SF News Pedestrian Crash on Highway 101 Near SFO Snarls Early Morning Traffic A crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian on northbound 101 near San Francisco International Airport left the pedestrian dead and all northbound lanes shut down for several hours early Tuesday.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Administrator Takes Over Alameda County DA's Office Royl Roberts, Pamela Price's administrative second-in-command, has temporarily taken over the Alameda Co. DA's office; that shattered BART entrance glass in downtown SF still isn't replaced; and gusty winds took down a large tree in Berkeley last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former SF GOP Chair Named By Trump to Civil Rights Post Former SF GOP Chair Harmeet Dhillon has landed herself a plum post in the Trump Justice Department; the Bay Area Syrian community is celebrating the fall of the Assad regime; and a 5.8M earthquake on the Nevada border could have been triggered by last week's quake off the coast.
SF News 17-Year-Old Arrested After Crashing Truck Into Discovery Bay Security Booth, Killing Guard A 62-year-old security guard is dead, and his colleague seriously injured, after a teen crashed his truck into the security booth of a gated community late Friday night, and the teen driver is facing vehicular manslaughter charges.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Mediterranee Staying Put on Fillmore After All, With Lease Extension After Bout of Uncertainty The fate of 45-year-old Middle Eastern restaurant La Mediterranee was up in the air after a new controversial landlord on a buying spree bought its Upper Fillmore building, but the restaurant and owner jointly announced a four-year lease extension for the legacy business.
Arts & Entertainment ACT's 'A Whynot Christmas Carol' Deconstructs a Dickens Classic, to Evocative Ends There is no definitive stage version of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol,' just as there is no one definitive film version. And though ACT had a faithful and well loved version of its own that it staged for over 40 years, the company decided it was time for a change.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pebble Beach Food & Wine Announces Lineup of Celeb Chefs, Ticket On-Sale Dates Rub elbows with Giada De Lauretiis, Maneet Chauhan, Jonathan Waxman and others at Pebble Beach Food & Wine in April 2025, with ticket pre-sales beginning today.
Arts & Entertainment Original Singer of 'Golden Girls' Theme Makes Surprise Appearance at 'Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes' In SF 'The Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes,' an annual tradition from a quartet of SF drag queens going back 17 years, returns this holiday season in much fancier digs than where it began. And Friday's opening included a surprise guest.
SF News Woman Suffers Life-Threatening Injuries After Fall From LUMA Hotel in Mission Bay A woman fell or leapt from the 17-story LUMA Hotel in Mission Rock Saturday afternoon in what police currently believe was a suicide attempt, though she instead appears to have crashed into an awning and suffered life-threatening injuries.
SF News Man Arrested In Connection With Healthcare CEO Slaying Spent Time In Bay Area A man whom New York police are describing as a "strong person of interest" in last week's murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been arrested in Pennsylvania and identified as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione.
SF News German Shepherd Gives Birth to Seven Puppies on SF Whale Watching Boat An SF whale watching boat tour took an unexpected direction Sunday morning, as the boat’s resident German shepherd suddenly went into labor and produced seven little puppies as the boat was setting sail.
SF News SF's Wild Parrots Suddenly Flocking to Transamerica Redwood Park We have a new development in the rovings of San Francisco's beloved but noisy wild parrots — at least one group of them anyway. They have been gathering regularly in recent months in the small redwood grove next to the iconic Transamerica Pyramid.
SF News Shootout at Antioch Bowling Alley Leaves Two People Dead A Saturday night shootout at the Delta Bowl in Antioch has left two people dead, and they apparently both shot each other in some sort of dispute in the bowling alley’s parking lot.
SF News Sideshow In Oakland Ends With BMW In Flames A roving sideshow early Sunday morning that moved from North Oakland closer to downtown, drawing hundreds of spectators, ended with one car fully engulfed in flames.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Systemwide BART Delays Caused By Stalled Train A disabled BART train in Oakland was causing systemwide delays this morning; Marc Benioff tries to play off his recent Trump support; and jurors in the Nima Momeni trial, for the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee, resume deliberations.
SF News Twin Peaks Murderers Sentenced to Life in Prison The pair will not have the possibility of parole.
SF News Sunday Links: Print News's Last Stand in SF The City's last newsstand is operated by just one man; A record-breaking deal for the Giants; and Zach Bryan headlines a concert taking place next August.
SF News Saturday Links: Local Escaped Convict Found After Eight Years A longtime prison escapee just got caught once more; The internet is adopting an anti-snitching policy for the UnitedHealthcare CEO's shooter; and Oakland is making large cuts to essential services.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bomb Threat at State Capitol Forces Evacuations An uncredible bomb threat forced evacuations at the state capitol; Trump's new AI czar dislikes OpenAI; State Farm is about to raise its car insurance rates in California.
SF News It’Sugar Abruptly Closes Union Square Store, But New Tenant Supposedly Lined Up Candy emporium It’Sugar has just closed down its Stockton and Market street store, which had previously been a Virgin Megastore and a Forever 21, but the realtor insists there’s already a new tenant moving in.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Two North Beach Classics See Some Fresh Change North Beach Restaurant makes a big comeback, there's some legal drama between partners at Farmshop in Marin, and the Chronicle's MacKenzie Chung Fegan has named her favorite new restaurant of the year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Six Holiday Cocktail Pop-Ups and Special Menus to Check Out Before Xmas It's become a bona fide thing to host a holiday-themed pop-up or "experience" in your bar for the month of December, and that is happening once again at a bunch of spots around San Francisco and beyond.
Business & Tech SF Revokes Approval for $700-a-Month Sleeping Pod Complex, Ironically, Because It Doesn’t Have Affordable Housing That embattled $700-a-month sleeping pod complex has lost its City Hall approval, because the SF Planning Department says it doesn't comply with the city’s affordable housing rules, among other permit violations.
SF Politics Divisive BART Board Member Debora Allen Passes Out MAGA Hats to Colleagues On Her Way Out the Door In a sign of things to come in the year ahead, as Trump supporters from every basket of deplorables feel emboldened to once again spit in the faces of others and proclaim their dominion, a conservative BART director on her way out gave out a provocative parting gift to her colleagues.
Business & Tech No More TikTok? Appeals Court Upholds Law That Could Boot TikTok Out of U.S. Barring Supreme Court intervention in the next five weeks or so, TikTok may have to shut down its US operations, something that a legion of influencers making incomes from the platform are not happy about.
