SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Asking Rent Prices Rose Again in March, But Still Far From Pre-Pandemic Rates The average asking rent in San Francisco rose by 1%, the first increase in 8 months; London Breed's plan to bring giant pandas to SF still has some roadblocks ahead; and celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz is selling her 65-acre ranch in Bolinas for $9 million.
SF News Day Around the Bay: NFL Draft is Tonight, 49ers Finally Have a First-Round Pick Again There’s impressive new renderings of a proposed reimagining of the former Westfield Mall; bike activists’ guerrilla street alterations near Duboce Park have been removed; and the NFL Draft is underway, with plenty of 49ers intrigue.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Third Baby Falcon Chick Hatches Atop Berkeley Clock Tower The transfer of prisoners out of FCI Dublin has been even more chaotic than we realized; the Tesla layoffs will leave nearly 3,000 Bay Area workers out of a job; and a third baby peregrine falcon has been born at the famed Berkeley nest.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Looking For Man Who Punched A Baby On Muni Friday Morning An SFPD drug bust in the Tenderloin netted 13 arrests; the victims of the fatal shooting in Napa last weekend were identified as a young mother and teenager; and a man apparently punched a baby on a Muni bus unprovoked Friday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Political Activist Faces Fresh Sexual Assault Allegations, Promptly Resigns A new giant discount store has opened on Mission Street; Tadich Grill was curiously left off the Chronicle’s “Top Classic SF Restaurants” list; and a well-known progressive community organizer has resigned amidst a report detailing sexual assault accusations from three more women.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Temple SF Nightclub in SoMa Announces It’s Closing Permanently Robotaxi company Cruise is trying to get its permits to operate in SF again; a Richmond man has been charged for last week’s fatal Mission Street drive-by shooting; and SoMa’s Temple SF will close for good on May 25.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Librarians Rally For More Security at Local Branches An Oakland woman has been charged for setting another woman on fire; California courts have sided with a Trumper who wants to run for two offices at once; and librarians at local SF branches held a rally demanding more security.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Little Hail Fell in Parts of San Francisco Today The Castro Theatre unearthed a beautiful relic while doing renovations; Oakland Coliseum workers are up in arms over the A’s moving to Sacramento; and some hail fell in the early afternoon Thursday.
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.
