SF News Report: Oakland PD Offering Rewards From Oakland Crime Stoppers, Which Oakland Crime Stoppers Cannot Pay An NBC Bay Area investigation found that even though an organization called Oakland Crime Stoppers was offering financial rewards for information leading to an arrest, they can’t access their bank account, and their nonprofit status has been suspended for years.
SF News Mysterious Fatal Tenderloin Shooting by Hotel Security Guard Draws Lawsuit from Victim’s Family A 37-year-old insurance executive was shot and killed by a security guard last August. But a year later, no charges have been filed, the guard has skipped town, and the family is now suing the security company for damages.
SF News Oakland Man Charged In Fatal Dog Mauling Sunday Near Fruitvale Three 100-pound dogs attacked and killed a 53-year-old man in Oakland Sunday, and the owner has been charged with a felony, as the dogs apparently had a history of attacks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Grocery Outlet Bargain Market On Verge of Coming to Fisherman’s Wharf There’s double the Downtown First Thursdays tonight; PG&E is looking to hike your rates again; and the Fisherman’s Wharf Grocery Outlet Bargain Market is on the verge of becoming official.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland’s Chinatown Throwing a Night Market Saturday, On Heels of Successful SF Night Markets Following some wildly successful night markets in San Francisco, Oakland’s Chinatown will make its mark with the Chinatown Night Market this Saturday night, with a “Dumpling Olympics” and more.
SF News SFPD Touts That Their New License Plate Readers Nabbed an Accused $3,400 Lululemon Thief Those new automated license plate readers about town just popped another retail theft suspect, as the cameras’ use led to the arrest of a woman accused of stealing $3,400 worth of Lululemon gear.
SF News Missing Woman From The ‘Silver Alert’ That Rattled SF Phones Wednesday Night Has Been Found A ‘Silver Alert’ simultaneously buzzed smartphones across San Francisco just after 7:30 pm Wednesday night alerting the city that an 81-year-old woman was missing. But maybe that alert was a good call, as she was located less than two hours later.
SF Politics More Fake SF Mayoral Candidate Websites Flooding the Zone Before Election Day The political dirty tricks are ramping up as we head to November’s SF elections, as fake campaign websites are popping up in hopes of dragging down some of the leading candidates for mayor.
SF Politics Michael Bloomberg Kicks Down $1 Million to Breed PAC, Daniel Lurie Gives His Own Campaign Another $1 Million Nearly $17 million has now been poured into the SF mayoral race, and Mayor London Breed just benefited from huge donations from former presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg and the Doordash CEO, while the Daniel Lurie campaign got another $1.3 million from Daniel Lurie.
SF News Exclusive: Shuttered Mission Street Walgreens to Become Locally Owned Produce and Meat Market Is it a "doom loop" when an SF Walgreens closes, but a locally owned fresh produce market pops up in its place? That's what's happening, as Casa Guadalupe has filed permits to move into the former Walgreens at Mission and Cesar Chavez.
SF News Man Fatally Stabbed in Tenderloin Apartment on Labor Day, Suspect in Custody An unnamed man was stabbed and killed in a Leavenworth Street apartment on Monday afternoon, and a 37-year-old suspect was arrested for the killing shortly afterward.
SF News Day Around the Bay: One Dead After Car Flies Off Cliff at Point Lobos The sweltering weather is expected to continue throughout the week; the teen who shot the 49ers’ Ricky Pearsall has been charged with attempted murder; and a two-car accident that sent cars off a cliff near the Cliff House has left one person dead.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Crack Down On Tailgate Parties in Parking Lot, Longtime Fans Are Furious The San Francisco 49ers are going to enforce a new parking lot policy called “Directed Parking,” which is similar to assigned seats. But longtime season ticket holders say it’s going to destroy the team’s famed tailgate scene.
Arts & Entertainment Gigantic Dust Storms Led to Reported Ten-Hour Wait to Leave Burning Man on Monday Extreme weather caused massive backups in the line out of Burning Man for the second consecutive year on Monday, and car rental companies are vowing to charge hundreds of dollars if they find a speck of that incriminating desert dust on their vehicles.
SF News Tenants Set to Be Evicted En Masse at Potrero Hill Housing Complex Where Manager Was Illegally Collecting Rent Even though they’d been paying rent, tenants of some 40 units at Potrero Terrace-Annex are facing eviction proceedings, because they’d been paying rent to a rogue manager who was allegedly just pocketing the money.
SF News Oakland PD Officer Placed On Leave After Giant Illegal Marijuana Grow Found in His Antioch Home Last week CNN ran a report detailing that more than 50 very nice houses in Antioch were just giant hidden illegal pot grow operations, with no one living in the houses. Now it turns out one of those homes is owned by an Oakland police officer.
SF News CNN Report Finds Giant, Illegal Marijuana Grows Operating Out of Luxury Homes in Antioch Not even the ritziest enclaves of Contra Costa County are immune to having large-scale illicit marijuana grow operations, as a CNN report found three homes on the same street in Antioch were busted for not being homes, but instead enormous indoor pot grows.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, There’s an SF Burning Man at Ocean Beach Saturday, Co-Organized by… Former SF Supervisor Eric Mar? There are actually several contingents of Burners heading to Ocean Beach Saturday to put on their own miniature versions of Burning Man, but one of them appears to be co-organized by former District 1 Supervisor Eric Mar.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Weekend’s Bizerkeley Food Fest Set to Serve Up ‘Meat Eater-Approved Vegan Food’ The Bay Area’s big Labor Day weekend street fair will be Sunday’s fourth annual Bizerkeley Food Fest, with samples and delicious dishes galore of eats “made by vegans for a meat eater's tastebuds.”
Arts & Entertainment Downtown SF Oktoberfest Will Be the First Boozy, Open-Container ‘Entertainment Zone’ Party The streets will be closed to cars and the beer steins flowing at Oktoberfest on Front, as the Oktoberfest block part will be California’s first alcohol-drenched “entertainment zone” party under new legislation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Bringing Those ‘Evasion-Proof’ Fare Gates to 24th Street Station Next Week 49ers receiver Brandon Aiyuk just ended his holdout; Scott Wiener’s controversial AI safety bill has passed the state legislature; and they’ll begin installing BART’s jump-proof fare gates at 24th Street station starting Tuesday.
SF News Bill Allowing Marijuana Sales at Farmers' Markets Clears State Legislature, Heads to Newsom’s Desk You may soon be able to stock up on cannabis at a discount price at your local farmers’ market, as the state legislature has approved a proposal to let growers sell there directly. Oh, and Matt Haney’s “cannabis cafe” bill has passed too.
SF News Scandal-Plagued SF Towing Company Hit With Federal Indictment for Faking Car Accidents, Collecting Insurance Money New federal indictments lay out a slew of insurance fraud charges against the co-owner of the Bayview’s notorious Specialty Towing, among them a charge that he loaded a tow truck full of four clunkers, faked an accident, and tried to collect full insurance.
SF News Meet the New Drones the SFPD Will Be Using (and Is Actually Already Using) SFPD now has six drones in their fleet after voters approved the department's use of drones this past March. Here's what those six drones look like, and how they will be deployed.
SF News California Legislature Passes Bill to Ban or Limit Cellphone Use in Schools California will likely soon become the fifth state in the nation to ban students from using smartphones in schools, though the full ban likely would not go into effect until the 2026-27 school year.
