SF News Ocean Beach Safeway Could Close For a While to Build Apartments on Top, Could Castro Safeway Be Next? The same developer that wants to build out the Fillmore Safeway into apartments now has the same idea for the Ocean Beach Safeway on LaPlaya Street, though in this case, that Safeway would reopen once construction was finished.
SF News Sunday Links: One Person Dies in Double Shooting in SF’s Mission District, Suspect Arrested The adult victim in last Saturday’s shooting near the Ocean Beach Safeway was shot through his window; tickets are now on sale for SF Sketchfest 2026; and two people were shot at 16th and Mission early Sunday, one person has died and a suspect arrested.
SF News Shots Fired During Fight Near Outer Richmond Safeway, Five Injured, Including One Critically A little before 9 pm Saturday night, gunfire erupted when a fight broke out between a group of people near the Safeway supermarket at Fulton and La Playa streets in SF’s Outer Richmond neighborhood. At least five people were injured, including one critically.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Annual Sandcastle Classic Won by Giant Crabs Playing Video Games Students from Daniel Webster Elementary School won the 43rd Annual Leap Sandcastle Classic on Saturday at Ocean Beach, with their interpretations of two SF-style crabs playing with Nintendo game controllers.
SF News Sunday Links: Pro-Trump Counter-Protestors Crash ‘No Kings’ Rally in Palo Alto Some Glen Park residents are perplexed by Time Out's coining their beloved neighborhood as cool; Mayor Lurie was conspicuously absent from Saturday’s “No Kings” rally in SF; and some MAGA supporters showed up to Palo Alto’s “No Kings” protest.
SF News Sunday Links: Northern California Safeway Workers Win Last-Minute Deal to Avert Strike A man who jumped from a rope swing into the Russian River is presumed dead; the federal government has released over $6 billion in previously frozen education grants after weeks of backlash; and the Safeway strike was averted after a tentative deal.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Officials Say Stay Out of Water at Ocean Beach Over the Weekend At least 12 people were stabbed at a Hamburg train station; Stanford students are on day 11 of a hunger strike over the school’s ties to Israel; and officials warn residents to stay out of the water at Ocean Beach following recent deaths and multiple rescues.
SF News Decomposed Human Body Turned Up Over the Weekend at Ocean Beach Some alert beach-goers saw what appeared to be a human body floating in the waters of Ocean Beach Friday night, and their worst fears were confirmed, as emergency crews pulled a “badly decomposed” cadaver from the ocean.
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 Man Dies After Running Into Water After Dog at Ocean Beach A man accompanied by one or two dogs at Ocean Beach died Thursday after trying to rescue one of the dogs from the surf, though it's not clear whether rough waters had anything to do with his injuries.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pinole Teen Caught With Loaded Gun At School A Pinole high school student was reportedly caught with a loaded gun at school and then fled police; Bay Area health officials urge residents to get the measles vaccine if they haven't already; and State Farm has been given the go-ahead to increase California customers' rates.
Arts & Entertainment Great Highway Reimagined: Ocean Beach Park Launches This Spring SF’s Ocean Beach Park, part of a car-free Great Highway, opens this spring. Traffic improvements boost safety while Emily Fromm paints a 60‑ft mural celebrating local history. State grants and donors back the project despite some concerns.
SF News Amid High Surf Conditions Around the Bay, Warning Issued for Swimmers, Beachgoers Residents and visitors heading to Bay Area beaches are being warned to stay out of the water, and to stay off rocks and jetties near the water, amid a high risk for rip currents, sneaker waves, and dangerous high surf starting starting Thursday.
SF News Surfers Not Stoked Over Proposed Ocean Beach Seawall to Protect Beach From Erosion A state commission is about to decide the fate of a proposed 3,200-foot underground seawall to protect a sewage tunnel on the southern end of Ocean Beach, but surfers say it would make the beach more dangerous not just for them, but for ordinary beachgoers too.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, There’s an SF Burning Man at Ocean Beach Saturday, Co-Organized by… Former SF Supervisor Eric Mar? There are actually several contingents of Burners heading to Ocean Beach Saturday to put on their own miniature versions of Burning Man, but one of them appears to be co-organized by former District 1 Supervisor Eric Mar.
SF News SF Firefighters Rescue Paddle Boarder After Incident at Ocean Beach San Francisco Fire Department paramedics were called to Ocean Beach Friday morning after surfers pulled a paddle boarder out of the water who was floating and apparently unresponsive.
SF News Man Required Rescue From Sewer Pipe Near Ocean Beach A man ended up trapped in a sewer pipe and calling for help Sunday, and San Francisco fire crews were successfully able to extricate him.
bay to breakers Get Ready for Bay to Breakers Takeover: All the Street Closures to Expect this Weekend The street closures you can expect from the starting line at Howard and Main all the way to the Great Highway at Ocean Beach.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jellyfish-Like Sea Blobs Showing Up on SF Beaches The Halfway Club (the former Broken Record) was awarded a live entertainment permit; Richmond taqueria Tacos El Tucán is opening a Castro outpost; and some gelatinous, jellyfish-like creatures are washing up on SF beach shores.
SF News Trash and Debris Showing Up Again On SF Beaches, As It Often Does After Rainstorms Fort Funston and Ocean Beach are once again strewn with litter and debris, as rainstorms have a way of drifting white bags and single-use plastics onto the shores near the Pacific Ocean.
SF News Uh-Oh! Trash From Sewer ‘Outfalls’ Now Strewn All Across Ocean Beach, Fort Funston Trash and refuse now cover the sand at SF’s Fort Funston and Ocean Beach, but don’t go picking it up — as it’s from sewer system “outfalls.”
Arts & Entertainment PHOTOS: Saturday’s SF Sandcastle Classic Saw Spooky Sand Sculptures Stand Out With the 41st annual Sandcastle Classic falling on Halloween weekend, you’d better believe that monsters, jack-o-lanterns, and skeletons got their heads out of the sand for Northern California’s largest sandcastle competition.
SF News New Renderings Drop For 50-Story Tower In the Sunset That Is Absolutely Never Going to Get Built Reno-based developer CH Planning may just be trolling with this nonsense 50-story tower proposed two blocks from Ocean Beach, but they’re sticking to the bit, with a new batch of renderings of this gigantic middle-finger to the Sunset.
Arts & Entertainment Free Drag Shows Make Up a Whole New Scene In SF During Pride Month Drag performers are kicking their heels out to Financial District bars, Salesforce Park, and even Ocean Beach in a series of free drag shows for Pride Month.
Arts & Entertainment Corgi Con Forced to Leave SF’s Ocean Beach Over 'Regulation Changes,' Moves to Pleasanton Dog gone! The prized annual SF event Corgi Con has been chased off Ocean Beach over some federal regulations, and is rescheduled for September on non-federal land at the Alameda County Fairgrounds.
