Arts & Entertainment Golden Gate Bridge Gets Featured Role In 'Best Bridges' Meme Involving Taylor Swift Songs Swifties have latched on to a meme where people post "the four best bridges" or "the three best bridges" in the world, and in which they feature real-life bridges, like the Golden Gate, alongside one of Taylor Swift's famous and beloved song bridges.
SF News Semiquincentennial Eve Constitutional: Will the Golden Gate Fireworks Get Fogged Over? San Jose is relocating World Cup watch parties Sunday out of San Pedro Square; SF's Marina District is bracing for massive crowds tomorrow; but the fireworks may not even be visible because of that reliable July 4th fog.
SF News [Update] Jury Returns Guilty Verdicts on Lesser Charges In Golden Gate Bridge Protester Trial, Deadlocked on Others The jury in the trial of seven protesters who shut down the Golden Gate Bridge in April 2024 returned to deliberations Monday and on Thursday morning they reportedly told the judge they remain deadlocked on two counts.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Deliberations Resume In GG Bridge Protester Trial The Supreme Court upheld two state laws banning trans athletes in youth sports; jurors have resumed deliberations in the trial of seven protesters who shut down the Golden Gate Bridge in 2024; and SF firefighters contained the three-alarm fire at a church in Pac Heights.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Golden Gate Bridge Tolls to Increase By 50 Cents July 1 California State Parks made its “Historian Passport” featuring 30+ parks available for free for a limited time; Apple prices are due to increase soon; and Golden Gate Bridge tolls are going up by 50 cents starting next month.
Arts & Entertainment Fireworks to Happen on Golden Gate Bridge For Nation's 250th on July 4th For the first time in 14 years, and only the third time ever, there will be a big fireworks show on the Golden Gate Bridge to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday on July 4th.
SF News Disruptive Protest Goes on Trial as Seven Who Shut Down Golden Gate Bridge Face Jury In SF Seven individuals who face a raft of felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from a Tax Day demonstration in 2024 that shut down the Golden Gate Bridge for several hours are facing trial starting this week.
SF News Big Rig Fire Near Golden Gate Bridge Causes Southbound Traffic Backup A big rig truck caught fire Wednesday morning just past the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza, in the righthand-most southbound lane, leading to a traffic backup for those traveling into the city.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 85-Year-Old Man Suspected of Fatally Stabbing East Bay Couple The family of 4-year-old Ayden Fang is suing the 19-year-old driver who fatally struck him as well as the city of Burlingame; NASA successfully altered the orbit of two asteroids; and an 85-year-old Bay Point man was arrested in connection with a double-stabbing.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Human Chain Across Golden Gate Bridge Calls for Regime Change In Iran Thousands of protesters calling for regime change in Iran formed a human chain across the Golden Gate Bridge; a potential SF teachers' strike is still looming; and fans of Bob Weir were disappointed with his tribute at the Grammys.
SF News Two Years In, Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Prevention Nets Have Almost Completely Eliminated Bridge Suicides In their second year since completion, the Golden Gate Bridge suicide prevention barriers allowed only four suicides in the first half of 2025. In the second half of 2025, the bridge saw zero suicides.
SF News Solo Motorcycle Crash Leaves Rider Dead Near Golden Gate Bridge Toll Plaza A motorcyclist crashed Wednesday morning in the southbound lanes of the Golden Gate Bridge, just north of the toll plaza, and the crash was fatal.
Arts & Entertainment People Tightrope-Walked a 1,600-Foot Highline Next to the Golden Gate Bridge This Past Weekend Roughly two dozen people attempted — and five people succeeded — to tightrope walk a 1,600-foot path on nylon rope next to the Golden Gate Bridge this past weekend, 75 feet above the ground in Marin County’s Kirby Cove.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge to Undergo Final Phase of Seismic Retrofit Project, South Tower to Get Fresh Coat of Paint Over the next ten years, there will be a fair amount of construction activity happening on the main span of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, as a project to protect it from significant damage in an earthquake gets underway.
SF News Sunday Links: ICE Arrests California Father While His Children Wait Alone at Gas Station All 15 of Newsom's podcasts feature men, except for one that includes a man and a woman; two brothers were rescued from the surf at Ocean Beach; and ICE arrested a father and left his children alone in the car during a recent rash of raids along Central Coast.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Officials Sound Testy In Response to NTSB Report About Ship Collision Risks The Golden Gate Bridge ended up being a line item in a report that came out this week as part of the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation into last year's collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, and the local media has been freaking out.
SF News Judge Dismisses Most Charges Against Gaza Protesters Who Blocked the Golden Gate Bridge A big courtroom win for the protesters known as “the GG26” who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge with a Gaza ceasefire protest on April 15, as an SF judge has thrown out 32 of the 44 charges that DA Brooke Jenkins had brought against them.
SF News Protesters Gather at SF Hall of Justice as Golden Gate Bridge Gaza Protesters Appear In Court Some of the 26 individuals who are facing criminal charges stemming from a Tax Day protest in April that shut down the Golden Gate Bridge for several hours made court appearances on Monday, and were joined by activists protesting their prosecution.
SF News Saturday Links: SF DA Charges 26 Over April Golden Gate Bridge Protest 26 people have been charged with false imprisonment and other felonies for the Tax Day protest that shut down the GG Bridge; former Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki has died; and Harris now leads Trump in three key swing states.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Netting Finally Complete There was a ceremony Monday to celebrate the completion of the suicide-prevention nets on the Golden Gate Bridge; new CA law prohibits school policies about informing parents of pronoun changes; and more on the Ellie Lorenzo case.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Protesters Released From Jail, But Still Might Face Felony Charges SF DA Brooke Jenkins released the couple dozen people who were in jail for blocking the Golden Gate Bridge in Monday's Gaza ceasefire protest, and they haven’t even been charged, though Jenkins is vowing they’ll be investigated for possible felony charges.
SF News CHP Reveals Concrete Drum Tactic Used By Protesters Which Hindered Their Removal Monday Many wondered — especially those stuck in traffic! — why it took hours to remove the handful of protesters who created a barricade across the northbound lanes of I-880 Monday morning. Well, they did something fairly clever with barrels, which is a variation on the "sleeping dragon" technique.
SF News Protests Block Golden Gate Bridge, All Northbound Lanes of 880 In Oakland Tax Day protests over the war in Gaza have caused a commute nightmare for anyone trying to get to San Francisco from the North Bay, or anyone traveling north on I-880 toward Oakland or San Francisco.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Golden Gate Bridge Tolls Rise Again A major bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after being struck by a container ship overnight; the SFPD has made an arrest in connection with a January homicide in Mission Bay; and tolls are rising again on the Golden Gate Bridge in July.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pro-Palestinian Protest Briefly Blocks Golden Gate Bridge A dozen or so protesters briefly shut down the Golden Gate Bridge this morning; the influx of CHP officers in Oakland last week netted 71 arrests; and a person was struck and killed by a BART train at MacArthur Station.
