SF News Elizabeth Holmes Officially Asks Trump to Commute Her Sentence As has been suspected for months, after exhausting her appeals, Elizabeth Holmes is seeking clemency and early release from President Trump, who seems to dole out such pardons willy-nilly, so she might get lucky.
SF News Convicted Killer In Notorious 2001 SF Dog-Mauling Attack, Marjorie Knoller, Now Up for Parole Again Yes it has been 25 years since the infamous dog-mauling murder case was SF’s Trial of the Century, but now decades later, the woman convicted of letting her dogs rip a neighbor to shreds is up for parole for a third time.
SF News Wednesday FBI Raids Hit Alleged Chop Shops Across East Bay, Related to Suspected Diesel Fuel Theft Ring Four very junkyard-looking locations in Oakland, Richmond, and San Leandro were on the business end of FBI raids Wednesday, in an investigation of what the FBI and Bay Area police think is a diesel fuel theft ring.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Multiple Bay Area Bars and Restaurants Honored as James Beard Award Semifinalists Restaurants and bars in SF and all around the Bay have been "long-listed" for the 2026 James Beard Foundation Awards, including Happy Crane, Sons & Daughters, and House of Prime Rib.
SF Politics Newsom Shoved Aside From Planned Event at Davos, Likely Because Trump Decreed It After Governor Gavin Newsom made some remarks disparaging to Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Wednesday, he was promptly shut out of the US pavilion and an on-stage event he was supposed to participate in was canceled.
SF News Missing 29-Year-Old Rohnert Park Man Found in Submerged Tesla at Bottom of Bodega Bay The 10-day search for a man gone missing in Rohnert Park has come to a heartbreaking end, as the missing 29-year-old was found dead and submerged in a Tesla at the bottom of Bodega Bay, though foul play is not suspected.
Arts & Entertainment Mission District Community Group to Host Bad Bunny Lookalike Contest During Super Bowl Week Tell all your friends who constantly get mistaken for Bad Bunny, there's going to be a contest for that during Super Bowl Week in San Francisco.
SF News Tenants at Uptown Oakland Building That Just Suffered a Fire All Receive Eviction Notices Insult has been added to injury for the estimated 200 people who were displaced by Monday morning’s apartment fire in Oakland’s Uptown, after their landlord issued them all eviction letters.
SF News Sunset District Businesses File Lawsuit Over December Power Outage A group of Sunset District businesses are filing a lawsuit against PG&E seeking compensation for lost business during the December 20 power outage, which for some lasted multiple days.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Sideshow In Outer Richmond Leads to Arrests The SFPD made several arrests following a Sunday night sideshow in the Outer Richmond; staffers at a prison in Chino were apparently sickened by an unknown substance; and Solano County sheriff's deputies are helping patrol Vallejo.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fremont Is Getting the Largest H Mart Location in the Entire United States One person was killed in a Hayward-San Mateo Bridge crash Tuesday; some DOGE bros are under investigation for shady use of Americans’ Social Security numbers; and Fremont is getting the biggest H Mart ever in the US.
SF News Freight Train Strikes and Kills Pedestrian in West Berkeley, Victim Was Allegedly Trespassing on Tracks A yet-unidentified man was hit by a freight train and killed in West Berkeley Monday morning, though the railroad’s operator Union Pacific says the man was trespassing on the tracks.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Star Jimmy Butler Tears ACL and Will Miss Rest of the Season, Pundits Speculate Warriors’ Dynasty Is Over The Warriors’ season crashed into disaster when forward Jimmy Butler suffered a season-ending ACL tear Monday night, and the national media are declaring the Warriors’ dynasty is over, while fans are madly concocting trade scenarios.
Business & Tech The Sam Altman-Elon Musk Feud Had Another Public Escalation Today OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who hasn't been afraid to publicly rebuke his former friend Elon Musk in the past, once again appeared to have had it with Elon on Tuesday.
SF News BART Entrance Sealed Off at SF Centre as Official Closing Date for Mall Arrives This Week The lights officially go off after this weekend at the SF Centre (formerly Westfield) mall in downtown San Francisco, marking a final death knell following a very long, slow, and painful demise.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley-Born Peet's Coffee Closing 30 Bay Area Locations, Including Castro and Cole Valley Shops The Castro is losing its second major coffee shop in four months, with the popular Market Street location of Peet's set to close later this month, and more Peet's locations are also getting axed.
SF Politics ‘Call a Republican’ Phone Goes Up on Valencia Street (Just Be Aware That It’s Some Startup Recording You) A “emotional fitness community” that just got $26 million in venture capital thrown at them has installed a phone on Valencia Street that lets you “Call a Republican” in Texas, perhaps to foster unity, or perhaps just to record you.
Business & Tech SF Parents Putting Teens and Tweens In Waymos By Themselves, Violating Company Policy It's become common practice for busy San Francisco parents to summon Waymos for their kids, whatever the expense, to avoid having to chauffeur them everywhere, and because they're safer than Ubers or Lyfts.
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Film Festival to Honor John Waters This Year With Special Award, 'Serial Mom' Screening The great John Waters, self-described maven of filth and a pioneer in queer underground cinema, will be receiving a special honor from Frameline in March, at the Castro Theatre.
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 Tuesday Morning Topline: Protests Planned Marking One Year of Trump 2.0 Protests are planned marking Trump's first year in office; a 17-year-old girl from Mendocino has been missing for three weeks in SF; and there's another Pride flag controversy at a school in Sonoma County.
SF News MLK Day Around the Bay: 28-Year-Old SFO Worker Dies In Accident An SFO worker was killed in an accident Sunday; a high-speed rail collision in Spain led to 40 deaths; and an explanation of BART's nightly Grand Meet, which has been going on for 50 years.
Arts & Entertainment Green Apple Books’ Sunset Location Finally Gets a New Tenant In Upstairs Mezzanine: A Literary Co-Working Space The long-empty and effectively forgotten upstairs mezzanine area of the Inner Sunset’s Green Apple Books on the Park has at last been filled, by a co-working space dedicated specifically to writers called the Backstory Above.
SF News Bedraggled Coyote Filmed Stepping Foot on Alcatraz Island for the First Time in History A coyote recently made its way to Alcatraz Island for the first time in documented history, most likely from SF’s Coit Tower area, after it likely got caught up in the bay’s current, which was stronger than usual that day due to recent storms.
SF Politics Rep. Eric Swalwell Calls for Trump’s Removal From Office Over Seemingly Dementia-Fueled Text to Norway's PM President Trump reiterated calls to invade Greenland because he’s mad at Norway for not giving him the Nobel Prize, leading many to wonder about Trump’s current mental capacity, including East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell.
