SF News Post-Election Headlines: Governor's Race Too Close to Call Becerra and Hilton hold the leads in the governor's race but Steyer may still be alive with millions of votes still to count; SF's props C and D both look to be failing; and incumbent supervisors Alan Wong and Stephen Sherrill hold solid leads so far in their ranked-choice contests.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Benu Alum Plans Korean Comfort-Food Restaurant on Oakland's Piedmont Ave A restaurateur with several recent hits under his belt has teamed up with a chef with SF fine dining cred to open a new Oakland restaurant focused on Korean comfort food and home-style cooking.
SF News Sonoma Couple Says They Were Conned Out of $28K In 'Courier Scam' Sonoma County authorities want the public, especially the elderly, to be aware of a spate of scams involving couriers and demands for cash withdrawals under false pretenses. But in one recent case, an arrest has been made.
SF Politics Will Mayor Daniel Lurie Keep or Lose Allies In Today's Supervisor Special Elections? In addition to the two bigger primary fights on the ballot today in San Francisco, for governor and for Nancy Pelosi's Congressional seat, two moderate incumbent SF supervisors are fighting to hold on to their seats.
SF News Injured SFPD Officer and Arrested Suspect In Sunday Shooting Both Identified The San Francisco police officer who was critically injured Sunday in the line of duty has been identified, and so has the suspect who allegedly shot at police, who is a convicted felon out on parole.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Early Voting Turnout Is at Just 17% In CA Early voting turnout is at a fairly low 17%, but a surge of ballots is expected; Los Gatos is flying its first-ever Pride Flag on the town square; and a Senate bill seeks to limit how the military can use AI.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Team Australia Arrives In Bay Ahead of World Cup Team Australia has landed in the Bay, which will be its training home base for the World Cup; Adam Sandler and his wife took in a Valkyries game on Saturday; and Florida is now suing OpenAI.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Says Most Layoffs Have Now Been Avoided In New Proposed Budget Similar to what happened last year, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie had City Hall workers with an announcement about sweeping layoffs, only to later announce far fewer layoffs would actually be occurring.
Business & Tech Like OpenAI, Anthropic Makes SEC Filing Ahead of Possible IPO Days after Anthropic saw its valuation soar past competitor OpenAI, the company has made a confidential filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in preparation for a possible IPO.
SF Politics Chakrabarti Campaign Tries to Amplify Pro-Israel PAC's Indirect Link to Connie Chan as Primary Race Tightens There appears to have been some last-minute maneuvers happening over the weekend by supporters of Saikat Chakrabarti, and Chakrabarti himself, in an effort to tie Connie Chan to a political action committee that is pro-Israel.
SF News Robbery Suspect and SFPD Officer Both Shot and Wounded In Gunfight In SF's Bayview District A shootout between SFPD officers and a pair of robbery suspects Sunday night left both an officer and one of the suspects critically wounded, and the second suspect was arrested.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Elderly Alameda Woman Attacked By Wild Turkeys A new poll shows the race tightening for California governor and Steyer surging past Hilton; three people were shot early Sunday in San Jose; and an 83-year-old Alameda woman was attacked by a pair of wild turkeys.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Get Ready for Asia Live Asia Live is debuting next week in Santa Clara, Jules gets a boost from the New York Times, Saluhall loses its last original vendor, and Oakland gets a new queer bar, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Meta Layoffs Actually Impact 3,200 In Bay Area The actual number of Bay Area layoffs in Meta's most recent round is 3,200; former ABC 7 journalist Cecilia Vega has been ousted from '60 Minutes'; and Pam Bondi is facing more Epstein questions before a House committee.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Fest Drops 2026 Lineup and ROBYN IS HEADLINING Yes, the great and magical Swedish dance diva Robyn will be the Saturday headliner at this year's Portola Festival in SF, and, appropriately, Swedish House Mafia will do headlining duty on Sunday.
SF News Landlord Arrested In Connection With Outer Sunset Homicide of Well Known Neighborhood Figure A 68-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the May 17 slaying of Eric Bigone, a city employee, boxing enthusiast, and well known fixture in the Outer Sunset neighborhood.
Business & Tech Google Employee Charged With Fraud After Winning Big on Polymarket Bet Using Insider Info A Google information security engineer who had advance access to Google's year-end round-up of popular searches, is accused of making $1.2 million on a Polymarket bet based on that insider info.
SF News Median Rent for San Francisco One-Bedroom Apartment Hits $4,000/Mo Despite several years of really bad PR, especially in the national press, people remarkably still seem to want to live in San Francisco badly enough that they'll pay four grand a month for a one-bedroom apartment.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: New Poll Puts Becerra In Lead Well Ahead of Dems A new poll puts Xavier Becerra well ahead of the pack in the governor's race; the Concord City Council just voted to go forward on a massive redevelopment of a former Navy site; and rotavirus is surging in the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wildfire Grows In Livermore A wildfire called the Tesla Fire, because it began near Tesla Road, has grown to three acres in Livermore; Mayor Lurie has promoted a new chief of staff from within; and Trump is now having the DOJ investigate E. Jean Carroll.
SF Politics Pelosi Finally Says What She Thinks About Chakrabarti and Wiener In Race to Succeed Her One week out from the primary, and one week after she finally came out and endorsed Connie Chan to succeed her, Nancy Pelosi has taken the gloves off and tells us how she really feels about the other main candidates in the race.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Jose Original Joe's Restaurant Goes on the Market — Could It Rejoin Its SF Cousins? A confusing fact about the Original Joe's brand in the Bay Area is that it actually belongs to two unrelated families — and if you bring in other "Joe's" restaurants in Marin and elsewhere, the picture is murkier.
SF Politics Yuba and Sutter County Leaders to Take Vote to Secede From Coastal California In the latest bit of symbolic and theatrical pushback on California's redistricting plan, which is intended to take five Republican-held seats in Congress and hand them to Democrats, two inland counties in Northern California are taking votes on a new secession plan.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Meta Layoffs Hitting Seattle Harder Than SF The victim in a Sunday stabbing in Oakland has been identified as a 19-year-old man; Meta's new round of layoffs is impacting Seattle more than the Bay Area; and the rate of suicide among ICE detainees is increasing.
SF News Invasive Insect Found on Costco Plants In Solano County Could Pose Threat to Napa Grapevines Grapevines and citrus plants purchased at Costco stores in Vacaville and Fairfield, as well as in Napa and Sonoma counties, have been found to be harboring infestations of glassy-winged sharpshooters, which pose a grave threat to grapevines.
