SF News Chinese Authorities Arrest UC Berkeley Foreign Policy Scholar, Alleging He’s a Spy A month after Trump told China's leader that Americans were spying “like hell” on the country, a scholar at UC Berkeley, who fled Myanmar in the '90s, was arrested in China on suspicion of espionage.
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Students Reimagine the World Cup Vuvuzela With a Quieter ‘Pleasant Horn’ A more compact and pleasant-sounding alternative to the ear-splitting vuvuzela has arrived, thanks to a group of enterprising engineering students at Diablo Valley College in the East Bay.
SF News Massive Blaze In Tracy Destroys One-Million-Square-Foot Warehouse, No Injuries Reported Fortunately no one was injured when a one-million-square-foot Tracy warehouse owned by a medical supply distributor was rapidly engulfed in flames Thursday, after a fire broke out on the roof and caused it to collapse.
SF News Day Around the Bay: All BART Stations In San Francisco Now Have Free Wi-Fi A giant Musk inflatable flew over NYC’s Times Square Thursday; a local nurse and TikTok creator was identified as the victim in a fatal shooting in downtown Oakland; and free Wi-Fi is now available at all of SF’s BART stations ahead of the World Cup.
SF Politics Lurie, Mahmood Introduce Commercial Foreclosure Tax Following Pause on BUILD Act After putting the larger BUILD Act proposal on hold, which would have cut transfer taxes in half on property sales above $10 million, Mayor Lurie and Supervisor Mahmood are pursuing a commercial foreclosure tax that’s initially expected to generate $67 million a year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jollibee’s Market Street Debut Remains Stalled Amid Ongoing Hurdles With City Jollibee's much-anticipated Market Street location was nearing the end of San Francisco's years-long, draconian permitting process when a noise compliance issue surfaced, throwing yet another wrench into the company's already delayed opening plans.
SF News Long-Awaited Powell Street Redesign Advances After Lurie Signs Private Funding Measure Following legislation signed by Mayor Daniel Lurie, the city accepted $14.5 million in private funding from SF’s Downtown Development Corporation to push forward the long overdue revitalization of the Powell Street corridor.
SF News Police Search For Potential Co-Conspirator In OpenAI Firebomb Attack A search is underway for an unidentified young woman who called to request a late checkout for the suspect in the OpenAI firebomb attack in April, and the SFPD thinks she may be a co-conspirator.
SF News First Major Overhaul of Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square In Decades Has Begun Following years of disputes, construction has begun on the $73 million renovation of the historic Portsmouth Square park in SF’s Chinatown, which is expected to take two years.
SF Politics Supe Melgar Delays Proposed Smoking Ban at SF Bar Patios Following Backlash After facing widespread outrage over a proposed ban on smoking at bar patios in SF, Supervisor Melgar has put the plan on hold while she and Mayor Lurie continue discussions with the community.
SF News SF Faces Second Class-Action Lawsuit Over Treatment of Women at County Jail Following a class-action lawsuit last month over alleged illegal strip searches of women at SF County Jail No. 2, a second suit filed Tuesday claims conditions for women in custody are worse than those for men.
SF Politics Trump-Endorsed Steve Hilton Wins Second Spot For California Governor Behind Becerra Former Fox News host Steve Hilton will face Xavier Becerra in California’s November governor’s race, according to the latest projections, with Hilton beating out billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer for the second spot in last week’s primary.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Natalie Gee Withdraws From November Election For District 4 Supervisor A 33-year-old swimmer aims to be the first person to swim the entire California coast; an activist was convicted after protesting in front of OpenAI’s headquarters last year; and Natalie Gee has dropped out of the November race for District 4 supervisor.
Arts & Entertainment SCRAP Creative Reuse Center Buys Building In SF’s Bayview Twice the Size of Old Space Beloved SF art center SCRAP is nearly doubling in size with the purchase of its own 26,000-square-foot building in the Bayview District not far from its current location, and the transition will take place in phases over the summer.
SF News Oakland Man Dies at Santa Rita Jail After Hospital Release Within a Week of Prior Jail Death An Oakland man died at Santa Rita Jail Saturday after being released from the hospital an hour earlier, marking the jail’s third in-custody death this year and the second within a week.
SF Politics Lurie, Mahmood Shelve Proposal to Halve Transfer Taxes on Property Sales Over $10M A proposal recently introduced by SF Supervisor Mahmood and Mayor Lurie, which was put on hold, would have cut transfer tax rates in half on property sales of $10 million or more, returning them to pre-2020 levels before voters approved Proposition I.
SF News DOJ Opens Inquiry Into Gender and Sex Ed Policies at SFUSD, Three Other Districts Ahead of Maria Su’s DC Visit As SFUSD Superintendent Maria Su prepares to give testimony in Washington DC Wednesday, the DOJ announced it’s performing a compliance review into policies surrounding gender and sexuality at SF public schools along with three other California school districts.
Business & Tech Meta Says Israeli Spyware Firm Targeted WhatsApp Users in Spear-Phishing Campaign Following reports that the Pentagon had raised its counterintelligence threat assessment for Israel to “critical,” Meta said an Israeli spyware firm was caught targeting a small group of WhatsApp users.
SF News OSHA Fines SF General For Seven Violations Following Fatal Stabbing of Social Worker SF General Hospital received its steepest fine on record from Cal/OSHA, which found the hospital did not take the proper measures to prevent violent workplace incidents prior to the fatal stabbing of a social worker in December.
Business & Tech Apple Debuts Siri Chatbot, Other AI Features Powered by Google Partnership At his final World Wide Developers Conference as Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook unveiled a slate of new AI features Monday, including a standalone Siri chatbot app, based on models Apple created in collaboration with Google.
SF News Congress to Grill SFUSD’s Maria Su, Two Others on Parental Rights ‘Abuses’ In Schools All eyes will be on SFUSD Superintendent Maria Su and two other school figures from Chicago and Virginia who are set to speak before a GOP-led committee in DC this week on “inappropriate content” and “legal abuses” in public schools.
SF News Trump Sends $75 Million to Fund New Coal Export Terminal In Oakland After Years of Delays In a push to boost the export of coal to other countries, Trump invoked a wartime order to fund the development of 13 plants across the US, including Oakland, which is expected to be one of the largest facilities on the West Coast.
SF News Court Allows Kars 4 Kids to Keep Ads on Air In California While It Appeals Ban Just when Californians thought the airwaves would be free of those mind-numbing Kars 4 Kids jingles, a court ruled that the company can continue running its ads during the appeals process.
SF News Fairfield High School Relocates Graduation Ceremony Following Fatal Shooting After one person was killed and three others injured in a shooting outside a continuation school's graduation ceremony at Fairfield High School, Fairfield High announced its own graduation ceremony will be moved to a different location.
SF News Person Thrown From Three-Wheeler In Collision With Car In SF's Western Addition, Four Hospitalized Four people were hospitalized with minor to moderate injuries after a three-wheeled vehicle crashed into a car that allegedly ran a red light in San Francisco’s Western Addition, ejecting a passenger.
