SF News BART And AC Transit Launch New And More Frequent Overnight Bus Service This Weekend Good news, all you East Bay party people who enjoy cavorting in the Mission: At a press conference on Tuesday morning BART and AC Transit officials are unveiling the final details of a
SF News [UPDATES] Protests In Oakland, SF For Third Straight Night, More This Afternoon The Bay Area, and Oakland in particular, continues to protest the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Last night's rally in West Oakland, which shut down the West Oakland BART Station and
SF News Second Night In A Row Of Local Protests With Third Coming Tonight Last night Oakland and San Francisco saw more marches, "die-ins," and calls for accountability in the deaths of black Americans at the hands of police. The most recent rallying cry was the decision
SF News Scenes From Last Night's Peaceful Eric Garner Protests In SF, Oakland, And Palo Alto Last night, in the fourth such Oakland rally in two weeks, protesters once again called for police accountability in the deaths of black Americans. The demonstrations were spurred by a grand jury decision
SF News [UPDATES] Protesters Hit The Rainy Streets Of Oakland And SF In Wake Of Eric Garner Case In NY Following the decision of a Staten Island grand jury not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, major protests hit the streets of New York and other
SF News Protesters Chain Themselves To BART Trains At West Oakland, Temporarily Halt Transbay Train Service [Updated] Following a quiet Thanksgiving Day in Oakland, protest-wise, a group of 20 to 25 Ferguson-related protesters managed to chain themselves together and chain themselves to two BART trains at West Oakland Station, shutting
SF News Second Night Of Ferguson Protests In Oakland Leads To More Looting, Fires, 43 Arrests For the second night, protesters canvassed different parts of Oakland Tuesday in response to Monday's grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri, briefly disrupting traffic on two freeways, setting bonfires, looting, and generally harkening
SF News Ferguson-Related Protest In Oakland Snarls Traffic On 580, Causes Late-Night Chaos In Downtown A protest and "die-in" in downtown Oakland involving a reported 1,000 people led to a traffic-snarling march onto the I-580 freeway Monday night, as Bay City News reports. The protesters came out
SF News SF Officially Puts In Bid For 2024 Olympics Whether it's realistic or financially feasible or not, San Francisco is officially in the running to be the host city for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. The U.S. Olympic Committee will be
SF News Have You Seen This Missing 12-Year-Old San Francisco Girl? The San Francisco Police Department is asking that you keep your eye out for a 12-year-old San Francisco girl who disappeared on her way to school a bit more than a week ago.
SF News Family Of Sasha Fleischman Has 'Mixed Emotions' After Teen Is Sentenced In Skirt Fire Attack A judge sentenced 17-year-old Richard Thomas of Oakland to seven years in prison today for setting agender teen Sasha Fleischman's skirt on fire (inflicting second and third degree burns) while aboard an AC
SF News FBI Once Again Rates The Safest And Most Dangerous Cities In The Bay Area Not shockingly, the safest city in the Bay Area is also the richest. And once again Oakland is rated the most dangerous, according to the FBI's annual "Crime in the United States" report,
SF News 246 People Voted For Peter Liu For Oakland Mayor Just in case you were wondering, it looks like Oakland voters didn't take troll-candidate Peter Liu's candidacy too seriously in Tuesday's election. The gun-toting, gay-hating, horseriding advocate garnered only 246 votes for his
SF News The East Bay Races: Oakland Gets A New Mayor, Chevron's Candidate Fails In Richmond, and More And, wrapping up today's election coverage, I bring you news from across the Bay, where Oakland ousted its incumbent mayor, Richmond elected a progressive candidate despite Chevron's million-dollar campaign against him, and a
SF News Four Races To Watch In Today's Election, Besides San Francisco's You may have heard some of the figures, but despite this being a mid-term election, this has, for various reasons, become the most expensive mid-term election in American history. And even though people
SF News Oakland Airport BART Connector Might Be Open By Thanksgiving Right on schedule, BART's Oakland Airport Connector light rail is set to open to the public either by the end of next month, or by early December. The project has been controversial because
SF News Video: Jimmy Kimmel Gently Rips Guy Running For Oakland Mayor Who Hates Bicycles, Gays "Do you know that this guy is actually a troll?" one political insider asked after SFist ran this clearly (we hope) ironically intended report on Oakland mayoral candidate Peter Y. Liu. "It seems
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cat Town Cafe Opens In Oakland, Marking America's First Cat-Play Coffeeshop Try to muffle your squeals if you're at the office, cat people. Because it's here. Cat Town Café (2869 Broadway) is officially open over in Oakland, meaning that they beat out a similar
SF News Activists Seeking Legal Action Against Racist Tour Guide This of story the ranting, Chinatown-hating former City Sightseeing tour guide, and the overall public outcry against her, may have almost run its course. Late last week we got to hear her speak
SF News Guy Running For Oakland Mayor Hates Bicycles, Gays, Thinks We Should All Carry Guns The Oakland Mayor's race has, historically, been a bit of a circus. Back in July we noted the 21-candidate race included a dog named Einstein who was being put forward by the Occupy
SF News The Raiders Really Might Move To San Antonio The Oakland Raiders just might become the San Antonio Raiders if the team's recent survey of San Antonio resident opinion wasn't just a tactic in their ongoing negotiations with the City of Oakland.
SF News Family Of Oakland Girl Pronounced Dead In 2013 Releases Video That They Say Shows Her Alive And Moving Last week, we told you about efforts by the family of an Oakland girl who was pronounced brain dead in December, 2013, to have that pronouncement overturned. And now, the family has released
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DIY Brewhouse Diving Dog Opens In Oakland, Beer Nerds Rejoice Around 3 p.m. on Friday, Oakland's Diving Dog Brewhouse posted indisputable proof that they have officially opened and are serving at least one customer. According to Diving Dog's Facebook, the lucky first
SF News Family Of Oakland Girl Pronounced Dead In 2013 Wants Her To Be Declared Alive After an Oakland girl was declared brain dead following a routine tonsil surgery at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital last December, her family, refusing to believe the diagnosis, had her moved to a
SF News Oakland Murderers Took Six Weeks Off This Summer, And That's A Record Not since the late 1990's has Oakland gone a full six-week stretch without a homicide, but it just happened. From August 2 to September 13, no one was killed in Oakland, a 43-day
