SF News California Forever Sees New Way to Get Around Voter Approval For Their Solano County City-From-Scratch Sensing that public opinion was not going their way last year, and facing legal fights on several fronts, a billionaire-backed effort to build a new utopian city from farmland in eastern Solano County may head down a new path.
Arts & Entertainment Cole Valley Is Your Newest Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone’ After Board of Supervisors Approval The to-go cocktails will be flowing on a few Cole Valley sidewalks during street-closure events, as the SF Board of Supervisors just made that neighborhood SF’s newest “entertainment zone” where establishments can sell to-go drinks during fairs and night markets.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Musk-Esque Email Goes Out to Federal Employees RFK Jr. faces confirmation in the Senate; BART had some major delays this morning; and two men have been arrested in connection with a dead woman found on a sidewalk in Santa Rosa.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Warriors Are Retiring Andre Iguodala's No. 9 Jersey Google is capitulating to Trump on the Gulf of Mexico moniker; Scott Wiener wants to let insurance policyholders sue Big Oil companies for climate change; and Andre Iguodala’s jersey is being retired to the Chase Center rafters.
Arts & Entertainment Anh Phoong Having a Contest Where You Can Design Her Next Billboard If you think there’s “something wrong” with Anh Phoong’s ubiquitous billboards, here’s your chance to design a new billboard for the Phoong Law Corp, and win as much as $500 in prize money.
Arts & Entertainment UN Plaza Skatepark Getting Expanded Next Month, Converse-Sponsored Event Planned The popular skatepark at UN Plaza is getting upgraded and expanded in early February, with several new beginner-friendly, skate-able features being added, and Converse is hosting a skateboarding event in the park on February 15.
SF News At His First Ever Trial, Teen Killer of Santa Cruz Girl Hopes to Convince Jury He's Not a Danger to the Public 25-year-old Adrian Jerry "AJ" Gonzalez is hoping to be set free despite admitting to the 2015 murder of his 8-year-old neighbor, Maddy Middleton.
SF News City Hall Rallies After at Least Five ICE Operations Were Attempted (and Apparently Failed) In SF The rumors appear to be true that ICE agents tried at least five detention operations in San Francisco over the last few days, but were apparently turned away, and a who’s-who of SF City Hall officials rallied against this Tuesday morning.
SF Politics California Joins Coalition of States Suing Trump Over Federal Funding Freeze They Call Illegal The latest piece of governing-by-fiat from Trump, which is perfectly in line with that Project 2025 he claimed not to know much about, is an immediate freeze of federal funding and grants of many kinds, set to take effect later today — but a federal judge has already blocked it.
SF News Two Linked to Alleged Vallejo Vegan Cult With Violent History Arrested For Murders In Vermont and Vallejo A creepy group that had been nicknamed "The Cult" by neighbors in Vallejo were implicated with a sword attack on their landlord two years ago. Now, two alleged associates of the group are in custody for murdering that landlord as well as a border patrol agent in Vermont.
SF Politics AG Rob Bonta Facing Questions After Taking Campaign Donations From Casino His Office Was Investigating State Attorney General Rob Bonta took a $16,000 contribution from a Southern California casino in his first month on the job. The problem? His office was investigating that casino for money laundering at the time, and the charges have since disappeared.
SF News One Killed In Officer-Involved Shooting In SoMa That Followed Different Shooting A shooting Monday outside a cannabis business in SoMa led SFPD officers to surround a building where, later, a shootout took place with the apparent suspect in the first in the shooting, who ended up dead.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Homicide Investigation In Santa Rosa A woman was found dead on a Santa Rosa sidewalk Monday evening; a Vallejo school remains without power after a copper wire theft; and NVIDIA lost a record-breaking $600B in market value in one day on Monday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Is Sixth Street Crackdown Accomplishing Anything? A crackdown on illegal activity on Sixth Street has yielded 218 arrests; the Nike store is going to be wrapped in a huge NBA-themed ad for All Stars Game Week; and Katy Perry is playing the Chase Center in July.
SF News Scott Wiener Says That ICE Was In ‘Downtown SF Office Buildings’ as Part of Mass Deportation Operations Details are scarce, but state Senator Scott Wiener claimed today that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were investigating SF office building employees Friday as part of President Trump’s mass deportation sweeps.
SF News Parents Want Man Arrested Who Has Allegedly Been Exposing Himself to Schoolchildren In the Castro Some parents of children who attend school in the Castro neighborhood say that a man who may be a registered sex offender has been oiling himself up and repeatedly exposing himself to teen girls in the neighborhood.
SF News SF’s Speed Cameras Are Now Coming In March, But Ad Campaign For Them Already Gearing Up The new San Francisco speed monitoring cameras have been in the works for about a year and a half, and they’re supposedly going to finally arrive in March, with a billboard and online ad campaign going live now to announce their arrival.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Legendary Lower Haight Beer Mecca Toronado Is Up For Sale, Blowout Celebration Planned Next Month After 38 years of slinging "extreme" beers for a crowd of beer geeks and average beer lovers alike, the Lower Haight's Toronado is facing the end of an era and an uncertain future.
SF News ICE Agents Confirmed to Be Carrying Out Operations Sunday In San Jose, Rumored to Be Back on Monday While there is no evidence yet that anyone was detained, San Jose officials have confirmed that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were carrying out some sort of operation Sunday, and a watchdog group says they were back at it Monday morning.
SF News Triple Shooting at Weekend Sideshow In Oakland Leaves One Dead A Sunday evening sideshow led to Oakland's 11th homicide of the month and of the new year, with two other people injured by gunfire.
Business & Tech DeepSeek R1 Model Shows China Flexing Its Muscles In AI Race, Causing Silicon Valley Stocks to Slide A new AI model released by Chinese startup DeepSeek has caused a great flurry of buzz and consternation in the American tech world, and that was reflected in a bunch of Silicon Valley companies' stock prices Monday morning.
SF News 97-Year-Old Sacramento Woman Murdered, Grandson and His Girlfriend Arrested for the Killing A 40-year-old man and his romantic partner stand accused of killing the man’s 97-year-old Sacramento grandmother and dumping her in the trunk of a car, and they also allegedly emptied out the household’s safes.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Tenderloin Fire Displaces Eight A Sunday night fire in the Tenderloin displaced eight residents; a school in Vallejo had to cancel classes due to copper thievery; and homes in Atherton are using a whole lot of electricity.
SF News Oakland Hills Firestorm Survivor Fights to Protect California Homes From Rising Risks U.C. Berkeley professor and 1991 Oakland Hills firestorm survivor is tackling California’s insurance crisis, using data-driven models to address climate risks and protect homeowners in fire-prone areas.
Arts & Entertainment Back In The '80s, San Francisco Banned Arcades (And Blamed Tommy Guerrero) Chronicle culture critic Peter Hartlaub pens a piece about the early ’80s when San Francisco politicians declared war on arcades and the media painted Tommy Guerrero, who was a 14-year-old skateboarding prodigy and "Scramble” wizard at the time, as a delinquent.
