Arts & Entertainment SF Camerawork Set to Reopen Next Month Weeks After Announcing Closure Legacy photography institution SF Camerawork is reopening in September after previously announcing it would be closing its doors August 31, following a last-minute effort by supporters to keep it operating.
SF Politics Newsom’s Plan To Limit Utilities’ Wildfire Liability Thwarted In Eleventh-Hour Deal A contentious portion of Newsom’s wildfire proposal would have reduced utility companies’ financial liability when their equipment causes wildfires, but California lawmakers rejected the provision during a last-minute deal Friday night.
SF News Two Men Found Dead In Tomales Bay After Late-Night Canoe Trip to View Bioluminescence A San Francisco man was identified as one of two people found dead in Marin County after taking a late-night canoe trip to view bioluminescent creatures Saturday, while the other man remains unidentified.
SF News Man Engages In Shootout, Standoff With Oakland Police Before Setting Fire to Abandoned Home A man who allegedly threatened to kill a woman at an Oakland park Sunday exchanged gunfire with police, the OPD says, before barricading himself inside an abandoned house where he set a fire during an hourslong standoff.
Business & Tech Startup Claims X Abandoned Twitter Brand, Launches New Social Network Under the Name Virginia-based startup Operation Bluebird is rolling out a new social media site under the Twitter name despite a pending legal fight with X over the brand.
SF News Man Accused of Posing as Wealthy 49ers Player to Lure Women Into $1.3 Million Scam A man suspected of taking on the persona of a 49ers player to lure women he met online into an alleged fraudulent investment scheme — dating back to 2022 and spanning four states — has been charged with wire fraud.
SF News Meta Suspends Another Queer SF Venue’s Accounts Amid Growing Censorship Concerns Amid escalating reports that Meta’s recent policy changes have led to the disproportionate suppression of queer content, the company suspended the accounts of another local LGBTQ venue, Powerhouse, Thursday.
SF News Sprouts Market Plans First SF Store at Former Nordstrom Rack Site on Ninth Street SF’s South of Market neighborhood will be getting a new grocery store in 2028, as Sprouts Farmers Market is moving into the former Nordstrom Rack at 555 Ninth Street, next door to Trader Joe's.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley High Student Robbed By Other Teens Near Campus A 45-year-old Napa man was charged in last year’s Pickett Fire; a new Tropical Storm was coincidentally named Dolly; and a Berkeley High School student was robbed after school by three other teens.
SF News ICE Agent’s Gun Found In SFO Restroom Day Before Ukrainian Woman’s Arrest During an investigation into ICE’s violent arrest of Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Gorb at SFO last month, it was discovered that an agent’s gun had been left unattended in a Terminal 2 restroom the day before.
Arts & Entertainment Train to Perform on Haight Street Outside Mad Dog In the Fog For Album Release Party Today Haight and Ashbury streets are closed Thursday afternoon (today) for a block party celebrating Grammy-award winning band Train’s latest album, 'Mad Dog in the Fog,' outside the pub that inspired the name.
SF News Owner of Bayview Affordable Housing Complex Agrees to $9 Million Settlement Over Violations A St. Louis-based developer has agreed to pay $9 million settlement to the city of SF over numerous health and safety violations at its property, Alice Griffith Apartments, a 337-unit affordable housing complex in Bayview.
Bay Area Sports Tom Brady’s New Palo Alto Card Store Burglarized, Over $12,000 Worth of Trading Cards Stolen Burglars broke into the new CardVault by Tom Brady in Palo Alto over the weekend, making off with roughly 60 collectible trading cards — just a week after the store’s grand opening.
SF News Driver and SFMTA Officer Exchange Blows Over Parking Ticket A video shared on social media shows an SFMTA officer involved in a physical altercation with an irate driver who had just received a parking ticket on Treasure Island, and she had to be pulled away several times by other officers.
SF News Former Navy Contractor to Pay $97 Million Settlement Over Hunters Point Shipyard Cleanup Former Navy contractor Tetra Tech agreed to pay $97 million to resolve federal claims over its botched cleanup of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, including $57 million to the DOJ and $40 million tied to Superfund cleanup costs, with almost none going directly to residents.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sapporo Plans 200 Stone Brewing Layoffs After Selling Brand to Firestone Walker After selling Stone Brewing Co. in April, Sapporo is preparing to cut more than 200 employees, with the first 58 workers expected to be laid off in October as the company permanently closes Stone’s longtime Escondido headquarters.
Business & Tech Meta Agrees to $17 Billion Settlement In Social Media Addiction Lawsuit From 47 States Meta agreed to pay $17 billion to settle a case alleging it designed its platforms to be addictive and harmful to children, ending a federal trial in Oakland that could have cost the company up to $1.4 trillion and put Mark Zuckerberg on the stand.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 95-Foot Illuminated Installation Launches on Market Street A California man was arrested at the US Capitol after a guillotine was spotted in his truck; an SF man faces up to 40 years in prison after defrauding investors of nearly $1 million in a crypto trading scheme; and a 95-foot installation has been launched on Market Street as part of a new series.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Chocolatier to Open Culinary Institute In SF’s Dogpatch Iranian chef and master chocolatier Shekoh Moossavi, whose culinary career spans more than 30 years, is opening a culinary institute at her Dogpatch studio, with virtual and in-person classes beginning next month.
Business & Tech Anthropic Tells Staff to Work From Home Due to Potential Security Workers’ Strike Security company Allied Universal warned Anthropic that its workers might go on strike, prompting the AI company to order its staff to work from home, but the security guards’ union said it knew nothing about the strike.
SF Politics SoCal Sheriff Chad Bianco Faces California Supreme Court Over Seizure of 650,000 Ballots Two lawsuits before the California Supreme Court challenge Sheriff Chad Bianco’s seizure of 1,000 boxes of November 2025 ballots, which include a measure redrawing congressional districts that passed in his county by about 80,000 votes.
SF News SF’s Bayshore Freeway to Close For Four Weekends of Repaving, Starting Labor Day Weekend All northbound lanes on Highway 101 between Cesar Chavez and 10th Street will be closed for repaving two weekends in September, including Labor Day weekend, and the southbound lanes will be closed for two weekends in October.
SF News Another Muni Operator Appears to Fall Asleep at Controls, Crashes Into Empty Train A Muni driver operating an empty L train was filmed crashing into another empty train after he appeared to fall asleep at the controls, which Muni determined was caused by driver fatigue.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink ‘Freedom Coffee’ Tied to Conservative Tech Entrepreneur to Open on Polk Street A lease has been signed for a "freedom"-themed cafe on Polk Street near Jackson, and the company’s CEO is an employee of tech entrepreneur and Trump supporter Eoghan McCabe, who also founded a local social club called the Freedom Club in 2024.
SF News Western Addition High Schools, Businesses Lose Power Following PG&E Vault Fire Several businesses as well as two high schools on Geary Boulevard between Scott and Steiner were still without power Monday morning after a late-night PG&E vault fire erupted near the two schools.
