SF News Iron Dust, Which BART Says It Stopped Cleaning In 2020, Likely to Blame For Smoke Incident In August Dust that collects on and near insulator caps along BART's electrified third rail was potentially to blame for a scary August 29 incident in which a fire in the Transbay Tube led to smoke entering a moving train.
SF News Arrest Made In Shooting of Famed Laney College Football Coach John Beam Oakland police have announced that an arrest has been made in connection with Thursday's shocking shooting at Laney College, which left a beloved football coach critically wounded, and more details about the crime have emerged.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Court Blocks Immigrant License Rule Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon arrived at UC Berkeley to make a show about investigating a protest; a federal appeals court has blocked a new rule about immigrants' commercial driver's licenses; and Trump angers his base by softening on H1-B visas.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Opens Pabu-Chan, a New Sake Tasting 'Jewel Box' In Plaza of 101 California Just outside the doors of PABU, the 11-year-old izakaya that Michael Mina opened in the base of 101 California, there is a new separate sake bar and private event space, and it's called Pabu-Chan.
SF News 3.6M Earthquake Rumbles Under Vallejo, Follows Earlier Swarm of Quakes A small but noticeable 3.6-magnitude earthquake happened Thursday at 12:41 pm, with an epicenter two miles southeast of Vallejo.
Business & Tech Legal Dispute Continues Between Transamerica Building Owner and High-End Private Club That Was Set to Be a Tenant A legal battle that's been ongoing for about 18 months between upscale membership club CORE and SHVO, the developer behind the revamp of the Transamerica Building, appeared to escalate this week.
SF News [Update] SFO Sees Nearly 400 Delays, 55 Cancellations as Storm Conditions Collide With FAA-Ordered Cuts Almost 400 flights departing from or arriving at SFO have been delayed so far on Thursday, with 55 flights canceled outright — though the majority of the cancelations may be due to the FAA-mandated decrease in air traffic related to the government shutdown.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Fender-Benders Mar Morning Commute There were some car crashes during this morning's very rainy commute; Live 105 has cancelled their rebooted Not So Silent Night concert; and the government shutdown is officially over.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bye Bye, Breda Train Transit fans toast to the final rides of the last 90s-era Breda light-rail train on the J-Church line; a former Newsom aide is indicted for stealing funds from Becerra; and there was a shooting at Oakland's Skyline High School.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pigs & Pinot Returns to Healdsburg With Chefs Charlie Palmer, Emeril Lagasse, and Wolfgang Puck Cooking With Their Sons In what will be the 19th annual iteration of the festival, Bay Area chef Charlie Palmer's renowned Pigs & Pinot returns to Healdsburg in a new location in March, with a unique, all-star roster of father-son chef teams.
SF News Former Santa Clara County Undersheriff Kenneth Binder Named New San Mateo County Sheriff San Mateo County begins a new law enforcement era today with the naming of new Sheriff Kenneth Binder. Binder replaces Sheriff Christina Corpus, whose two-year tenure was rife with controversy, and who retired last month after county supervisors voted to remove her.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Check Out the Renovation Work Happening Inside the Castro Theatre We now have the most in-depth peek to date inside the still under-construction Castro Theatre, as crews complete what's been a nearly two-year-long, $41 million renovation project.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre 2026 Film Events to Include 'Hedwig' Screening, Silent Film Fest The spring and summer schedule at the revamped and renovated Castro Theatre is getting filled in further today with the announcement of several film screenings, and confirmation that the SF Silent Film Festival will be returning there.
Business & Tech Waymo Launches Freeway Service In Bay Area and LA For Select Users, SFO Service Still to Come Waymo announced Wednesday that its cars are officially being deployed on Bay Area freeways, and while not all riders will have access to the service right away, you can theoretically now take a Waymo from downtown San Francisco to downtown San Jose.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Northern Lights Seen Across the Bay Area Congressional Democrats drop an Epstein bombshell involving Trump; federal enforcement of drug crime in SF has plummeted this year; and the Northern Lights were flickering around the Bay Area Tuesday night.
SF News Now the Trump Justice Department Says It Is Investigating Monday's Charlie Kirk Protest at UC Berkeley You may have seen this coming, but Monday's small dustup in Berkeley that appears to have left one t-shirt seller bloodied, and that Fox News characterized as sheer bedlam — which it was not — is now going to be investigated by the Trump Justice Department.
SF News APEC Protester Seen Being Punched By Volunteer Files Suit, Suspect Seeks Mental Health Diversion A woman who was protesting the November 2023 APEC summit in San Francisco was left with devastating injuries from being sucker-punched by a man who had just shown up to volunteer at the event. She's now suing the organizers and the man himself.
SF Politics Pelosi Calls Out Republicans Over Healthcare Subsidies, Says 400K Californians Could Be Priced Out House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi used an event Monday about Covered California open enrollment to sound alarms over the number of Californians who may lose their healthcare due to Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Flight Cancellations Continue The FAA's mandate to reduce air traffic continues unchanged this week; a significant storm is heading our way; and the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the SNAP situation.
SF News Onboard Video Shows Muni Driver Likely Asleep at the Wheel During Terrifying Incident By Duboce Park Video from a runaway Muni light-rail incident next to Duboce Park on September 24 shows that the train operator likely fell asleep at the wheel, and had been hunched over barely awake several minutes earlier.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Autopsy Suggests Mother Shot Children, Husband In Westwood Home Autopsy reports come in for the Westwood neighborhood murder-suicide; a man was sexually assaulted near the UC Berkeley campus; and a local congressman wants private jets to be grounded during the remainder of the shutdown.
Business & Tech SF-Based Furnished Apartment Rental Startup Sonder Shuts Down, Declares Bankruptcy Sonder, the San Francisco-based rival to Airbnb that had established a lucrative partnership with Marriott last year, has now lost that partnership and is shutting down entirely.
SF Politics AG Bonta Seeks Court Clarification on USDA Demand to Claw Back SNAP Benefits As poor Americans continue to be pawns in the Trump administration's gameplay over the government shutdown, California Attorney General Rob Bonta is seeking guidance from the Supreme Court over how to address the administration's latest "capricious" demand.
SF News Plan Finally Emerges For 1,800-Unit Development at Former Fillmore Safeway A developer is looking to build 3,500 housing units in San Francisco in the coming years, about half of which would be in a mixed-use development at the site of the former Safeway in the Fillmore.
SF Politics Christine Pelosi Will Not Run For Congress, Will Run For State Senate Well this is an unexpected turn of events. Christine Pelosi, the daughter of Nancy Pelosi, will not run to take over her mother's seat in the House of Representatives in 2026, as was widely speculated.
