SF News German Shepherd Gives Birth to Seven Puppies on SF Whale Watching Boat An SF whale watching boat tour took an unexpected direction Sunday morning, as the boat’s resident German shepherd suddenly went into labor and produced seven little puppies as the boat was setting sail.
SF News SF's Wild Parrots Suddenly Flocking to Transamerica Redwood Park We have a new development in the rovings of San Francisco's beloved but noisy wild parrots — at least one group of them anyway. They have been gathering regularly in recent months in the small redwood grove next to the iconic Transamerica Pyramid.
SF News Shootout at Antioch Bowling Alley Leaves Two People Dead A Saturday night shootout at the Delta Bowl in Antioch has left two people dead, and they apparently both shot each other in some sort of dispute in the bowling alley’s parking lot.
SF News Sideshow In Oakland Ends With BMW In Flames A roving sideshow early Sunday morning that moved from North Oakland closer to downtown, drawing hundreds of spectators, ended with one car fully engulfed in flames.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Systemwide BART Delays Caused By Stalled Train A disabled BART train in Oakland was causing systemwide delays this morning; Marc Benioff tries to play off his recent Trump support; and jurors in the Nima Momeni trial, for the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee, resume deliberations.
SF News Twin Peaks Murderers Sentenced to Life in Prison The pair will not have the possibility of parole.
SF News Sunday Links: Print News's Last Stand in SF The City's last newsstand is operated by just one man; A record-breaking deal for the Giants; and Zach Bryan headlines a concert taking place next August.
SF News Saturday Links: Local Escaped Convict Found After Eight Years A longtime prison escapee just got caught once more; The internet is adopting an anti-snitching policy for the UnitedHealthcare CEO's shooter; and Oakland is making large cuts to essential services.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bomb Threat at State Capitol Forces Evacuations An uncredible bomb threat forced evacuations at the state capitol; Trump's new AI czar dislikes OpenAI; State Farm is about to raise its car insurance rates in California.
SF News It’Sugar Abruptly Closes Union Square Store, But New Tenant Supposedly Lined Up Candy emporium It’Sugar has just closed down its Stockton and Market street store, which had previously been a Virgin Megastore and a Forever 21, but the realtor insists there’s already a new tenant moving in.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Two North Beach Classics See Some Fresh Change North Beach Restaurant makes a big comeback, there's some legal drama between partners at Farmshop in Marin, and the Chronicle's MacKenzie Chung Fegan has named her favorite new restaurant of the year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Six Holiday Cocktail Pop-Ups and Special Menus to Check Out Before Xmas It's become a bona fide thing to host a holiday-themed pop-up or "experience" in your bar for the month of December, and that is happening once again at a bunch of spots around San Francisco and beyond.
Business & Tech SF Revokes Approval for $700-a-Month Sleeping Pod Complex, Ironically, Because It Doesn’t Have Affordable Housing That embattled $700-a-month sleeping pod complex has lost its City Hall approval, because the SF Planning Department says it doesn't comply with the city’s affordable housing rules, among other permit violations.
SF Politics Divisive BART Board Member Debora Allen Passes Out MAGA Hats to Colleagues On Her Way Out the Door In a sign of things to come in the year ahead, as Trump supporters from every basket of deplorables feel emboldened to once again spit in the faces of others and proclaim their dominion, a conservative BART director on her way out gave out a provocative parting gift to her colleagues.
Business & Tech No More TikTok? Appeals Court Upholds Law That Could Boot TikTok Out of U.S. Barring Supreme Court intervention in the next five weeks or so, TikTok may have to shut down its US operations, something that a legion of influencers making incomes from the platform are not happy about.
SF News The Bayview Vehicle Triage Center Will Close Up for Good In March The Bayview RV triage site that’s been dubbed the “most expensive homeless response” in SF history has been deemed a failure and will wind down operations in a few months, after blowing through $15 million and only accommodating about one-fifth of the people it was supposed to.
SF News Oroville School Shooter Identified as Chronically Homeless Man With Mental Health Issues, Criminal History The man who allegedly shot up a parochial school in Butte County Wednesday before taking his own life was known to law enforcement in the Chico area from some petty crimes two decades ago, and was reportedly homeless.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Aftershocks Continue on Mendocino Fault Thursday's earthquake was the biggest in the Mendocino Fracture Zone since 1992; there have been dozens of aftershocks including a 4.0M this morning; and Biden is reportedly considering blanket pardons for people on Trump's enemies list.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Today Was DA Pamela Price’s Last Day on the Job Santa Clara’s vice mayor has been found guilty of perjury in a 49ers scandal; SF’s broken emergency sirens were useless when for once they were actually needed during the tsunami warning; and Pamela Price is officially no longer the Alameda County District Attorney.
SF News Notorious Dublin Women's Prison Is Being Shuttered For Good, Feds Say Seven months after it abruptly closed following years of abuse allegations and convictions involving staff and a former warden, the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin (FCI Dublin) is being shut down for good.
SF News Police Find Dead Body Wrapped in Plastic Bag in West Oakland A gruesome discovery in West Oakland Thursday morning, as police discovered a dead body that was reportedly wrapped up in a plastic garbage bag, in a case that seems like it’s being investigated as a homicide.
SF News Expert Explains Why Tsunami Warning Was Lifted, and What Kind of Quake Would Be More Likely to Trigger One A tsunami warning was issued for Northern California Thursday morning, with great drama that reverberated across national news outlets, and then rescinded just over an hour later. But why was it issued in the first place?
Arts & Entertainment The Snow Will Go On: ‘Nutcracker’ Saved as SF Ballet Dancers’ Union Reaches Last-Minute Deal to Avert Strike The San Francisco Ballet’s 'The Nutcracker' will indeed premiere Friday night, as the ballet dancers’ union and the SF Ballet have struck an eleventh-hour labor deal to ensure the Sugar Plum Fairy will be dancing.
Business & Tech Google DeepMind Says They Have an AI Weather Model That Outperforms All Existing Models at 15-Day Forecasts Reliably predicting the weather more than a week out has been something of a Holy Grail in the meteorology industry for half a century.
Arts & Entertainment Livermore House to Do Battle on ‘The Great Christmas Light Fight’ Thursday Night Livermore will get lit in the national TV spotlight tonight, as ABC’s “The Great Christmas Light Fight” has a home from the Alameda County locale whose display features more than 900,000 lights.
