SF News Leap Day Around the Bay: Gavin Newsom Now Says Panera Won’t Be Exempt From Minimum Wage Law UC Berkeley spent nearly $7 million to clear protesters out of People’s Park; the next ‘Star Wars’ movie will be shot entirely in California; and Gavin Newsom is responding to blowback by saying Panera won’t be exempt from an upcoming minimum wage increase.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Castro Seafood Restaurant Catch To Close Permanently Next Month A new report on police car chases emerges right before SF will vote on police car chases; the luxury pet-care facility Wag Hotels is facing a lawsuit over animal mistreatment; and 22-year-old Castro District seafood restaurant Catch will close next month.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Musk Responds to San Jose Bakery's Allegations that Tesla Didn't Pay For Thousands of Pies Musk said he would "make things good" with the bakery; 49ers QB Brock Purdy is doing spon-con for tractors; and workers at sex shop Good Vibrations are officially unionizing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Reddit Has Filed for Its IPO Protesters calling for a ceasefire managed to get into the SF hotel that Biden is staying at; your Golden Gate Bridge toll may be going up again; and the 19-year-old SF-based social media site Reddit has filed for its IPO.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tech CEOs Who Left SF Are Curiously Moving Back to SF Apple has officially debunked the idea that you should put a water-damaged iPhone in a bag of rice; some anti-Israeli graffiti has turned up at Lake Merritt; and plenty of tech bros who made a big deal of leaving SF are now moving back to SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two New Gray Wolf Packs Identified in Northern California The new wolf packs in the state bring the total to seven, major growth since the species' reintroduction in 2011; downtown SF real estate developer Ian Jacobs wrote a new op-ed about the neighborhood's "boom loop"; and a famous climber was convicted of a 2016sexual assault in Yosemite.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose’s Raging Waters Waterslide Park Likely to Reopen This Summer Santa Clara-based Nvidia just became the nation’s third most valuable company; former supervisor John Avalos is in hot water over a provocative tweet; and San Jose’s shuttered Raging Waters park will probably reopen under new ownership this summer.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hotel North Beach to Become Sober Living Facility Mayor Breed has been pushing the move as an addition to SF's supply of permanent supportive housing; Nima Momeni's sister is being charged in her whip-it DUI from November; and Lindsay Lohan revealed that Steph and Ayesha Curry are her son’s godparents.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former Bagdad Café Space to Be Reborn (Again) as Bar 49 It’s confirmed that the potential 49ers championship parade would indeed be in San Francisco and not Santa Clara; a Fremont man was arrested with 500 pounds of copper wire; and the old Bagdad Café space will rise again as a new bar from a Hi Tops manager.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo Takes In Someone’s Illegally-Owned Marmoset Golden Boy Pizza is opening a new location in Parkside; the flagship Trader Vic’s in Emeryville may have to close next year; and the Oakland Zoo has taken in an illegally-owned and injured marmoset monkey.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ex-CSU Professor Pleads Guilty to Setting Fires Around the Dixie Fire in 2021 A Delaware judge said Elon Musk can't get his $56 billion comp package approved by Tesla's board over 5 years ago; a former professor from San Jose admitted to arson in Shasta National Forest in 2021; and Nancy Pelosi doubles down on calling pro-ceasefire protesters Russian plants.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Chinatown Gets New Set of ‘Avant Garde’ Lanterns in Time for Lunar New Year The bar coming into the Castro’s former Harvey’s will now be called Pink Swallow; two more SF supervisors got Garry Tan-inspired death threat mailers; and some newly designed lanterns have been placed up in Chinatown.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lost MC Hammer Tapes Discovered in Modesto Storage Unit Michael Bloomberg just gave $200,000 to re-elect London Breed; a San Leandro man has been sentenced to eight years for sex trafficking; and a trove of what appears to be lost MC Hammer tapes was discovered in a storage unit in Modesto.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jeffrey's Toys, SF's Oldest Toy Store and Inspiration for Pixar Movie, Announces Closure It's the end of an era for the 86-year-old store, which inspired the Emeryville-based Pixar's Toy Story; employees at City Lights Bookstore are unionizing; and PG&E reached a $45 million settlement for its role in the Dixie Fire.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muddy Waters Coffee House is Up for Sale Levi’s is laying off 10% of its corporate workforce right after spending big on Levi’s Stadium naming rights; Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe is changing his name; and the Muddy Waters on Valencia Street is on the selling block for $75,000.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vandal Suspect Arrested for Doing $10,000 Damage to Restaurant That Hadn’t Opened Yet A widely TikTok-mocked office-to-condo conversion has actually sold; now even teenagers are getting jilted out of payments by the SFUSD payroll fiasco; and SFPD has arrested a suspect in this week’s vandalism of planters outside the restuarant Alora that's opening Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Caltrans Wants Your Name Ideas for Its New Snow Plows Last year's Caltrans snow plow name winners included "Scoop Dog" and "Snowbi Wan Kenobi;" former San Jose Mayor says the cost of the SJ BART project is too high; and $20K of bonsai trees were stolen from Oakland's Bonsai Garden.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Statue of Controversial ‘Colonizer’ Removed in Pacifica Another arrest has been made in the murder of the ex-cop providing security for a KRON4 crew; SF’s former Westfield mall is losing yet another tenant; and the controversial statue of a Spanish explorer has been removed in Pacifica.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Now the California DPH Says You Can Go to Work With COVID-19 The Supreme Court handed trans kids a surprise win on bathroom issues; China Live struck a deal so that it won’t be evicted; and the California Department of Public Health just puzzlingly said you can go to work with COVID-19 if you don’t have symptoms.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Five 49ers Make AP's 2023 NFL All-Pro Team Christian McCaffrey and Fred Warner were unanimously selected for this year's All-Pro team; a South SF man who ran a day care was arrested for alleged child sexual abuse; and the Hilton Financial District in San Francisco has defaulted on its mortgage.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dungeness Crab Season Will Finally Begin Next Week Another avalanche hit Palisades Tahoe Thursday; former Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf is running for state treasurer; and Dungeness crab season will finally begin on January 18 after many delays.
SF News Day Around the Bay: King Tides Set to Return Wednesday, Brace for Flooding Near Embarcadero SF has recorded its first flu death of 2024; the popular pop-up Bernal Bakery is getting a permanent brick-and-mortar home; and the King Tides are expected back in SF on Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Head of SF Mayor's Affordable Housing Office Announces Departure Eric Shaw, SF's director of the Office of Housing and Community Development, is resigning effective next week; there was a large residential fire in the Outer Mission Friday afternoon; and a hazmat incident in Fremont triggered a shelter-in-place.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sierra Nevada Snowpack at Just 25% of Its Usual Average Elon Musk had a snit over Green Day’s New Year’s Eve performance; that November state gambling initiative is getting ready to spend big; and the Sierra Nevada snowpack is at just a fraction of where it normally is in a new year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Flood Advisory in Effect for Parts of Bay Area Until 9 P.M. Friday San Francisco is under dual flood and wind advisories all day Friday amid the stormy weather; the Haight's Blue Front Cafe is closing; and San Jose arrested five people in connection with an illegal gambling and prostitution operation.
