SF News Day Around the Bay: Children’s Fairyland Celebrates 75th Birthday This Weekend Ariana Grande’s national tour will kick off in the Bay Area; college football is officially back underway; and Oakland’s Children’s Fairyland has its 75th birthday party and parade on Labor Day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pickett Fire Cause Possibly Identified Investigators may have identified a possible cause of the Pickett Fire near Calistoga; Victor Aenlle testifies in the San Mateo Sheriff hearing; and the SF school board rejects a proposed Mandarin-immersion school.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Potrero Dive Bar Thee Parkside May Be Forced to Close, as Building Changes Hands Taylor Swift got engaged to her football man; Katie Porter is rising in the 2026 governor’s race polls, and a sale of the building has Thee Parkside worried that the bar will be kicked out soon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pickett Fire Smoke Likely to Spoil Some of the Grape Harvest Sheryl Davis, the disgraced former head of SF's Dream Keepers initiative, is still hanging around City Hall; Recology had a small fire this morning; and smoke from the Pickett Fire is likely going to cause smoke taint for some vineyards' entire harvests.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Australian Bank Fires, Rehires Staff After Chatbot Fails Spectacularly The Pickett Fire in Napa County was at 7% containment on Friday afternoon; the vermin-infested Cupertino Whole Foods that shut down in April is still closed; and an Australian bank had to hire back the employees it fired when its new chatbot bombed.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 16th Avenue Tiled Steps Celebrate 20th Anniversary, Party Planned for Saturday The California redistricting measure is officially coming to your November 4 ballot; Lil Nas X was arrested and may have overdosed; and the 16th Avenue Tiled Steps celebrate their 20th anniversary on Saturday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Auction to Sell Off Mall Delayed Again The auction to offload SF's half-empty mall has been postponed for a seventh time; there's plague in South Lake Tahoe again; and people with those HOV/EV stickers won't be able to use the carpool lanes as single drivers starting in October.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ESPN Cancels Colin Kaepernick Documentary, Likely to Placate Trump A missing week-old SF baby has been found safe; we’re getting video of Diana Ross complaining about the sound at Stern Grove; and ESPN just pulled the plug on a Spike Lee docuseries about Colin Kaepernick.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Thunderstorms Predicted In Parts of CA This Week A body was found while a homeless encampment was being cleared in San Jose; a heatwave this week could bring monsoonal lightning to parts of the state; and Original Joe's in Walnut Creek had to close just days after opening due to a kitchen fire.
SF News Day Around the Bay: This Weekend is SF’s Last 8 pm Sunset of 2025 BART will stop charging you $6.40 for entering and leaving the same station; a South SF cop who shot a heavy metal guitarist will not face charges; and Saturday is the last time the sun will set at 8 pm for about the next seven months.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Mateo County May Ban Whip-Its Two Tesla drivers involved in a shooting in Newark on Tuesday were in some road-rage fight; San Mateo County supervisors are looking to ban nitrous oxide; and Taylor Swift just made a big announcement.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 78-Year-Old Pedestrian Hit and Killed by Driver in SoMa A wrong-way and alleged DUI crash took one life near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge; legendary SF sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster is suspending operations; and a two-block radius in SoMa is seeing a lot of pedestrian fatalities.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Richmond Police Release Body-Cam Footage In Shooting A Sonoma County sheriff's deputy killed his ex-girlfriend and himself; Richmond police have released body-cam footage from last week's officer-involved shooting; and an explosion at a PA steel plant has left at least two dead.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Veteran Bay Area Reporter Pam Moore Honored With Hall of Fame Induction The recent wave of dildo-throwing incidents at WNBA games appear to be connected to a new memecoin; lawyers are using habeas corpus petitions to get asylum seekers released from detention quickly; and retired veteran news anchor Pam Moore received a Hall of Fame induction Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yolo County Casino Suffers Tuberculosis Exposure Jilted Philz Coffee employees will get some sort of bonus after all with the company’s sale; upzoning notices are set to rankle SF’s west side; and Cache Creek casino has had some tuberculosis exposure.
SF News Day Around the Bay: United Airlines Grounds All Flights at SFO United Airlines grounded all its flights temporarily into and out of SFO; COVID is on a swift uptick still in California; and the Stanford Daily is suing the federal government on free speech grounds.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Grass Fire in Benicia Shuts Down Many Lanes of I-680 Francis Ford Coppola has been hospitalized with a heart issue; experts say AI has already eliminated 10,000 jobs in 2025; and a three-alarm grass fire managed to shut down both directions of traffic of I-680 in Benicia.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Parents of Missing Fremont Teen Seek Private Investigator The Fremont parents of a runaway 16-year-old are seeking help hiring a private investigator; a man was shot while backing out of a driveway in Oakland on Sunday; and a manhunt in Montana enters a fourth day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: World's Ugliest Dog Contest Opens Sonoma County Fair This Friday The suspect in a recent East Bay Target bombing has been linked to a multi-state ATM heist crew; an LA activist has been tailing and filming ICE agents, while alerting communities to their presence; and the Sonoma County Fair kicks off tonight with the World's Ugliest Dog Contest.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Throngs of Deadheads Descend on SF for This Weekend’s Dead & Company Shows A firefighter was injured while battling a squatter blaze in West Oakland; someone threw a sex toy onto the court at a Valkyries game; and SF is bracing itself as legions of Deadheads get ready to run amok for the Dead & Company shows.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Another Death on the Russian River A 34-year-old East Bay man died after jumping from a rope swing on the Russian River; the Manhattan gunman purchased his rifle from his casino boss in Las Vegas; and Colorado dentist James Craig has been sentenced to life for poisoning his wife.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Some SF Residents Being Arrested By ICE Are Being Shipped to Hawaii SF is currently under a Tsunami Watch; Trump made a pretty self-incriminating remark on the Epstein matter; and SF immigrants are being whisked off to an ICE detention center 3,000 miles away in Hawaii.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wag! Pet Care Company Enters Bankruptcy A Palestinian teacher who tried to come to the Bay Area last month has been killed; Wag!, the pet-care company, has filed for bankruptcy; and there was a shooting today outside the Manhattan headquarters of the NFL.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Big-Time BART Delays as There Was Another Fire Near the Tracks ICE arrested an SF man suffering from mental illness Thursday; Elon Musk’s Starlink suffered a massive hours-long outage; and another fire near the tracks has peppered tonight’s BART commute with numerous delays.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Richard Tillman's Competency Questioned In Court Richard Tillman, the San Jose arson suspect and brother of the late Pat Tillman, made a court appearance today at which his competency was called in question; an Oakland man was arrested in a Sacramento jewelry heist; and Pam Bondi apparently told Trump directly that he's in the Epstein files.
