Business & Tech International Hackers Have Breached Nine Organizations, Says Bay Area Cybersecurity Firm At least one U.S. company, but probably more, is among several firms that a Santa Clara-based cybersecurity firm says has been infiltrated via some sort of password theft scheme that appears to be targeting the Department of Defense.
SF News Accused Capitol Insurrectionist From Mill Valley Has Fled to Belarus Seeking Asylum A Marin County man accused of punching two officers during the Trump Capitol insurrection has run off to Belarus to avoid the charges, complaining of “political persecution.”
SF News Berkeley Falcon Drama Intensifies, as Female Courts New Male While Her Mate Recovers The “soap opera” of the Berkeley peregrine falcons may be turning into a love triangle, as the female Annie is courting a new mate while the male Grinnell recovers from injury.
SF Politics Rejected SoMa High-Rise Suddenly the Main Issue In Haney-Campos State Assembly Race The two progressive candidates running for David Chiu’s now-vacated assembly seat have finally found an issue to disagree on, and you’re probably going to hear a lot more about one specific housing project the board of supervisors shot down in late October.
SF News 26 States Sue the Federal Government Over Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Last week, OSHA handed down a new rule that every company with 100 or more employees must require everyone to be vaccinated. Within eight hours, 26 states sued.
SF News Report: Embarcadero Needs to Be Raised 'Two to Seven Feet' to Prepare for Climate Change Flooding A new report from the SF Port Commission sounds the alarm that without a couple billion dollars in seawall upgrades, downtown SF will find itself underwater when sea levels rise.
SF News Monarch Butterfly Population Sees Thousand-Fold Increase, Likely Thanks to Drought A silver lining of the drought may be that the Monarch butterflies are exploding back after a near-extinction event last year, with one central California beach recording a 3,500% increase in the winged critters.
SF News SF Theft Wave of High-End Bikes Vexes Non-Violent Crime Enforcement Reforms A theft ring targeting expensive bicycles is far more sophisticated than your standard Walgreens shoplifters, creating a new wrinkle for criminal justice advocates who prefer not to incarcerate non-violent offenders.
SF News Legal Pot Turns 25: The Sticky Road from Medical Marijauna Raids to a $4 Billion Industry It was 25 years ago today that California voters approved medical marijuana, setting off a nationwide chain of legalization — but hitting hard highs and lows along the way.
Business & Tech Airbnb Books Highest Net Income Quarter Ever, as People Are Vaxxed and Travelling Again The travel rebound is being very, very good to Airbnb, which just raked in more money than in any other quarter, even though the average booking price is down $12 a day.
SF Politics Former City Hall Power Couple's House, Named In Fraud Indictment, Has Trail of Suspicious DBI Permits The former City Hall power couple who’ve both resigned in scandal allegedly have some fixer-upper issues with their house, like missing permits, numbers that don’t add up, and shoddy work that’s reportedly damaged neighbors’ homes.
SF News City Determined to Make Treasure Island Happen With New Ferry, 8,000 Housing Units San Francisco is betting that 20,000 of you would be willing to move to Treasure Island, with spiffy new housing developments, a sweet new ferry, and the toxic materials hopefully cleaned up.
SF News Afghan Family Settling In Hayward Tells Harrowing Tale of Escape and Resettlement After months on military bases, families airlifted from Afghanistan are finally being settled into new homes across the country. One such family in Hayward tells their story.
Bay Area Sports Buster Posey Set to Announce His Retirement After 12 Seasons With the Giants Posey instantly goes from “Giants catcher” to “first-ballot Hall of Famer,” as sources say he will announce his retirement Thursday.
SF News Wife of Deceased Recology Exec Sues the Company, Blaming Them for His Suicide One of the darkest episodes of the Recology public corruption scandal will be aired in federal court, as a grieving spouse claims the company tried to pin the bribery on her husband, causing his suicidal breakdown.
SF News UC Hastings Will Now Move to Change Its Name After Saying It Wouldn’t The inconvenient truth of founder Serranus Hastings’ genocide and enslaving of Native Americans has the law school’s board pushing through a name change, particularly after a big-bucks megadonor demanded it.
SF News Much-Maligned ‘Monster In the Mission’ Could Be Reanimated as 100% Affordable Housing A controversial mega-development at the former 16th and Mission Burger King site is being re-proposed as all affordable housing, with the new nickname “Marvel of the Mission.”
SF Politics Boudin Brings Homicide Charges Against SFPD Officer Who Shot Mentally Ill Man in 2017 Chesa Boudin will not be winning any popularity contests with the Police Officers Association, as he has now charged another on-duty officer with homicide, which no previous DA had done before. Boudin has now done it twice.
SF News SFUSD Will Present Plan Today to Trim $125 Million Deficit: Basically Layoffs, Layoffs, Layoffs The school district’s deficit is even larger than we thought, and tonight the school board meets to figure out how to reduce it enough to avoid a state takeover.
SF Politics State Agency Threatens Investigation Into Supervisors Rejecting 27-Story Residential Tower A few Sacramento lawmakers are squawking over the supes’ denial of a 495-unit project on what’s currently a SoMa parking lot, and a state agency is threatening a possible lawsuit.
SF News Day Around the Bay: David Chiu is Your New San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu gets officially sworn in, more stimmy checks are coming from Sacramento, and kids ages 5-11 may be able to get their COVID-19 vaccinations as early as this week.
SF News Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Transgender Man Denied Surgery by Catholic Hospital The Supreme Court upheld the claim of a trans man who was once a legislative aide to Assemblymember Phil Ting that he was unfairly denied surgery for being transgender.
SF News Regency Ballroom Up for Sale, Listing Depicts Nonexistent Condos On Top It’s a sign of the times that renderings of condominiums which do not yet exist or have permits are shown on a real estate listing for the 112-year-old Regency Ballroom, which is now on the selling block.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, Salesforce Tower Went as the Eye of Sauron Again for Halloween For the fourth year in a row, the horrifying gaze of the Eye of Sauron blazed in LED atop San Francisco’s tallest, and for one night, spookiest building.
SF Politics Sacramento Lawmakers Seek to Redo the Recall Process, Begin Hearings In hopes of avoiding another $276 million recall waste, the state assembly starts hearings to revise a recall process that’s been on the books for 110 years.