SF News Five Years Later, Oakland High School Grads Reflect on How COVID Wrecked Their High School Years As we approach the five-year COVID lockdown anniversary, a New York Times feature talks to a dozen Oakland Technical High School grads about how it affected them to spend their prime teen years stuck in their room, and just on Zoom.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Child's Remains Found In East Bay House Fire The remains of the child missing in Thursday's house fire in San Leandro were found; a fatal crash shuts down eastbound Highway 24; and a federal judge pushes back on Justice Department expanding January 6th pardons.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The ‘Blood Moon’ Lunar Eclipse Is Tonight, Will Skies Be Clear Enough to See It? A couple was sentenced for robbing two SF banks in the same day; an SFO caterer is laying off more than 800 employees; and there’s a lunar eclipse coming tonight, but who knows if it will be visible in Bay Area skies.
SF News Two SF Women Charged With $500K In Welfare Fraud by Claiming They Were Caring for 17 Kids An SFMTA employee and her partner have pleaded guilty to a $30,000-a-month Section 8 fraud scheme where they claimed they were caring for 17 children, but were not caring for any children whatsoever.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Bay Area Chefs Featured In Season 22 Cast of 'Top Chef' On Season 22 of Bravo's Top Chef, which was shot in multiple locations across Canada and premieres tonight (Thursday, March 13) at 9 pm, two chefs from the Bay Area are among the competitors.
Business & Tech Meta Playing Hardball to Prevent Sales of Ex-Employee’s Tell-All Book Well well well, Mark Zuckerberg suddenly wants less free speech and more content moderation when it comes to a former Facebook employee who’s written a book exposing what it was like to work there, and they’ve hauled the publisher to court.
SF News Vintage BART Car Heads to Sierra Foothills to Become Airbnb Rental A car from BART's retired train fleet is making its final journey shortly on the bed of a big rig truck to Tuolumne County, where it will be incorporated into a newly constructed vacation home designed by a local architect.
SF News SF Federal Judge Orders Rehiring of Probationary Workers at Six Federal Agencies, Calling Firings 'a Sham' A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered six federal agencies to reinstate thousands of probationary employees who were summarily fired or laid off last month, some of them for cause.
SF News Daly City Man Sentenced to 15 Years to Life for Murdering Estranged Wife With Four-Year-Old Son in Next Room Justice was apparently finally served after it stumbled the first time around, as a man who initially got off on a mistrial was finally convicted and sentenced for killing his wife and then pointing the gun at her four-year-old son.
SF News Five Injured, Report of Missing Child In San Leandro House Fire A six-year-old child was initially reported dead in a huge Thursday morning fire near San Leandro that sent five people to the hospital.
SF Politics As ‘Empty Homes Tax’ Faces Legal Challenge, Supervisor Jackie Fielder Moves to Not Suspend It The Empty Homes Tax that SF voters approved in 2022 is in limbo because landlord groups sued, but Supervisor Jackie Fielder wants to explore possible amendments allowing the city to collect the tax if the courts allow it prior to their final decision.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Union Square Nintendo Store Announces Opening Date Hillsborough police are offering a $100K reward for information about a shooting suspect; Gavin Newsom is interviewing Steve Bannon on his podcast; and the Union Square Nintendo store now has an opening date.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Mobile Command Van Shifts to 16th & Mission The SFPD has moved its Mobile Command Unit No. 2 from Civic Center to 16th & Mission; staff at SF's regional Dept. of Education office for civil rights enforcement was locked out today; and a $20K reward is being offered in a case of a sea lion beheading in Bodega Bay.
Bay Area Sports March Madness Coming Back to the Chase Center in Two Weeks, Tickets Currently “Cheap” at $200 to $2,500 The March Madness “Sweet Sixteen” and “Elite Eight” games will be at the Chase Center in two weeks, and you might want to jump on the single-game tickets that are currently $200-$2,500, as those prices are likely to absolutely skyrocket.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Renovation Now $20 Million Over Budget, In Addition to Being Four to Six Months Behind Schedule The $15 million renovation of the Castro Theatre has now ballooned to a $35 million renovation, and this news comes on the heels of learning that the theater’s reopening will be delayed by anywhere from four to six months minimum.
SF News Alleged Prolific Walgreens Thief on a Skateboard Charged With 24 Counts of Retail Theft A 26-year-old San Francisco man is in jail after being charged with 24 counts including second-degree commercial burglary and petty theft, in connection with 21 separate incidents at Walgreens and CVS stores.
SF News East Bay Realtor Charged With Murder In Love-Triangle Shooting A Richmond man has been charged with murder in a January shooting that left a 42-year-old man dead, and the victim was reportedly a romantic rival of the suspect.
SF News Turns Out That Tesla Showroom on Van Ness Is Operating Without Proper Permitting Here’s the latest from the department of government inefficiency: the Van Ness Tesla showroom that’s been the site of Elon Musk protests also lacks its permit approvals, though it seems the Department of Building Inspection just dropped the ball.
SF News Body Recovered From the Bay Near SF Ferry Building San Francisco firefighters responded to Pier 14 Wednesday morning after a report of a body found in the Bay.
SF News Study: Atmospheric Rivers Getting Stronger, More Frequent It's not your imagination. You're hearing the term "atmospheric river," which was not a thing on weather reports a couple decades ago, much more often each year in part because these weather events are happening more often.
SF Politics At Oakland Mayoral Debate, Barbara Lee and Loren Taylor Blame Each Other For the Whole Sheng Thao Mess Both Loren Taylor and Barbara Lee were sharp and well-prepared for Tuesday night’s Oakland mayoral debate, and both crafted arguments that somehow the other was the bigger enabler of the alleged corruption under former mayor Sheng Thao.
SF News Woman Stabbed In the Neck on Muni Train In SF's Bayview A woman was stabbed and left with life-threatening injuries Tuesday evening on a T-line Muni train in San Francisco's Bayview District.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Police Seek Suspect In Sunday Beating on Castro Street Police are seeking a male suspect in a brutal beating outside the Castro Theatre; DOGE cuts are shutting down the Bureau of Land Management office in Ukiah; and the China Beach bathhouse renovation is finally getting underway.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland on Brink of Closure After City Shuts Down Their Patio Scott Peterson got roughed up in a prison fight; the stock market had another dismal day under Trump; and Eli’s Mile High Club may have to shut down after the city forced them to close off their back patio.
SF News Second SF Spa in Two Weeks Has Transgender Patron Controversy, But Quickly Changes Its Policy Japantown’s Korean spa Imperial Day Spa is the latest bathhouse facility with an uproar over where transgender patrons fall in its gender policy, though right before a planned Monday protest, the spa announced it would just go with customers’ chosen gender identity.
