SF News Backlash Prompts Safeway to Bring Back Paper Bags With Handles at Some Stores Safeway recently eliminated handles on its paper bags, citing supply chain shortages, but after receiving complaints, the company has since restocked the original bags with handles at some of its locations.
SF Politics Controversial Leftist Hasan Piker, Other Out-of-Towners Attend Chakrabarti Rally House candidate Saikat Chakrabarti is contending with being an outsider to the local political establishment by embracing creator-driven media and hosting other outside progressives at his rallies, including incendiary leftwing commentator Hasan Piker.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 23 People Charged In Sunday’s Bay Bridge Dirt Bike Takeover Eighteen people contracted legionella infections from an outbreak linked to Kaiser's Santa Clara Medical Center; the Trump administration wants to allow sending guns through the mail; and Oakland police charged 23 people in connection to the Bay Bridge takeover Sunday.
SF News Hackers Breach Education Platform Used By SF State, UC Berkeley and Thousands Others Canvas, an educational platform used by thousands of schools globally, including local universities, was shut down by a group of hackers who are threatening to release students’ data if the company or its clients don’t pay their ransom.
SF Politics Becerra’s Unlikely Rise In Governor’s Race Features Heavily In Former Colleagues’ Group Chat Former Biden officials have been privately gossiping about Xavier Becerra’s rise in the governor's race, with several former colleagues describing the ex-HHS secretary as ineffective and unprepared in his response to the COVID pandemic and other crises.
SF News Half a Million More Tourists Are Expected to Visit SF This Year Than In 2025 SF has experienced two years of straight growth for the first time since 2019, with an additional 500,000 tourists expected to visit the city in 2026 compared to 2025, but hotel occupancy rates are still much lower than pre-pandemic levels.
SF News Burning Tree In Golden Gate Park Takes Crews Nine Hours to Extinguish A fire that ignited inside the base of a tree in Golden Gate Park Tuesday afternoon took SF firefighters and a park arborist until almost midnight to put out.
SF News City Extends Lime, Spin Permits But Doesn’t Address Widespread Scooter-Related Complaints As ridership for Lime and Spin continues to climb, so do complaints about improperly parked e-scooters. Meanwhile, the SFMTA board voted to extend the companies’ permits another two years — without addressing the parking issue.
Business & Tech New AI-Run Dating App Based In SF Claims Half Its Matches Say ‘Yes’ to Real Dates Known, a new AI-powered dating app that utilizes voice technology, launched this February out of SF, and its 22-year-old Stanford dropout founders, who raised $10 million in funding, claim it's much more successful than traditional dating apps.
SF News Laid-Off Academy of Sciences Workers Still Showing Up For Work, Demand Salary Cuts For Execs California Academy of Sciences announced the layoffs of 53 employees last week, and many of them are union members who are still showing up for work.
SF News Woman Shot Near SF’s Jefferson Square Park Walks a Mile to Hospital A woman who was found near the Kaiser ER with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound told police she walked a mile to the hospital after she was shot near Jefferson Square Park.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vallejo Police Arrest 10 People In Sex Solicitation Sting Operation The coyote that made it to Alcatraz actually swam there from Angel Island; Republicans are asking for $1 billion in funds, partially for security features at the White House ballroom; and 10 people were arrested for soliciting sex workers in Vallejo.
SF News Renovations of Marin City Complex, Tupac Shakur’s Former Residence, Set to Begin June 1 Golden Gate Village, a federal public housing complex for families in Marin City and former home to Tupac Shakur as a teen, is about to undergo a $266 million renovation, and residents have concerns about gentrification and displacement.
Business & Tech Coinbase to Eliminate 700 Jobs as It Restructures Around Artificial Intelligence SF-based cryptocurrency company Coinbase announced it's cutting 14% of its workforce as it moves to implement "one-person teams" using artificial intelligence.
SF News BART Tests New Fare Gates That Close Behind Riders Even More Quickly Despite fare evasion being down since BART installed new gates designed to prevent gate-jumping, the agency will soon begin implementing upgrades allowing the doors to close 300 milliseconds more quickly to prevent "piggybacking."
SF News East Bay Human Rights Activist, 18 Others, Fatally Shot By Military In Philippines Hayward activist Lyle Prijoles, who spent two decades fighting for farmworkers in the Philippines, was fatally shot by the Philippine armed forces in Negros, along with 18 others. There will be vigils honoring Prijoles Tuesday at SF State and Friday in SoMa.
Arts & Entertainment Ten Academy of Art Students to Showcase 1970s-Era, Halston-Inspired Looks In Union Square The estate of 1970s-era fashion designer Halston is hosting a fashion event celebrating the iconic designer and showcasing 10 Academy of Art fashion students competing for a scholarship through the estate’s foundation.
SF News Audit Finds SF Zoo Violated City Laws By Spending $12 Million Without Approval An audit by Supervisor Melgar found the SF Zoo spent $12 million without approval, while running on a deficit and misrepresenting finances, though new leadership has begun making improvements over the past year.
SF News SF Immigration Court Closes Eight Months Early, Adding to Delays, Confusion The DOJ permanently closed SF’s Montgomery Street immigration court Friday, several months earlier than previously announced. Concord's already over-burdened immigration court will handle SF's cases moving forward, and hearings for those cases likely won't resume until December or later.
SF News Police Confiscate 70 Dirt Bikes, ATVs Following Bay Bridge Takeover, Two Arrested, One of Whom Jumped Into Bay A group of riders on more than 70 ATVs and dirt bikes disrupted traffic Sunday evening when they took a round-trip joy ride on the Bay Bridge before being intercepted by police, causing significant delays.
SF News Sunday Links: Winning $7 Million Lottery Ticket Purchased in the Mission District Spirit Airlines shut down overnight, leaving thousands of travelers in the lurch; a one-alarm fire from a lithium-ion battery put one person in the hospital; and a winning lottery ticket purchased at a Mission District liquor store has not been claimed yet.
Arts & Entertainment Kesha Says She’s Moving to SF Multiple Times During Friday DJ Set in Presidio Pop star Kesha, who performed a brief DJ set at the Presidio’s Tunnel Top Park Friday night, mentioned several times that she’s moving to San Francisco, though nothing’s been confirmed.
SF News Driver Strikes Multiple Pedestrians on Sidewalk In Oakland Then Flees Scene Seven people were injured, two of them critically injured, after a driver allegedly struck them on the sidewalk in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood Saturday in an early morning hit-and-run.
SF News Saturday Links: Thousands Walk Out of Work, School During May Day Protests The NWS issued a hazard warning, alerting beach-goers to potential sneaker waves and rip currents; Oakland police arrested two people suspected of organizing sideshows; and thousands of students and workers took part in May Day events Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: AI Company Flies Rage-Baiting 'Stop Hiring Humans' Ad Through the Sky Someone brought a humanoid robot on a plane in Oakland; researchers calculated that a third of new websites since last May were created with AI; and a local company's rage-baiting campaign was taken to the sky.
