SF News Day Around the Bay: Oroville Dam Spillway Lets Loose Parts of the Bay Area are under an "extreme cold watch" for Friday morning; another Oakland athletics coach had his life threatened; and ICE agents shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis today.
SF Politics Downtown San Francisco Immigration Court Set to Close In a Year The federal immigration court in downtown San Francisco that started 2025 with 21 judges and will soon be down to just four, thanks to Trump administration mass-firings, will close by January 2027.
Arts & Entertainment Controversial Alt-Rock Troll and Trump Fan Ariel Pink Set to Play SF Show at the Chapel Friday Indie musician Ariel Pink is coming to town just days after the fifth anniversary of January 6th — which he actually attended, at least the Trump rally part, though he denies joining the horde that stormed the Capitol.
SF News Testimony at Trial of Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Shannon O'Connor Just as Lurid and Gross as You'd Imagine The trial continues this week of onetime Los Gatos resident Shannon O'Connor, who clearly wanted her sons and their friends to think of her a "cool mom" who'd let them drink, but the alleged teen parties she threw actually sound pretty sordid, and unsafe.
SF News Section of Highway 116 Near Guerneville Washes Out, Could Take a Year to Repair A section of winding Highway 116 slid into the Russian River in Sonoma County on Monday, and the washout near Monte Rio is only expected to grow as the rain-soaked banks of the river continue to be saturated and unstable.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Supervisors Call For Hearing on December Power Outage Supervisor Alan Wong and others are calling for a hearing into PG&E's massive outage last month; Sonoma County is under a flood warning today; and Valero has begun shutting down its Benicia refinery.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Bartender Fired After Viral Incident Involving Drunk and Belligerent Customers The Hazie's bartender who had his hair pulled by a very intoxicated customer who was irate about being cut off on SantaCon Saturday, in a video that went internationally viral, says he's now been fired.
Business & Tech Uber Unveils Robotaxi Design at CES In Las Vegas Uber's line of robotaxis that are set to hit the road in San Francisco sometime later this year made their big public debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Monday.
SF Politics Trump Announces Fraud Probe of California Social Services, Withholds Federal Funds In Wake of Minnesota Scandals The Trump administration is now waging more political war with Democrat-led states, announcing the withholding of $10 billion in social services funding to five states: Minnesota, California, New York, Illinois, and Colorado.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved North Beach Soufflé Restaurant Café Jacqueline Closes After 46 Years A full-throated "Noooo!" is being shouted around San Francisco today by anyone who knew and loved Café Jacqueline, because the stalwart, soufflé-focused restaurant has closed for good.
SF News Northern California Congressman Doug LaMalfa Dies Suddenly at Age 65 Doug LaMalfa, who has represented California's 1st Congressional District for the last 13 years, died suddenly on Monday at the age of 65. No cause of death has been announced, but LaMalfa's death will further constrain Republicans' narrow majority in the House.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: More Details In Case of Antioch Girl Shot In Head A few more details were released in the case of an 11-year-old girl shot Monday in Antioch; the body of a woman who went missing Friday while hiking was found in the American River; and Newsom begins his final year in office with an $18B deficit.
SF News Day Around the Bay: G'Bye Alioto's The demolition of Alioto's began today at the Wharf; an 11-year-old girl was hit by a stray bullet in Antioch; and Hilton is apologizing for a Minnesota hotel that was refusing rooms to ICE agents.
SF News Sausalito Waterfront Restaurant Associated With the Tequila Sunrise, The Trident, Closes Once More A famous waterfront hangout in Marin County that boasted plenty of celebrity guests in the 1970s — and where Robin Williams once worked as a busboy — has shut its doors for the second time in 45 years.
SF News New Owners of Downtown SF Mall Move to Evict Last Three Businesses Who Have Not Left It seems odd that there are businesses that still want to stay open in a dead mall, but one of them has frontage on Mission Street, and the other two are apparently trying to stick it out for some reason.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Feted on National TV For SF Turnaround That He's Taking All the Credit For Daniel Lurie is correct to say that much of the country has "an outdated notion" of what San Francisco has been like the last year or two. But is it right to give him credit for a perceived turnaround in the city that was kind of underway before he took office?
SF News Two Rescued After Car Bursts Into Flames In SF Crash Near Daly City Border The San Francisco Fire Department performed a rescue and put out a car fire on Junipero Serra Boulevard Sunday morning, and one person in the crash required hospitalization.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Sees Five Homicides In Three Days A 3-alarm fire has mostly destroyed a San Jose Buddhist temple; Oakland saw a triple homicide Saturday morning; and those King Tides continued flooding the Embarcadero over the weekend.
SF News San Francisco Closed Out 2025 With Lowest Number of Homicides In 70 Years While one homicide is always too many, San Francisco can claim to have one of the most rapidly declining homicide rates in the land, and 2025 closed out with a record-low homicide total not seen since the 1950s.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Brunch Mainstay Kitchen Story Closing After 12 Years Castro neighborhood brunch destination Kitchen Story, well known for its Millionaire's Bacon and bottomless mimosas, is closing its doors after 12 years, though its sister businesses will remain open.
SF News Oakland Opens New Year With Two Homicides, One Suspect Arrested There were two fatal shootings in Oakland on New Year's Day which occurred two and a half hours apart in different parts of the city.
SF News One of the Hikers Who Died on Mount Baldy This Week Was a Student at Santa Clara University A 19-year-old man who died while hiking with a friend Monday on San Bernardino County's Mount Baldy has been identified as a freshman at Santa Clara University who was home for winter break.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Major Earthquake Strikes In Southern Mexico A 6.5M earthquake shook parts of central and southern Mexico this morning; a federal judge has denied an attempt by ICE to delay a ruling about its Sansome St. detention facility; and Tesla is no longer the world's biggest EV maker.
SF News First Bay Area Baby of the New Year Appears to Have Been Born In San Leandro There was a baby boy born in San Leandro just a few minutes after midnight last night, making him likely to have been the Bay Area's first birth of 2026.
SF News New Year's Day Headlines: Apartment Fire Extinguished In Potrero Hill SF firefighters put out a fire overnight in Potrero Hill; the suspect in Monday's animal cruelty case has been charged; and there was a major fire tragedy at a Swiss Alpine bar during NYE celebrations.
