SF News Two Men Killed By Trains In Separate Oakland Incidents In Less Than 24 Hours In a tragic coincidence, two men were killed in train collisions in unrelated incidents Tuesday and Wednesday, and one was a homeless man in East Oakland.
SF News Yet Another Safeway Site, In Mission/Bernal, Slated For Possible Redevelopment With Housing SF-based developer Align Real Estate does, in fact, have a larger strategy to redevelop Safeway properties in the city and turn them into multi-story residential complexes with retail on the ground floor, including replacement Safeway stores.
SF News 19-Year-Old UC Berkeley Student Dies After Frat Party Drowning Incident A 19-year-old Cal student who was found unresponsive after a near-drowning Friday night at a fraternity house has died from his injuries, but police are saying they do not suspect foul play.
SF Politics Marc Benioff, Elon Musk Attend White House Dinner With Murderous Saudi Crown Prince The billionaires were all back in their billionaire bubble alongside Trump Tuesday night, and even Elon Musk has been welcomed back into the fold after his teenage-style tiff with Trump.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Alleged Shooter Took a Class With John Beam Suspect Cedric Irving Jr. was enrolled in a class taught by John Beam in 2022; an SF-based judge could restore temporary protected status to immigrants from three countries; and Sutter is planning a huge new hospital campus in Santa Clara.
SF News SF Supervisors Approve Program for New Affordable Artist Housing on Mid-Market, Courtesy of Anonymous Donor The SF Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve a new affordable-housing program based in a new building on mid-Market Street that would be dedicated to housing artists and creative types who are largely being priced out of the city.
Business & Tech Meta Wins Antitrust Battle, Does Not Have to Spin Off Instagram or WhatsApp A yearslong fight between the FTC and Meta has ended with Meta prevailing, and a federal judge declaring that the company likely does not hold a monopoly in the social media sphere anymore.
Business & Tech Amazon-Owned Autonomous Taxi Company Zoox Begins Offering Public Rides Zoox, whose funny-looking, steering-wheel-free, four-seater robocars have been roving about San Francisco for a while now, is now launching its first program to give rides to the general public.
SF News Two Injured In High-Speed Crash on Lombard Street In the Marina A three-car crash at Broderick and Lombard streets Tuesday morning left a pickup truck partially lodged in the side of the La Luna motel and two people hospitalized.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Navy Apologizes For Delay In Shipyard Radiation Disclosure The House is voting to release the Epstein files; the Navy apologized at a community meeting about "mishandling" the situation in Hunters Point; and Waymo does appear to be assisting with the Saturday night shooting investigation in the Mission.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Historic Earthquake Refugee Cottage Destroyed In Noe Valley The SF coroner succeeded in ID-ing an unidentified man found dead in SoMa; a developer has illegally destroyed a historic earthquake shack in Noe Valley, neighbors say; and the Trump administration is suing CA over the no-mask rule for ICE.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New British Gastropub, Dingles Public House, Opens Next Week In Hayes Valley At least a couple more new restaurants are expected to sneak open before the year is out, and one of those will be Dingles Public House, in the Civic Center-adjacent space in the ground floor of the Inn at the Opera.
SF News East Bay Pilot Who Nearly Brought Down Alaska Flight Sentenced to Time Served In Federal Case Joseph Emerson, the former Alaska Airlines pilot who had a bad and extra-long trip thanks to some magic mushrooms and consequently did something very dangerous while on the jumpseat inside a cockpit, has successfully avoided further jail time.
SF News What We Know About the Fatal Mission District Shooting Early Sunday A shooting on 16th Street in SF's Mission District Saturday night/early Sunday left one person dead and another critically wounded, and the crime may have been caught on camera by a passing Waymo.
SF News [Updated] Traffic Backs Up Into SF Following Two Crashes, One on Bay Bridge Approach A pair of freeway crashes Monday morning in SF, both on roadways headed in the direction of the Bay Bridge, led to injuries, a significant fuel spill, and a traffic nightmare for those trying to drive to the East Bay.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: FAA Lifts Flight Restrictions The FAA lifted its emergency restrictions on flight traffic; SF condo owners in older buildings are freaking out about a change to the fire code; and Morgan Freeman sues over AI replicas of his voice.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: All Hail Quik Dog Jack's is making a comeback as a semi-private event space, Quik Dog debuts at Mission Rock, and Goose & Gander calls it quits, all in This Week In Food.
Arts & Entertainment K-Pop Dancers, Giant Lububus Promised at Excelsior K-Pop Night Market There is a night market happening tonight, November 14, in SF's Excelsior District, and the theme is K-pop. Brace yourselves for a crowd!
Business & Tech Anthropic Says Its AI Chatbot Was Used By Chinese Hackers for Large-Scale Cyber Attack In what sounds like both a word of warning and weirdly a little bit of bragging, SF-based Anthropic says that its AI chatbot Claude was used by state-sponsored hackers in China to commit a large-scale cyberattack on American companies.
SF News Iron Dust, Which BART Says It Stopped Cleaning In 2020, Likely to Blame For Smoke Incident In August Dust that collects on and near insulator caps along BART's electrified third rail was potentially to blame for a scary August 29 incident in which a fire in the Transbay Tube led to smoke entering a moving train.
SF News Arrest Made In Shooting of Famed Laney College Football Coach John Beam Oakland police have announced that an arrest has been made in connection with Thursday's shocking shooting at Laney College, which left a beloved football coach critically wounded, and more details about the crime have emerged.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Court Blocks Immigrant License Rule Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon arrived at UC Berkeley to make a show about investigating a protest; a federal appeals court has blocked a new rule about immigrants' commercial driver's licenses; and Trump angers his base by softening on H1-B visas.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Opens Pabu-Chan, a New Sake Tasting 'Jewel Box' In Plaza of 101 California Just outside the doors of PABU, the 11-year-old izakaya that Michael Mina opened in the base of 101 California, there is a new separate sake bar and private event space, and it's called Pabu-Chan.
SF News 3.6M Earthquake Rumbles Under Vallejo, Follows Earlier Swarm of Quakes A small but noticeable 3.6-magnitude earthquake happened Thursday at 12:41 pm, with an epicenter two miles southeast of Vallejo.
Business & Tech Legal Dispute Continues Between Transamerica Building Owner and High-End Private Club That Was Set to Be a Tenant A legal battle that's been ongoing for about 18 months between upscale membership club CORE and SHVO, the developer behind the revamp of the Transamerica Building, appeared to escalate this week.
