SF News Harvey Milk's Nephew on Navy Ship Name-Stripping: 'I Don't Think He'd Be Surprised' Reactions are streaming in across the Bay Area and beyond to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Pride Month shot across the bow at the queer community, announcing his intention to strip the name of LGBTQ civil rights icon Harvey Milk from a Navy ship.
SF News Trump Administration Seeks to Claw Back $4B In Funding for High-Speed Rail As promised, the Trump administration is looking to cancel $4 billion in funding already approved for California's beleaguered high-speed rail project, which was already on life support. But Scott Wiener, at least, says this isn't "a death knell."
SF News Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Half Moon Bay Shooting Suspect, Though He Likely Won’t Be Executed The San Mateo County District Attorney said in court Tuesday that he’s seeking the death penalty for accused Half Moon Bay mass shooter Chunli Zhao, though this is mostly a symbolic move, as the state doesn't execute people anymore.
SF News Arrest Made Following Foot Chase of Suspect In Unprovoked Attacks at Fort Mason Park A man who was out on bail for a different crime was arrested Monday afternoon following a pair of unprovoked attacks and an alleged robbery in San Francisco's Fort Mason Park.
SF News 40-Minute East Bay Highway Patrol Car Chase Tuesday Went All the Way From San Ramon to Milpitas The California Highway Patrol’s Contra Costa division was kept busy Tuesday afternoon with another high-speed car chase that went on for 40 minutes, though this one fortunately did not end with any deadly consequences or injuries.
SF News Humpday Headlines: ICE Agents Ask San Jose Police For Help With Protesters ICE called the police in San Jose when they encountered protesters during an operation Tuesday; a man was arrested in New York in connection with the Palm Springs clinic bombing; and an East Bay croissant maker took the top prize in a contest Sunday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: E-40 Drops a New NPR Tiny Desk Concert, Bay Area Goes Nuts An Antioch grandfather pleaded not guilty in that shooting death of his toddler grandson; Meta is buying a bunch of nuclear power to run its AI; and E-40 proves he’s absolutely still got it in his new NPR Tiny Desk concert with an eight-piece band.
Arts & Entertainment Hollywood Making a Movie About That OpenAI Sam Altman Firing Drama, and It Will Be Partially Shot In SF The movie industry trade publications are buzzing that SF will be the backdrop of a forthcoming movie about Sam Altman getting fired and rehired at OpenAI, and it’s likely going to be a comedy starring Andrew Garfield.
SF Politics San Leandro City Councilmember Notified By Feds He Is Under Investigation, Could Be Indicted In a federal investigation scandal that bears some clear similarities to the one that, at least in part, led to the recall of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo is now officially under investigation by the feds.
SF News Pete Hegseth Orders the Navy to Strip Harvey Milk’s Name Off Naval Ship The US Navy’s oiler ship known as the USNS Harvey Milk was christened in 2016, but Trump’s Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is ordering Milk’s name stripped off the ship, and he’s reportedly doing this during Pride Month on purpose to enrage people.
Business & Tech It’s Not Your Imagination, Your Waymo May Be Driving More Like a Human The behavior of Waymo’s self-driving taxis has apparently shifted in recent weeks or months, based on safety data collected by the company, and it means the cars are doing certain things more like real people do behind the wheel.
Arts & Entertainment 'Mountainhead' on HBO Draws Eerie Parallels Between Billionaire Bros and Zizian Cult 'Mountainhead,' the timely new film on HBO/Max by 'Succession' creator Jesse Armstrong, is a somewhat satisfying if deeply unsettling sendup of tech-bro oligarchy and the convoluted-logic-as-wisdom rhetoric of their podcasts.
SF News Crypto Mogul Chris Larsen Kicking Down Nearly $10 Million to SFPD for More Surveillance Efforts Ripple Labs and its co-founder Chris Larsen are trying to kick down a $9.4 million gift to the SFPD in the form of drones and surveillance gadgets, a new “surveillance gadget” coordinating center, and an apparent $2 million video wall.
SF News Stanford Student Killed While Riding E-Bike on Campus A Stanford sophomore was killed over the weekend in a collision while riding an electronic bicycle on the school's campus.
SF News SF Parks Alliance Shutting Down, As Millions of Dollars In Other Groups’ Money They Were Holding Has Disappeared The show’s over for that nonprofit that organized free movie screenings in SF parks, as the SF Parks Alliance has reportedly decided to dissolve amidst a criminal investigation and the allegation that they’d mismanaged millions of dollars.
SF News Bay Area Father of Three, Who Lived Here 25 Years, Detained By ICE at Routine Appointment In SF This week brings another heart-wrenching story of a local man, who was undocumented but who is married to a US citizen and has spent decades battling to get legal status, who has been thrown into ICE detention.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Fatal Crash Shuts Down I-580 East In Livermore A fiery, fatal crash briefly shut down I-580 eastbound in Livermore early Tuesday; City College is struggling to find a new chancellor; and a major real estate developer is seeking approval for a huge industrial project in SF's Bayview.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Emergency Work on Richmond Bridge Slows Traffic Roadwork closed several lanes of the Richmond Bridge Monday; a suspect in a fatal shooting in the South Bay appears to be on the run; and a couple dozen Bay Area cities are on the Trump administration's list of "sanctuary jurisdictions" they want to target.
SF News Oakland Elementary School Mortified as Racial Slur Ends Up in Children's Yearbook The PTA at Oakland's Montclair Elementary School is frantically trying to undo the damage, as their new and just-released yearbook contains a pretty outrageous racial slur from a reprinted 1940s-era newspaper clipping.
SF News SFPD Makes an Arrest in Last Month’s Outer Richmond Hit-and-Run That Injured a Five-Year-Old Both a mother and her five-year-old child were hospitalized after a hit-and-run driver collided with them on Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, but now a 35-year-old suspect is in custody.
SF Politics More Nonprofit Drama: SF Zoo Board Members Resign, City Hall Decries 'Dysfunction' There is ongoing turmoil and now some amped-up drama at the nonprofit that runs the San Francisco Zoo, as several board members attempted to oust the longtime executive director and CEO, but failed.
SF News Surfer Lives to Tell After Shark Attacks His Surfboard In San Mateo County A Saturday afternoon shark attack at San Mateo County’s Montara State Beach has left a surfboard ruined, but the surfer himself was able to avoid getting bitten, and the beach was closed off for the remainder of the weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Beloved Fog City Diner Has Closed After 40 Years The restaurant originally known as the Fog City Diner, and in the last decade simply as Fog City, has shut its doors after 40 years on the Embarcadero. The last night of service was Friday.
Bay Area Sports Steph Curry Talks Retirement Plans: Maybe PGA Tour, Maybe TV Analyst, Maybe NBA Team Ownership The 37-year-old Stephen Curry probably has a couple more years of basketball left in the tank, but just gave an interview about his potential retirement plans, and how he’ll still be a prominent figure in the sports world.
SF News Sunday Night’s La Onda Headliner Had to Cancel Because Trump Administration Revoked Their Visas Two bands, including Sunday night’s headliner Grupo Firme, were forced to cancel their sets at this weekend’s La Onda festival in Napa, because the Trump administration denied their visas over claims their music “glorifies cartel violence.”
