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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gigantic Waves Rollick Bay Area Coast, Get Recorded in Stunning Videos Thursday’s high tidal surges caused evacuations in Marin County, inundated Santa Cruz and Capitola with floods, and nearly cost the life of a daredevil surfer in Pacifica, while eyewitnesses caught much of this on video.
SF News Boxing Day Around the Bay: Pizza Hut Laying Off 1,200 California Delivery Drivers The rain is expected to return Wednesday morning; a Los Altos strip mall is in danger of collapsing after a Christmas Day fire; and Pizza Hut is laying off California delivery drivers as a new state wage law is about to take effect.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Michelin Guide-Listed SF Eatery Le Fantastique to Close (For Now) The renowned Le Fantastique, located in the Civic Center area, won't reopen there after temporarily shutting down this summer; See's Candies is also closing one SF location; and the Antioch police were hit with a new federal lawsuit.
SF News Shortest Day of the Year Around the Bay: Not Much Snow in Tahoe This Christmas Santa Clara and the 49ers are in another dispute over that big Christmas Night game; a police chase rattled the Precita Park area last night; and the Christmas weekend snow depth at Tahoe will likely disappoint skiers.
