SF News City Hall Revises Now-Moribund Central SoMa Plan By Allowing More Housing and Much Less Office Space The Central SoMa area between the Moscone Center and the Giants' ballpark was supposed to boom thanks to an ambitious City Hall plan, but the pandemic made that go bust, so now officials are revising the plan with more of a focus on housing and retail.
Arts & Entertainment New Artists' Facility Begins to Take Shape at Former SF Art Institute The historic San Francisco Art Institute is going to be undergoing a renovation in the coming year, and it's now looking like it will re-emerge in a few years' time as an arts organization and studio facility, the exact details of which are still to be revealed.
SF News SF Anti-Crime Crusader and Twitter Troll Ricci Wynne Now Indicted for Child Porn A loudmouth social media figure who made a name for himself with sensational videos of drug use and depravity in San Francisco's Tenderloin is now facing even more serious charges than he already had been, following an arrest late last year.
SF News East Oakland 15-Year-Old Shot and Killed Over Attempted Robbery of His Backpack Less than a month shy of his 16th birthday, an East Oakland teen was shot and killed while walking with his friends to soccer practice, in what was merely an attempt to steal his backpack that quickly turned deadly.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Murder Suspect Killed In Santa Rita Jail A 37-year-old man suspected in a 2022 vehicular homicide on Highway 24 was killed at Santa Rita Jail; a state bill banning street vending has been reintroduced; and there are two possible measles cases in Tuolumne County.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rockslide Shuts Down the Road to Yosemite An Inner Richmond shop may have been unwittingly drawn into an illegal drug operation; Google just made its biggest-ever acquisition of a startup; and State Route 140 into Yosemite National Park is closed because of a rockslide.
SF Politics Suspect Charged in Shooting Attack at the Home of Potential Sheng Thao Case Informant It is widely believed that Oakland businessman Mario Juarez was an informant on the case that led to the raid of Sheng Thao’s home. Some might assume that's why shots were fired at him at his Fruitvale home, and now charges have been filed in that case.
SF Politics Scott Wiener At It Again With a Bill to Upzone Housing Density Near Transit Hubs After his multiple previous attempts to throw out zoning restrictions in areas near transit hubs have failed, state Senator Scott Wiener has a new measure to streamline larger housing projects near a more limited number of those hubs.
SF News 'Dirty Dick' Smith, the Eighth Former FCI Dublin Prison Figure Charged With Sex Crimes, Begins His Trial The eighth man to be charged in connection with sex crimes at the now shuttered women's prison known as FCI Dublin, and the one charged with the most counts, had his first day of trial Monday at a courthouse in Oakland.
SF News Man Arrested In San Jose For Allegedly Keying a Tesla, as Seen In Viral Video A probably politically motivated act of vandalism has resulted in an arrest in San Jose, after a man seen in a viral video keying a Tesla in a Costco parking lot has been taken into custody.
SF News Developer of Failed Fillmore Heritage Center Skates With Just a $100K Settlement Over Unpaid $5.5M Loan The Fillmore Heritage Center that was home to the former Yoshi’s has been a bust, and its latest disappointment is a mere $100,000 settlement payment from a developer who got a city loan on the place for $5.5 million.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Posts Awkward Video Reading 'Nice Muni Emails' Modeled on Jimmy Kimmel's "Mean Tweets" segments, SF Mayor Daniel Lurie has posted a video to social media in which he's reading nice emails the city has received about Muni drivers.
SF News Saks Could Be the Next Major Retailer to Exit Union Square Saks Fifth Avenue, which already switched to an appointment-only model at its Union Square store, may not be sticking around much longer in SF, real estate experts surmise.
SF News Former Napa and Benicia Elementary School Teacher Faces Trial on Child Molestation Charges A former Napa elementary school teacher who’d beaten the rap on some 2007 child sexual abuse charges is now somehow facing more felony counts for lewd acts with children under 14 in Benicia, and a judge has ruled he’ll stand trial.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Giants Sell Stake In Team to Private Equity Firm The Giants have sold a 10% stake in the team to private equity firm Sixth Street; two children killed in a DUI crash in Napa have been identified; and the Trump administration is ending the Emergency Housing Voucher program.
SF News 4.0M Earthquake Centered Near Dublin Felt Across the Bay An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2, later revised at 4.0, shook the East Bay Monday evening and was felt as a brief shake in San Francisco.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Waymo Service to SFO Likely Coming Soon Waymo has reached a deal to start mapping its routes to SFO; the SFMTA is thinking about putting pickleball courts on top of underutilized city-owned garages; and a midwife and her associate have been arrested in Texas for providing abortions.
SF News BART Fare Evasion Way Down With the New Gates, or at Least That’s What BART Claims BART is touting that fare evasion may have dropped by one third since they started putting in those so-called “evasion-proof” fare gates, though this is just based on some informal poll they did where they asked riders if they saw anyone hopping the gates.
SF News Scott Peterson Beaten Up By Fellow Inmate Amid Pickleball Misunderstanding Convicted murderer Scott Peterson's time at Mule Creek State Prison outside Sacramento just got a little worse, after he reportedly got beaten up last week, and now we're hearing from the inmate who did the beating.
Business & Tech The Old Twitter Building Bird Logo Sign Is Up for Auction, But You Have to Pay for the Shipping The very large, old Twitter bird logo that used to be attached to the building's former Market Street headquarters is on the auction block and hoping to fetch $40,000, but you’ll have to pay the shipping on the 12-foot, 560-pound piece.
Business & Tech All-Day Internet Outage Affecting Comcast Customers Across SF Xfinity/Comcast customers lost internet, phone, and TV service Monday morning around 10 am. And an initial promise of service restoration by 1 pm has now been updated to 8 pm.
SF News Several Big Corporate Sponsors Decline to Participate In SF Pride This Year, Because Trump Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, and booze conglomerate Diageo are among the corporations that are backing away from supporting San Francisco's LGBTQ Pride celebrations this year, marking some shameful fair-weather-friend behavior in a time of frightening fascist action.
SF News Napa Mother Charged and Arrested for DUI After Sunday Morning Crash That Killed Her Two Children A 31-year-old Napa woman was allegedly under the influence and speeding when she crashed her car into a tree Sunday morning, killing her own ten-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter.
SF News Man Found Dead In San Mateo County Jail Was Convicted In Street-Racing Death of Couple A man who was serving time for the vehicular manslaughter deaths of a Redwood City couple, stemming from a 2022 street-racing incident with a teenager, was found dead over the weekend in his cell.
SF News Mural at Great Highway Park Defaced Just After Highway Was Closed Permanently The Sunset District did not exactly roll out the welcome mat for their new car-free Great Highway, as on the very first night of its new car-free status, a mural in the park was vandalized in what may have been an act of protest.
