SF News Man Steals Dog In San Mateo, Flees Down Highway 101, Gets Caught A dognapping that took place Monday morning in San Mateo was likely thwarted in part by morning traffic on 101, and the poodle/doodle that was stolen was safely returned.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Endorses D2 Supervisor Sherrill Long Before 2026 Election. Is He Worried About Sherrill's Odds? SF Mayor Daniel Lurie made the unusual move to endorse Supervisor Stephen Sherrill seven months before the election, a gesture he has made to no other supervisors, and perhaps a canary in the coal mine regarding Sherrill’s chances.
Arts & Entertainment The SantaCon Red Tide Returns Saturday, But Dozens of SF Bars Now Actually Welcoming the Santas You better watch out, as Santacon is back on Saturday. But many SF bars are actually rolling out the red carpet to welcome the Santas, a pretty remarkable culture shift for this jolly old event that had gotten too blitzened.
Arts & Entertainment San Jose Christmas Decoration Thief Is Stealing Specifically Only Disney-Themed Decorations, Remains at Large Some goofy burglar in the San Jose area appears to be on a mission to steal Disney items — and Disney items only — off local lawns, and some families say their lawns have been looted of more than $1,000 worth of Disney lawn ornaments.
Arts & Entertainment South Bay Congressman Raises National Security Concerns About Paramount Hostile Takeover Bid of Warner Bros. The corporate drama gripping Hollywood right now could have national security implications, says South Bay Congressman Sam Liccardo in a new joint letter to the board of Warner Bros. Discovery.
SF News 32-Year-Old Woman Seriously Injured In 16th Street Hit-and-Run, Suspect Still at Large A Menlo Park woman who works as an administrator at a private school in Palo Alto was walking with her partner and friends in the Mission District Friday night when she was violently struck by a car speeding down 16th Street.
SF News Federal Judge In SF Again Rules Against Trump's National Guard Deployment In LA, Says It Must End A federal judge has, for the third time, ruled against the Trump administration in its monthslong deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles, ordering the troops out of the city.
Bay Area Sports Bay Area World Cup Schedule Announced, and Team USA Might Play One Game Here We now know who’s playing in the six World Cup games at Levi’s Stadium in late June and early July, and we’re mostly just hosting teams like Paraguay and Qatar, but there’s a chance we’ll host Team USA for a knockout game on July 1.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Clipper Readers Start Taking Regular Cards Today Today is the day that Clipper card readers start taking regular debit and credit cards; an Oakland man was gunned down in his car; and teachers in West Contra Costa County have ended their strike after five days.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman Gives Birth to Baby While Riding Inside Waymo Jurors have gone into deliberations in the murder trial of the “Straight Outta Hunters Point” director; KRON4 nuked Santa Claus in an unearthed 42-year-old TV ad; and a woman reportedly gave birth while taking a Waymo to UCSF.
Business & Tech Report: SF-Based Instacart Charging Some Customers as Much as 23% More for the Same Items, Thanks to AI Pricing People buying the exact same item from the exact same store are sometimes paying a price as much as 23% higher on the platform Instacart, thanks to AI algorithms that show buyers different prices.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Comes Out Swinging Against Proposed 25-Story Marina Safeway Megadevelopment SF Mayor Daniel Lurie is picking a fight with big-money development interests for maybe the first time since he took office, and he has nothing but contempt for the 800-unit double tower proposed for the Marina Safeway site.
Arts & Entertainment Shaquille O'Neal to Host Shaq's Fun House at Cow Palace, Featuring T-Pain, on Super Bowl Weekend Basketball Hall of Famer turned DJ Shaquille O'Neal is throwing a big ticketed party event in the Bay Area over Super Bowl Weekend, and T-Pain and Tiësto are both scheduled to perform.
Arts & Entertainment Vaillancourt Fountain Gets One Last Chance at Survival, as Demolition Gets Appealed to Board of Supervisors There is one more last-gasp, hail mary attempt to save the Embarcadero's crumbling and controversial Vaillancourt Fountain, as preservationists have appealed the decision to remove it to the SF Board of Supervisors.
SF News Video: 'Undercover' Santa Arrests Two In Napa County Christmas Tree Theft This strange and performative video has been going around from the American Canyon Police Department, showing a police officer dressed as Santa Claus putting a suspect in handcuffs.
SF News Trial Delayed In 2024 Double-Murder of Teen Girls In Napa Two young women were gunned down near downtown Napa in April 2024 after they allegedly brought a knife to a fight with another woman, and the legal proceedings against two suspects in the case were just paused.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Panisse, the New Cocktail Spot Next to Chez Panisse, Opens This Week The much anticipated — and somewhat controversial for the neighborhood — new cocktail bar attached to Chez Panisse will open its doors Thursday, December 11, and they won't be taking reservations.
SF News Seismologist Suggests That the Bay Area's Next Big Quake Could Come With an Early Warning From the North The lead author of a recent study about how major earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest have been historically linked to seismic events in California, specifically on the San Andreas Fault, says he sees some upside to the findings, at least for those of us in California.
SF News Trial Finally Underway for 2021 Killing of 84-Year-Old ‘Grandpa Vicha’ Ratanapakdee Nearly five full years after the unprovoked killing of an 84-year-old Thai immigrant in Anza Vista, the long-delayed trial for the murder of Vicha Ratanapakdee got underway Monday at SF Superior Court.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Asian Art Museum Returns Looted Thai Statues SF's Asian Art Museum is repatriating some looted statues to Thailand; yesterday's earthquake swarm in San Ramon totaled 10 small quakes; and SF's RV parking crackdown is off to a slow start.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Murder Charges Filed Against SF General Stabbing Suspect Murder charges have been filed against he man accused of stabbing a social worker at SF General; a small earthquake rattled Piedmont; and South San Francisco police shot a man they say charged at officers with a knife.
Business & Tech SF-Based Catering Website Swaps Restaurants’ Real Food Pictures With AI Pictures, Restaurants Get Pissed These bagels claim to be Boichik Bagels on the catering website Forkable, but they are fake AI-generated bagels, as perhaps evidenced by the oddly uniform size of the bagel slices, all slightly larger than a normal bagel half. Now restaurants listed on the website are furious.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed Wine Importer and Retailer Kermit Lynch Opens Second-Ever Location In Marin Longtime Berkeley-based wine importer and retailer Kermit Lynch, one of the keystones of the Berkeley food world for five decades, has just expanded with its second-ever retail location, in Larkspur.
Business & Tech Watch: Two Waymos Appear to Collide In SF, Then Cause Traffic Jam That Traps Residents on Street The latest Waymo dustup is a Saturday incident where two Waymos appear to have collided with one another, resulting in three Waymos just stopping in place, and blocking a dead-end street so residents could not drive out.
SF News As It Prepares to Close Mall Location, Could H&M Be on Its Way Back to Union Square? One of the last retailers to close up shop at the nearly shuttered San Francisco Centre mall is H&M, which just confirmed it will close down in January, after the holidays.
