SF Politics Once Again We're Voting On a Dialysis-Clinic Prop — Here's the Deal At its heart, this is a unionization fight, but it's one that keeps coming up because there is so much money on the table — and because the arguments are compelling.
SF News Next Omicron Subvariant Arrives In Bay Area; Not Enough People Are Getting Updated Boosters It is high time for people to get their bivalent COVID booster shots, with widespread availability and a looming potential winter surge of a new Omicron subvariant.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Strange Weather Pattern to Blame For Fog and Cold Hundreds gathered outside San Francisco's City Hall on Monday in solidarity to protest Russia's new attacks in Ukraine, a gig-worker union is going to be announced outside Uber HQ, and a strange weather pattern has been keeping SF's early October colder than usual.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jennifer Newsom to Testify Against Harvey Weinstein In L.A. A 39-year-old man was shot near Fisherman's Wharf on Sunday night, Jennifer Siebel Newsom is set to testify in the L.A. trial of Harvey Weinstein, and a star witness just testified in the corruption trial of the Santa Clara County sheriff.
SF News Suspect In Merced Murder of Four Family Members Is Formally Charged, Arraigned One of two suspects in a quadruple homicide last week in Merced was arraigned Monday morning in Merced County court, four days after he was arrested for their kidnapping.
SF News Shooting Outside UC Berkeley Dorms Leaves One Dead, Four Injured There was a shooting early Saturday, following a busy Friday night of frat parties and activity on and off the UC Berkeley campus, that left four people injured and one dead — none of whom were students or affiliated with the school.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: The Metaverse Sounds Tedious The Blue Angels' air show was canceled Sunday due to fog, 74% of respondents to a Chronicle Twitter poll agree with Soleil Ho that the French Laundry isn't worth a splurge, and a Times reporter spent 24 hours in Facebook's metaverse, such as it is.
SF News Humboldt Surfer Attacked By Shark, Survives After Kicking the Fish In the Head A surfer off the coast of Humboldt County miraculously survived a pretty serious shark bite on Sunday, and his tale provides at least one best practice for getting out of the grip of an attacking shark.
SF News SF Spent a Half Million Dollars Creating Fancy Trash Can Prototypes and More Survey Respondents Preferred Ugly Off-the-Shelf 'BearSaver' Model The trash-can saga drones on over at the Department of Public Works, and today we learn the results of that survey they ran seeking public opinion on six waste receptacle designs being considered.
SF News City Accountants Are Trying to Clean Up Their Books So Now San Francisco Is Sending People 30-Year-Old Tax Bills In an effort to resolve tens of thousands of outstanding tax bills, some dating back to 1993, the city of San Francisco has recently sent out a round of notices to people who owe some long-overdue taxes — and some of these bills may seem ridiculous.
SF Politics Newsom Joined By Other West Coast Governors In Signing Symbolic Climate Pledge Taking an opportunity to say "Eat your heart out, Fox News," Governor Gavin Newsom was joined by the governors of Oregon and Washington and the premier of British Columbia in signing a joint climate pledge in the Presidio on Thursday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: State Auditing Bay Area Police Forces The state is now auditing multiple police forces in the Bay Area following revelations about "unsuitable" psych evaluations in Alameda County, an infamous wine arsonist is getting out of jail, and there was a vigil for the slain family in Merced.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liliana May Be SF's Best New Date Spot For the Cocktail-Inclined San Francisco is stupid with great cocktail bars — though sadly we have fewer than when a pandemic decided to kill some off. But how many actually double as great date spots where you can sit down, hear each other, and get a complete meal?
SF News Female Lyft Driver Describes Harrowing Encounter With Passenger, Fleeing Onto Freeway A Lyft driver in San Jose says she was forcibly grabbed from behind by an aggressive passenger, which led to her swerving dangerously while going 70 miles per hour and pulling off a busy freeway.
SF News Four People OD'd at the 24th & Mission BART Plaza Monday; Supervisor Says Health Department Should Do More SFFD paramedics responded to the 24th and Mission BART plaza Monday around 5:30 p.m. after four individuals simultaneously suffered from fentanyl overdoses.
SF News Inmate Work Crew Saves Woman From Stabbing In Vacaville An inmate work crew and a California Department of Corrections guard intervened in a stabbing along a Solano County bike trail on Tuesday, possibly saving a woman's life.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Now Know Why the Chronicle Doesn't Think The French Laundry Is Worth the Splurge Anymore Three years in, Soleil Ho drops a review of The French Laundry, and now the details emerge about why the Chronicle's restaurant critic left Thomas Keller's famed restaurant off a recent list of best splurge restaurants.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: State Homeless Population Rises By 22,500 We now have an estimate for how much the state's homeless population grew during the pandemic, the clearing of the Wood Street encampment has entered a final phase, and a federal appeals court has declared DACA illegal.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hastings Family Sues Over UC Law School Name Change, Seeking Payout The descendants of Serranus Hastings want his money back if the state wants to strip his name from the law school he funded, DNA identifies a cold case victim in Sacramento, and Delfina is reopening at last.
SF News Strange Tower With Floating Top Proposed For SoMa, Designed By Same Firm as Infinity, 33 Tehama The Miami-based architecture firm that designed the Infinity towers, troubled 33 Tehama, and the mostly hideous Trinity Place has just unveiled renderings for a curious new residential tower — with a cube at the top that appears to float above the rest of the building.
Arts & Entertainment Bands, Ship Tours, and Air Shows: The What, When and Where of Fleet Week 2022 The Blue Angels are going to begin buzzing the city any minute now, and SF's annual Fleet Week is already underway with band performances and more.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mikkeller Bar Closes For Good (Again) After Nine Years In the Tenderloin Popular SF brewpub Mikkeller Bar, one of two U.S. outposts of cult-famous Danish brewery Mikkeller, is shutting its doors at 34 Mason Street in the next week after nine years at the edge of the Tenderloin — two years after it appeared to close the first time.
SF News Residents of Stockton — Especially the Homeless — Are on Edge Over Possible Serial Killer on the Loose A potential serial killer who may be targeting the homeless in Stockton, and who also may have killed a homeless man in Oakland, has rattled nerves and set the unhoused population, especially, on edge.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland City Council Member Lashes Out Over Encampment Clearing Tensions flared last night at the Oakland City Council over the clearing of the Wood Street encampment, classes have restarted at the Oakland campus where a shooting took place last week, and all local grocery stores are going to be transitioning to compostable plastic.
SF News Vallejo Cop Who Fatally Shot Sean Monterrosa In 2020 Is Finally Fired A Vallejo police detective who fired the gun that killed 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa during civil unrest at a Walgreens in June 2020 has been fired following the conclusion of a third-party investigation into the incident.
