Business & Tech Office Tower at Sixth and Market Getting Acquired By Tech Group for 'Post-AI Singularity' Vertical Village Well, this sure sounds like a positive, if kooky, sign for mid-Market as a Burning Man-esque tech collective is close to buying the 16-story building at the corner of Sixth Street that was once home to the Burning Man organization.
SF News First Homicide of the New Year In San Francisco Happened In the Mission, Arrest Made Quickly The first homicide of the year in San Francisco happened less than a half hour after midnight on New Year's Eve, at a gas station in the Mission District.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: New Orleans Death Toll Rises to 15 The death toll in the apparent terrorist attack in New Orleans Wednesday has risen to 15; a Mill Valley family says they narrowly escaped being in the area of the attack; and a 4.7M earthquake rattles Lake County.
SF News One Person Dead After Tesla Cybertruck Explodes Outside Trump Hotel In Las Vegas In a highly symbolic New Year's Day event, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded as it sat outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, leaving one person dead, and speculation is swirling about a possible link to the tragedy in New Orleans hours earlier.
SF News Oakland Sees Violent End to the Year, Beginning of a New One, With Four Murders In 24 Hours While Oakland saw a drop in homicides in 2024, the city unfortunately made up some of that gap in the final hours of the year on Tuesday.
SF News New Year's Day Links: At Least 10 Killed In Apparent Targeted Attack In New Orleans At least 10 people were killed when a pickup truck drove into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans; a suspect has been arrested in an East Oakland shooting of an elderly man; and a fisherman was caught with an illegal haul in SF.
SF News New Year’s Eve Around the Bay: Muni Fares Are Going Up to $2.75 Tomorrow They’re predicting no fog for tonight’s fireworks display; the Chronicle ran down which SF neighborhoods get the most DUI citations; and your Muni fare is going up to $2.75 effective January 1.
SF News Egg Prices Going Through the Roof Because of Bird Flu, Hit $9 a Dozen at Some SF Stores A new federal report says that the avian flu outbreak has driven the price of eggs in California to a whopping $9 a dozen. We hit the local Safeway and found that yes, in SF, eggs really can cost that much right now.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Six Best New Bars In San Francisco, 2024 San Francisco always has been a drinking town, and 2024 brought a collection of cool new watering holes in which to wet one's whistle — and one where you can also get your dance on.
SF News SFMTA Director Jeffrey Tumlin Blames Uber, Lyft, and Waymo for Muni’s Woes On His Way Out the Door The five-year reign of SF Municipal Transit Authority director Jeffrey Tumlin ends today, and in an exit interview, he points the finger at rideshares and robotaxis for Muni’s $300 million deficit.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Collapse Late Yet Again, Suffer Home Loss to Lions on Monday Given everything this team has accomplished over the years, it seems reasonable to not believe that they would actually choke against a conference rival in front of their fans, for the third time this season. Right?
SF News Trash Fire Breaks Out at Abandoned Potrero Hill Apartment Building, One Person Detained A troubled, empty Potrero Hill apartment complex known for attracting squatters was hit by a trash fire Sunday afternoon, and one person has been detained, apparently on suspicion of setting the blaze.
SF News Two Deplorable Teens Arrested In Brentwood Carjacking and Robbery Brentwood police say they have arrested two teenagers, one male and one female, following an alleged assault, kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery last week, and the two teens were apparently known to police.
SF News New Year's Eve Links: Drive-By Shooting In Antioch A drive-by shooting in Antioch left behind 53 shell casings but no one was injured; a house fire near Hayward left a firefighter injured; and the Watsonville man killed by storm debris on a Santa Cruz beach has been identified.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best New Restaurants In San Francisco of 2024 A few buzz-worthy spots had locals doing their usual line-standing or jockeying for tables online this year, and we've seen a collection of terrific new restaurants despite an overall quiet year on the food scene.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Waymo Hasn't Had to Physically Eject Any Passed-Out Passengers... Yet People have passed out in the back of Waymos, but so far they've woken up; the city of Oakland hasn't collected over $1M in fines issued for illegal dumping; and it's going to be very chilly around the Bay Tuesday morning.
SF News Security Guard Appeared to Pull Gun on Officers In SFPD Bodycam Footage of Union Square Incident The security guard whom SFPD officers fatally shot in a bizarre incident two weeks ago appeared to pull a gun and move to aim it at officers as they were attempting to detain him, as seen in bodycam footage.
SF News SF Saw Fewest Homicides Since 1960 This Year — But Traffic Deaths Hit a 17-Year High The good news is that San Francisco saw the lowest number of homicides in 2024 than the city has had in 64 years. The bad news is that traffic deaths were at a level we haven’t seen in 17 years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Serial Bar Tab-Skipper ‘Jared’ Reportedly Drinking and Dashing on the Bill at Bars All Over SF More than three dozen bars across San Francisco have reportedly been hit by alleged drink-and-dash thief known as Jared, who’s been racking up bar tabs and then disappearing without paying.
Arts & Entertainment Let’s Toast to Breakfast of Champions, Celebrating Its 25th Year of Throwing Down Hard on New Year’s Day New Year’s Day has replaced New Year’s Eve in the hearts and minds of many San Francisco’s disco bon vivants, thanks to the SF’s longest-running New Year’s Day party Breakfast of Champions, which notches its 25th anniversary on January 1.
SF News Matthew Muller, the Man Convicted In Denise Huskins Kidnapping and Assault, Faces New Charges In Santa Clara County Matthew Muller, the man at the center of what was, at first, the very mysterious 2015 disappearance and subsequent return of a Vallejo woman, Denise Huskins, is now heading back to court to face charges relating to alleged assaults from six years earlier.
Business & Tech Now the Proper Hotel on Mid-Market Appears to Be In Financial Distress One of two boutique, luxury hotels that were meant to be part of a renaissance on mid-Market Street — which never really materialized — the Proper Hotel at Seventh and Market, now looks like it might fall into the hands of its lender.
SF News Three BART PD Officers, Medical Driver Recovering After Saturday’s High-Speed West Oakland Crash After a Saturday afternoon crash of two BART Police SUVs and a medical supply vehicle responding to an overdose call at the West Oakland station, three BART police officers and the medical supply driver are reportedly recovering.
SF News Norovirus Cases on the Rise Across the Country as Holiday Travels Wrap Up Many Americans have had an unpleasant surprise during these past couple celebration-filled weeks, and that surprise was a gastrointestinal virus.
SF Politics Trump Reverses, Praises President Jimmy Carter After His Death President-elect Donald Trump, in a fairly typical reversal, offered a praise-filled statement in reaction to former president Jimmy Carter's recent passing at the age of 100, after insulting him for years.
