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.
SF News Office Printer Mishap Sparks Landmark Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit at Apple A tax form left on an Apple printer sparked a proposed class action lawsuit involving 12,000+ women, alleging systemic gender pay disparities and biased practices.
SF News Sunday Links: Sonoma State Athletes Left In The Lurch After School Cuts NCAA Sports Sonoma State eliminates its NCAA sports teams, leaving 227 transfer student-athletes scrambling; San Francisco's Chinese American community leaders vow to protect immigrant rights; and John Muir Land Trust purchases private island in S.F. Bay, which will be restored to its natural state.
SF News Thousands of Emboldened Anti-Abortion Protestors, Including Some Proud Boys, Attend Today's Annual March for Life in San Francisco Thousands attended the March for Life in San Francisco, along with several Proud Boys and 100 counter-protesters, while pop-up drag performer Shane Zaldivar sparked a cultural clash.
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho Dominates Celebrity Jeopardy! and Advances To Semifinals Along With W. Kamau Bell SF-born Margaret Cho wowed Celebrity Jeopardy! viewers with a stellar performance, securing a spot in the semifinals. Cho might end up competing with Oakland's W. Kamau Bell who advanced earlier in the season.
SF News Fraud, Fake Identities, and a Tesla: GameOn Founders Face Federal Charges San Francisco AI startup founders accused of years-long scheme involving falsified financials, forged emails, and a $4.2M home—all while failing to pay employees.
SF News Saturday Links: Costco Stands Up for DEI Costco defends DEI against conservative think tank; the next public meeting to address SFMTA's budget gap will take place next Friday; and vigil held in Half Moon Bay for seven farmworkers killed in mass shooting two years ago.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A's Single-Game Tickets Go On Sale Next Week A's single-game tickets go on sale next week; Apple to revamp AI efforts; and Meta to invest heavily in AI infrastructure.
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Announces Another Batch of Performers, Including St. Vincent and Death Cab for Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard The third and final batch of Noise Pop acts was just announced for next month’s festival, and it features St. Vincent and Death Cab for Cutie/Postal Service frontman Benjamin Gibbard, both playing separate nights at the Grace Cathedral.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Modern Cantonese Cuisine Comes to Hayes Valley The Happy Crane graduates from pop-up to permanent in Hayes Valley, modern Afghan restaurant Jaji readies to debut next week, and Mission sandwich spot Turner's Kitchen announces it's closing, all in This Week in Food.
SF News SFMTA Has Issued at Least Two Wrongful Tickets to People Parked in the Fake ‘No Parking’ Curbs in the Richmond Some renegade fake “no parking” curbs in the Richmond District seem designed to fool motorists into thinking they can’t park in these legal spots. They’ve apparently fooled some ticket agents too, as SFMTA has issued a couple of tickets they’ve had to rescind.
