SF News Around 1,600 PG&E Customers Lost Power Friday Near Lake Merced, Stonestown Mall Just three weeks after the last unplanned power outage, 1,600 PG&E addresses lost power Friday afternoon near the area of SF’s Lake Merced, Stonestown Mall, and SF State, and it was restored less than an hour later.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Says Drug-Free Supportive Housing Would Allow Relapses If They Don’t Disrupt Others’ Sobriety Dorsey, who struggles with his own substance use disorder, introduced legislation calling for future city-funded supportive housing to be drug-free, which he says would allow for relapses if they don’t put fellow residents’ sobriety at risk, but some advocates remain skeptical.
SF News Teen Sustains Life-Threatening Injuries In Mission District Shooting Following Fight Just hours after city officials called for an end to street violence by announcing a 24-hour ceasefire Thursday afternoon, a teenager was sent to the hospital with life-threatening injuries following a fight near Mission and 18th streets that resulted in gunfire.
SF News Construction Begins on 100% Affordable ‘Marvel in the Mission’ Development Crews officially broke ground on the mammoth, long-awaited “Marvel in the Mission” affordable housing development adjacent to the 16th Street-Mission BART Station, with the first phase featuring 136 units of permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless residents.
SF News Supes Veto Appeal to Legalize $5M North Beach Mansion Illegally Converted From Four Units The SF Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to reject an appeal to retroactively legalize a $5 million North Beach single-family home that was illegally converted from four rent-controlled units by a previous owner.
SF News Right-Wingers Accused of Inciting Fights, Pepper Spraying Silicon Valley Shoppers For YouTube Views A Costco shopper in Mountain View is suffering from vision loss after he was pepper sprayed during an altercation with a right-wing instigator/YouTuber from Southern California.
SF News SF Supervisor Mahmood Introduces Ban on Uncertified Batteries Following Increase In Fires SF Supervisor Bilal Mahmood and SFFD introduced legislation banning the sale of lithium-ion batteries without a UL certification label due to increased fire risk, giving city agencies authority to penalize retailers and issue fines to consumers who violate the law.
SF News Berkeley Police Arrest Screaming Naked Man Carrying Shotgun at Tesla Service Center A 35-year-old suspect was arrested in Berkeley Monday morning after police received several reports of a man running naked down the street, smashing windows, and he was later found screaming and waving a shotgun inside the Tesla Service Center.
SF News Former SF Resident Visiting From LA Found Dead After Leaving Martuni’s Sharbel Saker, a former SF resident who had worked at Fisherman’s Wharf prior to moving to LA last year, was found dead early Friday near Market and Page streets after reportedly leaving Martuni’s piano bar on mid-Market.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Southwest Airlines Now Offers Flights Out of Sonoma County Airport An SF man was found guilty of kicking a small dog multiple times in the hallway of an SRO; Iran agreed to Trump’s two-week ceasefire; and Southwest Airlines is now flying out of Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa.
SF News Nanny Arrested at SFO For Allegedly Charging $60,000 on Former Boss’s Credit Card An SF woman was arrested at SFO and taken into custody by Tiburon police last week on suspicion of racking up $60,000 in fraudulent charges on her former boss’s credit card for extravagant purchases including international travel, luxury hotels, and spa services.
SF News Person Injured After 100-Year-Old Russian Hill Elevator Falls Three Floors An elevator malfunction in SF's Russian Hill Monday caused it to plunge three stories with someone inside before the emergency brakes abruptly stopped the free fall, sending the person to the hospital with moderate to severe injuries.
SF News SoMa Residents Demand More Housing, Redistribution of Shelters to Other Neighborhoods Residents filed a civil rights complaint, alleging the city treats western SoMa as a “containment zone” for poverty despite recent legislation, and they’re asking the state to decertify Lurie's upzoning plan.
SF News Attorney In Wrongful Death Suit For Oakland Math Teacher Says Police Treated Girlfriend as Suspect New details from last year’s fatal police chase in East Oakland revealed that police may have treated Marvin Boomer’s girlfriend Nina Woodruff, who was also a bystander seriously injured in the crash, as a suspect and failed to give her treatment at the scene.
SF News British Tourist Goes Missing After Arriving at SFO, Footage Shows Man Meeting Her The family of Katherine Kerwood, a 21-year-old woman from the UK who landed at SFO for a solo tour of Northern California last Tuesday, are searching for her whereabouts after her phone went silent Friday and they learned she never checked into her hostel when she landed.
SF News Sunday Links: SF Jury Convicts Woman Who Punched Social Workers, Yanked Out One’s Hair People are hiking two miles up Mount Tam for a pancake breakfast; a Berkeley High graduate is awaiting a heart transplant in LA; and a woman was convicted for assaulting two social workers serving free coffee at an SRO.
SF News Historic Camron-Stanford House on Lake Merritt Damaged in Fire Amid Efforts to Reopen After Closure The historic Camron-Stanford House on Oakland’s Lake Merritt, which has been closed since its lease expired in 2024, was damaged in a fire early Saturday, but firefighters were able control the blaze in less than an hour.
SF News SF ‘Rideshare Rapist’ Who Posed As Victims’ Driver Found Guilty In SoMa, Mission Assaults A man dubbed the “Rideshare Rapist” was recently convicted on 11 felony counts by an SF jury in the assaults of four women from 2013 to 2018, in which prosecutors say he posed as their rideshare driver then kidnapped and raped them.
SF News Saturday Links: Therapy Cow Spotted in Sonoma County Visiting Bedridden Resident San Quentin is at risk of losing its arts programming; Senator Tammy Duckworth says travelers should be told to take their shoes off during security again after it was revealed TSA scanners can’t effectively screen shoes; and there’s a very fuzzy emotional support cow in Sebastopol.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Fabulous Hunky Jesus Contest Returns Sunday A fifth dead whale has turned up in the bay in three weeks; a cargo fire broke out at SFO Friday; and Dolores Park is sure to be packed with fans enjoying Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s Easter festivities Sunday, most notably the famous Hunky Jesus Contest.
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Lurie May Discuss Bringing Back Pandas to SF Zoo During ‘Sister Cities’ Tour In Asia Mayor Lurie is set to visit two of San Francisco’s “sister cities,” Shanghai and Seoul, later this month as part of a tour promoting tourism through SF’s arts and culture, and he said there’s been talk of bringing pandas back to the SF Zoo.
SF News Clipper Developer Says It Will Resolve Chaos From Disastrous 2.0 Rollout By May 30 Clipper’s 2.0 upgrade in December went badly, and riders continue to face technical issues, with only 1.5 million users successfully transitioning to the new system so far out of 15 million.
Arts & Entertainment Friends Who Bought ‘Dirt Alley’ Are Looking For 1,280 People to Help Transform It Into Public Art Three tech “pranksters” are holding a contest — deadline April 7 — for a public art project that will transform a barren alley in SF’s Sunset District into a 1,280-piece art quilt. The friends recently purchased the alley from a couple who mistakenly thought they were buying a nearby duplex.
SF News Homicide Suspect Arrested Five Months After East Bay Jail Released Him By Mistake A Washington homicide suspect with prior warrants in the East Bay was arrested in Missouri this week after he was mistakenly released in October from Contra Costa County’s Martinez Jail while waiting to be extradited to Washington state.
SF News Craiglist’s Craig Newmark Is Inspiring Billionaires to Donate Their Fortunes Like He Is In an opinion piece in the New York Times this week, Craig Newmark of Craigslist fame wrote about his decision to sign the “Giving Pledge” last year with the goal of giving up to $1 billion to nonprofits, and he’s been encouraging other wealthy people to do the same.
