SF News Homelessness Department Head Asks For Budget Bump Of $16.5M This Year And $21.6M Next Year Jeff Kositsky, the man Mayor Lee put in charge of the newly formed Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) last year, has just submitted his first budget proposal for the coming fiscal
Arts & Entertainment Prince's Original Band The Revolution Heads Out On Reunion Tour, Will Have Revolving Lead Singers Continuing what they started with a couple of memorial concerts following the death of beloved artist and frontman Prince last April, his longtime backup band The Revolution keyboardist Matt Fink, keyboardist Lisa Coleman,
SF News Nation's First Driverless Shuttles Begin Ferrying Workers Around Bay Area Office Park On Monday, two autonomous passenger shuttles built by the French company EasyMile began picking up passengers to move them around the Bishop Ranch office park in San Ramon, 35 miles east of San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Doughnut Dolly Abruptly Shuts Down Operations, Closing SF And Oakland Locations After seven years in business in Oakland and just a few months in San Francisco, popular filled-doughnut enterprise Doughnut Dolly is calling it quits. Founder and pastry chef Hannah Hoffman made the surprising
SF News Sunset Residents Enraged As Suspect In Hot Prowl Burglaries Is Released From Jail A suspect in multiple burglaries in the Outer Sunset in recent weeks has been released from jail for the second time in a month, and both the SFPD and the neighborhood's residents are
SF News Sex Offender Convicted In BART Masturbation Case Gets 25-Year Sentence 53-year-old Jerome Dion Dawkins, who was convicted last October on multiple counts of lewd behavior and stalking on BART, including false imprisonment, indecent exposure, and lewd acts on children, was sentenced last week
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mayor OKs Hiring Of Three New Immigration Lawyers Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. It's not the 10 new staff that the Public
SF News Facebook Rolls Out 'Disputed' Tag For Fake News Stories, Rather Than Calling Them Fake In an effort to be as non-partisan and kid-gloves-ish as possible with both the far left and far right, Facebook is making good on its pledge to combat the epidemic of fake news
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Locol Revises Their Cheeseburger, Tweaks Menu Following Pete Wells Drama The biggest food story of the new year, arguably, has been New York Times critic Pete Wells's fairly bitchy review of Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi's new-style fast-food concept Locol. Many in the
SF News 'Idaho Stop' Could Become Legal For Cyclists Statewide Under New Assembly Bill Bicycle advocates have long been pushing for the legalization of the so-called "Idaho stop" or "California roll" in which cyclists treat stop signs more as yield signs, only coming to a full stop
Arts & Entertainment Caitlyn Jenner To Make Book Tour Stop At Castro Theatre In May Remember Caitlyn Jenner? The Trump-supporting trans woman who used to be an Olympic athlete and reality TV star and recently decided maybe Trump isn't such a hero because of his administration's decision to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacolicious Agrees To Settle Class-Action Lawsuit By Former Employees For $900,000 Tacolicious, the growing taco enterprise from founder Joe Hargrave that now has five Bay Area locations including three in SF, is opting to settle out of court a lawsuit originally brought by two
SF News Lunchtime Links: 3.9 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off The Coast Of Eureka Low temperatures overnight caused frosts in the Bay Area's valleys this morning. [National Weather Service Bay Area/Twitter] At 11:19 a.m. Monday, an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.9
SF News BART's 'Fleet Of The Future' To Roll Out Further In The Future Than Promised Since no news about a BART project being hampered by delays should come as a shock, it should inspire little more than half an eyeroll to hear that BART's fleet of new train
SF News Medical Examiner Confirms All Ghost Ship Fire Victims Died Of Smoke Inhalation "All it takes is a few breaths," says UC Davis Professor Kent Pinkerton, speaking to the Chronicle after reviewing some of the autopsy materials in the Ghost Ship case, in which all 36
SF News Woman Killed When Tree Falls On Tent In Yosemite 21-year-old woman killed by falling tree in Yosemite National Park over the weekend, officials say https://t.co/E4a45Ifhed pic.twitter.com/4cT9JUBm7c— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 6, 2017 A 21-year-old woman was
SF News Weekend Storm Brings Hail And Rainbows To The Bay, Blizzard In Tahoe Beautiful Rainbow #GoldenGateBridge #SanFrancisco this morning - via David Yu pic.twitter.com/xqOQgiWAQV— Charlene ☕ 🇺🇸 (@FreshRoasters) March 5, 2017 A storm Saturday night and into Sunday morning dumped over an inch of rain
SF News Pro-Trump Rally In Berkeley Turns Predictably Messy, 10 Arrested Welp, that pro-Trump rally happened as scheduled on Saturday in downtown Berkeley despite the lack of a permit, and as was widely predicted, a bunch of black-clad anarchists showed up and started throwing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trailer Drops For Jeremiah Tower Documentary, 'The Last Magnificent' Famed San Francisco chef Jeremiah Tower was, arguably, America's first celebrity chef, cooking in an era when food began to figure more and more on television, and presiding over Stars, one of the
SF News Oroville Dam Shutoff Causes Riverbanks To Collapse Downstream Riverbanks collapse after #OrovilleDam spillway shut off. https://t.co/lIkgrn9uZP pic.twitter.com/MIt7Pthckk— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) March 4, 2017 An extreme side effect of the Department of Water Resources' decision to suddenly
Arts & Entertainment Video: LGBT Activist Ken Jones Talks About The Impact Of 'When We Rise' Ken Jones, a longtime activist in SF's LGBT community, is one of the primary characters portrayed in ABC's somewhat fictionalized though mostly based-in-fact miniseries, When We Rise. As we noted the other day
SF News 6,900 People Lost Their Jobs In SF In January Unemployment remains at just 3.2 percent in San Francisco as of the end of January, however that is up from 2.9 percent in December, and a whopping 6,900 lost their
SF News Could The Texas Supreme Court Actually Roll Back Marriage Equality? In a first of its kind challenge to the "settled law" of marriage equality, the Texas Supreme Court this week heard arguments in a case that questions to what extent Texas has to
SF News 42-Year-Old Northern California Woman Accused Of Having Sex With Three High School Football Players A 42-year-old woman in Mount Shasta, in Siskiyou County, is accused of having unlawful sex with three teenage boys, all of them football players at Mount Shasta High School. Mary Frances Fletcher, who
SF News Missing Vallejo Teen Could Have Been Sold Into Sex Trafficking, Say Police Though there has been no substantial update in the case of missing 15-year-old Pearl Pinson who was last seen in May 2016 getting dragged across a pedestrian bridge in Vallejo by a man
