SF News Day Around the Bay: Shen Yun Reportedly Under Federal Investigation Over Visa Fraud Dogpatch’s Esprit Park has reopened after an $8.5 million remodel; the Castro creep who was allegedly exposing himself to teens has been charged; and Shen Yun is apparently under a federal DHS investigation for possible visa fraud.
SF News SF Zoo Already Advertising the Job ‘Assistant Curator of Giant Pandas' You’re not being bamboo-zled, the San Francisco Zoo is already advertising the job “Assistant Curator of Giant Pandas,” and they say the salary range is between $67,000-$72,000 per year, even though this panda thing is not a done deal.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Huge New Sports Bar, Splash, Opens Friday Next to Chase Center One week ahead of the big All Star Game, the massive new sports bar Splash at Thrive City has opened, with 30,000 square feet of space for eating, drinking, game watching, and game playing.
SF News Mayor Lurie Launches SFPD ‘Hospitality Task Force’ to Bolster Union Square Ahead of All-Star Game, Lunar New Year While this new SFPD ‘Hospitality Task Force’ arrives the weekend before the double-team of the NBA All-Star Game and the Chinese New Year Parade, the reconfigured police staffing will be in effect year-round in the Union Square tourism district.
SF News Lake Berryessa's 'Glory Hole' Spillway Activated For the First Time In Six Years Locals and regional water nerds alike have been flocking to see the massive, circular drainpipe-style spillway in action at Lake Berryessa this week, the first time it's been active since 2019.
SF News Bob Lee Murder Case Gets 'Dateline' Treatment Friday The 2023 murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee on the streets of San Francisco, a story very familiar to readers of SFist by now but maybe not to the rest of the country, will be featured in Friday's episode of 'Dateline' on NBC.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where to Find Some of the Much Sought-After Triple IPA Pliny the Younger This Weekend Russian River Brewing's perennial cult favorite beer Pliny the Younger — the rabid, continued popularity and cult status of which is baffling to some but completely justified to others — is more plentiful than it used to be.
SF News Oakland Firefighters Sound the Alarm Over Oakland Fire Station Closures in the Wake of LA Fires You might say Oakland firefighters have their hair on fire over the recent closures of two city fire stations, with four more closures potentially looming, as response times have more than doubled, and the risk of SoCal-style wildfire outbreaks has ballooned.
SF News Richmond Police Investigated By Attorney General Over Shooting of Unarmed Man A Tuesday shooting by Richmond police that was initially described as a standoff with a domestic violence suspect is being investigated by the California Attorney General's Office.
SF News Person Found Fatally Shot Behind Whole Foods In Redwood City A person was found dead of a gunshot wound Thursday morning in Redwood City, on a suburban street behind a Whole Foods.
SF News Two Found Dead In Standing Waters In Very Flooded Santa Rosa The body of an unidentified male of an unknown age was discovered in the waters of the extremely flooded roads of Santa Rosa early Thursday morning, bringing the death toll to two as Sonoma County continues to get walloped by rain.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: San Mateo Co. Leaders Urge Voters to Oust Sheriff San Mateo County leaders have launched their "Yes on A" campaign to oust Sheriff Christina Corpus; an Oakland man was convicted of pimping in Solano County; and today's storm is expected to bring high winds.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Russian River Towns Flood In Low-Lying Areas Evacuation orders due to flooding remain in place along the Russian River; Oakland business owners are mad at Ayesha Curry; and NorCal reservoirs are quite full now.
SF News Landslide Destroys Sonoma County Home Rebuilt After 2017 Tubbs Fire A couple's home on Deer Trail Court in Santa Rosa was severely damaged, possibly beyond repair, in a landslide Tuesday evening after a day of heavy rains. And, tragically, this home had been rebuilt on the burn scar left from their previous home lost in the 2017 Tubbs Fire.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Is Determined to Fire Police Commission VP Max Carter-Oberstone SF Police Commission Vice President Max Carter-Oberstone became famous for blowing the whistle on London Breed when she forced commissioners to sign secret resignation letters. Now new Mayor Daniel Lurie wants to fire him outright.
SF News The Castro Might Become SF’s Next Boozy 'Entertainment Zone’ With Bars Selling To-Go Cocktails There may be to-go cocktails flying out the windows of nightclubs at the next Castro District party with street closures, as Supervisor Rafael Mandelman just introduced a measure to make much of the Castro the latest SF “entertainment zone.”
Arts & Entertainment London Police Admit 'Investigative Bias' In Heklina Death Probe as They Try to Unlock Cellphone The London Metro Police have much to answer for in the now almost two-year-old investigation into the death of San Francisco drag legend Heklina — and more details are coming to light about just how slowly they've been slow-walking this thing.
SF News Moving Valencia Bike Lanes Back to the Curbside Starts Monday, When Construction Begins The now 19-month experiment to move the Valencia Street bike lanes to the center of the street will come crumbling apart starting Monday, when construction crews start ripping those center bike lanes apart, and moving the lanes back to the curbside.
SF News Beloved Longtime KTVU Anchorman Dennis Richmond Dies at Age 81 Retired KTVU anchor Dennis Richmond, who sat in the anchor chair for the station's popular nightly news broadcast for over 30 years, has died.
SF News Major Mudslide From Tuesday’s Rain Shuts Down Block Near Telegraph Hill, Geologists Investigating Tuesday’s record rainfall caused a chunk of Telegraph Hill to simply plop down on the street, and geologists and Public Works are busily assessing whether the homes above the hill are safe with another round of rain coming Thursday.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Gets His ‘Fentanyl Emergency Ordinance’ Passed In Landslide Board Vote Mayor Lurie won a huge expansion of his powers to combat fentanyl markets and homelessness, as the Board of Supervisors approved his so-called “emergency ordinance,” which now involves a pop-up police station at the long-debated SoMa Nordstrom parking lot.
SF News SFPD Releases Video of Officer-Involved Shooting of Suspect In SoMa Shooting San Francisco police held a virtual town hall Tuesday to discuss the January 27 shooting by officers of a suspect who was seen shooting cannabis store owner Martin Olive. And video reveals that the suspect shot at officers before he was killed
SF News Humpday Headlines: Retired UC Berkeley Professor Killed In Hit-and-Run A 77-year-old retired Cal professor was killed in a hit-and-run collision Monday in Oakland; two SFPD officers were assaulted in an unprovoked attack; and Trump wants to "investigate" the CA high-speed rail project.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Today Was the Rainiest February 4 in San Francisco History Cruise has officially killed off its robotaxi services; SF County Jail is back to its pre-pandemic population levels; and today was the rainiest February 4 in the recorded history of San Francisco.
SF News California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Plummets to Second-Lowest Ever in Latest Annual Count The recently completed 2024 California monarch butterfly count showed just over 9,000 of the winged critters returning to the state, which is a big concern, considering there were more than 200,000 of them in the previous year’s count.
