SF News New Interim SF Fire Chief Sandy Tong Sworn In By Mayor London Breed Mayor London Breed on Tuesday announced and swore in San Francisco's new interim fire chief, Sandy Tong, who takes over after the sudden retirement of Chief Jeanine Nicholson.
SF News Weekend Stabbing In SF Turns Into Crime Spree That Ends In Castro District A stabbing Sunday in the NoPa neighborhood led to an alleged rampage by a suspect in a vehicle, including hit-and-run collisions, and an ultimate confrontation with police.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Charges Coming In Union Square Shooting Charges should be filed today or tomorrow in the shooting of Ricky Pearsall; there was an increased police presence in Union Square Sunday and Monday; and a Spare the Air Day has been declared for Tues. and Wed.
SF News Labor Day Links: Shooting of 49er Turns Political With Farrell Comments Mayoral candidate Mark Farrell engaged in some political opportunism vis a vis Saturday's shooting; Ricky Pearsall is out of the hospital; and slain hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin was mourned at events in Berkeley and Jerusalem.
SF News Berkeley-Born Hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin Among Six Found Dead In Gaza Among the six hostages found fatally shot in a tunnel under the city of Rafah on Saturday was American citizen and Berkeley native Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose parents have spent the past eleven months advocating for the hostages.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: The Brixton Is Back In this week's food news, a new Peruvian-influenced spot comes to NoPa, The Brixton reopens with a new menu, and The Slanted Door is set to return to its old spot.
SF News Lombard Street Home of Woman Who Fought to Save Redwood She Planted Hits Market For $5.2M A house on SF's famous Lombard Street — the "crookedest" block of Lombard, in fact — has just hit the market, and it has some stories attached to it.
SF News SF Firefighters Rescue Paddle Boarder After Incident at Ocean Beach San Francisco Fire Department paramedics were called to Ocean Beach Friday morning after surfers pulled a paddle boarder out of the water who was floating and apparently unresponsive.
Arts & Entertainment Institute of Contemporary Art Moving to Downtown SF's 'Cube' Building The two-year-old Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco is expanding and moving to a new space in San Francisco's Financial District, in a deal with a real estate investment firm.
SF News Father Mourns Son and Ex-Wife Killed In Wrong-Way Crash In San Jose A Bay Area man posted a moving tribute to his son and ex-wife on Reddit, after they were both killed in a tragic collision Monday afternoon on a freeway in San Jose.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Pedestrian Killed In Hit-and-Run In Oakland A man in his 70s was killed in a hit-and-run in East Oakland; Kamala Harris says she'd appoint a Republican to her cabinet; and a Castro business owner says he's fed up with break-ins.
Business & Tech Bye, Elon!: Xitter to Exit the Twitter Building For Good on September 13 Finally shedding the last vestiges of the company once known — and still often referred to — as Twitter, Elon Musk is shutting the operation down for good at the Twitter Building on mid-Market Street on Friday the 13th of September.
Arts & Entertainment Oprah Winfrey Hosting Prime Time Special on AI Featuring Sam Altman, Bill Gates Oprah is taking on the topic of artificial intelligence, and she'll be airing a prime-time special on ABC in September to ask the question "AI: What is it?" and other things your parents and grandparents have been asking.
Business & Tech Google Says It's Fixed Gemini People-Generating Feature, Also It's Releasing Customizable Chatbots Google's AI project Gemini hit a snag earlier this year when its image-generating feature was found to create wild historical inaccuracies in the interest of diversity. Google says it's been working on that, and the new and improved people-generator will made available to some paid users soon.
SF News Dublin Student's Mother Speaks Out, Says Son's Beating Was Case of Mistaken Identity The mother of the Dublin High School student who was bizarrely attacked by a group of people, including a parent, in the school locker room last week, is speaking out and calling for better security at the school.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Rare Bee Documented on Mount Tam A 27-year-old man was killed while working in East Oakland; a 20-acre brush fire destroyed several structures east of Petaluma Wednesday; and a rare bee not documented in 45 years has been spotted in the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Muni Buses Collide, Four Hospitalized Four people, including two bus operators, were injured in a crash of two Muni buses in the Bayview; a person was reportedly struck by a BART train in downtown Berkeley; and the final legal dispute over Salesforce Transit Center's construction has been resolved.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Cocina Alum Opening New Hot Dog Stand at Ferry Building A chef known for her Louisiana-style gumbo and po'boys is pivoting to selling zhuzhed-up hot dogs at a new Ferry Building kiosk that opens next week.
SF Politics Trump Reposts Blowjob Joke About Kamala Harris and Willie Brown And in the latest example of Donald Trump acting less like a president and more like a crude teenage boy, he reposted a joke on Truth Social that makes an off-color reference to both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
SF News CHP Efforts In Oakland Yield 800 Arrests, Over 1600 Stolen Vehicles Recovered Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday touted the success of the ongoing "surge" of California Highway Patrol officers doing added law enforcement in Oakland.
SF News Charges Dropped Against Man Accused of Aiding Burglary That Led to Oakland Police Officer's Shooting All charges have been dropped in the case against Marquise Cooper, one of four suspects who has been jailed in connection with the December 29 shooting death of Oakland police officer Tuan Le.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Big Rig Hits Freeway Sign, Shuts Down 680 A big rig struck a freeway sign on I-680 in Pleasanton; a Berkeley homeless man was arrested for killing another man; and one of the suspects in the beating of a Dublin High School student was reportedly a parent.
SF News SF School With Large Low-Income Population Gets First Free Supermarket In a CA School A San Francisco middle school in the Portola District, identified as serving one of the most food-insecure populations of students in the SF Unified School District (SFUSD), now has a free grocery market in the school, with the help of Amazon.
SF News San Jose Woman and 14-Year-Old Boy Killed In Wrong-Way Crash on Highway 85 A horrific wrong-way crash occurred Monday afternoon in which a pickup truck being driven by a Florida man collided head-on with a woman's Tesla, killing her and her 14-year-old passenger.
Arts & Entertainment Giant Nude Female Figure Likely to Be Installed In Union Square This Winter A towering, illuminated sculpture of a nude woman, one of a series of three created for Burning Man by artist Marco Cochrane in the last decade, is set to make an appearance in SF's Union Square, pending final approvals.
