SF News 'Hoarder' House In Noe Valley Goes Up In Flames, Two Dogs Killed, One Person Possibly Missing A house on 26th Street between Castro and Diamond streets in Noe Valley caught fire early Monday morning, and while it's unclear if there were any human casualties, firefighters found two dead dogs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Critic Nearly Gets Booted From French Laundry as Thomas Keller Puts His Foot Down About Criticism Thomas Keller seems to be battening down the hatches at the Michelin three-star French Laundry after a string of less-than-stellar reviews. And recently he went so far as to tell the Chronicle's MacKenzie Chung Fegan that she wasn't welcome there.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Victim In Fisherman's Wharf Shooting ID'd The victim in last week's shooting near Fisherman's Wharf has been identified; a fire at a downtown SF highrise was apparently caused by a tossed cigarette; and former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
SF News BART Riders and Police Injured In Some Sort of Pepper Spray Incident at Powell Station An assailant may have sprayed pepper spray at police officers on the platform of Powell Street Station, or someone did, and the incident led BART trains to temporarily bypass the station Saturday afternoon.
SF News Boat-Dwelling Woman In Richardson Bay Who Bear-Sprayed Harbormaster In 2020 Avoids Jail Time Sausalito and Marin County leaders have been dealing with the issue of less-than-seaworthy — and potentially polluting — boats, some with otherwise unhoused people living on them, for a number of years. But things really came to a head in the pandemic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: SF to Be Rolling In Great Pizza An acclaimed Berkeley pizza spot is expanding to San Francisco, the Lord Stanley team is shifting its focus to Dogpatch, and St. Helena is getting a fancy new (museum) restaurant, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Serial Spitter Sought Who Targets Women In SF Near North Beach and Stockton Tunnel A man who was roaming the streets of North Beach and the area between there and Union Square on Tuesday appears to have targeted multiple women and randomly spat in their faces, and the SFPD says they are looking into it.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Cable Car Smashes Into Car Door That Swung Open A cable car side-swiped a car door on California Street; NVIDIA's share price has come roaring back; and SF volleyball players are upset over new rules for Golden Gate Park meadows.
SF News Driver Accused In Killing Family of Four In West Portal Now Accused of Hiding Wealth The elderly woman at the center of a vehicular homicide case and a civil wrongful death case stemming from the horrific March 24 crash at West Portal that killed a family of four is now accused of trying to shield her wealth from the wrongful death suit.
SF Politics VP JD Vance Headed to Bay Area for Silicon Valley Fundraiser Our graceless Vice President JD Vance will be headed back to the Bay Area, which he once called home in his own venture capital days, for a fundraiser in Atherton on Friday.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland's Homegrown Drag Festival Oaklash Returns This Weekend With Yvie Oddly and Much More Once again this weekend, the Oaklash Festival is prancing back into Oakland with some of the best and edgiest drag performances in the Bay, and multiple events over three days.
SF News South San Francisco Police Fatally Shoot Man With Replica Firearm There was an officer-involved shooting that proved fatal in South San Francisco Wednesday, and police say that the suspect they were chasing aimed what appeared to be a firearm at them.
SF News Man Fatally Shot In Mid-Afternoon Near Fisherman's Wharf, Suspect Turns Himself In There was an apparent homicide near Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco Wednesday afternoon, likely with multiple witnesses, and a male suspect quickly turned himself in to police.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF Sheriff's Deputies Injured In Crash The body of a UC Santa Cruz undergrad was found after a swimming mishap; two SF sheriff's deputies were involved in a Mission District crash; and the Supreme Court hears the Trump birthright citizenship challenge.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sergey Brin Settles Private Plane Wrongful Death Suit Sergey Brin has settled a wrongful death suit involving the pilots of his private plane who died in 2023; the man who died trying to save a dog at Ocean Beach has been identified; and In-N-Out Burger's pink lemonade isn't pink anymore.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Musician Ruby Ibarra Takes Top Prize in NPR's Tiny Desk Contest The winner of the 2025 Tiny Desk Contest, from NPR Music, is East Bay-born Filipina American rapper, spoken word artist, and singer Ruby Ibarra.
Arts & Entertainment Likely Problematic Golden State Killer Film Starring Vincent Gallo and James Franco Lands Distributor Two actors with troubling pasts when it comes to women and co-stars, James Franco and Vincent Gallo, are the stars of a low-budget feature that was made last year about Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo, and it apparently found a distributor at the Cannes Film Festival this week.
Arts & Entertainment Buried Treasure Chest Found In SF In 11 Hours By Skilled Treasure Seeker Someone in San Francisco is $10,000 richer today after deciphering a cryptic poem, mapping out a semi-remote location, and following the clues to an area in a city park.
SF News Arrest Leads to Seizure of Meth at Vallejo Home, as Well as Endangered Monkey, Live Rattlesnakes A traffic stop in Solano County led to the arrest of a Vallejo man and subsequent search of his home, which led to the discovery a lot of meth, an endangered baby spider monkey, and two live rattlesnakes.
SF Politics Newsom Proposes Rollback of Health Coverage for Undocumented Immigrants California Governor Gavin Newsom continued his rightward shift with a surprise announcement Wednesday proposing a freeze on healthcare coverage for undocumented immigrants in the state.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Civic Leaders Push to Remove Richmond Bridge Bike Lane Marin County leaders and others are calling for an end to the dedicated bike lane on the Richmond Bridge; SF Mayor Daniel Lurie signs order for more police staffing; and the Menendez brothers have been resentenced.
SF News Ex-Boyfriend Arrested In Connection With Stabbing of Man and Woman at Berkeley Vista Point It's been confirmed that the prime suspect in an attack on two people parked at a Berkeley hills vista point two Saturdays ago was an ex-boyfriend of one of the victims.
Arts & Entertainment Another Small Bay Area Theater Group, Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Co., Cancels Its Season In what could be a precursor to full closure, Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company announced today that it is "suspending" its 2025-26 season due to financial instability.
SF News One Person Killed In Bayview Hit-and-Run, Marking Sixth Pedestrian Death of 2025 In less than five months' time, six people have been killed walking on San Francisco streets, the latest a 47-year-old man in the Bayview district.
Arts & Entertainment A Hunt for $10,000 In Buried Treasure Is On In San Francisco Some fans of treasure hunting have, they say, buried a chest filled with "gleaming ingots, currency, and San Francisco artifacts" somewhere in San Francisco. And they've left a cryptic poem on Reddit as a set of clues.
