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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: SF Finally Gets an Inspector General, and It’s Mohammed Nuru’s Prosecutor Sergey Brin’s blimp showed up in the SF skies again today; California Democrats are salivating to run for the new districts Prop 50 could create; and SF City Hall named its new Inspector General, who’s Mohammed Nuru’s prosecutor.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Four Nabbed for Stealing Halloween Decorations in El Cerrito The NFL Pro Bowl will be played at the Moscone Center; Francis Ford Coppola is auctioning off his watches after his last movie flopped so hard; and four people have been arrested for stealing Halloween skeletons from yards in El Cerrito.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lurie Touts ‘Zero Arrests’ at SF No Kings Protests, Probably Hoping to Keep Trump’s Troops Out The 40-year-old Mission Street restaurant Mission Hunan is closing; the alleged mistress in a Walnut Creek double-homicide is facing more charges; and Mayor Lurie is hyping up the "zero arrests” at Saturday’s SF No Kings protests.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Final Sunday Streets of 2025 Is This Weekend Gavin Newsom is promising $11 insulin in California; some November election ballots turned up at a Sacramento homeless encampment; and the last Sunday Streets of the year is this weekend, and it also comes with some renegade parties.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Marc Benioff Continues His Trump Turn, Brings Trump Adviser David Sacks to Dreamforce The South Lake Tahoe mayor who allegedly embezzled from a church has resigned; R&B vocalist D’Angelo has died at the age of only 51; and Dreamforce just had a surprise speech from Trump’s crypto czar and fundraiser David Sacks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Scandal-Tainted SF Nonprofit Somehow Wins Court Decision to Keep Getting City Money The family of four killed in Westwood Park has been identified; a drone show dazzled and confused passersby in the Embarcadero; and the Collective Impact nonprofit accused of bribery survived a legal attempt to cut off their city funding.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Gets Its First Nation’s Giant Hamburgers in Fisherman’s Wharf Smoke filled the Embarcadero BART station on the Tuesday evening commute; Dolly Parton is apparently having some serious health issues; and SF got its own Nation’s Giant Hamburgers which opened on Tuesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Reggie Aqui Leaves ABC 7 News After Ten Years There were hundreds of wind-related flight delays at SFO Wednesday; Brock Purdy has been sidelined again for Thursday night’s Rams game; and Reggie Aqui is leaving KGO and his 'ABC7 Mornings' position after ten years at the station.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Cyclist Getting a Record $7 Million Settlement for Pothole Crash The accused killer in that Walnut Creek double homicide had his mistress charged as an accessory; Trump garbled more nonsense about sending the military to SF; and an Oakland cyclist is getting $7 million over a pothole crash.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Only Netflix Subscribers Will Be Able to Watch the Giants’ Opening Day Next Season Brock Purdy will likely be starting for the 49ers again Sunday; some woman put billboards along the Peninsula asking if anyone will marry her; and you will need to have a Netflix subscription if you want to watch the Giants’ Opening Day game in 2026.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Highway 1 in Big Sur Gets a Reopening Date A Richmond UPS worker was crushed and killed by falling packages; Trump told the United Nations that their countries were all “going to hell;” and Highway 1 in Big Sur has a reopening date — which is still six months from now.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Busting Out Those Vintage Buses Again for Muni Heritage Weekend Those rain and lightning storms seem like they will miss the Bay Area; Jon Stewart is back on ‘The Daily Show’ tonight apparently to avenge Jimmy Kimmel; and the old-time buses and street cars are back for Muni Heritage Weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Trying to Sell TikTok to His Buddies at Oracle and Andreessen Horowitz Coachella has already announced its 2026 lineup; a survivor of the Napa crash is speaking out for the first time; and Trump is trying to engineer the sale of TikTok to basically some of his highest-rolling donors.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Uh-Oh, Brock Purdy Is Injured, Could Be Out for Up to Five Weeks A dead body was found Thursday morning in the Berkeley Marina; an East Bay elementary school has a flea infestation; and Brock Purdy is out this Sunday and maybe longer with multiple injuries.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers Finally Cut Kicker Who Almost Lost Them the Game Sunday An Oakland police raid at a liquor store put an elementary school on lockdown; Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies seized 500 pounds of meth; and the 49ers cut Jake Moody after two very discouraging seasons.
