SF News SFPD Arrests Suspect In Livermore Roommate Killing The death of a 55-year-old man in Livermore led police there to suspect that the man's 3o-year-old roommate could be to blame. And one day after the body was discovered, the roommate was spotted in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Strikes $83B Deal to Acquire Warner Bros. (and HBO) to Create Content Juggernaut If government regulators don't torpedo the deal, Netflix is poised to become a movie, TV, and streaming giant even larger than it is today, bringing everything from 'Batman' to 'Game of Thrones' into its fold.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Marina Residents Already Making Noise About Safeway Plan A 21-year-old Santa Rosa woman crashed after leading CHP on high-speed chase; critics are pouncing on Pamela Price trying to run for Alameda County DA again; and Marina residents are already making noise about a huge proposed development on the site of the Safeway there.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Teachers Vote to Authorize Strike Teachers went on strike today in the West Contra Costa school district; SF Unified teachers have taken a vote to authorize a strike, but this may not be imminent; and a car crashed into a doggy day care in Alameda.
Arts & Entertainment Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, and Director Jon Chu Make Surprise Appearance at 'Wicked' Screening In San Rafael The two stars of Wicked For Good and the film's Bay Area-born director made a surprise appearance after a screening of the film Wednesday night in San Rafael, and did a Q&A with the audience.
SF News Marina Safeway Also on the Redevelopment Docket With Plans For 790 Units In 25-Story Complex They saved likely the most controversial for last. Align Real Estate, the SF-based firm that is seeking to redevelop three other Safeway properties in the city into large mixed-use developments, also has a very ambitious plan for the waterfront-adjacent Marina Safeway.
SF News Stanley Roberts Returns! 'People Behaving Badly' Gets Revived on KRON4 After 7-Year Hiatus The Bay Area's favorite finger-wagging scold of the local news, Stanley Roberts, will be back on the air on KRON4 starting next week, with his first "People Behaving Badly" segment in seven years.
Arts & Entertainment Cause of Death Revealed for Claude, the Academy of Science's Albino Alligator Claude the albino alligator, the longtime mascot of the California Academy of Sciences who died unexpectedly earlier this week at the age of 30, now has an official cause of death.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Darrell Issa May Relocate to Texas Due to Prop 50 Republican Congressman Darrell Issa is likely to be a casualty of Prop 50 and is talking about moving to Texas; an abalone poacher was arrested in Sonoma; and some atmospheric rivers are coming... to the Pacific Northwest.
SF News That 5.9M Earthquake Warning Out of Nevada Was Fake News Millions of Northern California residents received a Shake Alert warning at 8:06 am Thursday about an earthquake with an epicenter in Lyon County, Nevada, but the quake itself soon disappeared from the USGS website, and the agency said it was a false alarm.
SF News 67-Story Residential Tower at South Van Ness and Market Is Moving Forward A stalled residential project which could make up nearly 1,000 of the 82,000 new units San Francisco is mandated to build in the next half-decade appears to be back in motion and headed toward construction.
SF News Randa's Market on 16th Street, Home of the Late KitKat, Has Gotten a New Bodega Cat The home of the bodega cat who was tragically killed by a Waymo in October, Randa's Market on 16th Street, has gotten a new cat, and her name is Coco.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes, Angling for Trump Pardon, Challenges Specific Evidence From Her Trial Elizabeth Holmes's best bet for getting out early from the Texas prison where she's incarcerated is probably a pardon from President Trump himself, and she's using social media, via a surrogate, to make her case.
SF News Mint Plaza Sleeping Pod Developer Buys Mostly Vacant Live-Work Building on Mid-Market A Mid-Market building full of affordable studio units that was the subject of a protracted eviction fight in the last decade is now slated to become home to 400 sleeping pods, if a developer gets his way.
SF News Convicted Killer Nima Momeni Sues Media for Defamation Nima Momeni, the man who was convicted one year ago in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee, has now filed a lawsuit against multiple media organizations claiming defamation, among other claims.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Elderly Pedestrian Killed In Russian Hill A 72-year-old pedestrian was killed by a vehicle in Russian Hill Tuesday; the DA in Santa Clara County is seeking to try the Valley Fair Mall shooting suspect as an adult; and more Ubers and Waymos could be coming to Market Street.
SF News AC Transit Bus Crashes Into Oakland Building, Injuring 11 An AC Transit bus reportedly went crashing into an auto repair shop in Oakland's Eastmont neighborhood Tuesday afternoon, injuring at least 11 people, including nine passengers on the bus.
Arts & Entertainment Beloved Albino Alligator Claude, Mascot of the Academy of Sciences, Has Died Claude, the albino alligator who has been a favorite pet to the city and revered resident of the California Academy of Sciences for almost two decades, has died at the age of 30 of a suspected infection.
SF News SF Just Recorded Its Coldest Day In Nearly Three Years, and Set a New Record You weren't imagining it: This past weekend in San Francisco was especially chilly. And while it may not have been East Coast or Upper Midwest frigid, it was still bone-chilling for those of us acclimated to the temperate climate here.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Beats Out SF and New Orleans In New Ranking of Best Food Cities Oakland has come out on top in Condé Nast Traveler's latest Readers' Choice Awards ranking of the best US food cities, but San Francisco comes in at number five.
SF News Waymo Strikes Small Dog In Western Addition, Dog's Condition Not Known Weeks after one of its robotaxis struck and killed a beloved Mission District bodega cat, Waymo has confirmed that one of its cars also struck an unleashed dog.
SF News Man Fatally Shot While Sitting In Vehicle In SF's Tenderloin There was a fatal shooting early Tuesday in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, and a male victim was reportedly found dead in his car.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Death on BART Train Leads to Monday Evening Delays A death onboard a BART train in the East Bay caused significant delays Monday evening; San Jose police revealed the Valley Fair Mall shooting suspect is 17 and has a prior gun charge; and Costco is suing Trump over tariffs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: One Person Dies In South SF Apartment Fire One person was killed in an apartment fire in South San Francisco early Monday; a coast flood advisory has been issued due to King Tides; and the TSA is going to start charging you if you don't have a Real ID or passport.
Business & Tech Instagram Ordering Everyone Back to the Office Five Days a Week There's been a long tail on pandemic-era hybrid work across the Bay Area and the tech sector especially, but some big companies like Meta are now cracking the whip and calling for five mandatory in-office days, just like olden times.
