SF News Muni Still Has Fare-Evasion Problem as Ridership Rebounds; Fare Revenue at 34% What It Was In 2015 As we've heard multiple times in recent years, Muni has a major fare-evasion problem even though ridership has rebounded somewhat since the pandemic. But the actual numbers are pretty startling.
SF News Downtown SF’s Safety Ambassador Program to Be Expanded With $5 Million Grant The SF Downtown Development Corporation awarded two safety ambassador programs — stationed in Union Square, Yerba Buena, and at downtown BART stations — a $5 million grant to stay afloat for the next year, as city funding for the programs will expire April 1.
SF News High-Speed Chase Through Santa Rosa Ends In Rollover Crash Into Vineyard The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office had their helicopter out for a vehicle pursuit Wednesday which may have escalated because they pulled the helicopter out, and thankfully no one appears to have been seriously hurt.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 'Grandpa Vicha' Killer to Be Sentenced Antoine Watson is expected to be sentenced today for the Jan. 2021 killing of 'Grandpa Vicha' Ratanapakdee; H Mart is opening its big new Dublin location; and the International Olympic Committee is officially barring trans female athletes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Big Movie Shoot Coming to Telegraph Hill That controversial Lowell High math teacher has been forced to resign; a big-budget movie shoot is happening Thursday near Telegraph Hill; and Stephen Colbert is going to be writing a 'Lord of the Rings' movie.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers to Open 100,000 Square Foot Art and Community Space at Pier 29 This Fall Renowned Bay Area writer Dave Eggers is opening a huge new art and education center, Art + Water, this fall at Pier 29, aimed at keeping artists in SF. The space will also include galleries and a sprawling cafe with an Old World, art salon aesthetic, meant to spark revolutionary ideas.
Business & Tech Bay Area Company Sends First Humanoid Robot to the White House, Walking Side By Side With Melania Ugh. Melania Trump thinks more robots should be teaching children, which dovetails nicely with the administration gutting the Department of Education.
Business & Tech Meta and Google Found Liable In Landmark Social Media Addiction Case; Meta Also Found Liable In Child Exploitation Case It's a bad week in the courts for Meta, and also for Google and YouTube, after juries in two states came back with verdicts against the companies in high-profile cases about the dangers of social media.
SF News Stonestown Galleria Evacuated Over Possible Threat, SFPD Sweeps Mall For Three Hours Stonestown Galleria was evacuated Wednesday afternoon due to police activity and a vague, phone-in threat — possibly involving an armed individual — and the mall eventually reopened after several hours.
SF News SFPD Negotiates With Assault Suspect Barricaded Inside Cadillac Hotel In the Tenderloin A person suspected of an earlier assault barricaded themselves inside a unit at the Cadillac Hotel in SF’s Tenderloin District Tuesday, and the SFPD eventually took them into custody with the help of crisis negotiators.
SF News TSA Tipped Off ICE About Woman Forcibly Detained at SFO We now have a fuller picture of what went down at Gate E2 at SFO's Terminal 3 on Sunday night, how ICE agents ended up there, and what happened with the woman afterwards.
SF News San Francisco Sees Two Homicides In One Night, In Ingleside and Sunset Districts Tuesday was a particularly violent night in San Francisco, in what has become a relatively violent start to 2026, particularly compared to the year prior.
SF News Person Dies In One-Alarm House Fire In San Francisco’s Portola District One person was found dead in a single-alarm fire at a residence in SF’s Portola District Tuesday evening, which investigators believe began in the home’s kitchen or living room, causing substantial damage to the interior of the building.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Judge Fines SF Public Defender For Turning Down Cases A judge has now fined SF Public Defender Mano Raju for refusing to take some new cases; the canceled gubernatorial candidate debate could impact the race; and the SF school board has voted to extend the school year by one week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bill Cosby to Pay $59 Million In 1972 Sexual Assault of Sausalito Waitress A San Jose daycare owner was convicted in the 2023 drowning of two toddlers; OpenAI pledged $1 billion in grant funding utilizing AI to advance life sciences, community programs, and other fields; and Bill Cosy was ordered to pay $59.25 million in damages to a former Sausalito waitress.
SF News Police Pull Over Oakland Woman After Thieves Put License Plates Tied to Crime on Her Car An Oakland woman discovered that her license plates had been swapped with stolen plates that were linked to a serious crime — after she was pulled over by Hayward police who were tipped off by a Flock license plate reader.
Business & Tech Developer Bets on 'Office Resort' at Revamped Building Near Embarcadero A building that's undergoing a significant renovation at 88 Spear Street, including a rooftop bar and restaurant, aims to be a new model for selling employees on going happily back to the office.
SF News Man Killed By 38-Geary Bus Near SF's Union Square After Apparent Fall Into Street A male pedestrian was struck and killed by a Muni bus early Tuesday morning near Union Square, after he reportedly fell from the sidewalk into the path of the bus.
SF News Florida Woman Convicted In Case of Botched Butt Injections That Killed Kim Kardashian Lookalike Model A Florida-based cosmetologist who came to the Bay Area to administer silicone butt injections to a 34-year-old OnlyFans model in 2023 has been convicted in San Mateo County of involuntary manslaughter.
SF News Families of 2024 West Portal Crash Victims Move Forward With Civil Suits Against Mary Lau Elderly driver Mary Lau will have to explain what happened in the 2024 West Portal crash that killed a family of four in two civil lawsuits filed by relatives of the family last year, and jurors will determine monetary damages, following Lau’s sentence in criminal court last Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry Hit With Class-Action Labor Suit Alleging Break and Wage Violations A former dishwasher at the French Laundry in Yountville has filed a lawsuit on behalf of 50 other employees alleging that the restaurant routinely violates state law around mandatory break times and resting facilities, and that it also failed to pay the minimum wage or overtime.
SF News Another Technical Glitch Caused False Earthquake Alerts to Go Out In Northern California For the second time in four months, a false-alarm alert about an earthquake was triggered in Northern California, and this was actually multiple alerts, but this time there thankfully were no loud alarms on cellphones rattling Bay Area residents awake.
SF News SFPD May Have Violated Sanctuary Laws By Helping ICE at SFO, Bystander Files Lawsuit A witness at SFO Sunday filed a complaint that SFPD officers violated sanctuary laws by shielding ICE agents in plainclothes from bystanders who were asking them to identify themselves, as the ICE agents attempted to restrain a woman being deported with her young daughter.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Voters Largely Disinterested In Governor's Race California voters are showing a "historically high lack of awareness" of the governor's race; a planned debate between the candidates tonight was canceled; and Foster City continues to be under a ransomware attack.
SF News Insanity Plea Entered Days Before Trial Was Set to Start In Murder of SF Tech Worker Kimberly Wong Two and a half years after the death of 27-year-old product designer Kimberly Wong in her Presidio Heights apartment, her boyfriend Scott Fisher was set to go on trial this week for her murder. But on Monday, he changed his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
