SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: First Measles Case In Napa In 14 Years Napa County has just reported its first measles case since 2012; more details emerge about Thursday's police shooting on I-80; and people in Minneapolis are staging a general strike today in protest of ICE.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Steps Down From Leadership In State's Jewish Caucus After Change In Gaza Stance As state Senator Scott Wiener continues to try to thread the needle of being a moderate Democrat who has historically supported Israel but now kind of needs the pro-Palestinian vote, he is stepping down from a role he's held for five years in the state's legislative Jewish Caucus.
Arts & Entertainment Art Installation Goes Up on Mission Street Facade of the Almost Empty SF Centre Mall It may be a dead mall with almost no tenants left inside — the official closing is apparently this weekend — but thanks to a nonprofit dedicated to the revitalization of downtown, one side of the former Westfield mall is getting a massive photographic mural.
SF News Suspect Allegedly Striking Passing Cars With Tire Iron Leads to Fatal Police Shooting on I-80 In Hercules A massive traffic backup Thursday morning in the East Bay that was tied to a large police response in the westbound lanes of I-80 turns out to have been caused by a confrontation with police that led to the fatal shooting of a suspect.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland's Ryan Coogler and Delroy Lindo Enjoy Record 16 Oscar Nominations for 'Sinners' 13 years after his feature film debut Fruitvale Station, Oakland native son Ryan Coogler is setting Oscar records with his hit film Sinners, which received 16 nominations for this year's Academy Awards.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Police Activity Shuts Down I-80 In East Bay A major traffic nightmare was happening due to a police situation on I-80 westbound in Hercules; a multi-county chase ended in a police shooting Wednesday in San Jose; and SF's Compton's Cafeteria building goes before the Historic Preservation Commission.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Construction Begins on City College's Diego Rivera Performing Arts Center The new home for that massive Diego Rivera mural owned by City College breaks ground Thursday; Olympic gold medalist skier Eileen Gu will be the grand marshal of the Lunar New Year Parade; and ICE is circulating a memo suggesting they can break into people's houses.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Officially Asks Trump to Commute Her Sentence As has been suspected for months, after exhausting her appeals, Elizabeth Holmes is seeking clemency and early release from President Trump, who seems to dole out such pardons willy-nilly, so she might get lucky.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Multiple Bay Area Bars and Restaurants Honored as James Beard Award Semifinalists Restaurants and bars in SF and all around the Bay have been "long-listed" for the 2026 James Beard Foundation Awards, including Happy Crane, Sons & Daughters, and House of Prime Rib.
SF Politics Newsom Shoved Aside From Planned Event at Davos, Likely Because Trump Decreed It After Governor Gavin Newsom made some remarks disparaging to Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Wednesday, he was promptly shut out of the US pavilion and an on-stage event he was supposed to participate in was canceled.
Arts & Entertainment Mission District Community Group to Host Bad Bunny Lookalike Contest During Super Bowl Week Tell all your friends who constantly get mistaken for Bad Bunny, there's going to be a contest for that during Super Bowl Week in San Francisco.
SF News Sunset District Businesses File Lawsuit Over December Power Outage A group of Sunset District businesses are filing a lawsuit against PG&E seeking compensation for lost business during the December 20 power outage, which for some lasted multiple days.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Sideshow In Outer Richmond Leads to Arrests The SFPD made several arrests following a Sunday night sideshow in the Outer Richmond; staffers at a prison in Chino were apparently sickened by an unknown substance; and Solano County sheriff's deputies are helping patrol Vallejo.
Business & Tech The Sam Altman-Elon Musk Feud Had Another Public Escalation Today OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who hasn't been afraid to publicly rebuke his former friend Elon Musk in the past, once again appeared to have had it with Elon on Tuesday.
SF News BART Entrance Sealed Off at SF Centre as Official Closing Date for Mall Arrives This Week The lights officially go off after this weekend at the SF Centre (formerly Westfield) mall in downtown San Francisco, marking a final death knell following a very long, slow, and painful demise.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley-Born Peet's Coffee Closing 30 Bay Area Locations, Including Castro and Cole Valley Shops The Castro is losing its second major coffee shop in four months, with the popular Market Street location of Peet's set to close later this month, and more Peet's locations are also getting axed.
Business & Tech SF Parents Putting Teens and Tweens In Waymos By Themselves, Violating Company Policy It's become common practice for busy San Francisco parents to summon Waymos for their kids, whatever the expense, to avoid having to chauffeur them everywhere, and because they're safer than Ubers or Lyfts.
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Film Festival to Honor John Waters This Year With Special Award, 'Serial Mom' Screening The great John Waters, self-described maven of filth and a pioneer in queer underground cinema, will be receiving a special honor from Frameline in March, at the Castro Theatre.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Protests Planned Marking One Year of Trump 2.0 Protests are planned marking Trump's first year in office; a 17-year-old girl from Mendocino has been missing for three weeks in SF; and there's another Pride flag controversy at a school in Sonoma County.
SF News MLK Day Around the Bay: 28-Year-Old SFO Worker Dies In Accident An SFO worker was killed in an accident Sunday; a high-speed rail collision in Spain led to 40 deaths; and an explanation of BART's nightly Grand Meet, which has been going on for 50 years.
SF News California Forever Group Petitions Feds to Turn the Delta Into a Maritime Prosperity Zone In its quest to build a new California city in Solano County, the billionaire-backed California Forever group continues its work to also create an economic engine for that city, which it envisions being a new shipbuilding hub.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay to Get Its First Flour + Water Pizza Shop This Week The pizza empire of SF's Flour + Water is growing again this week, with the first location of Flour + Water Pizza Shop debuting in Oakland, near Lake Merritt.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Last Squat & Gobble Set to Close After 32 Years Squat & Gobble, the local creperie chain that long outlived a crepe trend that swept the country decades ago, and even outlived that trend's 90s resurgence, is having its swan song this week at its last remainin location in West Portal.
SF News Downtown Muni Service Restored After Planned PG&E Outage; Richmond to Lose Power Tonight As PG&E works to make repairs to the Mission substation that was damaged in December, causing a huge swath of the city to lose power, power was cut to the Civic Center area Sunday night into Monday.
SF News Five Residents and One Firefighter Injured In Apartment Fire In Downtown Oakland A three-alarm fire that broke out Monday morning at a building in downtown Oakland has left six people with injuries, including one firefighter, and three were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
