SF News Sexual Assault of Child Reported In Golden Gate Park Restroom San Francisco police are investigating a reported sexual battery or sexual assault of a child in a restroom near the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park on Thursday.
SF Politics Bonta and Newsom Call Out Heartlessness of Trump Administration In Announcing Lawsuit Over SNAP Benefits California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Tuesday announced his 45th lawsuit against the Trump administration so far this year, joining two dozen states in suing the USDA for withholding SNAP benefits from low-income Americans as a consequence of the government shutdown.
Arts & Entertainment Sting to Perform Super Bowl Weekend Concert at SF's Palace of Fine Arts Music legend Sting was just announced as a headliner of the Super Bowl Weekend concert series in San Francisco, which is being put on by the NFL's hospitality provider.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Victim Identified In Santa Cruz Wharf Crash Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies fatally shot a man during a traffic stop Monday; the victim in Sunday's fatal crash at the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf has been ID'd; and Bay Area food banks are mobilizing as SNAP benefits go unpaid.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Possibly Dangerous Inmate Released By Mistake In Contra Costa County An inmate wanted in a homicide case in Seattle was mistakenly freed in Contra Costa County; a large union of federal workers has broken with Democrats over the shutdown; and Alaska Airlines is cutting five routes out of SFO.
SF News Video Shows Weird Aftermath to Shooting Involving U-Haul Truck at Coast Guard Island ICE Protest As we await further details from federal investigators about a strange incident that capped off a tense day Thursday in Oakland outside the gates of Alameda's Coast Guard Island, the Chronicle has obtained some strange surveillance video.
SF Politics Gavin Finally (Sort of) Admits He's Running For President; Kamala Strongly Suggests She Will Again, Too California Governor Gavin Newsom has been doing a good job of getting his name out there in the national media over the last year or two, in what has clearly been an orchestrated plan in preparation for a presidential run. And on Sunday he finally fessed up that yes, he's probably going to run.
Arts & Entertainment Fake, Satirical Startup 'Replacement.AI' Puts Up Haunting Billboards In SF, NYC A satirical ad campaign from some as-yet-unidentified pranksters/performance artists has spent real money on multiple billboards in San Francisco and New York that satirize some of the "stop hiring humans" messaging of actual AI startups.
SF News Air Traffic Control Staffing, Impacted By Shutdown, Leads to Ground Stop at LAX, Flight Delays In Bay Area The government shutdown is impacting air travel and may impact it even more in the coming week and beyond, as air traffic controllers miss paychecks and call in sick.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Water Main Break Floods Homes In Sunnydale A water main broke in SF's Sunnydale neighborhood Monday morning; BART had more equipment trouble today in the Transbay Tube; and President Trump admits he underwent an MRI earlier this month.
Arts & Entertainment 'Suffs' Keeps Marching on National Tour, Arriving Triumphantly In SF at a Time of Protest It is hard not to hear the many, painful echoes of our own time in the story of Suffs, the Tony-winning Broadway musical based on real events in the women's suffrage movement of the 1910s.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: More Smashburgers JouJou coming along, Castagnola's makes a comeback in Fisherman's Wharf, and a smashburger pop-up goes brick-and-mortar in the Sunet, all in This Week In Food.
Business & Tech Guess Who's Helping Pay For Trump's Ballroom? Alphabet, Meta, Apple, Palantir Given how the billionaire CEOs all lined up to throw money at Trump's second inauguration, helping the despot feel like the king he's always wanted to be, his royal ballroom is also being funded by these billionaires, including the Bay Area's tech-wealthy.
SF News Five People Stabbed In SF's Inner Richmond, Possibly In Bar Fight Five people were stabbed early Friday morning, four of them requiring hospitalization, during some sort of altercation inside a business in the Inner Richmond.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee Gets Confirmation That No Immigration Operations Are Happening In Bay Area Oakland Mayor and former Congresswoman Barbara Lee never had the pleasure of a phone call from President Trump on Wednesday. But she now says that she has otherwise been able to confirm that no immigration-arrest "surges" are happening in the Bay Area, full stop.
Arts & Entertainment New CBS Legal Drama From 'Good Wife' Creators Robert and Michelle King to Focus on Silicon Valley Tech World A new legal drama titled 'Cupertino' has been greenlit at CBS, and it's a procedural along the lines of 'The Good Wife' that will focus on David-versus-Goliath legal battles in the world of the tech elite.
SF News One Person Shot on SF's Sixth Street, One Arrested You may have received an alert from San Francisco's Department of Emergency Management Thursday afternoon about police activity at Sixth and Minna Streets. Here's what we know.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Point Man Fatally Stabbed, Woman Arrested A vegetation fire in San Jose grew to 10 acres on Thursday; a man was fatally stabbed in a home in Bay Point and a 57-year-old woman was arrested at the scene; and SF has landed on a list of safest cities for travelers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Group Behind Bourbon & Branch and Rickhouse Opens New Bar With Rotating Globally Inspired Menus A new cocktail destination debuts in North Beach today called Long Weekend, and its menu and decor will change on a rotating basis, focusing on a single global city at a time.
SF Politics Trump and Lurie Have Their Moment as Oakland Braces For Its Own Possible Federal 'Surge' SF Mayor Daniel Lurie, who has spent months treading carefully when it comes to discussing national politics, has now emerged as an unlikely recipient of praise from President Donald Trump, among Democratic mayors.
SF Politics Marc Benioff Helped Talk Trump Out of Federal 'Surge' In San Francisco; White House Says 'We'll Be Watching' After potentially helping encourage Trump two weeks ago in his quest to invade Democratic-led cities, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was reportedly one of several "friends" Trump spoke to Wednesday who talked him out of a planned incursion in San Francisco.
SF Politics Trump Tells Mayor Daniel Lurie That Federal Deployment In SF Is Called Off In a confusing turn of events, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie says he had a phone call with President Trump Wednesday night, and the president said he was calling off any federal deployment in the city. But does that mean federal agents will focus on Oakland or another locale?
SF News Protesters Gather Near Coast Guard Island In Alameda Ahead of Immigration Operation, at Least Two Already Injured Ahead of a planned immigrant round-up operation by federal agents in the Bay Area that seems likely to look like previous operations in Southern California, protesters gathered early Thursday morning outside the agents' staging area on Alameda's Coast Guard Island.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: City Lights Unfurls Protest Banners City Lights Bookstore has put up banners on its facade quoting a poem about tyranny by founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti; BART's board discusses Monday's disruption; and Michael Wolff is suing Melania Trump.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Teen Driver Charged In Marin Crash The teen girl in April's deadly crash in Marin County has been criminally charged; Meta is cutting 600 jobs in its AI units; and Paramount is making offers on Warner Bros. Discovery.
