SF Politics Ninth Circuit Shuts Down Trump's Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship, Setting Up Supreme Court Showdown The next legal step after the Supreme Court appeared to roll over multiple times to the will of President Trump this term will be answering the question of whether his executive order barring birthright citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants is unconstitutional.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SoMa Offices Filling Up Again The street closures in Golden Gate Park have begun ahead of back-to-back concert weekends; the Chronicle food critics are filing dueling reviews of State Bird Provisions; and tech startups are moving back into SoMa.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Richard Tillman's Competency Questioned In Court Richard Tillman, the San Jose arson suspect and brother of the late Pat Tillman, made a court appearance today at which his competency was called in question; an Oakland man was arrested in a Sacramento jewelry heist; and Pam Bondi apparently told Trump directly that he's in the Epstein files.
Business & Tech Sam Altman Warns of Coming AI-Created 'Fraud Crisis' OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued a fairly dire warning about how some personal security apparatuses — particularly things we use to guard our bank accounts and the like — are highly vulnerable to AI-based fraud.
SF News Lengthy Court Proceeding Over Homeless Encampment Sweeps In SF Ends With $2.8M Settlement A court case that was brought by several homeless individuals along with the ACLU and the Coalition on Homelessness led to a two-year legal battle over the city's practice of clearing encampments from public spaces. It has now ended in a financial settlement of $2.8 million.
SF News Federal Report Offers Several New Details About Capsize Incident That Left 8 Dead at Lake Tahoe Extreme waves, a dead engine, unworn life jackets, and a tragically poor position on the lake all contributed to the deaths of eight people on Lake Tahoe, according to a newly released preliminary report.
SF News Mother Speaks Out After 9-Year-Old Boy Killed By Father In San Jose Park The 9-year-old victim in last week's San Jose stabbing case has been identified and his mother has now put out a statement about the tragic loss of her son, and his father's undiagnosed mental illness.
SF News Pedestrian Killed In Mission Terrace Hit-and-Run Collision Early Wednesday morning, a pedestrian was struck and killed in the Mission Terrace neighborhood of San Francisco, and the vehicle responsible fled the scene.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Napa Father Faces Murder Charge for DUI Crash That Killed Son Two people were found dead of gunshot wounds in an East Oakland apartment; a Napa father has been charged with murder for a DUI-related crash that killed his son; and San Jose again ranks high on unaffordability list.
Arts & Entertainment IKEA-Anchored Shopping Center to Get New Event Space This Fall Ingka Centres, the mall affiliate of IKEA, just announced the activation of one more of the upper floors of the still half-vacant, six-story shopping center at 945 Market Street.
SF News Fight Over Compton's Cafeteria Site Escalates With Report of Halfway House Resident's Death, Call for Hearing An appeal over the zoning compliance of a halfway house that occupies the building where a historic LGBTQ act of resistance against police brutality took place in 1966 may have failed last week. But there is a new wrinkle in the story about that halfway house.
Business & Tech Tourist In SF For Conference Ends Up Stuck In Weird Waymo Garage Limbo "This was like, out of a science fiction movie," says attorney Darren Findling, describing a brief ordeal he had during his first-ever Waymo ride on Monday morning in San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In-N-Out's CEO Says She's Moving to Tennessee and Opening 'Eastern' Company HQ There, Uproar Ensues There's always been a bit of an awkward mismatch between California's favorite fast-food chain and the born-again Christian family that owns and operates it, and that is being highlighted once again with a social media uproar over CEO Lynsi Snyder saying she's moving to Tennessee.
SF News [Update] Elderly Pedestrian Killed In Scooter Collision at 6th and Market Identified A 77-year-old pedestrian was killed late last week in a collision with a person on a scooter near the intersection of Sixth and Market streets.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Person Drowns at SF's Aquatic Park A man's body was pulled from the water at SF's Aquatic Park Monday night; a San Jose man with Chinese dual citizenship has pleaded guilty to stealing sensitive defense secrets; and a hotel in the Delta says 37 of its peacocks were stolen.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Animal Care Seeks Suspect Seen Chasing Raccoon With Blowtorch SF Mayor Daniel Lurie gets a high approval rating in a new poll; the FAA is investigating a near miss between a commercial jet and a military bomber; and SF Animal Care & Control is investigating a possible animal abuser who was seen chasing a raccoon with a blowtorch.
SF News New Details Emerge In Case of Oakland Parole Officer Shooting Death The man facing a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of a state parole officer last week in Oakland was a parolee who had appearently missed an appointment with his parole officer one day earlier.
SF News Alaska Airlines' Operations Halted For Three Hours Sunday Night Due to IT Problem, Impacts Continue It clearly wasn't as bad as Delta Airlines' meltdown last summer, or the Southwest Airlines meltdown in December 2022, but Alaska Airlines had an IT "outage" Sunday evening that led to a three-hour ground stop for all its planes.
Arts & Entertainment Queer SoMa Nightclub Oasis Set to Close After 10 Years, Citing Declining Attendance In some very sad news for the queer nightlife scene in San Francisco, Oasis, the nightclub co-founded in 2015 by D'Arcy Drollinger and the late Heklina, is planning to shut its doors after New Year's Eve.
SF News 102-Year-Old East Bay D-Day Veteran and TikTok Star 'Papa Jake' Larson Has Died A late-in-life star of TikTok, a resident of Lafayette, and one of the country's last surviving veterans of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, "Papa Jake" Larson, died late last week at the age of 102.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: The Bay Area Is Having Its Mildest Summer In Decades This summer has been unusually cool for much of the Bay Area, so far; three people died on rivers in NorCal on Saturday; the Gilroy Garlic festival returns, in smaller form, on Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Don't Sleep on Hyphy Burger Onsen brings back dinner service, Luka's Taproom is coming back in "remixed" form in Oakland, and Hyphy Burger sets a date for a grand opening after being softly open this month, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beer Festival Featuring 20 Local Breweries Comes to Presidio This Weekend A beer festival with a bevy of local brews, live music, and food trucks is descending on the Parade Ground at the Presidio Saturday, and it should be a pretty good time.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge to Undergo Final Phase of Seismic Retrofit Project, South Tower to Get Fresh Coat of Paint Over the next ten years, there will be a fair amount of construction activity happening on the main span of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, as a project to protect it from significant damage in an earthquake gets underway.
SF News Big Rig Fire Spreads to Vegetation Near Altamont Pass, Causing Temporary Freeway Closure A big rig somehow caught fire on the shoulder of I-580 early Friday morning in Livermore, near the Altamont Pass, and the fire spread to an adjacent hillside.
