SF News Dangerous Monterey County Inmates Nabbed At Mexico Border A pair of inmates who escaped prison in Monterey County on Sunday clearly didn't have much of a plan for evading capture. While they appear to have succeeded in the cliche flight to Mexico, they were caught by authorities trying to cross back into the U.S. from Tijuana around midnight last night.
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Someone Brought a Pony On BART A pony appeared on BART Tuesday, and this delighted many people on Twitter.
SF Politics With 70,000 Ballots Left to Count, Props A and D May Still Fail The too-close-to-call races for San Francisco district attorney and District 5 Supervisor will not be decided until some 70,000 mail-in and provisional ballots get counted this week. And if Props A and D don't hold onto their 66.66 percent majorities, they will not pass.
SF Politics Election Results: Affordable Housing Bond Passes, Prop C Dies, DA's Race and D5 Too Close To Call Just over 23 percent of registered San Francisco voters mailed in ballots or went to polling places on Tuesday. And while Mayor London Breed and her $600 million housing bond measure both won easily, a couple of the races remain in ranked-choice limbo as of Wednesday morning.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Mayor Breed Declares Victory The Kincade Fire hits 88 percent containment, a CHP officer pulls a woman out of a burning car in Dublin, and residents packed the Orinda City Council meeting to debate short-term rentals after that shooting.
SF News Day Around The Bay: One Escaped Inmate Possibly Found In Motel 6 Near Salinas The CA DMV revealed private info on 3200 people to federal agencies, one of two of those escaped murder suspects has likely been located in a motel, and BART is recovering from a brief but major delay in the East Bay direction.
SF Politics Here's How to Find Your Polling Place in San Francisco — Go Vote! I know, this is just a local election and the stakes could hardly be lower in most people's minds. But this is basically the first time that San Francisco is electing a new
SF News Mike Pence Is Stopping Through The Bay Area and Monterey Next Week Our extra-special right-wing vice-president Mike Pence is making a couple of Republican fundraising stops in California next week, and dropping by the San Francisco Bay Area for a quick, not-easily-protested speaking engagement.
SF News Massive Junk Lot and Encampment In West Oakland Gets Cleaned Out, Evicting 100 Homeless A major project began Tuesday morning to transform a four-acre parcel of private land in West Oakland from a homeless encampment and automotive dumping ground into a city-sanctioned RV- and vehicle-parking area for the homeless.
Arts & Entertainment Watch a Bear Get Himself Un-Stuck From a Tahoe Dumpster A black bear known to local authorities as "T-Shirt" got himself trapped in a dumpster in the North Lake Tahoe town of King's Beach early Monday morning.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Hosts Off-the-Record Dinner Party With Critics To Discuss Facebook's Political Ad Policy He invited civil rights leaders and other staunch critics of the policy for an intimate dinner at his Palo Alto home Monday evening, because he wants to look like he cares.
SF News Police Explore Link Between Orinda Party Shooting and 2015 Hayes Valley Quadruple Murder An intriguing connection has been found between a shocking quadruple homicide on San Francisco's Page Street in January 2015 and last week's Halloween party shooting in Orinda.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Kincade Fire On Path To Full Containment Orinda is considering changing its Airbnb rules, smoke from the Ranch Fire in Tehama County will reach the Bay today, and get out there and vote!
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman Suspected Of Murder In Bayview Hit-and-Run The owner of the Stonestown Galleria is looking to build housing there, PG&E has extended the deadline for making wildfire damage claims, and police are investigating a Halloween home invasion in Lafayette.
Arts & Entertainment Chronicle Publishes Big Tease Of a Treasure Hunt Story A third-generation fisherman working the Northern California coast made a discovery five years ago via a GoPro camera he attached to a trawling net: a rectangular bar that looked like a gold ingot.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Is Opening a Private Club In the Ferry Building The Mina Group is expanding once more in San Francisco with a members-only club and event space in the Ferry Building called Shack 15.
SF Politics A Quick and Dirty Guide To Tuesday's Election in San Francisco We go to the polls tomorrow, November 5, for a local election in which it feels like the stakes aren't particularly high except for a certain District 5 supervisor and a certain interim district attorney.
SF News Two Inmates Charged With Murder Escape From Monterey County Jail A pair of dangerous inmates with reported gang ties escaped from a jail in Monterey County on Sunday morning, and they have not been found.
Bay Area Sports The 49ers Are Now the Only Undefeated Team in the NFL On Thursday the San Francisco 49ers tied the New England Patriots for 8 total wins this season, bringing their record to 8-0. But with the Patriots' loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday, that leaves the 49ers as the only team in the league to be undefeated so far.
Business & Tech Airbnb to Crack Down on 'Party Houses' After Orinda Shooting Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said in a series of tweets over the weekend that the company was banning all "party houses" in the aftermath of a Halloween shooting at an unauthorized house party in Orinda.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Apple Pledges $2.5 Billion To Housing Two San Franciscans are missing after flying a prop plane to Humboldt County, a BART worker is being hailed a hero for rescuing someone on the tracks, and the Kincade Fire hits 78 percent containment.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Plans To 'Reshape' PG&E Before Next Fire Season Newsom says he'll consider forcing PG&E to become publicly owned, PG&E workers say they fear the public's outrage, and Steph Curry underwent hand surgery today and will be out for three months or more.
SF News Will Airbnb or Homeowners Get Sued Over Halloween 'Mansion Party' Shooting? As details are emerging that suggest an Airbnb in Orinda had been used by guests to host loud parties before Thursday night's Halloween shindig that ended in the shooting deaths of four people, questions are swirling about who may be held responsible.
SF Politics FBI Report Suggests SFPD Was Lying About Possible Civil Rights Violations In its cooperation with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), the SFPD has potentially been misleading the public for years about its own violations of local law with regard to the investigation of "First Amendment activities," including those relating to religion and political affiliation.
SF News Kincade Fire Containment Rises To 68 Percent As Remaining Hot Spot Burns In Lake County Firefighters added another eight percent to their containment of the Kincade Fire on Thursday and into Friday morning, aided by cool weather and calm winds. And the number of homes destroyed has risen from 141 to 167, as property owners continue to assess and report damage.
