SF News PG&E Delays Shutoffs for Heavily Populated Parts of Bay Area; Turning Power Back On Could Take Days PG&E has said it will be delaying planned power outages for several Bay Area counties until 8 p.m. Wednesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Cooke Shoppe Team Allegedly Has History Of Quickly Shut Businesses In Los Angeles You may have thought that the story that came out of the closure of Cook Shoppe — in the former Chow space on Church Street in the Castro — was already nutty, but there's more!
SF News Oakland Man Sentenced To Five Years For Setting Construction Site Fire An arson case at an under-construction apartment complex on the Oakland-Emeryville border — one of 10 that was set in similar circumstances around Oakland in the last seven years — has ended in a five-year sentence.
SF News BART Says Service Won't Be Interrupted Despite Wide Possible Power Outage BART pledges that train service will not be interrupted Wednesday and Thursday despite large swaths of the Bay Area being expected to lose power in a PG&E safety shutoff.
SF News Major BART Delays Follow Non-Injury Shooting at Pittsburg-Bay Point Five people were detained for questioning Monday evening following a shooting at BART's Pittsburg-Bay Point Station.
SF News Warm Weather Brings Out Tarantula Mating Season Around the Bay The sad mating ritual of the Bay Area's tarantula population is going into full swing in time for Halloween spook season, as experts say this week's warm weather will be bringing out more and more wandering males.
SF News PG&E Issues Power Shutoff Warning For Most Of Northern California Except SF This is basically an earthquake kit situation without the earthquake, and will potentially affect millions of Californians between Wednesday morning and Thursday afternoon.
SF News 500-Acre Fire In American Canyon Wraps Around Neighborhood A brush fire broke out Sunday afternoon in the hills above American Canyon in Napa County which sent embers down into an area along a residential neighborhood where neighbors fought flames with garden hoses.
SF News 24-Year-Old Woman Swept Out To Sea Near Land's End, Search Called Off A 24-year-old woman who went swimming off Mile Rock Beach Friday evening was swept out by the current and her friends say they lost sight of her.
Business & Tech Reddit Relocates Its Headquarters to Mid-Market Home of Uber and Square Reddit has just leased a bunch of new office space at 1455 Market Street, a.k.a. the building where Square and Uber both occupy a fair amount of square footage.
SF News Apparently Drunk Guy Gets Into Woman's Hot Tub, Spends Two Hours Trying to Get Into Her House A Sacramento-area woman says she's freaked out by the fact that a naked stranger got into her backyard last week, took his clothes off, and chilled naked in her hot tub. And he also kept trying to get her back sliding door to open, to no avail.
SF News Jurors Hear Gun and Blood Evidence In Murder Trial of Peninsula Heiress On Thursday in a San Mateo County courtroom, jurors heard evidence of suspect Kaveh Bayat's gun collection, and of the vehicle believed to have transported Green's body.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Victims In Wrong-Way Crash on 101 Identified The wrong-way driver in yesterday's crash was "impaired," Biden makes a quip about Trump's China accusations while in the Bay Area, and a new Red Flag Warning has been issued for the North Bay tomorrow.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Movie Theaters On Edge For 'Joker' Premiere Seven years after a mass shooter dressed as the Joker killed a dozen people at a Colorado movie theater during a premiere screening of The Dark Knight, the release of the dark Warner Bros. origin story Joker had theaters around the country bracing for the worst.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Whole Foods Wants More Legal Protection From Protesters Whole Foods is seeking an expanded restraining order against a Berkeley animal-rights group, a Vacaville woman was arrested for an attempted kidnapping outside a school, and Uber launches temp-worker app.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Outer Richmond Restaurant Aziza To Reopen October 14 After a three-year hiatus and some staffing shuffles, local chef Mourad Lahlou is reopening his original flagship in the Outer Richmond (named for his mother), Aziza.
SF News MGM Resorts To Pay Out Up To $800 Million to Las Vegas Shooting Victims In a landmark settlement for a victims' fund that is exceeded only by funds for victims of September 11th and the 2010 BP oil spill, MGM Resorts International is expected to pay up to $800 million to settle hundreds of lawsuits stemming from the October 1, 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Kamala Is Polling Way Behind In California A baby was found safe after an alleged abduction in Emeryville, a Menlo Park police was attacked, and people are texting as fast as they type now.
SF News Four Dead In Wrong-Way Crash On 101 Near Candlestick Point A horrific crash on northbound 101 after midnight Wednesday night claimed the lives of four people, including a taxi driver and two passengers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Cruz Man Killed In Apparent Botched Kidnapping The body found in the Santa Cruz kidnapping investigation has been confirmed as Tushar Atre's, work crews are starting to clean up a major Sausalito mudslide from February, and #TrumpMeltdown trends on Twitter.
SF News Elderly Palo Alto Airbnb Owner Returns Home to Find Party, Gets Robbed A Palo Alto man in his 60s who went to check on a smoke alarm that went off at the home he was renting on Airbnb got accosted and robbed, twice, after discovering an unauthorized party at the house and trying to shut it down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hina Yakitori, the Bay Area's First Omakase-Style Yakitori Spot, Debuts On Divisadero Yakitori, the Japanese cuisine sub-genre that stars grilled chicken parts, has emerged in multiple locales around the Bay Area in the last decade. But Hina Yakitori offers an elevated version, with a prix fixe.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Warren and Mark Zuckerberg Face Off In War Of Online Words After some comments by Mark Zuckerberg at an internal Facebook meeting in July leaked out Tuesday in which the CEO spoke candidly about his concerns for a possible Elizabeth Warren presidency, Warren responded pointedly on Twitter — and it didn't end there.
SF News Alleged Kidnapping of Santa Cruz Tech Exec Led To Possible Homicide In a mysterious case in which very few details have been publicly revealed, a 50-year-old tech entrepreneur from Santa Cruz was allegedly kidnapped from his home early Tuesday, and his girlfriend's vehicle was later found with a dead body in it.
SF Politics Eric Swalwell Hosts Town Hall On Impeachment With Nixon-Era Figure John Dean East Bay Congressman and short-lived presidential candidate Eric Swalwell hosted a town hall meeting in Union City Tuesday evening to which he invited Richard Nixon's White House Counsel and key Watergate figure John Dean.
