SF Politics Four Democrats Rally Behind Caretaker Candidate to Fill Swalwell’s Seat Until End of Term A group of Democrats pledged to drop out of the special election to fill Eric Swalwell’s seat in favor of a caretaker candidate — retired state Senator Bob Wieckowski, with the goal of avoiding a runoff election that would cause Swalwell’s replacement to miss important votes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two People Found Dead Inside Car at Berkeley’s Aquatic Park Texas lawmakers can now legally require public schools to display the Ten Commandments; Alcatraz is closed to tours for a week while the dock gets repaired; and a man and a woman were found dead of potential overdoses inside a car in West Berkeley.
SF News Water Line Rupture Leads to Flooding Inside Yerba Buena Tunnel on Bay Bridge A burst water main caused flooding Tuesday afternoon on a portion of the eastbound Bay Bridge lanes inside the Yerba Buena Tunnel, leading to the brief closure of two traffic lanes.
SF News Health Officials Warn of ‘Hyper-Mutated’ COVID Strain That First Appeared In US Last June While the numbers and health risks are low, the new “Cicada” strain has been slowly — but heavily — mutating since it arrived at SFO last summer. Officials say it may be capable of evading immunity, and they warn that COVID typically spreads more rapidly in the summer months.
SF News Daly City Police Officer Crashes Into Two People on E-Bike In Visitacion Valley Two e-bike riders in SF’s Visitacion Valley were struck and seriously injured Monday when a Daly City police officer crashed into them in a patrol car.
SF News Vigil to Be Held Monday for Pedestrian Killed In SoMa Hit-and-Run A vigil is being held Monday for Dannielle Spillman, the 74-year-old pedestrian who was fatally struck in SoMa by a driver who appeared to intentionally run her over. Leading up to her death, she told friends that SF felt less safe as a trans woman now than in the '90s.
SF News Boat Crash Injures Six During High School Fishing Competition In San Joaquin Delta Six people, including teens and adults, were injured while taking part in a bass fishing tournament in Contra Costa County when two boats collided — with one reportedly landing on top of the other.
SF News Families of Four Teens Killed In Marin Crash File Three More Lawsuits Against County Marin County is facing three additional lawsuits in the deaths of four teenagers last April, on top of one already filed, which allege that hazardous road conditions near the site contributed to the crash. And some are still saying a second vehicle may have forced the driver to swerve off the road.
SF News 5,500 Addresses in Polk Gulch, Pacific Heights Lose Power Sunday Evening Residents in Polk Gulch, Lower Nob Hill, and Pacific Heights received an alert from PG&E that nearly 5,500 addresses lost power Sunday evening, and it was expected to be restored by 10:45 pm.
SF News DUI Suspect Crashes Into Powell-Market Cable Car Turnaround, Prompting Overnight Closure A 47-year-old DUI suspect in a three-piece suit crashed his Jeep into the cable car turnaround at Powell and Market streets Wednesday evening, requiring overnight repairs, and all cars on the line were momentarily turned around at Washington Street.
SF News Sunday Links: Trump Signs Order to Fast-Track Psychedelic Research for PTSD, Addiction Eight children and teens were killed in a mass shooting in Louisiana; UK officials are investigating the death of a British athlete who was killed while filming an immersive series for AppleTV; and Trump signed an executive order to fund and loosen restrictions on psychedelic research.
SF Politics Porter, Steyer, Becarra Push For Single-Payer Health Care In Their Campaigns For Governor While California Governor Gavin Newsom was unsuccessful at implementing single-payer health care during his reign, three 2026 candidates have all included promises to fight for CalCare in their platforms.
SF News Video: Sideshow Participant In Hayward Crashes Stolen Vehicle Into Semi Truck A sideshow in Hayward consisting of about 60 cars early Saturday morning culminated in a participant crashing into a semi truck then abandoning it in the middle of an intersection.
SF News SFPD Arrests Driver In Chinatown Crash That Killed One Pedestrian, Injured Another The elderly driver who allegedly crashed into a Chinatown building while parallel parking last month, killing one person and injuring another, was arrested for vehicular manslaughter Friday, and it turns out he crashed into the building from across the street.
SF News Saturday Links: Man Suspected of Killing Laney College Coach Ruled Incompetent to Stand Trial Historical Native American remains were found at UC Berkeley; oil prices went down by nine percent following the re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz; and Cedric Irving, who’s suspected of killing Lane College Coach John Beam was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial.
SF News Day Around the Bay: NPR Receives $113 Million From Two Donors, the Largest of Its Kind A building in SF’s Duboce Triangle was evacuated due to a suspected gas leak; longtime local angel investor and political donor Ron Conway announced he has a rare form of cancer; and NPR received the largest donation in its history from two major donors.
Arts & Entertainment New Mural at Oakland Ice Center Pays Tribute to Skaters Alysa Liu and Kristi Yamaguchi Bay Area artist Julie Engelmann completed a new 100-foot mural on the exterior of Oakland Ice Center honoring Olympic figure skaters, Alysa Liu and Kristi Yamaguchi, who both trained there during their professional careers.
SF News East Bay Company Dumps Debris Into Customer’s Yard Over Unpaid Bill, But They Moved Out Frustrated over an unpaid debt and faced with a $1,000 bill to discard a giant pile of junk at the dump, an East Bay dumpster company instead unloaded it back into the nonpaying customer's yard, but the problem is they moved out when they rented the dumpster.
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 at Hippie Hill Is Still Canceled, But a Lot of People Will Probably Show Up Anyway, Per Usual While 4/20 at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park has been canceled for the past three years due to budget cuts and low sponsorship, a few thousand diehards still show up annually to mark the occasion.
SF News Suspected Car Thief Fleeing Police Crashes Head-On Into SF Muni Bus A driver who was being pursued by San Francisco police Thursday suffered serious injuries after he collided with a Muni bus and had to be extricated from the vehicle using the Jaws of Life.
SF News SF Supe Pushes to Ban Smoking on Bar Patios, as Most Bay Area Cities Have Already Done Supervisor Myrna Melgar has introduced a ban on smoking at outdoor bar and tavern patios in San Francisco, which would make it one of the last major cities in the Bay Area to do so, and some local venues fear the ban would kill their business.
SF News SF DA Charges Couple With Murder Over Toddler’s Fentanyl Overdose Death In addition to earlier charges of felony child endangerment, the district attorney's office has added murder to the charges against an SF couple whose two-year-old daughter died of a fentanyl overdose in February — the city’s first time filing a murder charge in such a case.
SF News NYC SantaCon Organizer Accused of Diverting $1 Million In Donations to Personal Account When SF’s organizers disavowed SantaCon in 2014 due to the chaos it brought the city every Christmas, one of the event’s organizers in NYC leaned into the chaos by forming a charity — at first to appease officials and then later to allegedly collect and divert funds for personal use.
SF Politics Candidates for Governor Attend Sacramento Forums, Say Swalwell Exit Signals Fresh Start Several California gubernatorial candidates attended two forums in Sacramento Tuesday where they discussed issues affecting Latino and Hispanic communities throughout the state. While one forum heavily discussed the Swalwell scandal, the other left him out of the discussion entirely.
SF News Day Around the Bay: East Bay College Eliminates Debt of Graduating Students Billionaires Michael Moritz and Chris Larsen have donated $4 million to Mayor Lurie’s city charter reform measures; JD Vance says the pope should be more mindful when he discusses theology; and Contra Costa College in the East Bay is forgiving up to $1,000 in student debt.
