SF News Striking Hotel Workers Reach Tentative Deal With Marriott Some of that hootin' and hollering and banging will quiet down near Union Square as some 1,500 striking hotel workers have reached a tentative deal with Marriott — a contract deal that Marriott did on its own, without Hyatt or Hilton.
SF News Fillmore Food Legend and Nia Soul Cafe Owner Pia Harris Has Died, Services This Weekend The Fillmore restaurant Nia Soul Cafe just opened last month after owner Pia Harris’s 15-year quest to make her catering business a brick-and-mortar restaurant. But Harris died from pancreatic disease complications just weeks after its grand opening.
SF News FiDi Restaurant Owners Accused of Using Pandemic Relief Funds to Flip Houses A husband and wife who ran a now defunct SF Financial District lunch spot have been indicted by the feds for improperly using pandemic relief funds for personal expenses, and allegedly laundering a large portion of the money through house flips.
SF News Amazon Teamsters Go on Strike at Seven US Facilities, Including the One In SF’s Bayview Hundreds of striking Amazon workers are picketing at the Amazon warehouse in SF’s Bayview District, joining thousands of other Amazon workers nationwide who went on strike Thursday morning looking for better wages and health care.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Brace For a Parade of Storms A series of around six atmospheric river storms are lining up back to back; a man was arrested on suspicion of arson in Healdsburg; and last weekend's storm toppled 98 trees in city parks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pixar Series Sees Trans Storyline Axed The SFPD has made arrests in two recent homicides; Disney is cutting a trans storyline out of a Pixar series that was made for Disney+; and Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a bird flu emergency.
SF Politics Oakland City Council Approves Slashing Police, Fire, and Arts Departments to Trim $130 Million Deficit With the City of Oakland drowning in about $129 million in red ink, Oakland City Council voted to approve a plan to cut police overtime, close a few fire stations, and eliminate some arts programs in hopes of closing the deficit.
SF News Developers Swear They Will Finally Clean Up ‘SoMa Trash Lake’ After Years of Complaints For nearly three years, a vacant SoMa lot at Fifth and Clara streets has been accumulating water, garbage, and mosquitoes. Now three years and two lawsuits later, a new owner vows it should be cleaned up soon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dogpatch Stalwart Piccino Is Expanding to the Presidio, and Marin For 18 years, Piccino has been one of the reliably delicious favorites of the Dogpatch neighborhood, and now, after nearly two decades, the owners have decided to expand.
SF News Scientists Discover East Bay Squirrels Preying on Other Mammals for the First Time Researchers have found a population of California ground squirrels in an East Bay park that are actively hunting and eating voles, a behavior that has shocked squirrel experts.
SF News Car Plows Into the Front of Miraloma Club on Portola Drive, Injuring Three A Tuesday afternoon car crash seriously damaged the storefront of Portola Drive’s Miraloma Club, leaving three people injured, and two of them hospitalized.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Appoints Former Michael Bloomberg Aide Stephen Sherrill to District 2 Supervisor Seat The relatively unknown Stephen Sherrill was just appointed by Mayor London Breed to fill the empty District 2 Supervisor seat formerly held by Catherine Stefani, and he’s vowing to vote exactly like Catherine Stefani did.
SF News After Arrest of Teen Suspect, Details Emerge About Two-Year-Old Murder of 18-Year-Old In SF Warehouse An 18-year-old who was living in the Tenderloin went missing in early January 2023, only to turn up dead a few weeks later in a warehouse basement in the Bayview District. We have not heard anything about the case since then, but an arrest was just made late last month.
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.
