-old "Grandpa Vicha" five years ago, was sentenced to time served for involuntary manslaughter; a United flight out of SFO had a near miss with a Black Hawk helicopter in Santa Ana; and Saturday's No Kings march will head up Market Street at noon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Bay Area Restaurants Added to 2026 Michelin Guide The Michelin Guide has just revealed its midyear additions, giving some hints about which new Bay Area restaurants are already on the radars of inspectors and up for potential star ratings.
SF News Sacramento Bee's AI-Generated Earthquake and Wildfire News Needs Some Work The Sacramento Bee, like many publications across the country, has been experimenting with AI-generated content for its website, particularly in the realm of real-time wildfire and earthquake updates. But it seems like they may need more human eyes on this stuff.
Bay Area Sports ICYMI: The Giants' Opening Day Game Featured Star Spangled Banner Smoke Show Possibly thanks to the involvement of Netflix, the MLB Opening Day game at Oracle Park Wednesday night featured a drone pyrotechnic show during the national anthem, with the American flag — ironically? — going up in smoke.
SF News Muni Still Has Fare-Evasion Problem as Ridership Rebounds; Fare Revenue at 34% What It Was In 2015 As we've heard multiple times in recent years, Muni has a major fare-evasion problem even though ridership has rebounded somewhat since the pandemic. But the actual numbers are pretty startling.
SF News High-Speed Chase Through Santa Rosa Ends In Rollover Crash Into Vineyard The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office had their helicopter out for a vehicle pursuit Wednesday which may have escalated because they pulled the helicopter out, and thankfully no one appears to have been seriously hurt.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 'Grandpa Vicha' Killer to Be Sentenced Antoine Watson is expected to be sentenced today for the Jan. 2021 killing of 'Grandpa Vicha' Ratanapakdee; H Mart is opening its big new Dublin location; and the International Olympic Committee is officially barring trans female athletes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Big Movie Shoot Coming to Telegraph Hill That controversial Lowell High math teacher has been forced to resign; a big-budget movie shoot is happening Thursday near Telegraph Hill; and Stephen Colbert is going to be writing a 'Lord of the Rings' movie.
Business & Tech Bay Area Company Sends First Humanoid Robot to the White House, Walking Side By Side With Melania Ugh. Melania Trump thinks more robots should be teaching children, which dovetails nicely with the administration gutting the Department of Education.
Business & Tech Meta and Google Found Liable In Landmark Social Media Addiction Case; Meta Also Found Liable In Child Exploitation Case It's a bad week in the courts for Meta, and also for Google and YouTube, after juries in two states came back with verdicts against the companies in high-profile cases about the dangers of social media.
SF News Stonestown Galleria Evacuated Over Possible Threat, SFPD Sweeps Mall For Three Hours Stonestown Galleria was evacuated Wednesday afternoon due to police activity and a vague, phone-in threat — possibly involving an armed individual — and the mall eventually reopened after several hours.
