SF News Photos: The Sun Shined Brightly on SF Pride Weekend 2025 Pride Weekend in San Francisco was remarkably friction-free this year as far we saw, apart from that little booing incident with the mayor at the Trans March, and it seems like a good time was had by all.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Peninsula Cities Cancel Fireworks Shows Two more Peninsula cities have canceled their fireworks shows on the Fourth; workers at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland have ended their strike; and an SF supervisor is trying to loosen restrictions on communal housing.
SF News Police In San Francisco and San Jose Seize Large Hauls of Illegal Fireworks Ahead of July 4th Holiday Some will always slip through — and hopefully they don't cause wildfires. But the police departments in San Jose and San Francisco are publicizing news of recent busts involving big caches of illegal fireworks.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Spots Debut In Union Square, Hayes Valley Maritime Boat Club comes to Union Square, Crustacean sets an opening date for its new downtown location, and Buoy Bar debuts next week in Hayes Valley, all in This Week in Food.
SF Politics Trump Scores Another Win From Conservative Supreme Court Majority in Birthright Citizenship Case The question of the legality of President Donald Trump declaring, by fiat, that children born in the United States are not automatically citizens — something that is clearly guaranteed by the 14th Amendment — was not answered by the Supreme Court. But they handed Trump a win nonetheless.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Sues Fox News For Saying He Lied About Phone Call With Trump Fox News is once again facing a defamation lawsuit over false claims made on air, with California Governor Gavin Newsom filing suit against the network Friday, in much the same way President Trump has sued other media organizations.
SF News DoorDash Driver Dies After Flipping Car In Accident Involving Big Rig, I-80 Eastbound Shut Down A fatal freeway crash early Friday morning in Albany that appeared to involve a driver for DoorDash caused a traffic nightmare for some early commuters on I-80 and I-580.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Navy Ship USNS Harvey Milk Renamed Just In Time For Pride Weekend The USNS Harvey Milk will heretofore be called the USNS Oscar V. Peterson; BART service was impacted by a fire near the tracks in West Oakland; and the Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring photo IDs to look at porn sites.
SF News DA: Homicide In SF's Sunnydale on Saturday Involved Man Shooting His Mother A man allegedly fatally shot his mother in front of multiple witnesses on Saturday, June 21, and the San Francisco District Attorney's Office has charged him with murder.
SF News Saucy Santana, TS Madison, and Canada's Drag Race Winner Priyanka to Perform at SF Pride Main Stage An estimated one million people will be attending the San Francisco Pride festivities this weekend, including the Civic Center festival on Saturday and Sunday, and the parade up Market Street.
SF Politics Supreme Court Allows States to Withhold Medicaid Funds From Planned Parenthood In another decision along ideological lines that strikes another blow to women's health and choice over their own healthcare, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of South Carolina's crusade to disqualify Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Say They Saved Almost 60 From Layoffs In Last-Ditch Budget Negotiations It was "Budget Day" in City Hall on Wednesday, and the city's supervisors were reportedly working late into the night — until around 2 am Thursday — working out the final details on next year's budget with the Mayor's Office.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 13-Year-Old Accused In Santana Row Stabbing Makes Court Appearance The 13-year-old accused in the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy at San Jose's Santana Row is back in court today; SF's population rose again slightly in 2024; and some San Franciscans who worked on Zohran Mamdani's campaign in New York speak out.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sun Moon Studio, Kiln, and Sonoma's Enclos Are Big Winners of New Michelin Stars for the Bay Area The big reveal of the new 2025 Michelin Guide for California happened in Sacramento Wednesday night, and the big local winners include a tiny restaurant in West Oakland that already won over the Chronicle's critic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco's Map, Explained Today was "Budget Day" at SF City Hall as the new budget gets finalized; the Trump Dept. of Ed is holding California's feet to the fire over trans athletes in school sports; and an aggressive black bear was euthanized in the Tahoe area.
Business & Tech Alarming Study Suggests Most AI Large-Language Models Resort to Blackmail, Other Harmful Behaviors If Threatened It's not far off from the world imagined in '2001: A Space Odyssey,' in which an AI opts to kill the humans it was working for when they are conspiring to shut it down. A new study by SF-based Anthropic suggests that such potentially harmful behaviors are common across most existing AI models.
SF News Stanford Medicine Announces 'Pause' In Providing Gender-Affirming Surgeries for Trans Youth In short order, UCSF may be one of the last, if not the last place in California for teenagers under the age of 19 to seek gender-affirming surgeries, with Stanford Medicine bowing out of the practice earlier this month.
SF News Other Boaters In Distress Describe Dramatic Sudden Storm That Left Eight Dead In Tahoe While Lake Tahoe had experienced some high winds and choppy waters on Friday, by Saturday morning, more normal-seeming, springlike weather had taken hold, giving boaters a false sense of calm before a sudden storm rolled through.
SF News Sonoma County Sees Dramatic Drop In Homeless Population, Lowest In 18 Years The homeless appear to be either continuing to leave Sonoma County or continuing to find stable housing, because for the second time in three years the county's point-in-time homeless census saw the population drop over 20%.
SF News Sunset Dunes Park Vandalized Again, Hammocks Stolen For the fourth or fifth time in recent weeks, the new public park on the former Great Highway was hit by vandals over the weekend.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Two Mountain Lions Killed After NorCal Attack on Camp Counselor Two mountain lions were killed after a Trinity County attack incident; SF is ending a program allowing residents to request traffic-calming measures; and a cargo ship carrying hundreds of electric and conventional vehicles sank off the coast of Alaska.
Business & Tech Federal Judge In SF Rules That AI Company Anthropic Did Not Violate Copyright Law In Training Its Chatbot A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that Anthropic did not break the law when it used copyrighted material to train its AI chatbot Claude. The company will have to go to trial, however, over its use of pirated copies of books.
Arts & Entertainment Rainbow Lasers, Nicknamed 'The Gaysers,' to Light Up Market Street Again Starting Friday Yes, those rainbow lasers glowing through the fog over Market Street will be returning for this Pride Weekend, and you should see them blink on Friday evening.
SF Politics BART and Muni Secure $750M Loan From State Along With Other Local Transit Agencies Some proposed cuts to transit funding are off the table, and Bay Area transit agencies including, primarily, BART and Muni, will be receiving a lifeline in the form of an interest-free loan from the state in the upcoming budget.
SF News Dyke March Returns, Officially, on Saturday After Five Years of Renegade Marches It's been quite a few years since we've seen a loud and proud throng of queer women rallying in Dolores Park and marching in the annual Dyke March, as the event was getting smaller and more disorganized before being officially cancelled last year. But it is back on for Saturday, June 28.
