SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: San Mateo Co. Leaders Urge Voters to Oust Sheriff San Mateo County leaders have launched their "Yes on A" campaign to oust Sheriff Christina Corpus; an Oakland man was convicted of pimping in Solano County; and today's storm is expected to bring high winds.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Russian River Towns Flood In Low-Lying Areas Evacuation orders due to flooding remain in place along the Russian River; Oakland business owners are mad at Ayesha Curry; and NorCal reservoirs are quite full now.
SF News Landslide Destroys Sonoma County Home Rebuilt After 2017 Tubbs Fire A couple's home on Deer Trail Court in Santa Rosa was severely damaged, possibly beyond repair, in a landslide Tuesday evening after a day of heavy rains. And, tragically, this home had been rebuilt on the burn scar left from their previous home lost in the 2017 Tubbs Fire.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Is Determined to Fire Police Commission VP Max Carter-Oberstone SF Police Commission Vice President Max Carter-Oberstone became famous for blowing the whistle on London Breed when she forced commissioners to sign secret resignation letters. Now new Mayor Daniel Lurie wants to fire him outright.
SF News The Castro Might Become SF’s Next Boozy 'Entertainment Zone’ With Bars Selling To-Go Cocktails There may be to-go cocktails flying out the windows of nightclubs at the next Castro District party with street closures, as Supervisor Rafael Mandelman just introduced a measure to make much of the Castro the latest SF “entertainment zone.”
Arts & Entertainment London Police Admit 'Investigative Bias' In Heklina Death Probe as They Try to Unlock Cellphone The London Metro Police have much to answer for in the now almost two-year-old investigation into the death of San Francisco drag legend Heklina — and more details are coming to light about just how slowly they've been slow-walking this thing.
SF News Moving Valencia Bike Lanes Back to the Curbside Starts Monday, When Construction Begins The now 19-month experiment to move the Valencia Street bike lanes to the center of the street will come crumbling apart starting Monday, when construction crews start ripping those center bike lanes apart, and moving the lanes back to the curbside.
SF News Beloved Longtime KTVU Anchorman Dennis Richmond Dies at Age 81 Retired KTVU anchor Dennis Richmond, who sat in the anchor chair for the station's popular nightly news broadcast for over 30 years, has died.
SF News Major Mudslide From Tuesday’s Rain Shuts Down Block Near Telegraph Hill, Geologists Investigating Tuesday’s record rainfall caused a chunk of Telegraph Hill to simply plop down on the street, and geologists and Public Works are busily assessing whether the homes above the hill are safe with another round of rain coming Thursday.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Gets His ‘Fentanyl Emergency Ordinance’ Passed In Landslide Board Vote Mayor Lurie won a huge expansion of his powers to combat fentanyl markets and homelessness, as the Board of Supervisors approved his so-called “emergency ordinance,” which now involves a pop-up police station at the long-debated SoMa Nordstrom parking lot.
SF News SFPD Releases Video of Officer-Involved Shooting of Suspect In SoMa Shooting San Francisco police held a virtual town hall Tuesday to discuss the January 27 shooting by officers of a suspect who was seen shooting cannabis store owner Martin Olive. And video reveals that the suspect shot at officers before he was killed
SF News Humpday Headlines: Retired UC Berkeley Professor Killed In Hit-and-Run A 77-year-old retired Cal professor was killed in a hit-and-run collision Monday in Oakland; two SFPD officers were assaulted in an unprovoked attack; and Trump wants to "investigate" the CA high-speed rail project.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Today Was the Rainiest February 4 in San Francisco History Cruise has officially killed off its robotaxi services; SF County Jail is back to its pre-pandemic population levels; and today was the rainiest February 4 in the recorded history of San Francisco.
SF News California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Plummets to Second-Lowest Ever in Latest Annual Count The recently completed 2024 California monarch butterfly count showed just over 9,000 of the winged critters returning to the state, which is a big concern, considering there were more than 200,000 of them in the previous year’s count.
SF News Home Slides Into Russian River as Sonoma Sees Flooding Impacts An unoccupied home in Forestville collapsed in a mudslide Tuesday afternoon and fell into the Russian River amid heavy rains that were also leading to an evacuation at a Santa Rosa hospital.
SF News Alleged Castro Creep Who Was Exposing Himself Around Teens Has Been Arrested A man who had been called out publicly last week for exposing himself and allegedly acting lewdly around children in the Castro has now been arrested, and he indeed has a record as a sex offender.
SF News Family of OpenAI Whistleblower Sues SFPD, Demands Access to Investigation Records While the SFPD ruled that the November death of SF engineer and OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji was a suicide, his family has their doubts. And now they’re suing the SFPD for the release of the case’s investigative records.
Arts & Entertainment Win Two Free Tickets to the NBA's All Star Game Concert Series In San Francisco SFist is doing a contest, everyone. You can win two free tickets to the NBA All Star Concert Series, happening down the street from the Chase Center on Pier 48 February 14 to 16.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Draymond Green Is Partnering With Two East Bay Chefs to Open Caribbean-Ethiopian Restaurant In Lower Nob Hill Warriors bad boy Draymond Green is getting into the restaurant game for the first time, and he's partnered with two well-known East Bay chefs to create a restaurant that celebrates "Black culture in San Francisco."
SF News Suspected DUI Driver Drags Pole-Mounted Street Sign for a Whole Mile in Pacifica We say it is a “suspected” DUI driver pulled over shortly after a midnight Saturday morning hit-and-run in Pacifica, and she’s suspected as such because she allegedly rammed into a pole-mounted street sign and then dragged it for an entire mile.
SF News Tech CEO Arrested on Suspicion of Rape and Assault In South of Market The 47-year-old CEO of a Silicon Valley investment firm was arrested in a luxury condo neighborhood of SoMa on Saturday morning, after a woman said she was forcibly raped, assaulted, and had to be hospitalized.
SF News [Update] Connected Potholes, Not Sinkhole, Disrupt Traffic at Lombard and Gough Streets San Francisco drivers were being told to avoid Lombard Street in the area of Gough Street due to a sinkhole that had formed amid Tuesday morning's rain, but this turned out to be a series of connected potholes.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Rain Likely to Cause Minor, and Possibly Major, Flooding San Francisco is under a Flood Advisory today as the heaviest rain is yet to come; multiple car crashes were reported around the Bay this morning; and State Farm wants to hike rates across the board by over 20%.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Daly City Street Has Ocean Views, Major Erosion Fears One person died in a Berkeley house fire early Monday; eight people were detained in a retail theft sting in Ingleside; and a street in Daly City gets especially nervous about erosion during winter storms.
SF News Two Alleged Drug Dealers Accused of Using a Kid to Sell Their Product in the Tenderloin Two men were charged by the SF DA’s office for dealing drugs in the Tenderloin, but the unusual twist in this case is that they were reportedly using a child to perform some of their drug deals for them.
