SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Respite In SoCal Winds to End, More Fire Danger Looms Wind conditions are expected to worsen in LA throughout the day Thursday; the lack of rain this winter in SoCal is consistent with La Niña; and police in Santa Rosa arrest an alleged carjacker who shot at them.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Cutting Some Service on Popular Bus Lines Muni is cutting midday service on some bus lines to address budget woes; the official death toll in the LA wildfires rises to five; and Trump is trying to blame Newsom for the fires, again.
SF News City Attorney Threatens Mission-Bernal Property Accused of Throwing Illegal After-Hours Parties An upstairs spot above two unassuming Mission-Bernal restaurants has reportedly been a hotbed of unpermitted late-night after-hours parties complete with gambling machines for the last two months, and City Attorney David Chiu is investigating.
SF Politics Rafael Mandelman Is Your New SF Board of Supervisors President, Because No One Ran Against Him District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is now a heartbeat away from being mayor, as he was just elected President of the SF Board of Supervisors, and somehow extinguished an expected challenge from Supervisor Myrna Melgar.
SF News Retiring Chronicle Reporter Kevin Fagan Would Like Everyone to Stop Sending Him Zodiac Killer Tips The enduring legend and unsolved case of the Zodiac murders in the Bay Area has now haunted multiple generations of both police detectives and crime reporters in the city. Kevin Fagan is one of them, and he's retiring, effective today.
Arts & Entertainment Like It or Not, 45-Foot Statue of Nude Woman Coming to Union Square Shortly Union Square retailers and tourism officials are hoping that a Burning Man statue of a 45-foot-tall nude woman is going to rev up the beleaguered district’s shopping scene, and we’ll see if they’re right when it goes up in early February.
SF News 'Safety Isn't Just a Statistic': Read SF Mayor Daniel Lurie's Inauguration Speech Daniel Lurie was sworn in Wednesday as the 46th mayor of San Francisco, giving an inauguration speech that was predictably focused on the hot-button issues of drugs, crime, and the perception of safety on city streets.
SF News Kidnapping and Assault Victim Denise Huskins Helped Law Enforcement Find More Victims of Matthew Muller New revelations about a previously unknown kidnapping for ransom in Contra Costa County allegedly committed by Matthew Muller, the culprit in the 'American Nightmare' kidnapping and assault of a Vallejo woman in 2015, came in part due to that woman's advocacy.
SF News Bay Area Firefighters In LA as Eaton Fire In Altadena Threatens Thousands of Homes The raging fire situation in LA looked ominous for many residents this morning, even if they were not immediately in view of the flames. And while the Palisades Fire has captured coverage in the last 12 hours, the Eaton Fire in the northeastern part of the county is looking even more destructive.
SF News Massive Office and Housing Development Proposed for What Is Now Just a Bunch of SF Caltrain Tracks The latest twist in the ambitious plans to extend Caltrain to the Salesforce Transit Center is a developer hoping to send Caltrain tracks underground, and cover that land with new towers, one of which would be taller than the Transamerica Pyramid.
SF Politics No Time to Retire, Barbara Lee Makes Her Bid For Oakland Mayor Official Confirming what was already looking likely earlier this week, recent former Congresswoman Barbara Lee announced Wednesday that she will, indeed, be running for mayor of Oakland in an April special election.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Wind-Fueled Palisades Fire Destroys 1,000 Structures The Palisades Fire raged overnight in Los Angeles destroying at least 1,000 structures; gusty winds here in the Bay toppled trees and power lines; and Daniel Lurie gets inaugurated today in Civic Center Plaza.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Giants Have Signed Pitching Ace Justin Verlander The Palisades Fire is wreaking absolute havoc in Southern California; that long-promised ability to just tap your debit card to pay transit fare is being delayed indefinitely; and the Giants just acquired three-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Justin Verlander.
SF News Elephant Seals Are Back at Point Reyes for Breeding Season, and They’ll Need Some Privacy, Thank You Very Much While the unreasonably massive elephant seals are now in Marin County all the way from the Aleutian Islands, they are here for mating season, and you can only watch them from a few dozen yards away.
Arts & Entertainment Meet the 2025 'Hearts in SF,’ Which Just Arrived at the Ferry Building The annual pre-Valentine’s Day custom of 400-pound, six-foot-wide hearts showing up in SF beats on for its 21st year, but don’t get your heart set on a big display, because there aren’t that many of them this year.
Business & Tech Waymo Passenger Says He Was Late to the Airport Because Robocar Kept Doing Circles In a Parking Lot This week in robocar snafus: A Waymo in Phoenix went a little haywire recently, and its passenger says he was late getting to a flight because the car refused to stop circling the same parking lot.
SF Politics Lurie Administration Faces First Potential Scandal as DUI Accusation Surfaces About Public Safety Chief Paul Yep, the retired SF police officer whom incoming mayor Daniel Lurie tapped to become the new Chief of Public Safety in the Mayor's Office, was involved in a car collision several years ago in which he rear-ended a couple, and they accused him of being drunk at the time.
Business & Tech Saying Its Content Moderation Has 'Gone Too Far,' Meta Now Set to Become Hotbed of Transphobia and Conspiracies In a shift akin to what Elon Musk has done with the platform we still call Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will soon be more of a free-for-all when it comes to misinformation, with "community notes" inserted when facts are questioned.
Arts & Entertainment Palo Alto Donkey Who Served as the Model for the ‘Shrek’ Donkey Has Died A Jerusalem miniature donkey in Palo Alto named Perry served as the movement model for Eddie Murphy’s ‘Shrek’ character Donkey in the animated franchise, but Perry succumbed to a hoof disease last week.
SF News High-Speed Rail Project, Facing More Funding Woes Under Trump, Might Now Get Linked to Vegas Rail Line There was an update, of sorts, on Monday about the California High-Speed Rail project, two weeks ahead of the inauguration of Donald Trump — which will usher in another era of Republican middle fingers held high in the direction of such projects that aren't in their states.
SF News Scandal-Plagued Antioch PD Gets Yet Another New Acting Police Chief, Plus Federal Oversight The City of Antioch welcomes its third interim police chief in 18 months through its revolving door, and new Chief Joe Vigil will have the department's racist text scandal and a new federal oversight monitor to deal with.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lazy Bear Team to Open Big New French Restaurant In SF's Design District It's a new year and with it we get the first big restaurant opening announcement for San Francisco: Coming this summer, chef David Barzelay and the team behind Lazy Bear are planning to open a grand, old-school French restaurant.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Two Charged In Marin Overdose Death Two people have been charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection with a Saturday overdose death in Marin; Latinx Democratic Club co-president Kevin Ortiz has been cleared of sexual misconduct allegations; and EDM producer Zhu will be DJing at Daniel Lurie's big block party tomorrow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Gone Girl' Kidnapper Matthew Muller Facing New Charges In Contra Costa County The suspect in the NYE homicide in the Mission District has been charged; Matthew Muller, the man convicted in the 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins, allegedly committed another kidnapping that year; and there was an attempted break-in at the Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory.
Business & Tech Meta Continues Its Trump Turn, Adds UFC President Dana White to Its Board of Directors Facebook and Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg continues his mixed martial arts fascination, and his increasing kowtowing to Donald Trump, with the curious addition of UFC president Dana White to Meta’s expanding board of directors.
