SF News Bay Area Man Charged With Acting As Spy For China According to a criminal complaint made public Monday, a Hayward man has been arrested and charged with espionage after allegedly working over multiple years as an agent for Chinese intelligence.
SF News Ghost Ship Defendant Derick Almena Due Back In Court Friday, Seeks Bail Reduction Following the September 5 mistrial in the five-month Ghost Ship fire case, defendant Derick Almena is due back in court this week to set a date for his next trial — and his attorneys are now seeking a significant reduction in his bail.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink No More Rosamunde Sausages at Toronado As Lower Haight Shop Closes After 21 Years Popular Lower Haight sausage concern Rosamunde Sausage Grill has closed its original location due to flagging business and other concerns. The place slung its last sausage on Sunday.
SF News Drug Overdoses At Berkeley Bathhouse Leave One Dead and One Hospitalized One man is dead and another was seriously injured following apparent drug overdoses Friday at the gay bathhouse Steamworks in Berkeley.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Tweet About Tesla Workers Unionizing Deemed Illegal By Judge Elon Musk and his electric car company were in the wrong when they fired a worker involved with labor organizing at Tesla's Fremont plant, and Musk broke the law with a tweet about the effort, according to an administrative law judge in California.
SF News Man and Woman Fatally Shot In Oakland En Route To Music Festival A 20-year-old Dublin man and a 20-year-old Daly City woman were fatally shot in their car in Oakland Saturday morning, and the car subsequently crashed into a house.
SF News Winter Arrives Early As Tahoe Gets A Few Inches Of September Snow A cold front moving through the state on Saturday dropped snow on parts of Yosemite and the Lake Tahoe region, with Squaw Valley showing about two inches of snow on the ground on Sunday.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Giants Fans and Players Bid Farewell to Bruce Bochy Those anti-homeless boulders got shoved off the sidewalk for the fourth time, the city is settling a lawsuit over rezoning in SoMa, and there was a big foghorn salute Sunday for retiring Giants Manager Bruce Bochy.
SF News Car In Flames Causes Rush Hour Backup On Westbound Bay Bridge A burning vehicle on the San Francisco approach of the Bay Bridge caused a significant traffic backup for commuters Monday morning.
SF News 50,000 Lose Power in Berkeley, Richmond, and Elsewhere In East Bay A PG&E equipment failure is being blamed for a Sunday morning power outage that affected around 50,000 customers.
SF News Controversial Boulders Get Rolled Off Clinton Park Sidewalk Onto Street A half dozen of those anti-homeless boulders that residents of a Mission District street copped to having installed in order discourage what they say was rampant drug dealing were pushed off the sidewalk with great effort Friday night.
SF News Pelosi Pushes For Swift Inquiry, Suggests Russian Influence In Trump's Ukraine Dealings Speaker Pelosi went on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' this morning to talk about the need for an inquiry that moves "with purpose and expeditiously" and doesn't "drag on."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle's 2019 Rising Star Chefs Include A BBQ Pitmaster, a Thai-Food Acolyte, and Berkeley Pop-Up Chefs The last year and change in the Bay Area food scene has felt like something of a recession — or at least a course correction. But the release today of the Chronicle's Rising Star Chefs is a testament to all that's good about our current food culture and local dining options.
Business & Tech Study Finds That Black and LGBTQ People Still Have Rideshare Drivers Cancel On Them More Often Despite changes to the information drivers see before they accept a ride, drivers for Uber and Lyft still appear to be biased against picking up black and LGBTQ people according to a newly published study.
Business & Tech Why Bay Area Company CrowdStrike Figures Into Trump's Impeachment-Worthy Ukraine Call A Sunnyvale-based cybersecurity firm called CrowdStrike that has figured into a right-wing conspiracy narrative has now bubbled up into the unprecedented July 25 phone call that President Trump had with the newly elected president of Ukraine.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Climate Activists Head to Chevron HQ Wells Fargo just named its third CEO in three years, the Chronicle looks at West Portal's retail resilience, and there was a shooting this morning at Portland International Airport.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Skydiver Dies After Highway Landing Near Lodi Kamala Harris is polling a distant fourth even in the Bay Area, Uber posted some details about its recent SF layoffs, and DoorDash just revealed a data breach affecting 4.9 million customers.
Arts & Entertainment 'Top Girls' at A.C.T. Presents a Difficult But Compelling Feminist Allegory It's a complicated, non-linear play that has been further rearranged in this production, and it asks a litany of questions about modern womanhood that remain relevant today.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Oakland-Based Landscape Architect Walter Hood Wins MacArthur 'Genius Grant' The MacArthur Foundation's fellowships were announced Wednesday, and among the honorees receiving one of the famed, no-strings-attached grants is Oakland-based designer and landscape architect Walter Hood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dosa to Close Valencia Street Location Next Week After almost 15 years on Valencia Street, Dosa is shutting its doors, with the restaurant owners citing a litany of difficulties that are now more than familiar to local restaurateurs.
SF News Jurors In Peninsula Murder Trial See Gruesome Photos Of Victim Keith Green's Remains The past couple of days have been filled with more chilling and disturbing revelations from the prosecution in the trial of Hillsborough heiress Tiffany Li and boyfriend Kaveh Bayat.
SF News BART Board Votes To Install Muni-Esque Fare Gates To Combat Evasion BART's directors voted Thursday to move forward with a swing-style gate design that is not unlike the fare gates that Muni installed systemwide a decade ago.
SF News Missouri Man Allegedly Flew To South Bay To Start Wildfires If any kind of wildfire arson case is liable to incite rage in any Californian, what about the case of an alleged arson tourist who apparently flew here just to set the state on fire?
SF News Trump's EPA Chief Pens Letter To Newsom About Homeless Poop Affecting Water Quality Following through on President Trump's promise to his base to call California to task for its homeless problem, recently appointed head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler, sent a letter to Governor Newsom today.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: DC-to-SFO Flight Diverted When Passenger Gets Stuck In Bathroom A manhunt continues for a suspect who outran police in Pleasanton, Kaiser nurses won't be going on strike, and a woman got stuck in a United plane's lavatory.
