SF News Home Slides Into Russian River as Sonoma Sees Flooding Impacts An unoccupied home in Forestville collapsed in a mudslide Tuesday afternoon and fell into the Russian River amid heavy rains that were also leading to an evacuation at a Santa Rosa hospital.
SF News Alleged Castro Creep Who Was Exposing Himself Around Teens Has Been Arrested A man who had been called out publicly last week for exposing himself and allegedly acting lewdly around children in the Castro has now been arrested, and he indeed has a record as a sex offender.
SF News Family of OpenAI Whistleblower Sues SFPD, Demands Access to Investigation Records While the SFPD ruled that the November death of SF engineer and OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji was a suicide, his family has their doubts. And now they’re suing the SFPD for the release of the case’s investigative records.
Arts & Entertainment Win Two Free Tickets to the NBA's All Star Game Concert Series In San Francisco SFist is doing a contest, everyone. You can win two free tickets to the NBA All Star Concert Series, happening down the street from the Chase Center on Pier 48 February 14 to 16.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Draymond Green Is Partnering With Two East Bay Chefs to Open Caribbean-Ethiopian Restaurant In Lower Nob Hill Warriors bad boy Draymond Green is getting into the restaurant game for the first time, and he's partnered with two well-known East Bay chefs to create a restaurant that celebrates "Black culture in San Francisco."
SF News Suspected DUI Driver Drags Pole-Mounted Street Sign for a Whole Mile in Pacifica We say it is a “suspected” DUI driver pulled over shortly after a midnight Saturday morning hit-and-run in Pacifica, and she’s suspected as such because she allegedly rammed into a pole-mounted street sign and then dragged it for an entire mile.
SF News Tech CEO Arrested on Suspicion of Rape and Assault In South of Market The 47-year-old CEO of a Silicon Valley investment firm was arrested in a luxury condo neighborhood of SoMa on Saturday morning, after a woman said she was forcibly raped, assaulted, and had to be hospitalized.
SF News [Update] Connected Potholes, Not Sinkhole, Disrupt Traffic at Lombard and Gough Streets San Francisco drivers were being told to avoid Lombard Street in the area of Gough Street due to a sinkhole that had formed amid Tuesday morning's rain, but this turned out to be a series of connected potholes.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Rain Likely to Cause Minor, and Possibly Major, Flooding San Francisco is under a Flood Advisory today as the heaviest rain is yet to come; multiple car crashes were reported around the Bay this morning; and State Farm wants to hike rates across the board by over 20%.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Daly City Street Has Ocean Views, Major Erosion Fears One person died in a Berkeley house fire early Monday; eight people were detained in a retail theft sting in Ingleside; and a street in Daly City gets especially nervous about erosion during winter storms.
SF News Two Alleged Drug Dealers Accused of Using a Kid to Sell Their Product in the Tenderloin Two men were charged by the SF DA’s office for dealing drugs in the Tenderloin, but the unusual twist in this case is that they were reportedly using a child to perform some of their drug deals for them.
SF Politics Elon Musk Furious That His Fresh-Out-of-College DOGE Employees Have Been Named By the Press As new reporting reveals that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is being staffed by recent college grads, who now have access to our personal data and taxpayer dollars, Musk is on a warpath that their names have been made public.
SF News Ayesha Curry Closing Her Home Goods Store Sweet July In Oakland, Citing Safety Concerns After a four-year run in Uptown Oakland, Ayesha Curry’s kitchen furnishings shop and cafe Sweet July is closing down permanently Sunday, with ownership citing “the safety of our patrons and staff” as the reason.
SF News Shots Fired Near 16th and Mission Minutes After Mayor's Press Event With Wiener Exemplifying the general and ongoing sketchiness of the area around the 16th and Mission BART Station, there was a shooting Monday minutes after and less than a block away from a press conference with Mayor Daniel Lurie and state Senator Scott Wiener.
SF News Remains of Bay Area WWII Veteran Returned Home — 80 Years After His Death 80 years after his death when he was killed on a flight mission in World War II, the body of Sebastopol native and US Army Sergeant Yuen Hop was finally returned home Friday night, after his remains were recently identified at a German cemetery.
SF News 22-Story, Mostly Affordable Tower Nears Final Approvals In Lower Nob Hill A 303-unit residential project split into two adjoining buildings has used creative financing and obscure state programs to overcome some funding hurdles, and is on its way to starting construction in SF's Lower Nob Hill.
SF News Tahoe Braces For Major Snow, Bay Area Under Flood Watch as Atmospheric River Storms Continue This past weekend's rains are going to extend through most of this first week of February as an inbound atmospheric river keeps the rain coming to the Bay Area, and promises some major snow in the Sierra.
SF News Scott Wiener Teams Up With Mayor Lurie on Proposed New Illegal Street Vending Law The latest effort to tamp down the illegal vending scene in SF is a state-level bill from state Senator Scott Wiener, though it only applies to San Francisco, and Wiener has lined up Mayor Lurie and several SF supervisors to support it.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: One Dead In Oakland Warehouse Fire One person died in a two-alarm warehouse fire in East Oakland; a San Francisco woman accidentally shot herself near Mint Hill; and Elon Musk appears poised to shut down USAID.
Politics 'A Day Without Immigrants' Rallies To Take Place Monday Bay Area activists are organizing protests and “A Day Without Immigrants” on Monday in response to the president’s recent crackdowns and aggressive deportation policies.
Arts & Entertainment The Rousseau Family: Prolific Beaux Arts-Era San Francisco Architects The Rousseaus were a high society family of Beaux Arts-era architects who built hundreds of buildings during the reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. They also had their fair share of scandals.
SF News New Resort Tours Enable Big Spenders To Bypass Yosemite's 'Firefall' Reservation Limits In Spite Of Environmental Impact Despite the National Park Service’s efforts to mitigate environmental damage to Yosemite by limiting the number of spectators at the park’s "Firefall" site, visitors can now circumvent the rules by purchasing a $110 shuttle tour from nearby resorts.
SF News Sunday Links: Small Plane Drifts Off Runway At Palo Alto Airport, No One Injured Apple Watch settles class action lawsuit over bloated batteries; an explosion at Martinez Refinery resulted in a shelter in place; and Musk adds additional big-name defendants to his existing lawsuit claiming the brands conspired to divest from advertising on X.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vietnamese Fave Turtle Tower Expected To Re-Open Mid-February Vietnamese staple Turtle Tower anticipates re-opening in mid-February at an iconic Financial District location. Devotees can expect some new menu items in addition to old standbys along with an elevated ambiance.
Arts & Entertainment “Roller-Skating Engineer's” Public Bench Project Spawns 210 Inner Sunset Benches To Date Local “roller-skating engineer” Chris Duderstadt has made it his mission to outfit his Inner Sunset neighborhood with as many community benches as possible.
