SF News After 33 Years, Bill Martin Delivers His Final KTVU Weather Forecast Tonight KTVU meteorologist Bill Martin started as a weekend weatherman at KTVU in 1992, also did the weather for KRON4 and KPIX, and delivers his final SF TV news weather forecast on KTVU Thursday night as he surfs off into retirement.
SF news Supervisor Fielder Eyes a City-Backed Pharmacy Co-Op Network As Walgreens shutters more locations this month, the city is exploring the idea of a pharmacy co-op model to prevent “pharmacy deserts" in low-income areas, via bulk purchasing and independent pharmacy partnerships.
SF News Chico Couple Brags of Illegal Hunting to Plainclothes Officers, Promptly Gets Prosecuted A young couple from Chico bragged of having an endangered turtle’s skull and several illegally hunted animals to state wildlife agents, even though they knew these were state wildlife agents. Those agents raided that couple’s home the next day.
SF News Another Spot Where the Drug Scene Moved, Jefferson Square Park, Gets Raided By SFPD Overnight In addition to shuffling the drug users to parts of the Mission District, the city's efforts to "clean up" Sixth Street and parts of the Tenderloin also just shuffled a crowd of users over to Jefferson Square Park on Cathedral Hill. And the park was just the subject of a large-scale raid by police.
SF News Jackknifed Big Rig, Spilled Fuel Closes Three Lanes of Southbound 101 Near SFO Southbound 101 was a mess Thursday morning for anyone trying to get to SFO, after a two-vehicle collision involving a jackknifed big rig spilled some fuel and left three lanes of the freeway blocked.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Two Hospitalized In Oakland Shootings Video suggests San Jose teen was targeted for wearing gang colors; two people were injured in separate Oakland shootings in the last 24 hours; and Oscar winner Gene Hackman and his wife were found dead in their New Mexico home.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tesla Sales Plummet In Europe Tesla sales decreased by 45% across Europe in January; Oakland city departments were found to have paid more than $1.6 million in excess overtime over the past six years; and a man who shot at San Leandro police was charged.
SF News Transit Nut Rides From SF to LA Only on Public Transportation, It Costs Him Just $61 (But Takes Two Whole Days) An ambitious transit enthusiast just rode all the way from San Francisco (actually Oakland) to Los Angeles, a trek that cost a mere $61, but took two full days to pull off, and required an overnight hotel stay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland’s Famed Everett & Jones BBQ Taking Over Vacant Lou’s Fish Shack Space in Fisherman’s Wharf Nearly five years since the closure of Fisherman’s Wharf seafood spot Lou’s Fish Shack, the space is finally getting new life, with a lease just awarded to 51-year-old Oakland barbecue institution Everett & Jones BBQ.
SF News February 28th Economic Blackout Gaining Steam Posts on social media have been calling for a mass boycott of major retailers on Friday. The event appears to be attributed to People's Union USA, whose mission is a bit vague.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Now Facing Eighth (!) Futile Recall Attempt, But This Time Mel Gibson Is Involved Get ready for the eighth attempt to recall Governor Gavin Newsom in his six years in office, a recall attempt that just kicked off today, but maybe having the washed-up Mel Gibson on board will help this one make the ballot and lose by 25 percentage points again.
SF News Boyfriend Allegedly Talked of AI Fears, Appeared to Have Mental Break In Days Before Kimberly Wong Murder More than a year after 30-year-old Scott Fisher was arraigned on charges of murdering the girlfriend he lived with in Presidio Heights, we are finally hearing many of the details of the investigation via a preliminary hearing.
SF News Beware: Those ‘Unpaid Parking Invoice’ Tickets Texts Are a Complete Scam, Everybody An untold number of San Franciscans have received a text message claiming they owe money for unpaid parking tickets, but this is a pretty poorly executed scam that appears to have its origins outside the US.
Business & Tech Apple Shareholders Scoff at Think Tank Proposal to Scrap DEI Programs At least one more major US company isn't rushing to toss its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives just because Trump and his minions don't get racism.
SF News New Investigation Into Teen Found Dead In SF Driveway Paints Damning Picture of For-Profit Mental Health System Before Jázmin Pellegrini was found dead in an Oceanview driveway last year, she’d been through the ringer of dozens of hospitalizations, discharges, and drug regimens at for-profit health facilities that made a litany of highly questionable decisions.
SF News Zizians: Blog Suggests Ziz Ordered Follower to Kill Her Romantic Partner Another detail has emerged in the complicated, sordid, and violent saga of the Zizians, and it is the first to draw a direct link between Jack "Ziz" LaSota and an order compelling someone to murder.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF School Board Approves Layoff Notices The SF school board just approved sending preliminary layoff notices to 550 employees; CHP confirms that one person was shot on Highway 24 Tuesday; and an unvaccinated Texas child has died of measles.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Remember, the Central Subway Is Closing for a Few Weeks, Starting Wednesday Mayor Lurie is ordering all City Hall workers back to the office; there was a stabbing at a Santa Rosa high school Tuesday; and the Central Subway is about to close for 17 days, starting tomorrow.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Oust Vice President of SF Police Commission, Basically Because Mayor Lurie Told Them To SF Police Commission VP Max Carter-Oberstone was just removed from the commission Tuesday afternoon during a very rowdy hearing, after Carter-Oberstone crossed Mayor Breed who appointed him, and new Mayor Lurie settled the old political score for her.
SF News Highway 24 In Oakland Reopened After Freeway Shooting Investigation All lanes of eastbound Highway 24 in Oakland near Broadway were closed from about 1 pm to 3 pm Tuesday afternoon, as it appears that there was a shooting, and the victim apparently abandoned their vehicle but survived.
Arts & Entertainment 'Uncle Vanya' at Berkeley Rep Is Pure Theater Magic at Work Sometimes a great cast and a great director coalesce around a particular play and make it sing in ways it only rarely can, and such is the case with the current production of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' playing at Berkeley Rep.
SF News Ex-DA Pamela Price Rebuked, As Judge Throws Out Sentence Enhancements She Allegedly Filed as Retaliation Former Alameda County DA Pamela Price continues her losing streak even after her recall, as one of her rare sentencing enhancements was just tossed by a judge amidst evidence that she charged the enhancement merely as revenge against an attorney.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Falcon Watchers Voice Avian Flu Fears After Falcon Annie and Mate Go Missing Annie, the peregrine falcon who has lived atop Berkeley's Campanile Tower for nine years, has been missing from her longtime roost for nearly two months, and falcon watchers fear the worst.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Korean Mega Mart Offshoot Jagalchi Announces Its Serramonte Mall Opening Date The former JCPenney at the Serramonte Center will be reborn as the 75,000 square-foot Korean market, restaurant, and bazaar Jagalchi, a high-end offshoot of the Korean grocer Mega Mart, opening on Friday, March 28.
SF News Person Struck By BART Train at Civic Center Causes Major Delays A major medical emergency on the BART tracks at Civic Center Station Tuesday morning led to trains single-tracking through the station and significant systemwide delays.
