SF News SF Just Recorded Its Coldest Day In Nearly Three Years, and Set a New Record You weren't imagining it: This past weekend in San Francisco was especially chilly. And while it may not have been East Coast or Upper Midwest frigid, it was still bone-chilling for those of us acclimated to the temperate climate here.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Beats Out SF and New Orleans In New Ranking of Best Food Cities Oakland has come out on top in Condé Nast Traveler's latest Readers' Choice Awards ranking of the best US food cities, but San Francisco comes in at number five.
SF Politics SF City Attorney Sues Ten ‘Ultraprocessed Food’ Companies, Claiming Their Products Area Causing Widespread Disease The Nanny State is coming after the Coca-Cola Company and other ‘Big Food’ brands right here in SF, as City Attorney David Chiu has sued the manufacturers of ultraprocessed foods, saying they’re behind spikes in cancer and diabetes.
SF News Waymo Strikes Small Dog In Western Addition, Dog's Condition Not Known Weeks after one of its robotaxis struck and killed a beloved Mission District bodega cat, Waymo has confirmed that one of its cars also struck an unleashed dog.
SF News Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Ripping Out Its Toll Booths This Month The Richmond-San Rafael Bridge has not used its toll booths since going all FasTrak in 2020, and those booths are now being ripped out, in a process that is also scheduled for the SF Bay Bridge.
SF News Man Fatally Shot While Sitting In Vehicle In SF's Tenderloin There was a fatal shooting early Tuesday in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, and a male victim was reportedly found dead in his car.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Death on BART Train Leads to Monday Evening Delays A death onboard a BART train in the East Bay caused significant delays Monday evening; San Jose police revealed the Valley Fair Mall shooting suspect is 17 and has a prior gun charge; and Costco is suing Trump over tariffs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: One Person Dies In South SF Apartment Fire One person was killed in an apartment fire in South San Francisco early Monday; a coast flood advisory has been issued due to King Tides; and the TSA is going to start charging you if you don't have a Real ID or passport.
SF News Oakland Is About to Get Speed Cameras Like SF Has to Catch Scofflaw Drivers San Francisco has had 33 speed cameras catching drivers going too fast for nearly a year now, and Oakland is about to get 18 of their own speed cameras to be put up at their most notorious corners for traffic collisions.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Christmas Tree Gets Lit Tonight, and Alameda’s Famed Christmas Tree Lane Show Begins Tonight Too The holiday season holly-jollies start getting fired up on both sides of the Bay Monday night, as the Castro Holiday Tree gets its lighting ceremony tonight, and Alameda’s epic Christmas Tree Lane display begins its run Monday night, too.
Business & Tech Instagram Ordering Everyone Back to the Office Five Days a Week There's been a long tail on pandemic-era hybrid work across the Bay Area and the tech sector especially, but some big companies like Meta are now cracking the whip and calling for five mandatory in-office days, just like olden times.
Business & Tech NYT: Trump’s Silicon Valley ‘AI and Crypto Czar’ David Sacks Apparently Enriching Himself and Friends In White House Role SF’s own right-wing VC billionaire David Sacks was named the Trump administration’s ‘AI and Crypto Czar’ last year, and a New York Times analysis says that since then, his investments have hit the jackpot over policies he helped craft.
Arts & Entertainment North Beach Building Owned for Over 50 Years By Francis Ford Coppola Put Up as Collateral A striking, flatiron-shaped building in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, owned since 1973 by filmmaker and winery owner Francis Ford Coppola, has been put up for collateral on a loan as Coppola continues weathering the financial fallout from his flop passion project 'Megalopolis.'
SF News [Updated] Suspect Arrested In Black Friday Valley Fair Mall Shooting, Identified as 17-Year-Old With Priors San Jose police announced Monday morning that they had made an arrest Sunday in Friday's shooting at the Westfield Valley Fair Mall, which left three people injured, and which authorities say was gang-related.
SF News Rohnert Park Police Arrest 17-Year-Old for Friday Night Hit-and-Run That Killed Pedestrian After a Friday night Sonoma County collision where a Chevy Silverado hit and killed a pedestrian and then just drove away, Rohnert Park police have found the suspect driver, who it turns out is just 17 years old.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Celebrity Chef Guy Fieri 'Exploded' Leg Muscle In Fall, Will Spend Eight Weeks Wheelchair-Bound Sonoma County celebrity chef Guy Fieri had a slip-and-fall mishap recently that landed him in emergency surgery, and his recovery period will probably throw a wrench in his many TV hosting gigs.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Make Mincemeat Out of an Inept Cleveland Browns Team In 26-8 Win The San Francisco 49ers literally did ‘the Dougie’ on the Cleveland Browns in a lopsided 26-8 win, the Niners’ third straight victory that gave them a stronger grip on a playoff spot, and put them within a hair of the NFC West lead.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Man Killed In Stockton Mass Shooting ID'd By Relative The 21-year-old victim in Saturday's mass shooting at a child's birthday party in Stockton has been ID'd; a motorcyclist was killed Sunday in a crash on I-80 in Berkeley; and BART police say they are beefing up patrols for the holiday season.
SF News Man Found Shot on Sixth Street Dies From Gunshot Wounds San Francisco Police officers patrolling the South of Market neighborhood early Sunday morning found a man in the road suffering from gunshot wounds. He died at the scene, and the case is being investigated as a homicide.
Politics Mayor Lurie Appoints Alan Wong San Francisco District 4 Supervisor SF’s new District 4 Supervisor is Alan Wong, who was raised in the Sunset. Wong was previously a legislative aide for former D4 supervisor Gordon Mar whose reelection was narrowly defeated by the recently recalled Joel Engardio.
Arts & Entertainment Missing Cat Escapes House in Boise, Idaho, Ends Up 600 Miles Away in San Francisco An indoor cat named Pepper recently had the adventure of her life when she slipped through the door of her family’s home in Boise, Idaho, only to be found weeks later hundreds of miles away in San Francisco’s Mission Bay.
SF News Sunday Links: Muni’s Central Subway Closes Overnight After Car Crashes Into Tunnel Amidst the Valley Fair Mall shooting chaos, “Mexican Spiderman” emerged, helping fellow mall bowling alley patrons escape; Artists, submit your work to be projected atop Salesforce Tower; and a car crashed into Muni’s Central Subway tunnel.
SF News [Update] Fifteen Shot at Kid’s Birthday Party Near Stockton in Gang-Related Incident, Four Dead A mass gang-related shooting occurred at a child’s birthday party in the Central Valley just north of Stockton Saturday evening, killing four people — including 3 children — and injuring 11 others. There are reportedly multiple suspects.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Kenny Alley, Holiday Architecture Book Fair, and Oakland’s Last Old Redwood This week: Where to find ladybugs in Oakland, Oakland’s “Old Survivor” redwood. Napa Valley holiday wine train, tea round-up, holiday architecture book sale, award-winning molé sauce, ancestral quilts, and Bruce Lee’s time on Bay Area streets.
SF News Saturday Links: New Bookstore Now Open in Union Square, Thanks to SF’s Vacant to Vibrant Program A 90-year-old man plowed through a Los Gatos coffee shop, DUI suspected; pop star Kesha gave an impromptu performance at a Palo Alto bar but was kicked out by unsuspecting security staff; and SF’s Powell Street now has a new independent bookstore, 'The Best Bookstore.'
