SF News Is Sixth Street Worse Than It's Ever Been? San Francisco's Sixth Street, two blocks of it anyway, has been a circus of drug use and general chaos for going on four decades, if not more. But business owners and police say that it's suddenly gotten much worse.
Business & Tech No Surprise Here: Bay Area Has Highest Concentration of Million-Dollar Jobs of Any US Metro Area The good news is that the Bay Area has the highest concentration of high-earning people of any United States metropolitan region. The bad news is that this is partly the case because rich people have priced so many lower-income people out of the city proper.
SF News Two Killed In Single-Car Crash In Fremont Two people were killed in an apparent high-speed crash in Fremont Wednesday night in which a car collided with a tree, which then fell on a house, and debris from the car damaged the house as well.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Biden Commutes Sentences For 1,500 Some rain arrived ahead of schedule Wednesday night in SF; crews are responding to the scene of a school bus crash on the Peninsula; and Biden just commuted the sentences of 1,500 inmates, most of whom were in home confinement.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Symphony Chorus Gets Contract Deal Cruise employees say they were blindsided by news that GM is ending the autonomous taxi business; HGTV's Chip and Joanna Gaines are now part owners of a Tahoe hockey team; and sunsets in SF will start getting later next week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF’s Next Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone’ Could Be Coming to Cole Valley Three blocks of Cole Valley are poised to be the next “entertainment zone” where bars can sell to-go cocktails during certain outdoor events and gatherings, adding to the two existing entertainment zones on Front Street and outside the Chase Center.
SF News ‘Magic Mushroom Church’ Is Closing Down Its SoMa Location, Claiming Harassment From SF City Hall The Church of Ambrosia’s Zide Door in SF has been providing magic mushrooms and other legally questionable delights for over a year now at Howard and Seventh streets, but says they’re shutting down the SF location because of “harassment” from the SF Planning Department.
SF News FBI Produces Age-Progression Image of SF Toddler Who Went Missing Eight Years Ago Arianna Fitts would be 11 years old today, and if she is still alive she may be living under another name with no memory of being called Arianna.
SF News Car Plows Into Front of Walgreens In West Portal, Store Temporarily Closed A car drove into the front of a Walgreens in West Portal Wednesday morning, causing some damage to the building, and minorly injuring two people.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Plans to Create Four Deputy Positions In Mayor's Office San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie has plans to switch things up a bit in the mayor's office, reverting to a system that voters in the city did away with almost 30 years ago.
SF News United Airlines Flight Snafu Diverts SFO-Bound Flight From New Zealand to Hawaii United Airlines just resumed the only non-stop route between the US and Christchurch, New Zealand, and it runs to SFO, but a Tuesday flight from Christchurch to SFO was diverted to Hawaii because it needed a crew change.
SF Politics SF City Hall Cancels Contracts With Nonprofit That Had Improper Spending Scandal After the director of a city commission was found to be directing taxpayer-funded contracts to a man she lived with, City Hall officials have found what appears to be more self-dealing, and canceled their contracts with a controversial nonprofit.
Business & Tech Yes, Instagram Is Down, and So Are Other Meta Apps The Luigi Mangione memes have officially broken the internet. Meta was experiencing some sort of major "disruptions" Wednesday morning, which were causing outages on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, and Messenger.
SF News Fillmore Safeway to Close In Eight Weeks, Cites Shoplifting as Issue The beleaguered Safeway in the Fillmore, the planned closure of which was announced almost a year ago, now has a final closing date, and the company won't be negotiating this time.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Marin Child May Have Gotten Bird Flu From Raw Milk A child in Marin County with suspected bird flu may have gotten it from raw milk; a teacher in a Benecia school is facing trial for molesting children; and Kimberly Guilfoyle has been nominated as ambassador to Greece.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cruise Robotaxis Are No More, as GM Abandons Robotaxi Business Another day has passed with no Nima Momeni verdict; some hateful graffiti hit a Jewish student center; and GM is giving up the ghost on Cruise robotaxis and abandoning that line of business.
SF Politics Is This Why the FBI Raided Sheng Thao’s Home? Filings Allege High-Rollers Traded Campaign Donations for City Contracts A new set of filings allege that a recycling company and a security firm funneled nearly $300,000 to a Sheng Thao political operative in exchange for lucrative city contracts, and now that political operative may have flipped and could be cooperating with the feds.
SF Politics Adam Schiff Sworn In to Senate, Says He Doesn't Need Pre-emptive Pardon From Biden Congressman Adam Schiff is now Senator Adam Schiff, as he was officially sworn in Monday to cover the balance of the late Dianne Feinstein's term. And he says he doesn't just want to be known as a thorn in Trump's side.
SF News Accused Serial Killer David Misch Tells Odd Tale of Selling Cocaine to Woman Found Dead In 1986 Accused murderer David Misch may or may not have done himself any favors in taking the stand in his own defense Tuesday, in a murder trial that has been ongoing for six weeks, stemming from the deaths of two young women in 1986.
SF News SF on Track to See the Lowest Number of Homicides In 64 Years as 2024 Comes to a Close It looks like 2024 will be the year with the fewest murders in San Francisco since all the way back in 1960, as the city is three weeks away from likely recording its lowest homicide rate in 64 years.
SF News Healthcare CEO Shooting Suspect Was Reported Missing In San Francisco This Fall The suspect in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, was thought by his mother to be living in San Francisco earlier this year, though it's not at all clear that he ever did.
SF Politics Oakland City Council Weighing Drastic Cuts as $130 Million Deficit Looms Layoffs, pay cuts, and reductions to the police and fire departments are all on the table in Oakland, as the City Council looks for ways to slash the city's budget as they confront a deficit of nearly $130 million.
Bay Area Sports Another Pickleball Dispute Arises Between Downtown SF Condo Owners and Fitness Club The "noise pollution" created by outdoor pickleball courts has once again made the local news, as a condo association in downtown San Francisco has filed a lawsuit over pickleball noise.
SF Politics Santa Clara Vice Mayor Resigns After Being Found Guilty of Perjury In 49ers Scandal A sitting Santa Clara City Council member and Vice Mayor of the city, Anthony Becker, was just found guilty of lying under oath about an illicit favor to the San Francisco 49ers ownership. He’s now stepped down, and he’s got prison time to worry about.
Arts & Entertainment Reinstallation of 'The Bay Lights' Has Begun on the Bay Bridge, Full Display Back This Winter Work to reinstall a new set of even-more-weatherproof LEDs for the 'Bay Lights' art piece on the Bay Bridge — the third time that the work has been installed since its initial debut in March 2013 — is now underway.
