SF News The Bayview Vehicle Triage Center Will Close Up for Good In March The Bayview RV triage site that’s been dubbed the “most expensive homeless response” in SF history has been deemed a failure and will wind down operations in a few months, after blowing through $15 million and only accommodating about one-fifth of the people it was supposed to.
SF News Oroville School Shooter Identified as Chronically Homeless Man With Mental Health Issues, Criminal History The man who allegedly shot up a parochial school in Butte County Wednesday before taking his own life was known to law enforcement in the Chico area from some petty crimes two decades ago, and was reportedly homeless.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Aftershocks Continue on Mendocino Fault Thursday's earthquake was the biggest in the Mendocino Fracture Zone since 1992; there have been dozens of aftershocks including a 4.0M this morning; and Biden is reportedly considering blanket pardons for people on Trump's enemies list.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Today Was DA Pamela Price’s Last Day on the Job Santa Clara’s vice mayor has been found guilty of perjury in a 49ers scandal; SF’s broken emergency sirens were useless when for once they were actually needed during the tsunami warning; and Pamela Price is officially no longer the Alameda County District Attorney.
SF News Notorious Dublin Women's Prison Is Being Shuttered For Good, Feds Say Seven months after it abruptly closed following years of abuse allegations and convictions involving staff and a former warden, the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin (FCI Dublin) is being shut down for good.
SF News Police Find Dead Body Wrapped in Plastic Bag in West Oakland A gruesome discovery in West Oakland Thursday morning, as police discovered a dead body that was reportedly wrapped up in a plastic garbage bag, in a case that seems like it’s being investigated as a homicide.
SF News Expert Explains Why Tsunami Warning Was Lifted, and What Kind of Quake Would Be More Likely to Trigger One A tsunami warning was issued for Northern California Thursday morning, with great drama that reverberated across national news outlets, and then rescinded just over an hour later. But why was it issued in the first place?
Arts & Entertainment The Snow Will Go On: ‘Nutcracker’ Saved as SF Ballet Dancers’ Union Reaches Last-Minute Deal to Avert Strike The San Francisco Ballet’s 'The Nutcracker' will indeed premiere Friday night, as the ballet dancers’ union and the SF Ballet have struck an eleventh-hour labor deal to ensure the Sugar Plum Fairy will be dancing.
Business & Tech Google DeepMind Says They Have an AI Weather Model That Outperforms All Existing Models at 15-Day Forecasts Reliably predicting the weather more than a week out has been something of a Holy Grail in the meteorology industry for half a century.
Arts & Entertainment Livermore House to Do Battle on ‘The Great Christmas Light Fight’ Thursday Night Livermore will get lit in the national TV spotlight tonight, as ABC’s “The Great Christmas Light Fight” has a home from the Alameda County locale whose display features more than 900,000 lights.
SF News BART Cleared Trains Out of Transbay Tube, Underground Tunnels In SF Ahead of Potential Tsunami BART train service through the Transbay Tube was briefly halted and the agency said it was clearing all trains out of underground tunnels in San Francisco and on the Peninsula ahead of a potential tsunami. But the warning was lifted, and service is slowly resuming.
SF News [Update] Tsunami Warning Triggered, Then Cancelled for NorCal Coast After 7.0M Underwater Earthquake A significant underwater earthquake off the Humboldt/Mendocino Coast was expected to cause tsunami effects and coastal indundation starting after noon in San Francisco, but the tsunami warning has been lifted.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Supervisors Eliminate $10 Million Per Year In Licensing Fees for Bars and Restaurants SF food and drink establishments will no longer have to pay licensing fees for outdoor seating and a host of other add-ons under newly passed legislation, though the breaks don’t kick in until 2026.
SF News Authorities Say Religious School Targeted, But Not Specific Children, In Oroville Shooting That Injured Two All Seventh-Day Adventist schools in the Bay Area are closed Thursday after a Wednesday shooting in Butte County that appears to have targeted one small school associated with the denomination.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 'Grumpy' Looking Cat Found on Road In Hayward CHP is seeking the owner of a 'grumpy' looking Persian cat found on the loose on a busy road; Walgreens is closing three East Bay stores; and JetBlue is ending service in San Jose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Children Injured In Shooting at Oroville School A shooting at a parochial school in Oroville injured two students; a Bay Area mountain guide appears to be missing in New Zealand; and Day One of deliberations in the Nima Momeni trial ended without a verdict.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Leaving an $876 Million Deficit on Her Way Out the Door, and It Could Top $1 Billion Mayor London Breed’s final fiscal update of her tenure in office shows a budget deficit that’s nearly $100 million higher than it was projected to be just four months ago, and the Trump administration seems likely to yank some already-promised federal funding.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Announces This Year’s ‘Week After Outside Lands’ Concert, With Zach Bryan and Kings of Leon There will once again be a one-day, multi-act concert the weekend following the Outside Lands festival in 2025, and organizers Another Planet Entertainment said they’ve got country star Zach Bryan and indie rockers Kings of Leon as the headliners.
SF Politics With Final House Seat Decided In California, Republicans Set to Have a One-Vote Majority Until Vacancies Are Filled California's 13th Congressional District has flipped from Republican to Democrat, and with that race settled, we now know that the Republicans yet again hold the slimmest of majorities in the House — 220 seats to Democrats' 215.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink House of Prime Rib Sued For the Second Time In Two Years Over Alleged Labor Violations One of San Francisco's most popular and beloved restaurants, The House of Prime Rib, is being sued by a former employee in a class action suit — the second such suit in 18 months — for alleged labor violations including denying rest breaks.
SF News British Indie Band Arrives for US Tour, Promptly Gets Van Robbed at Gunpoint In Vallejo UK alt-rock stars Sports Team arrived in NorCal Monday night to begin their US tour. Their van was robbed at gunpoint first thing Tuesday morning in Vallejo, but they’re still performing Saturday night at The Chapel.
SF News Woman Killed by Boyfriend In Murder-Suicide Identified as Sonoma County Park Ranger A 38-year-old woman who was killed last week in Sonoma County has been identified as a local park ranger who was living in ranger housing outside Santa Rosa.
SF News Family of 18-Year-Old Missing Since Halloween Says Her Body Has Been Found by Police Divers 18-year-old Mai Sai Vue had not been seen since 11 pm on Halloween night, but according to her family, her body was recovered by police divers on Thanksgiving Day.
SF News Will Jury In Bob Lee Murder Case Be Swayed By Defense's 'Bombshell' Cocaine Video? It has seemed from the beginning like a very open-and-shut case for the prosecution, but Nima Momeni's defense team made a big show in their closing argument of rolling out some surveillance footage of victim Bob Lee doing cocaine off what they say was the murder weapon (but likely wasn't).
SF News Humpday Headlines: Westside Residents Move to Recall Joel Engardio Residents upset about Prop K are moving to recall Supervisor Joel Engardio over his support of the measure; video game maker Ubisoft is shutting down its SF studio; and a major trans rights case is before the Supreme Court.
