SF News SF Hires NY Consultant Firm to Jazz Up Union Square With 200 Events Next Year One of Mayor London Breed’s final downtown rejuvenation efforts is bringing in some New York-based consultant firm who’s agreed to create 200 events in Union Square in 2025, hoping to generate more foot traffic and fewer retailers abandoning their storefronts.
SF News Rev. Amos Brown Says SF Should Step In and Prevent Sale of Fillmore Safeway Onetime SF supervisor and Black community leader the Reverend Amos Brown is gunning for Safeway following the announcement of its planned closure date in the Fillmore, and its plans to sell its land there for an enormous profit.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Dense Tule Fog Blankets the Bay A dense fog advisory was in effect for the Bay Area Wednesday morning; one person died in a house fire in Forestville Tuesday; and a new private school is taking over part of a downtown SF office building.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hyatt Regency Across From Moscone Center Surrendered Back to Its Lender The Bureau of Prisons will pay $116 million to FCI Dublin sex abuse survivors, the “black spatula” panic may all have been overblown; and the Hyatt Regency Downtown SF SoMa has been surrendered back to its bank.
SF Politics Supervisors Reject Breed’s Final Commission Appointments, Because Breed Won’t Be Mayor Anymore Mayor London Breed clearly has less juice in City Hall these days, as her final three commission picks went down in flames at the last Board of Supervisors meeting of her mayoral tenure.
Arts & Entertainment Anti-Radiation Group Sues to Halt the Reinstallation of the Bay Bridge’s Bay Lights With the wildly popular Bay Bridge light display 'The Bay Lights' set to return in a couple of months, a group that files radiation lawsuits on the regular is suing to prevent the display’s reinstallation, calling it a “neurologic hazard.”
SF News Still Very Tall Building Proposed for Sloat Boulevard Site The Outer Sunset could still end up with a very tall, somewhat out-of-scale new residential development on the site of Sloat Garden Center, where a previous developer had proposed an insanely tall, 50-story tower.
SF News Family of Cybertruck Owner Says Allegedly Antisemitic License Plate Was Misunderstanding Over Tagalog After an outrage last week that the DMV approved a license plate which appeared to make a joke about the October 7 attacks against Israel, the family of the truck’s owner says people are misunderstanding that it was meant as an unrelated Tagalog reference.
SF News In a Sign of Climate Change Chaos, Scientists Were Caught By Surprise With Scotts Valley Tornado A rare, damage-causing tornado made landfall Saturday afternoon in a town south of the Bay Area that had not even been under a tornado warning hours earlier, as San Francisco had been. How was there no warning?
SF News Martinez WWII Veteran and TikTok Star Turns 102 Years Old on Friday, Getting Deluged With Birthday Cards Army veteran-turned-TikTok celebrity “Papa Jake” Larson will celebrate his 102nd birthday in Martinez this week with his nearly 900,000 social media followers tuned in, and he is not bashful about wanting you to send him a birthday card.
SF Politics SF DA Brooke Jenkins Gets In Dig at Elon Musk After Momeni Verdict Before he became Trump's temporary lackey, Elon Musk was just your average bandwagon-jumping, San Francisco-hating tech CEO on Twitter, trying to tell the world that the city that birthed his company and many others had gone to hell overnight.
SF News Jury Finds Nima Momeni Guilty of Second-Degree Murder of Cash App Founder Bob Lee After seven days of deliberations, the verdict in the trial of Nima Momeni was read Tuesday morning, and the jury found him not guilty of first-degree murder in the April 2023 killing of Bob Lee, but guilty of second-degree murder.
SF Politics Lurie Hires Former Twitter CFO Ned Segal to Be ‘Policy Chief’ of Housing and Economic Development A former Twitter executive who’s suing Elon Musk over unpaid severance is now taking over SF’s housing and economic recovery response under the Daniel Lurie administration, as Ned Segal has been named Chief of Housing and Economic Development.
SF News Tuesday Morning What's Up: Sheng Thao Serves Final Day as Oakland Mayor It's Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's last day in office; a man was found dead in a burning RV on Wood Street in West Oakland; TikTok has asked the Supreme Court to block the law that wants to shut down its US operations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vallejo Wants CHP's Help Too Vallejo residents are calling on Newsom to send in the CHP to help their city's crime problem; a man escaped from a psych ward in San Leandro on Friday and is still missing and at-risk; and an Oakland smoke shop got busted for selling drugs.
SF News Verdict Reached In Bob Lee Murder Trial, Won't Be Read Until Tuesday Morning After a seventh day of deliberations, the jury said they had reached a verdict Monday in the trial of Nima Momeni for the killing of Bob Lee in April 2023. But the verdict won't be read until Tuesday morning.
Arts & Entertainment Gaggle of SantaCon Santas Manages to Conquer BART’s Evasion-Proof Gates With Mass Fare Evasion A battalion of Santas successfully cheated BART’s new evasion-proof fare gates during this weekend’s SantaCon festivities, and a TikTok video capturing their gate-hopping exploits is going viral.
SF Politics Charges Tossed Out for San Mateo County Sheriff's Deputy Whom Sheriff Had Ordered Arrested Controversial San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus had the head of the sheriff’s deputies’ union arrested last month, accusing him of grand theft. But the San Mateo County DA has dropped all of those charges, in the latest black eye for Corpus.
Business & Tech San Francisco's Sky-High Office Vacancy Rate Declines Slightly, In Sign of Possible Turnaround The improvement was ever so slight, but a key indicator of the health of the office leasing market in San Francisco showed another glimmer of hope that the bottom has been reached and leases continue to tick up.
SF News Mendocino Town of Point Arena Being Rocked By City Councilmember Buying Up Properties With LLCs A sort of “California Forever” type situation has been brewing in the small Mendocino County town of Point Arena, where a sitting member of city council has bought up about 20 properties through a web of LLCs and chased out long-term tenants.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Helps Lead Charge to Thwart a Republican-Led Constitutional Convention Nightmare Among the many, many nightmare scenarios we face as Donald Trump and his band of anti-government zealots march back into the White House is the looming threat of a constitutional convention.
SF Politics El Cerrito to Have First Majority-LGBTQ City Council In Bay Area When New Members Are Sworn In Tuesday Well check out El Cerrito, as the Contra Costa County city will have an LGBTQ majority on its city council as of Tuesday night, the first ever such majority in the Bay Area and only the third ever in state history.
SF News Cafe Worker In SF's Mission District Springs Into Action to Stop Petty Thief A cafe worker in the Mission District is being hailed as a hero for jumping out from behind the counter to pummel a would-be backpack thief Friday morning and hold him until police arrived.
SF News SFPD Rescues Two Dogs From SoMa Apartment After Apparent Battery Fire Another apparent battery fire broke out at an apartment at Sixth and Minna streets this weekend, and two dogs had to be rescued from the blaze.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Storm Cleanup Continues A six-year-old boy was killed after running onto I-280 in San Jose; cleanup continues across the city after Saturday's storm; and the 49ers have suspended De'Vondre Campbell for conduct detrimental to the team.
