SF News Day Around the Bay: Pedestrian Killed In the Mission District A pedestrian was killed Sunday morning near 16th and Valencia streets in SF; the family of a Vallejo man killed in 2022 is upset about a lenient plea deal for his killer; and the CHP is starting a 'maximum enforcement period' on Wednesday.
Bay Area Sports Judge Won't Block San Jose State From Conference Volleyball Tournament Over Alleged Transgender Player The San Jose State Spartans women’s volleyball team will still compete in the Mountain West Tournament this week, after a judge just refused to rule the team out of the tournament following a lawsuit from nine players over a supposedly transgender player.
Arts & Entertainment Pictures: They’ve Got Baby Reindeer at the Cal Academy of Sciences for the Next Two Weeks for a Holiday Exhibit This is not the kind of baby reindeer you see on Netflix, but instead real, live baby reindeer at the Cal Academy of Sciences through December 5, and the museum is also bringing in baby camels and baby yaks for their ‘Tis the Season for Science’ exhibit.
SF News SF-Bashing Twitter Troll ‘Raw Ricci’ Arrested for Allegedly Pimping Women Out of His Luxury SoMa Apartment One of SF's most notorious Twitter provocateurs and “anti-crime” Fox News guests finds himself in SF County Jail today, after being arrested at SFO on pimping and pandering charges that allege he ran a sex work ring from his upscale apartment.
SF Politics President of Oakland City Council, Nikki Fortunato Bas, Declares Victory In County Race, Complicating Mayoral Transition Who will be interim mayor of Oakland? That's a more open question now as City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas announced victory in her bid to become an Alameda County supervisor.
SF News BART Police Arrest Man for Fare Evasion, He Turns Out to Be an SF Murder Suspect A routine fare evasion arrest at the Bay Fair BART station turned up a suspect for a San Francisco murder, and 36-year-old Johnathon Calvin Wright was handed over to SFPD and is now in County Jail on that murder charge.
SF News Buyer Interest Emerges for Macy's Union Square Property; City Holds Out Hope Macy's Will Stay In Some Form The Macy's corporation hasn't shared much in the way of plans since its bombshell announcement earlier this year that it would close its flasghip San Francisco store. But there are a couple of possibilities emerging for the property.
SF News SF to Expect Off-and-On Rain Through Thanksgiving, Though Most of Thursday Could Be Dry After some record-setting rainfall around the Bay Area last week, we won't be seeing much of a dry spell until later in the week, as showers will continue arriving for the next couple of days.
SF News Judge Dismisses Most Charges Against Gaza Protesters Who Blocked the Golden Gate Bridge A big courtroom win for the protesters known as “the GG26” who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge with a Gaza ceasefire protest on April 15, as an SF judge has thrown out 32 of the 44 charges that DA Brooke Jenkins had brought against them.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Man Dies In Floodwaters Near Guerneville A man tragically died inside a vehicle in rising floodwaters in Sonoma County on Saturday; two men were arrested in Napa for attempted murder; and cable car service in SF is being replaced by buses for the next two days.
SF News 500 More SF Hotel Workers Now Striking They join 2,000 other San Francisco hotel workers already striking since late September, demanding better healthcare, inflation-matched wage increases, and the reversal of post-pandemic staffing cuts.
SF News Purdy-less 49ers Flounder, Get Routed By Packers 38-10 This loss drops the 49ers to 4-6, leaving their playoff aspirations on life support.
SF News Sunday Links: Barbara Lee For Oakland Mayor? Barbara Lee is being pushed as a replacement for Sheng Thao; The culture war comes for a San Francisco high school; and an arrest has been made in relation to a high-speed minivan pursuit.
SF News Hayes Valley Quadruple Murder Suspect Convicted on All Counts Lee Farley, 36, was convicted Friday of shooting and killing four men in the Hayes Valley neighborhood in 2015.
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco Secretly a 'Pinball Mecca' Inside S.F.'s secret love affair with pinball; A 17-year-old is on track to be a lawyer next year; and Kendrick Lamar's GNX is making Warriors fans hopeful for a championship.
SF News Great Highway Park Effort Receives $1 Million Grant On Friday, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department announced the award of a $1 million grant from the California State Coastal Conservancy Board to help protect the proposed park from flooding and construct safe walkways for pedestrians.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Flooding Strikes Across Bay Area Flooding has hit across the Bay; Berkeley has finally called its mayoral race; and a surprise album from Kendrick Lamar.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Say Hello, Again, to Park Tavern Park Tavern is reopening tonight with a famous new chef, a Top Chef alum opens a new Divisadero wine bar, and the Fillmore neighborhood is up in arms about the closure of their only grocery store, all in This Week In Food.
SF Politics Rumor Swirls That Breed Will Appoint Former Aide, Loyal 'Guard Dog' and Potential Chaos Agent as Supervisor Mayor London Breed is rumored to be seriously considering appointing her former aide and more recently campaign advisor Conor Johnston to Catherine Stefani's soon-to-be-vacated seat on the Board of Supervisors.
SF News Lake Tahoe Is Getting An Electric ‘Hydrofoil’ To Speed You Across the Lake In 30 Minutes Time The first ever electric hydrofoil watercraft in the US is coming to Lake Tahoe, promising to be the fastest craft on the water with "hydrofoil wings” that appear to make it fly.
SF News Marina District, I-280, Other Areas of SF Begin to Flood as Flash Flood Warning Issued Low-lying parts of San Francisco are likely to see urban flooding Friday afternoon after the National Weather Service issued a warning of "life threatening flash flooding."
Business & Tech Supreme Court Denies Facebook’s Appeal to Halt Cambridge Analytica Lawsuit From Jilted Investors A multi-billion lawsuit investors brought against Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica data breach can proceed, as the Supreme Court just shot down Facebook’s appeal in a one-sentence ruling.
Arts & Entertainment Local Crypto Mogul Buys That Banana Taped to a Wall for $6.2 Million If you need more evidence that the billionaires are not being taxed enough, SF cryptocurrency mogul Justin Sun just paid $6.2 million for an art piece that is merely a banana duct taped to a wall, and says he is going to eat the banana live on the internet.
SF News Fatal Drug Overdoses In SF May Be Declining Because Fentanyl-User Population May Be Dwindling Many people seriously addicted to fentanyl have already died in San Francisco, and those who are still alive increasingly have access to Narcan and have learned what their limits are, which experts say are both reasons why the number of fatal overdoses has declined.
SF News Severe Flooding in Santa Rosa Leaves 300 People Stranded Cars were headlights-deep in floodwater in Santa Rosa on Thursday, leaving people stranded at a hotel, while a medical center had to be evacuated amidst historical volumes of rainfall.
