SF Politics Mayor Breed Pushes Again For Safe-Injection Sites Mayor London Breed and District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney are both backing a new local ordinance that would allow permitting for non-profits to open safe-injection sites in San Francisco — something that still needs the blessing of statewide legislation before it can happen.
SF News Multi-Vehicle Crash Involving Amazon Prime Truck Splits Vehicle In Two In Solano County A horrific looking crash happened Friday morning on I-80 in Dixon involving two big rigs and multiple vehicles — with one vehicle ending up split in two. It's not yet clear how many injuries there are.
Arts & Entertainment Julia Roberts Buys $8.3M Home In Presidio Heights Oscar winner and American treasure Julia Roberts has just expressed her longstanding love for San Francisco in the most tangible way possible: real estate.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Searching Vacaville for an Infection Source The Oakland Police Commission met for the first time since the firing of Chief Anne Kirkpatrick and tempers flared, saying goodbye to the CPMC California Campus, and a coronavirus patient has just been transferred to a facility in San Mateo County.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dozens Of Solano County Healthcare Workers Quarantined The SFPD has made an arrest in the hate-crime attack on an elderly Asian man in Hunters Point, UC Davis reports a student in self-quarantine, and DoorDash has filed for an IPO.
SF Politics 14 Subpoenas Issued By City Attorney Relating to 555 Fulton Project The latest update in the ongoing City Hall saga stemming from a federal corruption investigation is that the City Attorney's own investigation has just issued 14 new subpoenas pertaining to the much delayed 555 Fulton project in Hayes Valley.
SF News Newsom: 8,400 Californians Being Monitored for Coronavirus Governor Gavin Newsom gave a press conference Thursday laying out how the state of California is dealing with unfolding coronavirus pandemic, following news of a Solano County case Wednesday that had no discernible origin.
Business & Tech Facebook Cancels Its Biggest Event of the Year, the F8 Developers' Conference, Over Coronavirus Concerns After canceling a couple of smaller events in San Francisco in recent weeks over coronavirus travel caution, Facebook announced Thursday that it is canceling its biggest industry conference of the year, the F8 developers conference set to take place in San Jose in May.
SF News Stockton Tunnel Camera Picks Up Daytime Assault, Dragging Of Woman There's a developing story here as the SFPD is reportedly investigating some surveillance footage picked up at the foot of the Stockton Tunnel near Union Square that shows two male suspects violently dragging a woman out of the tunnel and into a waiting vehicle.
SF News Beards May Get Less Fashionable After CDC Warning Beware, all beardy bros and hirsute daddies! An odd but relevant CDC guide has been making the rounds as the agency prepares the nation for deep coronavirus pandemic panic, and it says your beards have to go.
SF News Court Records Suggest Alleged East Bay Predator Tried To Purchase Two Young Girls For $30K A voracious alleged sexual predator on what sounds like a self-destructive bender was arrested in December in Walnut Creek after reportedly attempting to "buy" two young girls from their mother. Investigators later found a home rigged with hidden cameras, and a trove of child porn.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Port of Oakland Sees Virus-Related Slowdown The new Bay Area coronavirus patient is at UC Davis and was not tested for the virus for a week, CHP officers lose a car after a three-county chase, and the BART Board is voting on moving forward with a new station in Fremont.
SF News The First Coronavirus Case Of Unknown Origin Appears In the Bay Area, In Solano County A resident of Solano County has tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus who has no known ties to anyone who has traveled abroad, sparking new fears that there are more undetected cases in the U.S.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews New Rupaul Queen Rock M. Sakura Ahead of Season 12 Debut In real life, Rock lives in a self-described "art commune" in the Haight, and she's excited to show the world beyond SF her drag when the new season premieres on Friday (February 28) on VH1.
SF News Stanford Student Who Died In Fraternity House Had Accidental Fentanyl Overdose The death of a 19-year-old Stanford student last month is being blamed on accidental fentanyl toxicity, according to a new report from the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beit Rima, Verjus, and a Young State Bird Provisions Chef All Long-Listed For James Beard Awards Today the James Beard Foundation released its semifinalists for this year's food-world Oscars, otherwise known as the "long list" that will be whittled down to a list of nominees or finalists in the coming weeks.
SF News Allegedly Drunk Woman Arrested After Driving Car Across Richmond Bridge In The Bike Lane A woman was arrested by CHP officers in Marin County Tuesday evening after she allegedly drove her vehicle across the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge in the bike lane, with a child in the backseat, and then failed a field sobriety test.
SF News Bay Area Men Accused In Italian Cop Killing Go to Trial In Rome The two young American men suspected in the stabbing death of a Carabinieri paramilitary officer in Rome last July began their trial today, and one or both of them face possible life sentences in Italian prison.
Arts & Entertainment Teatro ZinZanni Heads Back to the Embarcadero With Hotel Attached After six years in planning, and eight years after it had to pack up its tent on Pier 29 to make way for America's Cup construction, Teatro ZinZanni finally has approval from the SF Board of Supervisors to return — in somewhat different form.
Business & Tech Lyft E-Bike Users Balk At Price Hike Users of Lyft's previously flammable Bay Wheels e-bikes are in revolt this week after the company announced price hikes effective March 2 that make the formerly cheap monthly membership option significantly less cheap.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Supes Approve Youth Homeless Shelter The man accused in the hit and run that killed a Castro Valley girl is out on bail, Richmond city officials want to know why the Chevron refinery keeps flaring, and comparing Warren and Sanders on cannabis.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pelosi Tours Chinatown To Quell Virus Fears More about the Palo Alto couple found in Inverness, the SF Board of Supes wants to give itself more subpoena power, and Nancy Pelosi was ceremoniously taught how to make a fortune cookie to quell coronavirus fears.
SF News Disgusting Twitter Video Shows Apparent Bayview Robbery, Black-on-Asian Racism A video that went viral on Twitter appears to show an elderly Asian man after he was just robbed of a shopping cart loaded with aluminum cans he had collected in SF's Bayview neighborhood. The man can then be seen being attacked by the alleged thief, and mocked by shouting onlookers.
Arts & Entertainment Tom Hardy and Woody Harrelson Spotted Shooting 'Venom 2' In SF As SFist reported last week, 'Matrix 4' (or whatever it will be titled) isn't the only big Hollywood flick shooting in SF this month.
Business & Tech Gilead Sciences Stock Jumps After World Health Comments On Its Coronavirus Drug A World Health Organization official has said that Gilead's remdesivir is "the only drug right now that we think may have real efficacy" against the novel coronavirus that first appeared in China.
