SF News Day Around the Bay: Animal Rights Activist Freed From Jail Early The first candidate forum in the race for Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat is set for Jan. 7; 23-y-o animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg has been released from jail weeks after sentencing; and a veteran '60 Minutes' correspondent says a segment of hers was pulled for political reasons.
SF News Day Around the Bay: City Hall Aglow With Animated ‘Winter Lights’ Show Through January 2 Sutter Health is continuing to provide gender-affirming care to minors despite federal pressure; last weekend’s viral incident has gained Hazie’s in Hayes Valley a lot of new customers; and City Hall honors its history and celebrates the holidays with a new animated light show.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Castro French Bulldog Theft Suspect Arrested, but ‘Hank’ the Dog Still Missing The Mayor of Richmond is in hot water over some ill-advised Facebook posts about the Bondi Beach shooting; SF City Hall held its always-clever holiday bakeoff, and the accused thief of French bulldog Hank has been arrested.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UCSF Expands Again In Mission Bay UCSF closed a deal to buy a former pharmaceutical headquarters in Mission Bay; last week's fire on Golden Gate Ave near Market was caused by an explosion; and the surviving Reiner siblings have broken their silence.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Car on BART Tracks in Castro Valley Causing All Manner of Evening Commute Problems A giraffe at the Oakland Zoo has died; Mayor Lurie is giving condo owners a lucky break on their new sprinkler requirement; and a car on the BART tracks has halted BART traffic into the Castro Valley station.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Explosion at Gas Station Rocks Mission District An explosion occurred Monday afternoon involving an underground gas tank at the Shell station at 16th and Guerrero; there was a swarm of small earthquakes centered near The Geysers this morning; and the LAPD has confirmed son Nick Reiner was "responsible" for his parents' deaths.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Family Sues South Bay Mortuary For Allegedly Giving Them Bag Containing Son’s Brain A second SF fire displaced ten near Balboa Park Friday; San Diego high school students discovered their school gym was being used for a porn shoot; and a family says a Santa Clara mortuary gave them their son’s remains instead of his clothing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFO Taking Heat for African-American Art Display That's Just AI Trump just struck down all of California’s AI regulations; that new Bang & Olufsen just opened in Union Square; and people are suddenly mad about an African-American-themed art exhibit at the SFO Museum that’s just basically AI.
SF News Day Around the Bay: It Was 70 Degrees In Half Moon Bay Today A veteran engineer at Lawrence Berkeley Labs was arrested for child porn; the US just seized a Venezuelan oil tanker; and while SF freezes, it was strangely warm in Half Moon Bay today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman Gives Birth to Baby While Riding Inside Waymo Jurors have gone into deliberations in the murder trial of the “Straight Outta Hunters Point” director; KRON4 nuked Santa Claus in an unearthed 42-year-old TV ad; and a woman reportedly gave birth while taking a Waymo to UCSF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Murder Charges Filed Against SF General Stabbing Suspect Murder charges have been filed against he man accused of stabbing a social worker at SF General; a small earthquake rattled Piedmont; and South San Francisco police shot a man they say charged at officers with a knife.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Drag Queen Pattie Gonia Raises $1 Million for Nonprofits on 100-Mile Hike to SF Regulators from the European Union fined Elon Musk’s X $140 million for violating transparency rules; Governor Newsom had a public spat with actress Halley Berry; and drag queen and environmentalist Patty Gonia raised $1 million for nonprofits prior to her show at the Warfield Saturday.
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.