SF News Day Around the Bay: El Farolito Soccer Team Plays Another Pro Team Tonight, Match To Be Streamed Online A block of the Sunnyside neighborhood was shut down over a gas leak Tuesday morning; Oakland and the A’s failed to agree on a three-year Coliseum lease extension; and the El Farolito soccer team’s Cinderella tournament run continues tonight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pro-Palestinian Protesters Stage Rally at SF Waterfront Event for New Ship, USNS Harvey Milk The new navy vessel named after former SF supe Harvey Milk made its maiden voyage Thursday to SF; pro-Palestinian protesters held a rally at the ship's ceremony; and Mayor London Breed is headed to China to strengthen relations and try to get SF a giant panda in April.
SF News Opening Day Around the Bay: Oakland A’s Restrict Parking Lot Access to Squelch Fan Protest BART is touting that they’re arresting lots more people on their trains these days; the Giants sadly released Pablo Sandoval once and for all; and the Oakland A’s refused to open their parking lot Thursday afternoon because of fan protesters.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Now Has the Highest Unemployment Rate Out of All the U.S. States California's unemployment rate rose in February, although SF is still slightly below the national average; a San Francisco woman was sentenced to two years in prison for stealing $40,000 of stuff from stores; and London Breed lost a bet and sent Dungeness crab to Kansas City's mayor.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gavin Newsom’s Prop 1 Finally Passes — Just Barely A Swiss company has bought up a large Genentech facility in Vacaville; storms will make Tahoe roads treacherous this weekend; and Gavin Newsom’s Prop 1 can finally declare victory by a mere two-tenths of a percentage point.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley Falcon Annie Has Laid Two Eggs, Third Egg Expected Wednesday The restaurant Quince got some powerful new ammo in their trademark dispute with a retailer; an SF startup is using AI to sort recycling; and the Berkeley Campanile falcons have two eggs in the nest, with another expected on the way.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UC Law San Francisco Is Suing The City Over The Tenderloin's Street Conditions (Again) The law school is mad about the drug use and tent encampments around its campus located in the Tenderloin; Mayor London Breed is gearing up for a potential election against Board of Supervisors Prez Peskin; and SF’s speed cameras locations have been announced.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley to Return Two-Acre Plot of Land to Ohlone People A stretch of I-680 in Pleasanton will be closed for repairs this weekend; Girl Scout Cookie season is being extended for another week; and Berkeley is returning a sacred plot of land to the Ohlone people.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stanford Basketball Star Cameron Brink is Leaving the Farm for the WNBA The principal of Everett Middle School is on leave over that school’s sexual assault scandal, Bernie Sanders endorsed Dean Preston for supervisor, and Stanford basketball star Cameron Brink has declared she’s heading to the WNBA Draft.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Unemployment Hits 4% in San Francisco Amid Tech Layoff New data shows that unemployment in SF jumped to the highest levels in the past two years; a new luxury women's knitwear store is bucking trends and opening a Union Square storefront; and the recall effort for the Alameda County DA is facing self-dealing allegations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ron Conway Is a ‘Top Funder’ of the Recall Sheng Thao Campaign The CPUC approved yet another PG&E rate hike; we’re learning about more scary SFO plane equipment failures; and the Recall Sheng Thao campaign says Ron Conway is one of its “top funders.”
SF News Election Day Around the Bay: Another Union Square Retailer Trying to Sell Their Building Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest man (at the moment); a one-time SF gang member was sentenced in a 2013 gang killing case; and the Union Square Burberry is trying to sell their building.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco's Homeless Population Is Decreasing, New Survey Shows A new count of tents and vehicles to measure San Francisco’s homeless population was conducted last week; Bay Areans are gearing up to ski in Tahoe after this weekend's blizzard; and Steph and Ayesha Curry are expecting a fourth child.
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.
