SF News Newsom Creates $750M Homeless Housing Fund, Directs Cities To Build Shelters On Vacant Land California Governor Gavin Newsom is signing an executive order Wednesday creating a new fund that will provide rent assistance to homeless people and fund emergency shelters throughout the state.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Elizabeth Holmes' Lawyers Argue for Document Release Elizabeth Holmes' lawyers in a civil case say she hasn't paid them, electric scooter injuries are way up, and cell providers are testifying in Sacramento about the impacts of PG&E's shutoffs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alleged Kidnapper Of Fort Bragg Teen Faces 18 Felonies State Sen. Scott Wiener and supporters of SB 50 were shouted down at a press conference in Oakland, police arrested four robbery suspects and seized illegal weapons in an early morning raid in East Oakland, and we may now be at war with Iran.
SF News BART Might Finally Have Seamless Wi-Fi, In a Few Years In addition to voting on that "ambassador" program on Thursday, BART's board of directors will be voting on a four-phase, multi-year plan to finally make good on a decade-old promise to provide systemwide wi-fi.
SF News Muni Underground Service to Stop After 9:30 p.m. in Late January For About a Week The SFMTA is undertaking another week (or so) of maintenance on the Muni Metro later this month, and this will mean no underground service for commuters leaving the office late or anyone trying to get home after dinner by train.
SF News Bay Area Criminals Are Reportedly Driving to SoCal to Break Into More Cars In what is perhaps a sign that local law enforcement is doing an OK job at deterring and catching auto burglars for a change, police in Southern California have noted a trend in Bay Area gangs traveling down there to target tourist vehicles.
Business & Tech Facebook Bans Some Deepfakes, But Not Those Made for 'Satire' In a seemingly cynical and tactical move ahead of another congressional hearing, Facebook announced today that it is officially banning intentionally manipulated video aimed at misinforming the public, a.k.a. deepfakes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area-Based Impossible Foods Unveils Plant-Based 'Impossible Pork' Using the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Vegas as its launchpad, Redwood City-based Impossible Foods announced its latest product Monday night: Impossible Pork.
SF News BART Likely to Launch Unarmed 'Ambassador' Program To Address Quality-of-Life Complaints The BART Board of Directors is inching closer to approving a program that's been in the works nearly two years in which unarmed "ambassadors" will roam trains cleaning up needles and other "biohazards" and providing outreach to the homeless.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Car Burglary Suspects Crash Into Meter Maid Oakland police conducted a mystery raid in East Oakland this morning, Coach Steve Kerr got ejected from the Warriors' game last night, and four suspects were apprehended in Cow Hollow after their car crashed into a parking control vehicle.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Standoff In West Oakland A major traffic backup in the East Bay, a federal judge tossed out a suit brought by the parents of Kate Steinle, and a standoff continues at an illegal marijuana grow house in West Oakland.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Traci Des Jardins Shutters Mijita at the Ferry Building As She Plots Second Mexican Concept Star chef Traci Des Jardins, who last year closed her 21-year-old flagship restaurant Jardiniere, has also just closed her fast-casual Mexican spot at the Ferry Building, Mijita, after 15 years in business.
SF News Oakland Man Freed After Three Mistrials; Charges Dropped In 2011 Double Murder An Oakland man who has spent the last five years in jail was let free on Monday following three mistrials with deadlocked juries, the last of which ended in October.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Provisions Team To Open 'The Anchovy Bar' In Former Fat Angel Space The recently shuttered Fat Angel (1740 O'Farrell Street off Fillmore) already has a taker, and it's the team of Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski from State Bird Provisions and The Progress around the corner.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lazy Bear Spinoff Automat Coming to Green Chile Kitchen Digs In NoPa A much-anticipated new project from Lazy Bear chef-owner David Barzelay and former Lazy Bear sous chef Matthew Kirk has found a home, and it's the former Green Chile Kitchen space at McAllister and Baker.
SF News First SF Homicide Victim of 2020 Is Woman in the Tenderloin The first homicide of the new year happened in the Tenderloin, just blocks from two other homicides in December.
Arts & Entertainment Stevie Nicks, Miley Cyrus, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Play BottleRock 2020 The lineup for the eighth edition of BottleRock is out, and it's a notably more star-studded one than usual with headliners Stevie Nicks, Dave Matthews Band, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Miley Cyrus.
SF News Murder Charges Possible After Death of 89-Year-Old Woman Beaten in Visitacion Valley An 89-year-old great-grandmother succumbed to her injuries Friday after a year in the hospital following a January 2019 beating in a park near her home in Visitacion Valley.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sideshows Pop Up Across San Francisco The trial begins today for the man accused of killing 18-year-old Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART station, a vigil for the deceased laptop theft victim in Oakland, and Sunday sideshows were captured on video in SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 70-Year-Old Bicyclist Injured in Hit-and-Run There are some more details in an incident involving a homeless man chasing someone with a needle in SoMa, Bay Area lawmakers are denouncing Trump's drone strike in Iraq, and Sonoma officials are dealing with a rat problem.
Arts & Entertainment 'Becky Nurse of Salem' Dissects the Cliché of the Witch-Hunt The latest world premiere at Berkeley Rep by playwright Sarah Ruhl is a complex and darkly funny look at the Salem Witch Trials through the lens of contemporary American malaise, the #MeToo movement, and Donald Trump.
Arts & Entertainment Look Out For the Quadrantid Meteor Shower This Weekend Near the Big Dipper A meteor shower that is expected to go on through January 10 will peak tonight around midnight on the West Coast. It will be low to the horizon, but will at least be more visible than that November "unicorn" shower, which was a bust for California.
SF News Two Convicted Felons To Face Murder and Manslaughter Charges In Death of Laptop Theft Victim Two previously convicted robbers have been arrested and are facing charges in the New Year's Eve death of a 34-year-old Oakland man whose laptop computer they were allegedly trying to steal.
SF Politics SF Redevelopment Agency Successor Seeks To Make Good On Building 5,800 Affordable Units The agency that took over for the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA), known as the Office of Community Infrastructure and Investment (OCII), has just proposed a state law that would allow it to use its former funding tools to develop nearly 6,000 new below-market-rate units in the city.
SF Politics East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee Got Married on New Year's Eve Eleven-term U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who has represented Oakland and the East Bay in the House of Representatives since 1998, was just married on New Year's Eve to Los Angeles-based pastor Rev. Dr. Clyde W. Oden, Jr.
