SF News Day Around the Bay: Pac Heights Sinkhole May Take a Week to Fix That sinkhole on Fillmore Street may take a week to fix; another group of writers including Michael Chabon has filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT; and there was another youth mall brawl, this time in SF.
datb Day Around the Bay: California Legislature Decriminalizes Psychedelic Shrooms Walgreens settled with jilted patients over Theranos fraud claims, the New York Times gave the Tenderloin a glowing write-up, and a bill to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms is heading for Gavin Newsom’s desk.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ground Broken on UN Plaza Makeover The UN Plaza makeover has broken ground on schedule despite farmers' market protests; a vegetation fire broke in Lake County; and one of the Chronicle's critics did not have kind words for Matt Horn's new burger spot in Oakland.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Nick Bosa Still Holding Out, Just Five Days From 49ers Opener Gunshots forced a lockdown at Oakland’s Skyline High School, invasive fruit flies have caused a quarantine in parts of Santa Clara County, and Nick Bosa’s holdout worrisomely continues with the 49ers’ opener looming on Sunday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Anthropic Signs Lease for Former Slack Building Downtown Fast-growing AI firm Anthropic is subleasing Slack's former HQ at 500 Howard; the feds are considering moving marijuana out of the list of Schedule I drugs; and westbound I-80 will be closed around the Carquinez Bridge for five days starting tonight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect In 2022 San Carlos Beheading Will Stand Trial The man accused in the gruesome killing of an ex-girlfriend in San Carlos last September is heading to trial; CHP arrested a driver following a 20-mile chase into Lafayette and a rollover crash; and Mitch McConnell froze up again during a press conference.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Flower Piano Returns Next Week, and the Schedule Has Been Posted A beloved Outer Richmond corner store clerk has died from a beating allegedly by a shoplifter, permanent school closures may be discussed at tonight’s SFUSD board meeting, while Flower Piano returns to Golden Gate Park next weekend and the schedule has been posted.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Hotel Investor Reopening Three Long-Closed SoMa Hotels CA Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing a school district over its policy surrounding trans students; Santa Clara police have made an arrest in a stabbing at an In-N-Out following a Niners-Raiders game; and a hotel investor is reopening three SoMa hotels that have been closed for three years.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tenderloin’s Black Cat Jazz Supper Club Reducing Its Hours Because of Crime An early morning Bay Bridge toll plaza shooting left one woman injured, DA Jenkins won convictions on a man accused of attacking two women in SoMa, and the Black Cat jazz bar is scaling back its hours over crime concerns.
SF News Day Around the Bay: H.E.R. Cancels Lights On Festival at Shoreline The SFPD explains why they didn't intervene on that dirtbike flashmob on Lake Street Sunday; H.E.R. has canceled the Lights On Festival at Shoreline next month; and the 49ers demoted Trey Lance to third string.
SF News Day Around the Bay: That Market Street IKEA Has Its Grand Opening Wednesday Morning Santa Clara will extend the concert curfew for Beyonce by an hour, Burning Man gates are still closed because of flooding, and the much-anticipated Market Street IKEA opens Wednesday morning at 11 a.m.
SF News Day Around the Bay: NYT Reporters Try Out Waymo's Robotaxi Service Three NYT reporters took Waymo's paid robotaxi service for a spin; the death last month of a 63-year-old Bayview woman has been deemed accidental; and Los Gatos 'party mom' Shannon O'Connor missed a court appearance today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hurricane Hilary Could Bring Rain to the Bay Area This Weekend Waymo intends to start charging people for self-driving car rides on Monday, climatologists say Burning Man spews as much carbon pollution as the city of London, and Hurricane Hilary is likely to bring rain to town this weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Brands Suspend Ads on X Over Pro-Nazi Content At least two big brands, Adobe and Gilead, have suspended their ads on Twitter/X over Nazi content; Twitter apparently did give up some of Donald Trump's DMs; and another Cruise car drove into a construction site in SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Harvey’s in the Castro Will Be Reborn as ‘Brut,’ Coming Next Year Some manner of police activity is snarling traffic in Rincon Hill, SF City Hall corruption has produced another resignation and a sizable fine, and we just got plenty more new information about the bar replacing Harvey’s in the Castro.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Construction Stops on Huge Tower at Van Ness and Market Construction has halted at Hayes Point, the large mixed-use tower going up the foot of Van Ness; former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong has filed a legal claim against the mayor; and a Montana judge has ruled in favor of some environmentally conscious kids who sued the state.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Hosts Complain of ‘Airbnbust’ as Bookings Plunge in Many Cities Twitter is auctioning off a bunch more stuff after their “X” rebrand, a 4.3 magnitude earthquake hit Monterey County Thursday afternoon, and Airbnb hosts in some regions are seeing their bookings dry up completely.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman's Body Found on Alameda Shoreline A woman's remains were found near Bay Farm Island Bridge in Alameda; the clerks at a Stockton 7-11 won't be charged for beating a would-be thief; and Bob the Drag Queen is a late replacement for Trixie Mattel at Outside Lands.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Supervisor Walton Dinged by HR for Metal Detector Incident With Sheriff's Cadet The Alameda County DA has dropped more enhancements in a high-profile murder case, that Whole Foods proposed for Geary and Masonic may have an opening date, and Supervisor Shamann Walton has received his slap on the wrist for an n-word incident with a sheriff's cadet.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CHP Nabs Marin Driver With Mannequin Carpool Pal SF Sup. Matt Dorsey has irked progressive colleagues with a proposal about those 'wellness hubs'; there was an incident involving a stalled Waymo One taxi on Valencia on Sunday; and CHP officers caught a guy using the old mannequin trick to ride in the carpool lane on 101 in Marin.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Valencia Street Bike Lane Officially Opens, Though It’s Not Fully Built Yet The red tide algae blooms in Bay Area waters appear much less deadly than last year, Santa Clara is predictably issuing fines for Taylor Swift playing past curfew, and the Valencia Street bike lane is officially open but drawing yet more criticism.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Defense Team For Accused Pelosi Attacker David DePape Wants Access to Pelosi Home The defense in the federal trial of David DePape wants access to the Pelosis' home; shellfish that are sport-fished from the San Mateo coast might be toxic right now; and a new high school in Oakland was just robbed of a bunch of its electronics before the first day of school.
SF News Day Around the Bay: E-40 Is Getting a Street Named After Him in Vallejo The naked woman who was firing gunshots at the Bay Bridge toll plaza has been charged, Oakland’s Chop Bar has closed after 14 years, and E-40 is getting a street named after him in his hometown of Vallejo.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Woman Shoots at Intruders, Scares Them Off The SFPD is seeking help finding a missing 12-year-old girl; a 75-year-old Oakland woman shot her gun at some home-invasion suspects and they ran off after trying to shoot back; and onetime KTVU reporter Betty Ann Bruno died over the weekend at age 91.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Brock Purdy Successfully Throws Football Again, Fans Go Berserk Senator Dianne Feinstein had another embarrassing memory loss episode, the city of Hayward says they’ve restored their hacked computer network, and Brock Purdy was seen throwing a football for the first time since tearing an elbow ligament in the playoffs.