SF News Golden Gate Bridge Officials Sound Testy In Response to NTSB Report About Ship Collision Risks The Golden Gate Bridge ended up being a line item in a report that came out this week as part of the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation into last year's collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, and the local media has been freaking out.
SF News 'California Forever' Billionaire Group Now Talking About Creating Shipbuilding Yard in the Delta Ever since shelving their plans to create a new city out of whole cloth in eastern Solano County because the political winds against it were too strong, the group still known as California Forever is apparently looking into turning some waterfront property on the Delta into a shipbuilding facility.
SF News 16-Year-Old Arrested for Fatal Shooting of Oakland 15-Year-Old on Way to Soccer Practice An arrest has been made in the shooting of an Oakland teenager Monday that has sent the local community reeling, in which a 15-year-old boy was killed while walking with friends to soccer practice.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Abducted Oakland Woman Comes Forward A woman seen on video being abducted in Oakland two weeks ago has come forward; a Bay Area man could face 100 years in prison for a Monterey crime spree; and Sherri Papini is back in court fighting over custody of her kids.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Venerable Polk Street Vietnamese Spot Crustacean to Open In New Downtown Location Shortly It's happening probably within a few weeks: 34-year-old Vietnamese institution Crustacean is opening in the Financial District and getting a bit fancier — with the original Polk Street spot slated to close later this year.
SF News Emeryville Man Arrested for Attempted Murder Following Mountain View Stabbing Mountain View police arrested a suspect Sunday in a stabbing that was reported by the suspect's sister.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ali Wong Brought Boyfriend Bill Hader to New Turtle Tower for Pho SF-born comedian Ali Wong has long been a fan of the famed chicken pho at Turtle Tower, and so it's only fitting that when she was back in town this week, she brought boyfriend Bill Hader to the new incarnation of the restaurant downtown.
SF News SFPD and Sheriff's Deputies Do Another Drug Sweep, This Time at Van Ness and Market The Whac-a-Mole games continued Wednesday night with another law enforcement sweep and mass arrest on San Francisco's Mid-Market Street, resulting in 40 more drug users and/or dealers arrested.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF Postal Workers Protest Possible Privatization Postal workers protest the Trump administration's talk of privatizing the US Postal Service; there was a vigil Wednesday for the slain 15-year-old in East Oakland; and DOGE seems to be getting pushback on its canceling of federal office leases.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Interim Oakland Mayor Challenges Lurie to 3-Pointer Contest The UC system is instituting a hiring freeze as it faces Trump cuts; the Defense Department erased and then restored a page about Jackie Robinson; and federal judges are raising alarms about online threats against them.
SF News Woman Who Died During Conjugal Visit to Sacramento Area Prison Likely Strangled By Inmate Husband A coroner has ruled that a woman died by strangulation during an overnight visit to Mule Creek State Prison in November, and she was alone with her convicted murderer husband at the time.
SF News SF City Attorney Shuts Down Two 'Wildly Illegal' Nightclubs, Three Gambling Dens Two illegal nightclubs and three gambling dens have been successfully shut down in San Francisco in recent months thanks to enforcement actions by the SF City Attorney's Office.
SF News Five Muni Bus Lines Will Likely See Changes, Turn Around at Market Street, Starting In June The SFMTA has been threatening to make service cuts as they struggle to avoid a financial cliff, and those cuts are now likely being made real on five Muni bus lines, starting this summer.
SF News Police Arrest Employee at Castro Walgreens Who Allegedly Stabbed Shoplifter In the Eye It was a violent morning on Castro Street Wednesday when an employee at the Walgreens store there allegedly stabbed a shoplifter in the eye during a street altercation.
Arts & Entertainment New Artists' Facility Begins to Take Shape at Former SF Art Institute The historic San Francisco Art Institute is going to be undergoing a renovation in the coming year, and it's now looking like it will re-emerge in a few years' time as an arts organization and studio facility, the exact details of which are still to be revealed.
SF News SF Anti-Crime Crusader and Twitter Troll Ricci Wynne Now Indicted for Child Porn A loudmouth social media figure who made a name for himself with sensational videos of drug use and depravity in San Francisco's Tenderloin is now facing even more serious charges than he already had been, following an arrest late last year.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Murder Suspect Killed In Santa Rita Jail A 37-year-old man suspected in a 2022 vehicular homicide on Highway 24 was killed at Santa Rita Jail; a state bill banning street vending has been reintroduced; and there are two possible measles cases in Tuolumne County.
SF News 'Dirty Dick' Smith, the Eighth Former FCI Dublin Prison Figure Charged With Sex Crimes, Begins His Trial The eighth man to be charged in connection with sex crimes at the now shuttered women's prison known as FCI Dublin, and the one charged with the most counts, had his first day of trial Monday at a courthouse in Oakland.
SF News Man Arrested In San Jose For Allegedly Keying a Tesla, as Seen In Viral Video A probably politically motivated act of vandalism has resulted in an arrest in San Jose, after a man seen in a viral video keying a Tesla in a Costco parking lot has been taken into custody.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Posts Awkward Video Reading 'Nice Muni Emails' Modeled on Jimmy Kimmel's "Mean Tweets" segments, SF Mayor Daniel Lurie has posted a video to social media in which he's reading nice emails the city has received about Muni drivers.
SF News Saks Could Be the Next Major Retailer to Exit Union Square Saks Fifth Avenue, which already switched to an appointment-only model at its Union Square store, may not be sticking around much longer in SF, real estate experts surmise.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Giants Sell Stake In Team to Private Equity Firm The Giants have sold a 10% stake in the team to private equity firm Sixth Street; two children killed in a DUI crash in Napa have been identified; and the Trump administration is ending the Emergency Housing Voucher program.
SF News 4.0M Earthquake Centered Near Dublin Felt Across the Bay An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2, later revised at 4.0, shook the East Bay Monday evening and was felt as a brief shake in San Francisco.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Waymo Service to SFO Likely Coming Soon Waymo has reached a deal to start mapping its routes to SFO; the SFMTA is thinking about putting pickleball courts on top of underutilized city-owned garages; and a midwife and her associate have been arrested in Texas for providing abortions.
SF News Scott Peterson Beaten Up By Fellow Inmate Amid Pickleball Misunderstanding Convicted murderer Scott Peterson's time at Mule Creek State Prison outside Sacramento just got a little worse, after he reportedly got beaten up last week, and now we're hearing from the inmate who did the beating.
