SF News Day Around the Bay: Cars Allowed Back on the Great Highway, Starting Monday The Great Highway will allow cars again on weekdays only, people are pulling guns on firemen and refusing to evacuate in the River Fire, and Guy Fieri showed up at the Sonoma County Fair to drop $30,000 on live pigs.
SF News Sup. Gordon Mar Calls for Cars to be Allowed Back on Great Highway, But in a ‘Hybrid’ Compromise In a new op-ed, the supervisor whose district contains the whole stretch of the Great Highway currently closed off to cars calls for a “compromise” deal on reopening the thoroughfare for automobiles.
SF News Upper Great Highway May Reopen to Vehicles Because of 'Unsafe' Traffic Conditions The Upper Great Highway — which has become a promenade for outdoor recreation and civic activism — could open up to cars again after the same SF supervisor who catalyzed its closure raised concerns that the uptick in traffic along nearby roadways has created "unsafe" conditions.
SF News A Half-Mile of the Great Highway To Be Eliminated for an Ultramodern Sewage Plant Remodel The sewage facility we once tried to name after George W. Bush is getting a big (and overbudget) upgrade, but will remove a small chunk of the Great Highway.
SF News SFPD Cruiser Flips Over At Ocean Beach Injuring Two Officers An SFPD car got in a seemingly random rollover collision Friday evening next to Ocean Beach, within view of the Beach Chalet from which the above and below photos, sent in by an
SF News Police Track Down Mother Of Kid Dumped Outside SF Zoo Many of us were left scratching our heads at the news of a child dumped near the SF Zoo Monday evening. Late Tuesday night police released more details on the case, including information
SF News Why Do So Many People Run This San Francisco Stop Sign? Why don't drivers stop at this stop-signed intersection at Great Highway and Balboa Street? Are they too transfixed by the view of Ocean Beach to notice the sign? Secure in the knowledge that
SF News Ocean Beach Kite Surfer Blown Onto Great Highway And Hit By Car In Freak Accident A man kite surfing at Ocean Beach was picked up by a gust of wind and fell on to the Great Highway where he was then hit by a car. Just before 3:
SF News [Update] Suspected Of Murdering Her Family Member In Novato, Woman Commits Suicide In SF Two women are dead this morning, one suspected of murdering the other and then killing herself. Details are few at this point, but ABC 7 reports that around 6 a.m. today police
SF News This Shack Just Sold For $1.2 Million This is not a joke. This is the world we live in. The above, ramshackle, four-bedroom home, albeit with unobstructed views of the ocean along the Great Highway, just sold for $1.2
SF News Meet Percevero, The Sea Lion Pup Rescued In San Francisco Wednesday As previously reported, West Coast sea lions are suffering an "unusual mortality event" that has sent their pups out of the water and onto city streets. That "event" hit San Francisco this morning,
SF News Driver Hits Cyclist Pedaling Along Great Highway Along Great Highway and Lincoln Avenue, a driver and cyclist apparently collided on Sunday afternoon. The incident happened at around 3:50. "The bicyclist entered the crosswalk while the red light was on
SF News Shifting Sands Cause Week-Long Closure of Great Highway This Week Due to shifting sands, Great Highway, between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard, will be closed to vehicle traffic this week during the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. starting Monday
SF News Scene from Last Night's Sand Dune Carnage On Great Highway This is what shutdown Great Highway last night? Really? That's, like, a handful of medium-sized small sandcastles. At best. (We really have turned into a too tender bunch here in SF, haven't we?
SF News Forming Sand Dunes Close Great Highway According to Alert SF, "the Great Highway has been closed by the US Park Service because of sandunes [sic] forming near Great Highway at Noriega. Please use alternate routes to avoid this closure.
misc SFist Photo: Red Skies at Night, Kite Surfer's Delight Oh we warned you. We gave you all the signs. RSAN 'n stuff. And now it's here. OMG, a blustery day! Actual weather in San Francisco, complete with an omninous-looking Storm Warning flag
misc It's Like Thunder, Lightning, the Way You Knock Out Our Power Lines Is Frightening Further proof that the Richmond is where it's at - unless, of course, you like dry bath towels - last night the good folks in the OR witnessed a reportedly "green" light show
SF News SFist Blotter There was a shootout by the ocean over the weekend -- a man stealing a bicycle at around 1 a.m. Saturday morning near 48th and Taraval fired shots at the cops, hitting
SF News Stormy Weather But that's not the only repercussions from the storm. Sadly, a man was killed when a tree was knocked over into their home. For a few minutes, we saw that happening to us
misc SFist Raves: Stern Grove We are so getting ready, we are packing our icebox with cold cuts, pasta salads and a few bottles of chardonnay. We do not enjoy carrying the cooler on muni, even though the
