SF News Wrongful Death Lawsuit Claims Outer Sunset Landlord Killed Tenant to Boost Property Sale Outer Sunset landlord Philippe Chagniot is accused in a new lawsuit of killing his tenant Eric Bigone to boost the sale of the property, and Chagniot’s wife allegedly asked Bigone’s son the day after his father’s death when he would be vacating the unit.
SF News Suspect Flees Sheriff’s Deputies Down 101 and Across Golden Gate Bridge In Bullet-Riddled Car When sheriff’s deputies pulled over a driver in a bullet-riddled car speeding down Highway 101 in Marin, he claimed he’d been in a road rage incident near Novato and refused to get out of the car — then he fled across the Golden Gate Bridge.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Golden Gate Bridge Tolls to Increase By 50 Cents July 1 California State Parks made its “Historian Passport” featuring 30+ parks available for free for a limited time; Apple prices are due to increase soon; and Golden Gate Bridge tolls are going up by 50 cents starting next month.
SF News Annual Parcel Tax Measure to Fund Muni Makes It Onto November Ballot San Francisco voters will decide in November whether to approve a new parcel tax on property owners aimed at helping close Muni's budget deficit and avoid service cuts.
SF Politics ‘Dumb Law’ Contest Winners Prompt SF Supes to Amend Residential Ceiling Height Rule After a two-decade push from an SF homeowner — one of the winners of Supervisor Wong’s “Dumb Law” contest — the city is moving to align its ceiling height requirement with state standards, paving the way for residents to legalize rental units in their homes.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Jackie Fielder, Several Others, Targeted In Smear Campaigns Tied to Mysterious PAC Several websites surfaced last week tied to a little-known Southern California group, appearing to run coordinated smear-style campaigns targeting Bay Area officials — including Jackie Fielder — as well as a slate of local ballot measures.
Business & Tech Oakland Arena Could Be Headed for Bidding War as Second Buyer Makes Offer The company that runs the Oakland Arena and Coliseum has submitted an offer to purchase the arena — as part of the larger sale of the complex, following news that a group owned by a music executive had also placed a bid last month.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lurie Releases Final Concepts For Embarcadero Park Redesign The founder of Kink.com sold three SF properties amid an ongoing dispute; the brother of NFL star Pat Tillman was sentenced to five years in federal prison; and images of the final concepts for the redesign of SF’s Embarcadero Park redesign have been released.
SF News Alameda Residents Demand More Police Presence After 'Beach Takeover' Double Shooting A double shooting during a teen "beach takeover" event in Alameda last week has sparked renewed debate about the trend, with some demanding more police enforcement while others are calling for more spaces for teens to congregate peacefully.
SF News Comedian Says Deputies at San Mateo County Jail Humiliated Him, Broke Several Bones Arab American actor and comedian Ahmed Ahmed has filed a lawsuit alleging deputies at a jail in San Mateo County caused serious injuries and attempted to pull down his pants while laughing at him, following an arrest at SFO last year for which he was never charged.
Business & Tech East Bay Residents Fight Plans For Massive Data Center Adjacent to Contra Costa Canal Some in the community of Pittsburg are pushing back against the city’s plan to build a 300,000-square-foot data center as part of a phased 76-acre redevelopment adjacent to the Contra Costa Canal.
SF News Recording Artist, Former SF State Student Oliver Tree Confirmed Dead In Brazil Helicopter Crash Musician Oliver Tree, who was born and raised in Santa Cruz and attended San Francisco State, has been confirmed dead following a horrific mid-air crash between two helicopters in Brazil that killed all six passengers onboard.
SF News UC Berkeley Police Arrest Man Suspected of Sexually Assaulting 11-Year-Old Camper In Dorm A 27-year-old man believed to be a camp counselor was arrested Saturday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a child camper overnight in a UC Berkeley dorm, and his resume indicates he’s worked at a long list of local schools.
SF News Laney-Merritt Colleges Approve Merger Amid Faculty, Student Pushback In an effort to address steep enrollment declines, Merritt and Laney colleges announced the approval of plans to merge under the new “Oakland City College” name by next fall, while keeping both campuses open — a move that some students and faculty say left them blindsided.
Business & Tech Over 100 Stanford Grads Disrupt Google CEO’s Commencement Speech Over Contract With Israel As Sundar Pichai began his commencement address at Stanford University Sunday, more than 100 graduates staged a walkout, blowing whistles and chanting in protest of Google’s Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government.
Arts & Entertainment Actor Colman Domingo Met His Husband In Berkeley Through a ‘Missed Connections’ Ad In 2005 A-list actor Colman Domingo recently reflected on meeting his husband through a rom-com–worthy “Missed Connections” encounter in Berkeley, as well as on his younger days living in SF in the 90s.
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.
