Business & Tech Mid-Market's NEMA Seeks City Approval For Corporate Rentals In what appears to be the first instance of a building owner seeking approval from the city under a new ordinance limiting the number of units that can be corporate rentals, the developer behind the NEMA building downtown is looking to convert 200 units.
Business & Tech Facebook Is Suspending Trump for Two Years, Or Until He's No Longer a Danger to the Republic Facebook says that Trump's punishment for inciting a riot at the Capitol on January 6th will be a two-year suspension, and that suspension will only be lifted if he no longer represents a "risk to public safety."
SF News We Are In For an Especially Sh**ty Fire Season, and It's Already Begun In terms of wildfires in Northern California this year, it's not a matter of if but a matter of when, where, and how terrible. That's according to new maps showing the extreme fire potential taking shape with dry fuels across the region.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Vaccinated Napa Woman Dies From COVID The first California vaccine lottery drawing happens today, the Board of Supervisors is holding a hearing about gas line safety, and a San Francisco man recently returned a Bob Dylan record to a library 48 years late.
SF News Day Around the Bay: No Charges to Be Filed Against Nuru For Odd Knife Incident No charges are being filed against Mohammed Nuru in that knife incident and the DA says it was just a misunderstanding, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis says she won't play politics with the recall, and Honey Mahogany talks about her political ambitions after becoming SF Democratic Party Chair.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink To-Go Cocktails and Outdoor Dining Extended In California Restaurants and bars in California can continue selling to-go booze through the end of the year, and outdoor parklet dining and alcohol sales are being extended as well, ahead of state laws that will solidify both.
SF Politics Details About Nuru Arrest Remain Sketchy as Supervisors React With Terms Like 'Unravel' and 'Downfall' It may be that we won't ever get a completely reliable description of events of what happened with disgraced former Public Works head Mohammed Nuru to lead to his arrest Wednesday on a robbery charge. But that hasn't stopped some city officials from reacting.
SF News Video: Pacific Heights Man Engages In Racial Profiling, Questions Bike Messenger About Stolen Packages Another white person in Pacific Heights has been captured on video being an asshole to a person of color, this time questioning a man who was delivering Narcan to a nearby halfway house.
SF News Longtime Bay Area Anchor Frank Somerville Off Air Since Slurred-Speech Broadcast On Sunday KTVU anchor Frank Somerville, one of the most recognizable of the Bay Area's news personalities having been on the air at KTVU since 1991, was pulled from a Sunday broadcast and has not returned since after slurring his speech on air.
Business & Tech Twitter Launches Subscription Service That Will Allow Users to 'Undo' Tweets Twitter just announced the launch of its Twitter Blue product, a new subscription service with extra perks for avid users that is rolling out today in Australia and Canada ahead of a wider launch.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Cal/OSHA to Keep Mask Requirements for Many Workers State regulators are likely keeping mask rules in place for workers after June 15, Google has reassigned a diversity figure for antisemitic comments, and a dump truck driver did an apparent dump-and-run following a messy accident in Fremont.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Man Shot By Plainclothed Officer Staking Out His House Federal investigators recently seized over 40 lbs of fentanyl from an alleged Honduran cartel in the East Bay, the San Jose PD has a lot of questions to answer about a Monday night shooting of a man outside his home, and the 92-y-o Bellevue Club in Oakland is becoming a new location of The Battery.
SF Politics Mohammed Nuru Arrested After Allegedly Pulling a Knife While Volunteering at Food Bank Former San Francisco Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was reportedly arrested Wednesday morning following a strange-sounding incident at the SF-Marin Food Bank warehouse in the Dogpatch neighborhood.
SF Politics ROFL: Trump Shuts Down His Blog After One Month Because No One Is Reading It In an entirely predictable turn of events, our former president has abruptly shut down his "From the Desk of Donald Trump" weblog, barely a month after it launched.
SF News Anti-LGBT 'Karen' Video Emerges From Hotel Pool In Sacramento; Oakland Woman Was Allegedly Upset Over Women Kissing Just in time for Pride Month, we have a new video going viral of an outraged white woman being escorted out of a hotel pool area in Sacramento after allegedly complaining about the fact that two women were publicly kissing with children present.
Business & Tech Sea Cliff Mansion Set to Be Foreclosed Upon for Second Time In a Year Could Be Yours for $17.5M A six-bedroom home with its own private beach cove, overlooking Baker Beach and the Pacific Ocean in SF's tony Sea Cliff neighborhood, is facing its second foreclosure in a year after failing to sell for the umpteenth time in the last decade.
Bay Area Sports SF Giants to Be First MLB Team to Display Pride Rainbow Colors on Uniforms For Saturday's home game against the Chicago Cubs at Oracle Park, the San Francisco Giants will sport LGBTQ Pride colors on their uniforms for the first time — and becoming the first team in Major League Baseball ever to recognize Pride Month in this way.
SF News Santa Clara Sheriff Releases Body Cam Footage From Last Week's VTA Shooting The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office has released body-worn camera footage from the department's response to the mass shooting at the VTA maintenance yard last Wednesday.
Arts & Entertainment Pink Triangle Lighting Ceremony Was Shrouded In Fog, But Pelosi Showed Up Tuesday night's ceremonial lighting of the newly electrified pink triangle on Twin Peaks was — sort of predictably — inundated by Karla the Fog. But it was attended by activists and dignitaries alike, and an LGBTQ marching band.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Labor Unions Support Newsom in Recall A protest over a police shooting shut down a freeway in San Jose Tuesday night, California labor unions are launching a campaign to help the Newsom recall to fail, and Alameda residents want something done about all the sideshow activity at the former Naval Air Station.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rents In SF Likely to Be Back Where They Were By Year-End Rents in San Francisco have regained about half the ground they lost last year, Bank of America is in trouble in federal court over its handling of EDD card fraud, and the SFPD is seeking help finding a missing 84-year-old woman who disappeared in the Richmond District.
SF News Video: Teen Girl Takes on Bear to Save Dogs A video has gone viral of a California teenager fending off a mother bear who appeared ready to kill several barking dogs who confronted her and her cubs.
SF News With Bay Area COVID Cases Continuing to Decline, Marin and Solano Counties Reach New Tiers The seven-day average of daily new cases in the Bay Area was 174 over the last week. That is down dramatically from an average of 518 recorded cases each day in the first week of May.
SF News Dreamforce Is Happening In SF In September, But Will Be Smaller Than Usual Salesforce has announced that Dreamforce is back on as an in-person event this year, though it clearly will not have the usual 170,000 attendees coming to San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamilton' Will Return With Four-Week Run to Reopen SF's Orpheum Theater 'Hamilton' is returning to the San Francisco theater this August where it was still being performed last March before the pandemic shut down all theaters on and off Broadway.
