SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: San Mateo Sheriff Refuses to Step Down San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus is (still) refusing to resign; a Trump order to try to dissolve the Department of Education appears on its way; and there's a Todd Haynes retrospective launching in Berkeley.
SF News Day Around The Bay: The 5-Acre Embarcadero Waterfront Park Is Happening The Embarcadero Plaza and Sue Bierman Park are being revamped into one big 5-acre park; the 19-year-old who hit two pedestrians while pursuing a car that hit him has been charged; and Veterans Affairs was told to cut 80,000 jobs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacolicious Alters Menu Over Trump’s Tariffs, Now Serving ‘Avocado Garbanzo Guacamole’ In hopes of not making you pay $16.75 for just a side of guacamole (which you still can), Bay Area chain Tacolicious has introduced a “tariff-era menu” with guacamole that uses chickpeas, to cut down on their lime and avocado use as Trump’s tariffs kick in.
SF News Oakland City Council Votes to Reopen Those Fire Stations They Closed Over the Budget Deficit With three Oakland fire stations closed because of the city’s $130 million budget deficit, the Oakland City Council somehow found enough money in the couch cushions to order those stations reopened sometime in the coming months.
SF News Supervisor Sherrill Proposes Another Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone,’ This Time on Union Street The Union Street Festival will be lit if new District 2 Supervisor Stephen Sherrill gets his way, as he's proposed another one of those to-go cocktail-serving “entertainment zones” be established on Union Street.
SF News Fired NOAA Researchers Talk About Their Critical Work Protecting Northern CA Coasts From Climate Change Three recently fired NOAA researchers are speaking out about their team's important work protecting vulnerable species along the Northern California coast, which was abruptly disrupted last Thursday when over 800 probationary employees at the agency were fired.
SF Politics Pelosi Has a 2026 Election Challenger, an AOC Guy Who’s Reportedly Worth At Least $100 Million 39-year-old former Stripe engineer Saikat Chakrabarti is forming a far-left challenge to take Nancy Pelosi’s seat in 2026, after burnishing his credentials with the 2016 Bernie campaign and as AOC’s chief of staff, and he has quite the personal fortune to run with.
SF News Supreme Court Rules In Favor of San Francisco In EPA Lawsuit Over Sewer Discharge San Francisco won out and had some strange bedfellows supporting it in a lawsuit that reached the Supreme Court last year about the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate ocean water standards.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The SF Chronicle Is Reviving the Top 100 Restaurants List at Last After more than five years in which the San Francisco Chronicle has published a bevy of shorter food lists, the big grandaddy of them all, the Top 100, is making a comeback.
SF News Oakland Mayoral Candidate Loren Taylor Reveals He Had Liver Transplant In December Six weeks before the special election to replace former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, candidate Loren Taylor has disclosed that he had a life-threatening liver condition last year, and had a transplant at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix.
SF News Voters Overwhelmingly Endorse the Removal of San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus She was holding on to her job against strong odds, but it looks like San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus will be removed following a special election Tuesday that had a relatively low turnout.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Major Owner of SF Hotels Says City Has 'Turned' A 27-year-old man was arrested in Rohnert Park for firing a gun at a business; a man accused in an Amtrak stabbing has been deemed competent to stand trial; and a large owner of SF hotels is bullish about the city's turnaround.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Outside Lands ‘Eager Beaver’ Tickets on Sale Wednesday, First Act May Have Leaked Severe budget cuts are soon to hit SF art museums; Elon Musk’s DOGE axe came down on three Bay Area federal offices; and the early-bird Outside Lands presale tickets go on sale Wednesday morning.
SF News Thirty Probation Officers Accused of Facilitating Gladiator Fights At LA County Juvenile Detention Facility In a sickening case out of Southern California, 30 officers at a juvenile detention facility have been accused of facilitating gladiator-style fights involving over 140 youth in their care.
SF News Yet Another SF DBI Inspector Found Guilty of Corruption, This Time for Self-Dealing A now-fired SF Department of Building Inspection inspector was just found guilty of violating conflict-of-interest laws, by approving permits for properties that it turned out were actually owned by his parents.
SF News Archimedes Banya Gets Social Media Uproar After Banning Trans Women From ‘Women’s Day’ Bathhouse and naked yoga hotspot Archimedes Banya recently announced that trans women would no longer be admitted to their monthly women-only “Women’s Day,” and after a furor, they’re now declaring two separate women’s nights in hopes of appeasing both sides.
SF News Someone Was Hit and Killed on the Tracks at El Cerrito BART Station Tuesday Morning BART had to suspend service between North Berkeley and Richmond for nearly three hours Tuesday morning, and we’re now learning that this was because someone wandered onto the tracks and was struck and killed by an oncoming train.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission-Bernal Pinball Joint Outer Orbit Announces Closing Date, But Crowdfunding to Possibly Survive The Mission Street pinball bar and restaurant Outer Orbit just announced it’s closing after this weekend, but there’s a crowdfunding campaign afoot to make sure it’s not Game Over for the popular burger bar.
SF News Former Head of Oakland Nonprofit Accused Of Embezzling Funds, Including Donation Check From Steph Curry Federal prosecutors say that the former head of East Oakland Boxing Association, a nonprofit that mentors local youth, allegedly embezzled funds, including a $50,000 donation check from Steph and Ayesha Curry.
SF News Fat Tuesday Topline: San Mateo County Sheriff Faces Her Fate in Special Election Vote Today Voting is underway today on the measure to remove the San Mateo County Sheriff; SF is towing RVs that refused to leave a Bayview RV dwelling site; and the Bay Area has several Mardi Gras celebrations on tap for Fat Tuesday.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Elvira Donates Tesla With 'Elon Sux' Painted On It To NPR Trump issued an executive order calling for swathes of US national forests to be used for timber; Elvira donated her Tesla to NPR while wearing a "Make America Goth Again" hat; and a San Mateo substitute teacher was arrested for possession of child pornography.
SF News Rally In Front of Compton's Cafeteria Site on Saturday Empowers Trans Community, Honors Victims During a weekend full of protests, the trans community came out in full force to the historic Compton’s Tenderloin Cultural District in a show of resistance and unity against ongoing attacks by the current administration.
SF News Smash-and-Grabbers Loot Store While Pepper-Spraying Staff and Customers, In Orinda of All Places You don’t often see smash-and-grab burglaries in the upscale Contra Costa County enclave of Orinda, but one happened there this weekend, as the perpetrators reportedly attacked staff and customers with pepper spray while stealing $100,000 worth of jewelry.
SF News It’s Curtains for the Bayview RV Triage Center, Closing Today After Blowing Through $15 Million Once dubbed "by far the most expensive homeless response intervention” in SF history, the Bayview RV Triage Center is being shut down today, after a three-year run of pricey logistical snafus and frankly very little usage.
Business & Tech Bing Crosby’s Former Home in Hillsborough on the Market for a Record-Breaking $40 Million Asking Price Purchased for a song at just $175,000 in 1965, the French chateau-style former home of pop crooner Bing Crosby is now on sale again for $40 million, a price that would break the Hillsborough real estate record that currently belongs to Elon Musk’s old house.
