SF News SF Population Dipped Slightly In 2024, Even as California’s Population Grew The state of California gained more than 100,000 residents last year according to new statewide numbers, but San Francisco is not part of that growth, having lost a little more than 3,000 residents.
SF News Benicia Oil Refinery Caught Fire and Blazed for a Couple Hours Monday Morning The Valero Refinery in Benicia, accused of emitting hazardous chemical for decades, emitted some more Monday morning during a raging refinery fire, though the shelter-in-place order is lifted and the fire has since been put out.
SF Politics San Mateo County Supervisors Introduce Three-and-a-Half Month Process for Hearings on Whether to Remove Sheriff There will apparently be some sort of legal-style trial on whether to remove San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus that will drag on for months, but there’s some question on whether witnesses will be anonymous for fear of her retaliation.
SF News Motorist Flips $400,000 Lamborghini on State Route 9 Near Santa Cruz While the passengers suffered only minor injuries, the driver may be looking at a massive financial setback, as excessive speed appears to have been a factor in the totaling of a $400,000 Lamborghini Sunday near Santa Cruz.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Win Big and Advance In Playoffs Thanks to Superstar Heroics of… Buddy Hield? Little-known Warriors supporting cast member Buddy Hield improbably bloomed into the team’s top scorer, for one night at least, giving Golden State a comfortable Game 7 win that sends them surging into the second round of the NBA playoffs.
Arts & Entertainment SF ‘May the 4th Be With You’ Star Wars Events in Full Force This Weekend, One ‘In a Gay Bar Not That Far Away’ San Francisco Star Wars fans won’t have to hang solo this weekend for the annual “May the 4th” Star Wars day, as several Star Wars events will cater to everyone from the little Ewoks and Jawas to the rebellious queers.
Arts & Entertainment SF and Another Planet Entertainment Bringing Another Huge Free Dirtybird Rave Back to Embarcadero in June Outside Lands promoter Another Planet Entertainment is doing at least one more free concert in downtown SF this summer, as they have once again tapped EDM label Dirtybird Records to throw a one-day free DJ show at the Embarcadero on Saturday, June 14.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor-Elect Barbara Lee Announces Her First Batch of Transition Staff Appointments The Barbara Lee administration now has its first 16 official hires, and they include former SF City Controller Ben Rosenfeld, who held a similar transition job when Danel Lurie was sworn in as San Francisco Mayor.
SF News UC Berkeley Senior Paralyzed From Waist Down After Fall From Fraternity House Stairway A 12-foot fall from a local fraternity house has left a UC Berkeley senior paralyzed from the waist down and with a slew of other injuries, just three weeks before she was set to graduate.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF’s Free Outdoor Movie Screenings Have Been Canceled for 2025 A UC Berkeley animal rights activist has become a cause célèbre for “liberating” four factory-farm chickens; $100K a year now qualifies as “low-income” in SF; and the much-loved outdoor movie series Sundown Cinema is canceled this year.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg Gets Roasted for Saying the Average American Has 'Fewer Than Three Friends’ While Pushing AI Chatbots Is Mark Zuckerberg okay? The internet is certainly questioning his grip on reality over his comment on a new podcast, while he was hyping Facebook’s AI chatbots, when he said that the average American has “fewer than three friends.”
Arts & Entertainment Your San Francisco Summer and Fall 2025 Street Fair Mega-Preview, Spanning From May to October With the start of May comes the kickoff of street festival and fair season, along with Bay to Breakers and plenty more fun to be had under the sun — when it decides to come out.
Arts & Entertainment Kezar Stadium Turns 100 on Friday, and Boy It Used to Be a Heck of a Lot Bigger The former home field of the San Francisco 49ers (and the Raiders!) Kezar Stadium has its 100th birthday on Friday, and it was once a global attraction sports and music destination before becoming the rec-level track meet field that it is today.
SF News SFPD Shoplifting Sting Nets 37 Arrests, Though for Only $2,500 Worth of Stuff Apparently many SFPD officers spent April camped out at a couple high-theft Safeway and Walgreens locations, and these operations brought the arrests of 37 suspects, who were allegedly stealing mostly candy and ice cream.
SF News Antioch Grandfather Will Face Felony Charges for Letting Three-Year-Old Shoot and Kill Himself The grandfather who somehow allowed a three-year-old toddler to access a loaded gun and shoot himself will indeed face felony charges of child endangerment and criminal storage of a firearm.
Arts & Entertainment Now There’s a Luigi Mangione Musical Coming to San Francisco in June, and It’s Already Selling Out Fans of hunky accused CEO-killer Luigi Mangione are clearly dying to see ‘Luigi: The Musical,’ opening in June at the Taylor Street Theater, as opening night pretty much instantly sold out for this audacious original comedy-musical.
SF News Man Gets Five-Year Prison Sentence for Huge Marijuana Grow In Los Padres National Forest Found After Dolan Fire A 56-year-old man will be doing five years in prison for running a giant illegal cannabis grow that was discovered in a Monterey-area national forest after the Dolan Fire, which itself was started by another rogue marijuana grower.
SF News Mendocino County Sheriff’s Deputy Accused of DUI and Hit-and-Run, Seemingly In Their Own Patrol Car It’s probably not the best idea for a sheriff’s deputy to drive to a bar in their patrol car, get intoxicated, and then drive with the dashcam recording, a lesson that one Mendocino County sheriff's deputy is currently learning all too well.
SF News Dazzling New Butterflies Introduced in Presidio to Replace Dazzling Butterflies That Went Extinct The Xerces blue butterfly that used to flutter across SF’s western dunes went extinct 80 years ago, but wildlife experts have identified the closest known relatives of that butterfly, and they just reintroduced a bunch of them in the Presidio.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Betty White Postage Stamps Have Arrived We’re now learning that Monday’s South San Francisco police shooting may have been over a tree-trimming dispute; Berkeley City Council passed another one of those Gaza resolutions; and the Betty White forever stamps are now arriving at SF post offices.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Polk Gulch Wine and Spirits Emporium The Jug Shop Has Been Evicted Despite being an SF legacy business, 60-year-old SF wine and spirits store The Jug Shop appears to have served its last drop, as its owner confirms the shop has been evicted from their Polk Gulch location.
SF Politics SF Audit Finds City Hall Departments Overcharging Other City Hall Departments, Despite Nearly Billion-Dollar Deficit A report from the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst shows that City Hall departments are billing each other to the tune of nearly $80 million a year, and then not paying, allowing for confusion or even chicanery on the following year’s budget.
SF News Newsom to Set Strict Staffing Rules at For-Profit Mental Hospitals After Reporters Exposed Conditions A series of recent press exposés showed California’s for-profit mental health hospitals have way lower staffing than their nonprofit counterparts, so now Governor Newsom is pushing an emergency order forcing the for-profits to beef up their staffs.
SF News International Tourism to California Is Taking a Beating Under the Trump Administration Far fewer tourists from other countries are visiting California since Donald Trump took office again, and visits from Canada and Mexico are down particularly sharply, amidst immigration anxiety and tariff resentment.
SF News Wow, It’s Now Been Five Whole Years Since JFK Drive Went Car-Free Golden Gate Park's east-west road formerly known as JFK Drive, now known as JFK Promenade, celebrated its five-year anniversary as a car-free thoroughfare with a Sunday party.
