SF News K9 Happens to Find $2 Million Worth of Cocaine During Routine Milpitas Speeding Stop One driver in Milpitas picked the wrong Highway Patrol K9 to drive a little too fast around Thursday night, as the driver was pulled over for speeding, and the dog sniffed out nearly 27 pounds of cocaine in the car.
Business & Tech DoorDash Launching Its Delivery Robots In Fremont, Because Maybe People There Will Complain Less DoorDash’s longtime dream of cutting paid human beings out of the delivery process is one step closer to reality, as they’re debuting their little robots to do food deliveries, but at first only in Fremont.
SF News Mayor Lurie’s Controversial New RESET Sobering Center Will Be See Its Contractor Paid Based on Performance An Arizona-based contractor will have a unique method of getting paid to operate Mayor Lurie’s forthcoming RESET Center that hopes to sober up public drug users, as they’ll be paid based on how effective the center is.
SF Politics More Absurd Great Highway Drama: Supervisor Wong Blames Opponent That His Ballot Measure Failed to Launch The candidates are already fighting in the June primary elections, and District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong is attacking his rival Natalie Gee for not helping him enough to get his ‘cars back on the Great Highway’ ballot measure.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yet More Complaints Emerge About Crowd Behavior at Marina Red Bull Event BART is offering a little more detail about its Thursday morning snafu; OpenAI is now gobbling up office space in Mountain View too, and some deplorable teens may have done some groping at Saturday's Marina Formula 1 event.
SF News In Marin Crash That Killed Four Teens, Parents Point Fingers at CHP, County Road Maintenance The 16-year-old driver in a crash that killed her four teen friends has pleaded not guilty, but meanwhile, parents are bringing legal motions against the California Highway Patrol and Marin County.
Arts & Entertainment East Bay’s ‘Punk in the Park’ Festival Slammed by Revelations That Promoter Was a Trump Donor Vallejo's upcoming Punk in the Park music festival was just tarred by revelations that the concert promoter donated to the Trump 2024 campaign, but the Dead Kennedys still insist they’re playing the show.
SF News Mayor Lurie Says Protesters Were Chanting ‘Tax the Jews,’ But It Was Just One Unassociated Lady Passing By Mayor Daniel Lurie is not particularly helping San Francisco’s image at the moment, as he posted a false claim that SF protesters were chanting “Tax the Jews” at a Wednesday event, even though video debunks the claim.
SF News [Update] Walnut Creek Police Shoot and Kill Suspect In Early Thursday Morning Melee A man with apparently untreated mental illness was fatally shot by Walnut Creek police just after midnight Thursday in a residential area, and his mother is blaming the county.
Arts & Entertainment Metallica Announces an Eight-Show October Residency at the Las Vegas Sphere Legendary metal band Metallica is bringing their act to the famed Las Vegas Sphere venue for eight shows this coming October, in a residency that’s being billed under the name “Life Burns Faster.”
SF News SF Supervisor Wants to Ban the Sale of Nitrous Oxide in San Francisco It may be no laughing matter for Whip-It fans and Phish tour participants, as Supervisor Danny Sauter wants to ban the sale of nitrous oxide in San Francisco, in SF’s latest nanny-state hippycrackdown.
Bay Area Sports City of Oakland Planning Big Celebrations for Gold Medal Figure Skating Champion Alysa Liu The breakout star of the 2026 Winter Olympics Alysa Liu is from the East Bay and trained at the Oakland Ice Center, so Oakland is planning a “community-wide celebration” that will act as Alysa Liu’s gold medal victory parade.
Business & Tech Pentagon Trying to Force SF-Based Anthropic to Weaken AI Security for Killing Purposes, Anthropic Not Backing Down Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth complains that it’s “woke AI” that SF’s own Anthropic won’t give him AI-controlled weapons and massive domestic surveillance, and is now threatening to blacklist the company.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alysa Liu Returns to SFO, Cheering Fans Await Someone fell off Devil’s Slide and died Tuesday morning; Michael Tilson Thomas’s partner also died unexpectedly; and Oakland’s gold medal-winning figure skater Alysa Liu returned to SFO to a hero's welcome.
Arts & Entertainment Curiously, SF Supervisors Declare This Friday ‘Pokémon Day’ in San Francisco Is Pokémon even still that much of a thing? It is to some people, including the SF Board of Supervisors, who just declared this Friday, February 27, as Pokémon Day in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland’s Own Ryan Coogler Tapped to Write and Direct the Upcoming ‘X-Files’ Reboot While it's just a small-screen reboot of the ‘X-Files’ that will be on Hulu, ‘Sinners’ and ‘Black Panther’ director Ryan Coogler will be the writer and director of the upcoming streaming ‘X-Files’ reboot (or the pilot, at least).
SF News Nob Hill and Marina Condo Owners Have Just About Secured a Delay on That Pricey Sprinkler Mandate Fire safety may be important, but irate condo owners from Nob Hill, Telegraph Hill, the Marina, and Pacific Heights stormed an SF City Hall committee hearing Monday to demand a delay on a new sprinkler mandate for their units.
SF News Third Suspect Charged In Early January Oakland Triple-Homicide, Which Police Say Was Over a $10 Bag of Weed A measly dime-bag of pot deal gone wrong left three men dead in Oakland last month, and now the marijuana dealer has been arrested too, but boy did he have a lengthy list of priors.
SF News Yet Another SF Nonprofit CEO, Who Allegedly Stole $1.2 Million, Criminally Charged With Misuse of Public Money Criminal charges just came down on a former SF homelessness nonprofit CEO accused of buying a Tesla with public money, among a slew of other financial improprieties, and she's facing nine felony charges.
SF Politics Wiener Introduces New State Legislation That Would Allow Cities to 'Breakup with PG&E' and Start Their Own Public Utilities State Senator Scott Wiener is trying to bolster his run for Congress with a new bill targeting PG&E, a bill that would allow cities to "breakup with PG&E." But does deficit-strapped SF even have the money to do this?
SF News Body of Man Found In Lake Berryessa Suspected to Be Victim of Kidnapping After 57-year-old Avtar Singh was reported missing in Tracy last Tuesday, authorities have confirmed that a body found in Lake Berryessa on Friday is his, and surveillance video indicates foul play by three suspected kidnappers.
Arts & Entertainment Supervisor Mahmood Wants to Establish a ‘Theater Arts District’ to Gussy Up Mid-Market It's no secret that SF’s Mid-Market home to many Broadway theaters and concert venues can be a little rough around the edges, so the district's Supervisor Bilal Mahmood hopes to jazz it up as a “theater arts district.”
SF News Trump Administration Insists It Won’t Turn Shuttered FCI Dublin Into an ICE Detention Facility, But Says So in Very Fishy Terms The notorious and scandal-tainted former federal women’s prison known as FCI Dublin was rumored to be in the Trump administration’s crosshairs to make it an ICE holding pen, but the administration claims it has no such plans.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Emperor Norton’s Boozeland Gets a Facelift With Colorful New Neon Sign A new custom new neon creation gussies up the Larkin Street façade of the popular Tenderloin bar Emperor Norton’s Boozeland, with a neon design that’s actually based on the signature of Emperor Norton himself.
Business & Tech Who’da Thought? Tesla Owners Acting Like Real Jerks at Cow Hollow 24-Hour Charging Station A new 24-hour Tesla charging station in Cow Hollow has become a late-night den of loud music, line-cutting, and Tesla bro arguments, and now the station's neighbors are getting exasperated.
