SF News Predictably, SFPD Bringing In Tons of Officers From Other Jurisdictions for APEC With a who’s-who of global leaders about to converge on San Francisco for the APEC summit, the Secret Service will be blanketing the city, along with officers from at least eight other outside law enforcement agencies to beef up the number of cops in town for the event.
SF News Motorcyclist Killed After Crashing Into SUV, Bike Bursting Into Flames In East Oakland A 32-year-old motorcyclist died Wednesday afternoon in a fiery collision with an SUV on Oakland’s International Boulevard, while a mother and three teens in the SUV were hospitalized.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Throwing Big-Bucks SF Fundraising Event for Biden During APEC Don’t expect to be invited unless you’ve got ten grand laying around to spend, but Gavin Newsom is throwing a fundraising “super event” in SF for the Biden-Harris reelection campaign at some point during the APEC summit.
SF News Mission Street Vending Ban Delayed, As the City Will Likely Be Busy Busting Vendors Near APEC The Mission Street vending ban is now delayed until after Thanksgiving, reportedly because of APEC, an event for which the city is determined to clear Fisherman’s Wharf of bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors.
SF News City Audit Finds Poor Coordination, Lack of Oversight Among SF Homeless Outreach Teams San Francisco has not one but 11 homeless outreach teams to provide services for people living on the streets, and a new city audit finds they don’t communicate with one another and often have poor oversight of their contracts and responsibilities.
SF News Cruise Recalling Self-Driving Robotaxis Nationwide, Amidst Report Vehicles Had Safety Issues Around Children While the recall appears temporary, Cruise is pulling all of its 950 self-driving robotaxis from the streets, and a separate report shows Cruise internal communications acknowledged safety issues around children and holes in roads.
SF News San Jose Man Who Lived In Meth Lab House Charged By Feds For Intentionally Bombing Two PG&E Transformers Thousands of San Jose residents lost power when PG&E transformers blew up this past December and January, and the feds are charging a 36-year-old man for doing the deed. Oh, and he was also allegedly running a meth lab.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Nine Arrested in Alleged Santa Clara County Sex Trafficking Ring Nextdoor is laying off 25% of their staff, BART is hyping another batch of seemingly encouraging ridership rebound numbers, and Santa Clara County prosecutors say they've busted a significant sex trafficking ring.
SF News Ski Season Is Officially Here as First Tahoe Ski Resort Opens on Friday Lake Tahoe-area ski season has its first ski slope opening set for Friday, as Tahoe’s highest base elevation resort Mount Rose opens Friday, November 10, and more ski resort openings are scheduled for the weeks to follow.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Is Indeed Returning to SF in 2024, Despite Marc Benioff’s Threat to Move Conference Elsewhere Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff will not move his company's Dreamforce mega-conference to Las Vegas or Austin or wherever, despite his own threats that he might, as he announced today that Dreamforce 2024 will remain right here in SF.
SF News Car Flies Into Two Other Cars and Then a House In Oakland, Possibly Pregnant Driver Hospitalized A reportedly speeding driver crashed into two cars and a house near the Oakland Coliseum Monday night, and while there are unconfirmed reports the injured driver might have been pregnant, it is confirmed by neighbors that the 911 response was awfully slow.
Business & Tech AI Engineers Convinced They Can Fix SF’s Problems at Hackathon This weekend saw more than a hundred AI programmers and engineers meet up to “build AI solutions to the most pressing challenges in San Francisco,” at a Fort Mason hackathon that hoped to move fast and break bureaucracy.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Swastika Incident Shocks SF’s Washington High School Police in Berkeley shot and killed an auto theft suspect, Castro Italian restaurant Vico Cavone closed abruptly, and swastika graffiti was discovered in a stairwell at Washington High School.
Bay Area Sports It’s Official: SF Is Getting the 2025 NBA All-Star Game at the Chase Center The 2025 NBA All-Star Game will be played here in San Francisco at the Chase Center, as the league announced today, and we can’t wait to hear TNT analyst Charles Barkley complain again that he has to come back to the city that loves to hate him.
SF News Hybrid Wolf-Dog Caught in Sebastopol After Five-Day Run of Scaring the Town A wolf-dog hybrid had been on the loose since the middle of last week in Sebastopol, but a rescue operation successfully caught the canine Monday morning, and he’s been reunited with his owners.
SF News Entire Cargo Truck Somehow Ended Up Submerged in Water at Oakland Estuary Today in “How did that happen?,” a cargo truck was somehow left completely submerged underwater at the Oakland Estuary. The vehicle has been pulled out, and thankfully no one was inside.
SF News Apparent Tech Bus Accident Damages Multiple Cars on Castro Street A Monday morning mishap with what appears to be a tech bus smashed up at least four cars on Castro Street near 20th Street, with pictures and video starting to emerge on social media.
SF News SF Grappling With Encampment Clearing Strategy as APEC Starts This Weekend Ready or not, San Francisco’s moment in the spotlight starts this weekend as the APEC Summit begins Saturday, and the highly visible issue of encampments in public view has City Hall officials fretting over how that’s all going to play out.
Business & Tech Moped-Sharing Service Revel is Pulling Its Mopeds From San Francisco November 18 will be the last day you can ride one of those blue Revel rental mopeds, as the company is discontinuing moped service in SF and New York City, but they’re staying in business and pivoting to some sort of EV charging model concept.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: ‘Tupac Shakur Way’ Street Sign Unveiled in Oakland The rain that arrived Sunday night may continue through Monday, a police chase ended in a multi-car crash that also hit a Waymo, and the sign for the newly renamed Tupac Shakur Way was unveiled near Lake Merritt.
SF News Suspect Accused of Severing Santa Rosa Woman’s Head is At Large, Considered Armed and Dangerous A 24-year-old man is believed to have killed a relative and absconded with her severed head in Santa Rosa, and the suspect remains at large and is considered dangerous.
SF News Two More SF DBI Inspectors Charged With Bribery and Shaking People Down for Permits Add two more former SF Department of Building Inspection engineers to the long list of employees of that department to face federal bribery charges, as the feds say both engineers accepted lavish gifts from construction companies in exchange for permits.
SF News Head Up, East Bay Drivers: Big Stretch of I-680 Will Be Closed All Weekend Long Starting at 9 p.m. Friday night, a nine-mile stretch of I-680 southbound will be closed for pavement repairs all weekend long, and the detours will reverberate for drivers on roads all over the East Bay.
SF News Protesters at Port of Oakland Try to Block Ship They Say Is Carrying Military Supplies to Israel A demonstration of some 200 protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza is attempting to block a ship at the Port of Oakland that they say is carrying military supplies to Israel, though longshoremen say there’s nothing on the ship.
SF News Trademark Trouble Brewing Over Whether the New Restaurant at Cliff House Can Be Called ‘Cliff House’ The name “Cliff House” is trademarked by the owners of the restaurant who ran it until its 2020 closure, but the incoming new operator seems to want to use the name, and there could be a trademark fight.