SF News Humpday Headlines: Wind-Fueled Palisades Fire Destroys 1,000 Structures The Palisades Fire raged overnight in Los Angeles destroying at least 1,000 structures; gusty winds here in the Bay toppled trees and power lines; and Daniel Lurie gets inaugurated today in Civic Center Plaza.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Giants Have Signed Pitching Ace Justin Verlander The Palisades Fire is wreaking absolute havoc in Southern California; that long-promised ability to just tap your debit card to pay transit fare is being delayed indefinitely; and the Giants just acquired three-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Justin Verlander.
SF News Elephant Seals Are Back at Point Reyes for Breeding Season, and They’ll Need Some Privacy, Thank You Very Much While the unreasonably massive elephant seals are now in Marin County all the way from the Aleutian Islands, they are here for mating season, and you can only watch them from a few dozen yards away.
Arts & Entertainment Meet the 2025 'Hearts in SF,’ Which Just Arrived at the Ferry Building The annual pre-Valentine’s Day custom of 400-pound, six-foot-wide hearts showing up in SF beats on for its 21st year, but don’t get your heart set on a big display, because there aren’t that many of them this year.
Business & Tech Waymo Passenger Says He Was Late to the Airport Because Robocar Kept Doing Circles In a Parking Lot This week in robocar snafus: A Waymo in Phoenix went a little haywire recently, and its passenger says he was late getting to a flight because the car refused to stop circling the same parking lot.
SF Politics Lurie Administration Faces First Potential Scandal as DUI Accusation Surfaces About Public Safety Chief Paul Yep, the retired SF police officer whom incoming mayor Daniel Lurie tapped to become the new Chief of Public Safety in the Mayor's Office, was involved in a car collision several years ago in which he rear-ended a couple, and they accused him of being drunk at the time.
Business & Tech Saying Its Content Moderation Has 'Gone Too Far,' Meta Now Set to Become Hotbed of Transphobia and Conspiracies In a shift akin to what Elon Musk has done with the platform we still call Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will soon be more of a free-for-all when it comes to misinformation, with "community notes" inserted when facts are questioned.
Arts & Entertainment Palo Alto Donkey Who Served as the Model for the ‘Shrek’ Donkey Has Died A Jerusalem miniature donkey in Palo Alto named Perry served as the movement model for Eddie Murphy’s ‘Shrek’ character Donkey in the animated franchise, but Perry succumbed to a hoof disease last week.
SF News High-Speed Rail Project, Facing More Funding Woes Under Trump, Might Now Get Linked to Vegas Rail Line There was an update, of sorts, on Monday about the California High-Speed Rail project, two weeks ahead of the inauguration of Donald Trump — which will usher in another era of Republican middle fingers held high in the direction of such projects that aren't in their states.
SF News Scandal-Plagued Antioch PD Gets Yet Another New Acting Police Chief, Plus Federal Oversight The City of Antioch welcomes its third interim police chief in 18 months through its revolving door, and new Chief Joe Vigil will have the department's racist text scandal and a new federal oversight monitor to deal with.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lazy Bear Team to Open Big New French Restaurant In SF's Design District It's a new year and with it we get the first big restaurant opening announcement for San Francisco: Coming this summer, chef David Barzelay and the team behind Lazy Bear are planning to open a grand, old-school French restaurant.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Two Charged In Marin Overdose Death Two people have been charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection with a Saturday overdose death in Marin; Latinx Democratic Club co-president Kevin Ortiz has been cleared of sexual misconduct allegations; and EDM producer Zhu will be DJing at Daniel Lurie's big block party tomorrow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Gone Girl' Kidnapper Matthew Muller Facing New Charges In Contra Costa County The suspect in the NYE homicide in the Mission District has been charged; Matthew Muller, the man convicted in the 2015 kidnapping of Denise Huskins, allegedly committed another kidnapping that year; and there was an attempted break-in at the Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory.
Business & Tech Meta Continues Its Trump Turn, Adds UFC President Dana White to Its Board of Directors Facebook and Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg continues his mixed martial arts fascination, and his increasing kowtowing to Donald Trump, with the curious addition of UFC president Dana White to Meta’s expanding board of directors.
SF News Now Gavin Newsom Claims California Has Eliminated Its Budget Deficit, Is Back in Surplus Times Governor Gavin Newsom says last year’s $68 million budget deficit is now completely erased, and he claims the state is running a surplus again, though he won’t say how much of a surplus.
SF Politics Barbara Lee Takes a Formal Step Toward a Running For Mayor of Oakland Recently retired Congresswoman Barbara Lee has just opened a campaign account for a run for Oakland mayor, and she's reportedly close to making a final decision about whether she will seek the job.
Arts & Entertainment Popular SF Artist Pete Doolittle, Known For Making Paintings Out of Discarded Windows, Has Died Pete Doolittle’s paintings of cartoon-version robots and animals have been hanging in San Francisco homes and bars for decades, but the longtime SF artist passed away Thursday morning at the age of 47.
SF News Supervisor Matt Dorsey Calls for 100 ‘Mass Arrests’ Every Night In Mid-Market Area The crowds of drug dealers and users along Sixth Street have SF Supervisor Matt Dorsey proposing 100 arrests every night for “drug-related lawlessness,” though we clearly do not have the police officers and jail capacity to follow through with this.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fresh-From-the-Boat Crab Sales Begin With Long Lines at Pier 47 The commercial Dungeness crab season finally kicked off this past weekend, after a now familiar two-month delay, and San Franciscans turned out in force on Sunday to buy some of the first catch from the boats.
SF News Alleged Serial Bar Tab-Skipper ‘Jared’ Arrested and Detained at a Red Lobster In San Bruno The infamous dine-and-dasher known around SF as “Jared” was arrested and detained for once again skipping on a bill, though he has since been released, and bartenders be warned that he is currently a free man.
SF Politics Inauguration of Daniel Lurie as SF Mayor on Wednesday to Include Civic Center Ceremony, Chinatown Celebrations A changing of the guard takes place this week at San Francisco City Hall, and the festivities around the mayoral inauguration will be going on all day Wednesday.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: It's January 6th Once Again VP Kamala Harris will help to certify Trump's Electoral College win today in DC; Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is stepping down; and SF native Ali Wong took home another Golden Globe.
SF News Sunday Links: Man Arrested For Shooting at Homeless Shelter An arrest has been made for a shooting at a homeless shelter from last night; A hit-and-run in the Portola has left one person dead; and the Warriors are strongly pursuing an unexpected trade target.
SF News SoMa Shooting Leaves One Critically Injured A shooting Saturday evening in SoMa prompted an emergency alert from the city and left one person with serious injuries.
SF News Richmond District Gas Leak Forces 15 People to Shelter Within Muni Bus, Leaves 2200 Homes Without Power No injuries have been reported so far.
