SF News Someone Finally Bought the Beleaguered Former Westfield Mall, at Just 10% of Its Previous Value A conglomerate of big-name banks just finally bought the San Francisco Centre mall for a fraction of its previous value, though this tells us nothing about what will happen to the mall, as those banks are just going to sell the place again.
SF News Lurie’s Latest Fentanyl-Fighting Strategy Is to Arrest Drug Users and Put Them in a ‘Sobering Center’ A vacant city-owned warehouse is going to become the “drunk tank” for people on drugs, as arresting people and trying to sober them up is Mayor Lurie’s latest attempt to cut down on drug use on San Francisco streets.
SF News Castro Valley Road Rage Incident Takes Life of Father of Nine A Saturday night road Castro Valley car crash and subsequent brawl is being investigated as road rage, and the 49-year-old man killed in the incident was a father of nine taking his kids for ice cream.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Union Square Macy’s Holiday Tree Is Lit Back Up Again, Everybody The rain returns Wednesday in all likelihood; BART is jacking up its parking lot prices by as much as 30% on January 1; and the Macy's Union Square Holiday Tree was lit back up again Monday night with marginal fanfare.
SF News Utah Woman Has Been Missing From Santa Cruz For Five Days, Authorities Begin to Suspect Foul Play A 35-year-old Utah woman last seen at a beach bonfire the night of Thursday, November 6 at Rio Del Mar Beach has been missing for five days, and authorities are now finding reason to suspect her disappearance may have been foul play.
SF News Tahoe Black Bear Makes Self at Home on Holiday Ice Rink at Heavenly Ski Resort Before the ice rink at the Tahoe ski resort Heavenly had even opened to the public, a well-known local bear named Charlie decided to test the ice out for himself, and no one was going to tell him he had to leave.
SF Politics Lurie’s New Supervisor Appointee Faces Bizarre Scandal Over Filthy Conditions, Dead Animals at Pet Store As new SF supervisor Beya Alcaraz faces a fresh new scandal about a freezer full of dead animals and a mouse infestation, it seems Mayor Daniel Lurie may not have background-checked his new District 4 supervisor pick very thoroughly.
SF Politics Fistfight Kicks Off Charlie Kirk Tribute Event In Berkeley, Four People End Up Getting Arrested The Charlie Kirk traveling memorial show had its stop in Berkeley Monday night, and one guy hawking Jesus t-shirts got bloodied up in a lone fistfight, though it was otherwise a long night of garden-variety Berkeley rabble-rousing.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo’s Glowfari Is More Expensive This Year, Thanks to Trump’s Tariffs Donald Trump’s tariffs are making it a zoo out there on Americans' finances, as the Oakland Zoo’s holiday spectacular Glowfari is more expensive this year because of Trump’s tariffs on illuminated display equipment from China.
SF News SFPD Raid Yielded 86 Arrests But Only One Drug-Dealing Charge, and That Person Was Just Found Not Guilty A very anticlimactic ending to that much-ballyhooed February SFPD raid of Jefferson Square Park where 86 people were arrested: Only one suspect actually faced felony drug charges, and he was just acquitted of those charges.
SF News Renowned SF Filmmaker Kevin Epps Went On Trial Today for 2016 Murder Charge ‘Straight Outta Hunters Point’ director Kevin Epps saw his life go sideways, from making movies with Spike Lee to being charged with a 2016 homicide. This odd tale continues as his murder trial began today.
SF News Watch: Memorial for the Late, Great Local Broadcaster Belva Davis All the big local news outlets were live-streaming today’s memorial service for the West Coast’s first Black female TV reporter, Belva Davis, after the trailblazing 92-year-old’s death in late September.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Get Boat-Raced by Rams 42-26, Giving Up Six Touchdowns In One Afternoon The 49ers lost some pretty significant ground in the playoff race with a 42-26 loss to the LA Rams on Sunday, and are now nearly two games behind those Rams and the Seahawks in the NFC West standings.
SF News SF’s China Beach Reopens Amid Government Shutdown, Because Someone Did a GoFundMe Here’s one way to take matters into your own hands when the federal government is shut down, as one frequent swimmer at SF’s China Beach saw the beach was closed for the shutdown, so he simply GoFundMe’d up the money to reopen it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Cliff House Will Still Be Called ‘Cliff House’ When It Reopens, But Probably Won’t Reopen Until Late 2026 A trademark dispute has been resolved so the Cliff House can still be called the Cliff House when it reopens under new ownership, though apparently that reopening is now delayed until near the end of 2026.
SF News Oakland DMV That Was Ransacked by Copper Wire Thieves to Reopen Monday After Seven-Month Closure A copper wire theft job at the Oakland Coliseum DMV ended up wrecking the HVAC system and flooding the place, leading to a seven-month repair job, but that DMV office will open again on Monday.
SF News Alleged Peeping Tom Charged With Trespassing and Burglary at UC Berkeley Sorority House A 45-year-old Dublin man is charged with peeping and loitering inside a UC Berkeley sorority house, as well as stealing residents’ underwear. Then a search of his home turned up an assault rifle and 900 rounds of ammunition.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bruce Bochy Likely Returning to the Giants in a Front Office Advisory Role Journey is doing a farewell tour that won’t come to SF; the guy who threw a sandwich at an ICE officer was found not guilty; and Bruce Bochy is on the verge of returning to the Giants in an executive advisory position.
SF News San Mateo County Reveals Seven Candidates for New Sheriff, Three are Current or Former SFPD Cops The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors has whittled it down to seven candidates to fill their open county sheriff position, and two of them are former SFPD cops, while one is still an active SF police officer.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Wants to Open One of Those Tesla Diners in the Bay Area Well look who wants to open a business in California now, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk says it “makes sense” to build one of his Tesla Diner locations in Palo Alto, in addition to the one that opened in LA this summer.
Arts & Entertainment Union Square Ice Rink Now Back Open, Macy’s Holiday Tree Coming Back This Tuesday The Union Square Holiday Ice Rink officially reopened for the holly jolly season Wednesday night, and mark your calendars, because the giant Macy’s Christmas tree is getting lit up next Tuesday night.
SF Politics Lurie Names New D4 Supervisor as Engardio’s Replacement: Largely Unknown Isabella ‘Beya’ Alcaraz We now have a new District 4 supervisor taking the place of Joel Engardio, as Mayor Lurie has named former pet shop owner, music and arts teacher, and lifelong Sunset resident Isabella ‘Beya’ Alcaraz to the seat.
Business & Tech Alleged SoCal Tech Burglar Crew Charged With Stealing $22 Million Worth of Gear From Bay Area Companies A crew of six Southern California men has been charged with heists targeting Nvidia and Apple shipments, where they allegedly broke into warehouses or robbed delivery trucks of their high-priced contents.
SF News FAA Swears They’ll Cut US Air Flights by 10% This Week Because of the Government Shutdown Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the Trump administration will start cutting US airline flight capacity by 10% starting Friday thanks to the government shutdown, though it’s unclear whether SFO flights will be affected.
Arts & Entertainment Muni Gussies Up 49-Van Ness Buses With Holiday Wraparound Decorative Furbishing Look how freakin’ festive the 49-Van Ness bus will look for the holidays, with snowflakes, mittens, wrapped gifts, and more. But is that… a Christmas coyote near the front left wheel?
