SF News Eerie Handwritten Letter May Detail Where Alleged Killer Planned to Dispose of Oakley Woman Alexis Gabe’s Body A chilling new development in the case of missing 24-year-old Oakley woman Alexis Gabe, as police have found a handwritten letter from her suspected killer detailing where he planned to hide her body.
Business & Tech GM Cruise Robotaxis Blocked SF Streets More Frequently Than We Knew, One Night ‘Nearly 60’ Cars Stopped GM Cruise snafus have blocked SF streets with suddenly immobilized self-driving cars at least three times in the last two months, with one incident where almost 60 vehicles stopped, and another where Cruise “lost touch with its entire fleet.”
Sponsored Get Ready For 7/10, the New High Holy Holiday Also Known as ‘International Dab Day’ or ‘OIL Day’ Cannabis culture is doubling down on the magic of 4/20 with its stoner sequel, the July 10th celebration 7/10 that concentrates on hash oil, extracts, shatter, and wax.
SF News Lake Tahoe Continues Getting Less Clear As Officials Pledge to Reverse the Trend The famous clarity and blueness of Lake Tahoe has been slowly changing in recent years, thanks to a combination of erosion, litter, and of course wildfire smoke and ash.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Another Round of King Tides Is On the Way Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated, Breed’s newly appointed DA gave her first press conference, and the King Tides return to Bay Area shores on Monday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Zoo’s Oldest Magellanic Penguin Has Died at 40 Carlos Santana is recovering nicely after his onstage collapse, SFUSD spent $500,000 set aside for school improvements on that mural lawsuit, and the oldest surviving Magellanic penguin at the SF Zoo has passed away.
SF News Breed to Name Brooke Jenkins, Face of the Recall Ads, as Boudin’s Replacement In DA's Office It’s a win for diversity in the DA’s office, but certainly raises quid quo pro questions, as Mayor London Breed will reportedly appoint the star of many anti-Boudin ads Brooke Jenkins as the new district attorney.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Had Secret Twins With One of His Companies’ Top Execs, Now the Mother Might Be In Line for Twitter CEO? The latest Elon Musk drama shows he had two more babies with an executive at his company Neuralink, two weeks before the second Grimes baby arrived, and the executive who had his twins could now reportedly be in line to be CEO of Twitter.
SF News Sacramento Leapfrogs San Francisco In Size of Its Homeless Population It’s probably not going to change our city’s reputational stereotypes, but Sacramento now has a larger homelessness problem than SF, and a higher percentage of unsheltered people living there.
SF News The 21-Hayes Returns Saturday, Along With Previously COVID-Canceled Buses 6-Haight-Parnassus and 2-Sutter Three semi-major Muni routes that have been on mothballs for nearly two and a half years will return Saturday, with many other lines being extended back to pre-pandemic levels, and transit lovers are planning a 21-Hayes party.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 36-Year-Old Metallica Song Hits No. 1, Of Course Because of ‘Stranger Things’ There’s more fallout from Monday night’s Mission fireworks mayhem, an Oakland man has been charged with human trafficking and holding a woman hostage, and ‘Stranger Things’ has sent a 36-year-old Metallica song to the top of the charts.
SF News BA.5 Omicron Sub-Variant So Infectious It’s Dispensing With the Notion of Immunity for the Vaccinated and Recently Infected We’ve always thought that fully vaccinated and recently infected had a “hybrid immunity” that shielded people from reinfections, but the BA.5 Omicron sub-variant is so infectious that its throwing that adage out the window.
SF News Nine-Year-Old Boy Becomes Fourth Fatality in Deadly Brentwood Amtrak Collision Three days after an Amtrak train ran into a Honda sedan at an unmarked railway crossing in Brentwood, a nine-year-old boy has succumbed to his injuries and became the fourth person to die from the crash.
SF News Amador County Wildfire Raging at Nearly 3,500 Acres, About 15,000 People Are Without Power A sudden wildfire in Amador County forced nearly 100 July 4th beachgoers to coop up inside a PG&E power plant for safety on Monday afternoon and evening, and the fire has since grown exponentially in size.
SF News Bay Area Fire Departments Kept Very Busy By July 4 Fireworks, Which Caused Hundreds of Fires Hundreds of fires caused by illegal fireworks (and illegal bonfires in the middle of streets) peppered the entire Bay Area Monday night, leading to some very busy firefighters across the region.
SF News Warriors’ Bizarre Cruise-Ship-Shaped Hotel at Chase Center Is Now ‘Indefinitely Delayed’ Is the COVID-19 era really the best time for a cruise-ship themed hotel and condo project? Perhaps the Warriors are having second thoughts, as they just announced this very strange Chase Center add-on is “indefinitely delayed.”
Arts & Entertainment The Man Behind SF’s Official Fireworks Show Explains How the Pyro Magic Happens More than two dozen fireworks technicians from a company called Pyro Spectaculars are setting up SF’s July 4 display as you read this, and their boss opens up about how his Rialto-based company will execute nearly 400 fireworks shows nationwide.
Business & Tech Flock of GM Cruise Self-Driving Cars Just Plain Stop Working, Block Gough Street ‘For a Couple of Hours’ The latest self-driving car mishap comes courtesy of a cluster of GM Cruise driverless taxis that simply stopped in their tracks “for a couple of hours” Wednesday night and had to be manually pushed off the street by GM employees.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vacant Homes Tax Has Enough Signatures to Make November SF Ballot Kamala Harris is in the Bay Area to (what else?) raise money, East Oakland native and Warriors fan favorite Juan Toscano-Anderson is leaving for the Lakers, and the Vacant Homes Tax has thousands of signatures more than it needs for the November ballot.
SF News Wallethub Names SF Second-Worst Run City in America, City Hall Officials Are None Too Pleased The SF City Controller and Chief Economist would like a word with the Listicle Department at Wallethub, after the credit card lead-generator site ranked San Francisco as the second-worst run large city in the United States.
Arts & Entertainment California State Fair Announces Cannabis Competition Winners, Here’s Where to Buy Them in the Bay Area 60 different strains of weed just won official competitive honors in the California State Fair’s extremely awesome new marijuana category, and several of these winners can be found on SF and Oakland dispensary shelves.
SF News Oakland Hells Angels Founder Sonny Barger Has Died A figure in Hunter S. Thompson books who elevated the Hell’s Angels to a national movement, Oakland Hells Angels chapter founder Sonny Barger has passed away at 83.
Business & Tech Top FCC Commissioner Demands Apple and Google Yank TikTok From Their App Stores A leading FCC commissioner calls Chinese-owed TikTok an “unacceptable national security risk” and is ordering both Google and Apple to remove it from their app stores, and the clock is ticking on his July 8 deadline.
Business & Tech SF-Based Pokémon GO Creator Niantic is Laying Off Nearly 100, Canceling Games Not Named Pokémon GO Just six months after being handed $300 million, but a full six years since their last real hit, the game company behind Pokémon GO is letting “85 to 90 jobs” go.
SF News State Considers Propping Up Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant With $75 Million Boost — Straight to PG&E California is pushing for green energy and wants to avoid blackouts, but giving PG&E $75 million to handle radioactive waste at Diablo Canyon may sound like a deal with the devil.