SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Classy Crew Swipes $4,000 Bottle of Cognac on the Way Out of San Jose Steakhouse, Sheriff Investigating A group of 10 people who were dining last week at at an upscale steakhouse in San Jose appears to have wanted to take a special souvenir with them — and it was a very expensive bottle of booze.
SF News San Francisco to Sponsor Event Series Later This Month to 'Celebrate' Everyone Returning to Their Downtown Offices A program of outdoor festivities at multiple locations around downtown SF is being planned for the last week of March, and city officials really hope that someone is there to attend them.
SF News Mayor London Breed and SF Travel Officials Head on European Tour to Drum Up Tourism San Francisco Mayor London Breed and officials from San Francisco International Airport and the San Francisco Travel Association are headed out on a 10-day tour of the Continent in an effort to combat negative press about SF becoming a hellhole.
SF News Authorities On the Hunt For Mother's Boyfriend As Suspect in Possible Murder 8-Year-Old Hayward Girl The remains of an eight-year-old girl who may have gone missing as long as three months ago were discovered in a Merced home Friday that belongs to the boyfriend of the girl's mother, and he has since gone on the run.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: More Rain Moves In A little more rain is on the way late tonight and into tomorrow, BART's Red Line is still down and you have transfer to get to Berkeley or Richmond, and an early morning fire displaced five in SF's Oceanview.
SF News UC Berkeley May Be Granted Legislative Workaround for Enrollment Cap Fight Legislators in Sacramento are working to craft a quick solution to the University of California's legal battle with a citizens' group in Berkeley, in order that they may be able to admit 2,000 more students this month. And it entails a small revision to CEQA.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sally Schmitt, Original Chef at The French Laundry, Has Died at Age 90 A Bay Area legend in her own right, Sally Schmitt will be remembered as a pioneer of California Cuisine, before such a thing was even being talked about. Schmitt died at her home in Philo on Saturday at the age of 90.
SF Politics Embattled Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith Announces Retirement After a year in which the county's board of supervisors mounted pressure to oust her, Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith announced Thursday that she plans to retire in January and not run for re-election.
SF Politics London Breed Announces Picks for School Board Replacements, All Three Are District Parents SF Mayor London Breed is announcing her three picks for the school board Friday, and one of them was instrumental in helping to recall the three school board members who were ousted in last month's special election.
SF News Mummified Body Found In Oakland Convention Center Wall Was Likely Three to Five Years Old, Foul Play Not Suspected The story of the mummified body discovered inside a wall at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland has taken a turn for the less dramatic, and perhaps more tragic.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Caltrain Running Bus Bridge Around San Bruno Following Crash There's some continued disruption on Caltrain after Thursday's crash in San Bruno, a van parked outside the Old Mint in SF caught fire Thursday afternoon, and today is the day you can stop showing proof of vaccination at bars and restaurants.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Rescues Two Teenage Tortoises From Oklahoma Roadside Attraction The Oakland Zoo has just welcomed a pair of Aldabra tortoises, both teenage males, and both confiscated from a roadside zoo in Oklahoma.
SF News Census Bureau Says That Black and Brown People Were Undercounted In 2020 Census, Some Whites Double-Counted The U.S. Census Bureau says that while the overall 2020 Census population number published last year — 323.2 million — is probably close to accurate, other numbers published last year represent significant undercounts of minority populations.
SF News Ferry and BART Ridership See Immediate Spikes as Gas Prices Rise The concurrent rise in gas prices and return to physical workplaces in downtown SF and elsewhere has spurned a sudden and unexpected boom in ridership for both BART and commuter ferries.
SF News Masks Will Remain Required on Planes and Public Transit Until April 18, TSA Says The federal Transportation Security Administration announced Thursday morning that Americans will need to keep wearing masks through at least April 18 on public transit, on planes, and in transit hubs.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: One Injured In Car-to-Car Shooting In SF Two men died in a fatal shooting at an Oakland Jack in the Box, one person was injured in a car-to-car shooting in SF's Bayview District, and a story about a missing trans woman who was possibly kidnapped in SF has ended abruptly and she has been found.
SF News Day Around the Bay: DA's Office Drops Fourth Charge Against SFPD Officer The SF DA's Office is dropping the last charge against SFPD Officer Terrance Stangel, Mayor London Breed said the city is "thriving" in her State of the City address, Point Reyes Station wants to fight light pollution.
SF News Ack! Mummified Body Found Inside Wall of Old Oakland Convention Center Construction workers tearing down walls at the long defunct Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland made a gruesome discovery Wednesday: a mummified corpse of indeterminate age or sex.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe Reopens In SoMa, Burger and All It's been two years since anyone has had a Marlowe burger, at least inside Marlowe itself, and the well loved SoMa restaurant is finally back open and serving inside and out.
SF News [Update] SF and Oakland Police Investigate Disappearance of Trans Woman Possibly Kidnapped Near Fisherman's Wharf A 20-year-old woman who had been staying at a Fisherman's Wharf hotel was abducted by a man, her friends say, and police later found her cellphone, covered in blood, near a clinic in Oakland.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Is Dropping Vaccine Requirement for Bars and Restaurants Starting Friday For the first time in six months, you'll be able to enter a bar or restaurant in San Francisco without showing your vaccination card starting on Friday, March 11.
SF Politics Critics Agree That Newsom's CARE Court Plan Won't Work Without Huge Investment In New Psych Treatment Beds Governor Gavin Newsom last week unveiled an ambitious-seeming plan to push more of the state's severely mentally ill into treatment. But forced psychiatric treatment requires locked wards and hospital beds that the state has been short on for decades, so how is this all going to work?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Reopens For First Time In Two Years; Small Protest Greets Them From Next Door César Tuesday night marked the first night of service in almost exactly two years for Chez Panisse and Chez Panisse Cafe, but the occasion was slightly marred by a demonstration next door from staff and customers of tapas bar César, which is being forced out of its lease by Chez Panisse.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART's Richmond Line Is Still Down Service on BART's Richmond line is suspended for a few more days, Sherri Papini got out of jail on a $120,000 bond, and Oakland native and 'Black Panther' director Ryan Coogler was wrongly detained for a bank robbery in Atlanta.
SF News Tiny House Village for the Homeless Opens at the Foot of Gough Street San Francisco's first tiny-home village for the homeless, a pilot project using prefab tiny houses, has just welcomed its first dozen residents at the foot of Gough Street, on a lot owned by a developer waiting for construction permits to build a condo tower.
