SF News Day Around the Bay: State Parole Officer Shot and Killed in Downtown Oakland Scalpers are gaming the Stern Grove lottery ticket system; a wild and ‘bawdy’ Trump-Epstein scandal just broke at a very awkward time; and a state parole officer was shot and killed Thursday afternoon in Oakland.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Could Be Getting the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 2028 Trump is pulling a bunch of the National Guard troops out of LA; one of this weekend’s Russian River drowning victims was an Oakland 17-year-old, and San Francisco might be getting the 2028 MLB All-Star Game.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Want to Design One of Those ‘Hearts in SF?’ Here’s Your Chance That big NASCAR race at Sonoma Raceway is this weekend; an immigrant activist who Trump jailed for 104 days is suing for $20 million; and this is your chance to design one of those famed “Hearts in San Francisco.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Killed in Yolo County Fireworks Explosion Were SF Locals The latest corpse flower bloom is underway; Matt Haney’s ‘4 am Last Call’ bill might get killed by a committee chair; and two of the seven people killed in last week’s NorCal fireworks explosion had attended SF’s Buena Vista Horace Mann school.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Zoo Getting a New Male Gorilla From the Louisville Zoo There will of course be SFPD DUI checkpoints this holiday weekend; yet another new SF block party debuts on July 4; and the SF Zoo is getting a new male gorilla to replace Oscar Jonesy who died in February.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lafayette’s Long-Shuttered Park Theater to Reopen With a $12 Million Renovation The lottery is open for the Pointer Sisters-Lyrics Born show at Stern Grove; a Cotati DUI suspect was pulled over with 70 empty beer cans in his vehicle; and Lafayette’s Park Theater that closed 20 years ago is set to reopen with a big renovation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Recology Rates Going Up By Nearly 25%, Starting in October Barry Bonds is getting a statue at Oracle Park; there’s an IMAX screening of the Grateful Dead concert movie coming to SF; and Recology will be jacking up your rates by almost 25% in a phased approach beginning October 1.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ‘Suspicious’ Package Shuts Down Customs Building Near Jackson Square The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously, in an initial vote, to remove the sheriff; Trump’s airstrikes on Iran apparently weren’t all that successful; and a suspicious package forced the closure of an SF US Customs and Border Protection building.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Heavy Wind Gusts Knock Over Valencia Street Parklet There’s a couple BART station closures in the East Bay this weekend; a fire in Brentwood damaged multiple homes; and today’s heavy winds just plain knocked over the parklet at Valencia Street’s Radio Habana Social Club.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Waymo Inches Into a Couple More Peninsula Cities (But Still Can’t Go to SFO) The “People’s March” is returning for 2025 but not at the same time as the Pride Parade; a prisoner who escaped from FCI Dublin in 1994 was finally arrested; and Waymo is now operating in six more cities along the Peninsula.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Online System ‘Upgrade’ Knocks Untold Number of Customers Out of Their Accounts Trump signed his measure today blocking California’s electric vehicle mandate; Tesla’s robotaxi rollout has of course been delayed again; and PG&E’s so-called “upgrade” of their online system has locked a ton of customers out of their accounts.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Now Lurie Takes His Turn Trying to Crack Down on RV Dwellers Manny’s got tagged and vandalized pretty hard during Monday’s ICE protests; the killer of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey has been paroled; and Mayor Lurie is taking his stab at clearing the RV dwellers out of SF parking spaces.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tesla Lost $150 Billion In Value Today Amidst Trump-Musk Spat Mayor Daniel Lurie surprisingly slammed the Twitter tax break; a new trove of unearthed Sly and the Family Stone recordings is coming out this summer; and Tesla lost $150 billion in value just today over that whole hilarious Trump vs. Elon skirmish.
SF News Day Around the Bay: E-40 Drops a New NPR Tiny Desk Concert, Bay Area Goes Nuts An Antioch grandfather pleaded not guilty in that shooting death of his toddler grandson; Meta is buying a bunch of nuclear power to run its AI; and E-40 proves he’s absolutely still got it in his new NPR Tiny Desk concert with an eight-piece band.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Those SF Dead & Co Tickets Go on Sale Friday Morning SF Pride has cobbled together a few new sponsors amidst their mass sponsor retreat, the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals are tonight, and those Dead and Company Golden Gate Park concert tickets go on sale at 10 am sharp Friday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART’s Green Line Won't Be Running Again Until Tuesday The fired SFPD officer who allegedly caused a DUI crash pleaded not guilty; the Golden State Valkyries won their first game ever; and BART’s Green Line won’t run again until Tuesday, but you can still transfer trains and get anywhere.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trans Community Activists Unfurl Huge Trans Pride Flag at Yosemite A just-announced Emmylou Harris show tips us off to some names likely to play this year’s bluegrass festival; there are gigantic lines to get into the new SF Nintendo store; and activists hung a huge trans pride flag at Yosemite.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Here’s Nicolas Cage Playing Raiders Coach John Madden in the 1970s NorCal wildfire season could kick up this weekend; a whimsical transit nerd speed-rode the entire Muni light-rail line; and here’s Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale as John Madden and Al Davis in a new movie.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rattlesnake Advisories Issued for East Bay Parks Glide’s lunch with Marc Benioff auction is back for 2025; a Bay Area rapper has won NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert contest; and the East Bay Regional Park District is warning to be on the lookout for rattlesnakes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Look Out for California Highway Patrol’s New ‘Camouflage’ SUVs A NorCal man was sentenced for running a $38 million stolen catalytic converter ring; A Pinole high school baseball coach was suspended over racist taunts; and CHP hopes to fool reckless drivers with their new ‘camouflage’ SUVs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Once-Hot 23andMe Closing SF Office, Laying Off 250 Employees Oakland is planning to sweep one of its biggest homeless encampments next week; a 41-story office tower may be built at the site of a FiDi fire station; and the now-bankrupt 23andMe is closing up shop in SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF’s Free Outdoor Movie Screenings Have Been Canceled for 2025 A UC Berkeley animal rights activist has become a cause célèbre for “liberating” four factory-farm chickens; $100K a year now qualifies as “low-income” in SF; and the much-loved outdoor movie series Sundown Cinema is canceled this year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Betty White Postage Stamps Have Arrived We’re now learning that Monday’s South San Francisco police shooting may have been over a tree-trimming dispute; Berkeley City Council passed another one of those Gaza resolutions; and the Betty White forever stamps are now arriving at SF post offices.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Supervisor Wants Homeless Shelters Spread Out Evenly All Over Town The California Bar is red-faced over an AI screw-up on their recent bar exam; Real ID might get delayed again because DMVs nationwide are a mess; and Supervisor Bilal Mahmood wants more homeless shelters in districts other than his own.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect In Custody After Brutal Unprovoked Easter Sunday Attack In Castro A famed nude beach in San Mateo County is being preserved; a Berkeley man who got whooped by an older woman at a Tesla protest has since been shot by police; and there was a brutal sucker-punching in the Castro Sunday but a suspect is in custody.
