SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Teachers Vote to Authorize Strike Teachers went on strike today in the West Contra Costa school district; SF Unified teachers have taken a vote to authorize a strike, but this may not be imminent; and a car crashed into a doggy day care in Alameda.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Huge Godzilla Festival Coming to Japantown This Weekend An Excelsior house fire left one dead Wednesday; parents in the Marin car crash that killed four teens do not want the driver to be prosecuted; and a big Godzilla festival is roaring into Japantown this weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Half of NorCal ICE Arrests Have Been People With No Criminal Record Whatsoever The Shake Shack in SF’s ‘dead mall’ is going to close; two people were killed in a fiery San Jose double-Tesla crash; and half the people ICE has arrested in Northern California this year have not had any form of criminal record at all.
SF News Day Around the Bay: One Person Dies In South SF Apartment Fire One person was killed in an apartment fire in South San Francisco early Monday; a coast flood advisory has been issued due to King Tides; and the TSA is going to start charging you if you don't have a Real ID or passport.
SF News Day Around the Bay: National Guard Members Shot, Critically Wounded In DC Two National Guard members doing a routine patrol in DC were shot and critically wounded today; SF supportive housing providers worry about HUD cuts; and the annual Great Dickens Christmas Fair has kicked off at the Cow Palace.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Roundup of SF Free Thanksgiving Dinners for Those In Need Data shows when the worst times to drive in the Bay Area will be these next few days; Rep. Eric Swalwell is hitting back hard against his Trump prosecution; and there’s a list of SF charitable organizations serving free Thanksgiving dinners.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Killed By Freight Train Was Reported Missing A man killed by a freight train in Oakland last week was a missing elderly man with dementia; a Union City woman was arrested for shooting a 17-year-old boy; and the Pentagon has opened an investigation into Senator Mark Kelly.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Fires Five More SF Immigration Judges, to Hire ‘Deportation Judges’ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her retirement after her public falling out with Trump; ICE agents were turned away at a Hayward elementary school Friday; and Trump has fired five additional SF immigration judges to be replaced by “deportation judges.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Zoo Giving Up All of Its Remaining Chimpanzees Trump’s DOJ probe into Adam Schiff might be falling apart; we’ve now got solid national weather forecasts for Thanksgiving week travel; and the SF Zoo will become chimp-less as they lose their last three chimpanzees.
SF News Day Around the Bay: More Bay Area Residents Slip Into Poverty The SFUSD has made interim Superintendent Maria Su permanent; a possible kidnapping at UC Berkeley was deemed a hoax; and a new report finds the percentage of Bay Area residents living in poverty on the rise.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sergey Brin’s Blimp Shows Up Over SF Skies Again Tuesday SF Sketchfest has released its 2025 lineup; Lurie’s “family zoning” plan is getting an easy run through committees; and Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s big, inflated airship had San Franciscans looking at the skies and scratching their heads again today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Historic Earthquake Refugee Cottage Destroyed In Noe Valley The SF coroner succeeded in ID-ing an unidentified man found dead in SoMa; a developer has illegally destroyed a historic earthquake shack in Noe Valley, neighbors say; and the Trump administration is suing CA over the no-mask rule for ICE.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Teddy Bear Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o Tells Kids How to Find Knives, Pills California Governor Gavin Newsom is sounding very biblical these days; Trump is reversing tariffs on coffee, avocados, and several other food products; and a consumer advocacy group warns parents about the dangers of toys that use AI chatbots.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Valencia Street’s Artists’ Television Access Threatened by Massive Back Rent Debt Trump’s Justice Department is suing California to block Prop 50; Whoopi Goldberg brought Berkeley’s famed Top Dog hot dogs onto ‘The View,’ and Valencia Street’s ATA is in dire straits with a $45,000 back rent bill.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bye Bye, Breda Train Transit fans toast to the final rides of the last 90s-era Breda light-rail train on the J-Church line; a former Newsom aide is indicted for stealing funds from Becerra; and there was a shooting at Oakland's Skyline High School.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Union Square Macy’s Holiday Tree Is Lit Back Up Again, Everybody The rain returns Wednesday in all likelihood; BART is jacking up its parking lot prices by as much as 30% on January 1; and the Macy's Union Square Holiday Tree was lit back up again Monday night with marginal fanfare.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Autopsy Suggests Mother Shot Children, Husband In Westwood Home Autopsy reports come in for the Westwood neighborhood murder-suicide; a man was sexually assaulted near the UC Berkeley campus; and a local congressman wants private jets to be grounded during the remainder of the shutdown.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Apartment Fire Erupts in SF’s North Beach, Quickly Contained by SFFD Surfers were met with 40-foot waves on the opening day of surf season in Mavericks, California; take part in a hyphy video shoot at Powell Station Saturday; and no injuries were reported after an apartment fire in North Beach Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bruce Bochy Likely Returning to the Giants in a Front Office Advisory Role Journey is doing a farewell tour that won’t come to SF; the guy who threw a sandwich at an ICE officer was found not guilty; and Bruce Bochy is on the verge of returning to the Giants in an executive advisory position.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 68-Year-Old Sailor Rescued In Bay During Morning Storm A 68-year-old sailboater required rescue early Wednesday off Alameda; the Killers have been added to the pre-Super Bowl lineup of concerts in SF; and a UPS cargo plane went down in a fiery crash in Louisville.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Atmospheric River Storm Coming Tomorrow Morning Muni underground service conked out for a while Tuesday morning; Trader Joe’s peaches are now part of the listeria scare; and the very wet business of atmospheric river storms is expected to return Wednesday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Video Released of Oakland Museum Heist Surveillance video is out from last month's Oakland Museum heist; Supervisor Jackie Fielder is calling for AV regulation after the death of KitKat the bodega cat; and the situation with air traffic controllers may be getting worse.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Locker Room Bullying Prompts Forfeiture of Antioch High School Football Game Amazon laid off 780 Bay Area workers this week and twice as many layoffs are coming next year; two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to continue funding SNAP payments; and several Antioch High School football players were allegedly caught on camera bullying another student.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Where All of the SF Trick-or-Treat Street Closures Will Be for Halloween Mayor Lurie reportedly ghosted Marc Benioff for Dreamforce; the Raiders donated $250,000 to fix that scorched Mount Diablo football field; and Mission Local scared up a map of all the streets closed to cars for trick-or-treating.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman Leaves Baby, Walks Away From East Bay Crash Scene A woman was arrested after allegedly walking away from her crashed car on I-580, leaving an infant inside; Mayor Lurie's upcoming plan might not produce enough new units; and the death toll from Hurricane Melissa rises to 30.