Business & Tech OpenAI Not Looking at an IPO Anytime Soon, CFO Says OpenAI, which had previously been thought to be looking at an IPO in the next two years, may be holding off on that plan, according to comments made Wednesday by the company's CFO.
SF News United and Delta Say That Mostly Regional Flights Out of SFO Will Be Impacted By Air Traffic Restrictions Airlines are telling passengers Thursday not to worry too much about pending air-traffic restrictions stemming from the shutdown and ongoing strain on the nation's air traffic controllers. But if you're scheduled to take a shorter, regional flight, you may be impacted.
SF Politics Justice Jackson Chides Fellow Supreme Court Justices for Having 'Misunderstood the Assignment' In Trans Passport Case The Supreme Court's conservative majority issued an emergency order Thursday allowing the Trump administration to stop issuing passports for trans people with their stated gender identity on them, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has again made her disgusted feelings known in a dissent.
SF News Former Dream Keeper Chief and Human Rights Commission Director Sheryl Davis Hit With Array of Ethics Charges The San Francisco Ethics Commission has now formally accused former Human Rights Commission Executive Director Sheryl Davis of a range of ethics violations that may also amount to illegal acts involving improper gifts and conflicts of interest.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Says She'll Retire After 2026 As has been mostly expected, Nancy Pelosi has announced that she will not seek reelection next year, leaving San Francisco's House seat open for the first time in 40 years.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Tahoe Likely to See Early-Season Snow Next Week The Sierra is likely to see some snow next week (and we will get rain); a person was struck by a BART train in Oakland Wednesday evening; and thieves stole dozens of rose bushes from Oakland's Morcom Rose Garden.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 68-Year-Old Sailor Rescued In Bay During Morning Storm A 68-year-old sailboater required rescue early Wednesday off Alameda; the Killers have been added to the pre-Super Bowl lineup of concerts in SF; and a UPS cargo plane went down in a fiery crash in Louisville.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ingka Centres, Which Manages the IKEA Mall, Is Dropping Their Food Hall Operator In a further indication that all is not so well with Saluhall, the food hall at SF's still newish IKEA mall, the parent company Ingka Centres is dropping the British operator of the food hall that they've been working with for a year and a half.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sons & Daughters Debuts New Digs, In the Former Osito Space, This Weekend Michelin two-starred restaurant Sons & Daughters, which transitioned in recent years from modern California cuisine to New Nordic under executive chef and co-owner Harrison Cheney, is about to transition again into much larger, swankier digs in the Mission District.
SF Politics Fairfax Mayor Appears to Survive Recall Effort Amid Fight Over Downtown Development An effort to recall the mayor of the small town of Fairfax, in Marin County, appears to have failed, at least based on early returns, with 54% of voters saying "No."
SF Politics Republicans Sue to Try to Stop Prop 50 From Taking Effect The same Republican Party that was all for disenfranchising Democratic voters and people of color in Texas are asking a federal court in California to declare the proposed new California congressional districts under Prop 50 unconstitutional.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Large Tree Falls on Nob Hill After Water Main Break Prop 50's big win is being seen as a major victory for Newsom; a 78-year-old Santa Rosa man got a 3-year sentence for his 10th DUI; and we can expect rain off and on throughout the day Wednesday.
SF News 26-Year-Old U-Haul Driver Described By Other Protesters as 'Lone Actor' Charged With Assaulting Federal Officers A 26-year-old man is now facing federal charges for a bizarre act that capped off a mostly peaceful day of protests outside the Coast Guard facility where federal agents were being staged for a local operation that called off by President Trump.
Arts & Entertainment Latinx Drag Queens to Put on Anti-ICE Show at Oakland's White Horse Friday A trio of Latinx drag performers are putting on a show Friday in Oakland in protest of ICE — and the cast includes recently detained performer Hilary Rivers, who spent three months in ICE detention.
SF Politics Senator Alex Padilla Will Not Run For Governor, Will Remain In Senate California Senator Alex Padilla announced Tuesday that he will not be seeking the governor's office in 2026, as he'd been rumored to be considering in the last two months. Instead, he will remain in the Senate through the end of Trump's current term.
Arts & Entertainment Bevy of Queer Performers Added to Reopening Slate at Castro Theatre After the reopening residency by Sam Smith is done in March, Another Planet Entertainment has booked a slate of queer (and/or queer-friendly) performers for the Castro Theatre, in a clear gesture of good will toward the LGBTQ+ community in the neighborhood.
SF News Macy's Not Closing Anytime Soon, Will Partner With Local Developer to Redevelop Union Square Property In what surely seems like a win for downtown and for Mayor Daniel Lurie, regardless of whether he had a hand in it, Macy's has confirmed that it will not be closing its Union Square flagship store anytime soon, and will instead work with a developer to reimagine the property.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Dick Cheney Is Dead Former VP Dick Cheney has died at age 84; wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour are forecast in the storm that's arriving on Wednesday; and East Bay Congressmen Swalwell and DeSaulnier say ICE is ramping up activity on Election Day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Video Released of Oakland Museum Heist Surveillance video is out from last month's Oakland Museum heist; Supervisor Jackie Fielder is calling for AV regulation after the death of KitKat the bodega cat; and the situation with air traffic controllers may be getting worse.
SF Politics Trump Administration Agrees to Fund 50% of SNAP Benefits For November As court-ordered over the weekend, the Trump administration is tapping emergency reserve funds to pay out partial SNAP benefits for the month of November, despite there being funds available to pay full benefits.
SF News Muni Is Finally Retiring the Last of the 30-Year-Old Breda Light-Rail Trains November 12 is the last day for any fans to take a final ride on one of the light-rail trains that have been running through the streets and tunnels of San Francisco since 1996, as the last of them is finally getting retired.
SF News Sex Worker Gets Five Years For Killing John at Crissy Field Parking Lot In a federal murder case that hinged on trans issues and the dangers of sex work, a 22-year-old sex worker has been sentenced to five years for the killing of a man who picked her up for sex and drove her to the Crissy Field parking lot.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 'Dilbert' Creator Asks Trump For Cancer Treatment Help A 9-year-old boy was shot and injured in Antioch; East Bay resident and 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams says he is 'declining fast' and sought cancer treatment help from Trump; and more rain is on the way this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A Bunny Cafe? An upscale Filipino spot is set to take over the Sons & Daughters space on Nob Hill, YUJA Kitchen from an AL's Place alum opens in Rincon Hill, and North Beach is getting a bunny cafe, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment 'Stereophonic' Artfully Evokes Rock Legends Holed Up In a Sausalito Recording Studio In 1976 Tony-winning play Stereophonic blew into town this week with the bravado of the legendary rock band that it sorta kinda imagines the story of, pulsing with 1970s recording studio vibes, and using fiction to fill in the missing pieces of an iconic moment in American music history.
