SF Politics San Mateo County Sheriff Drama Continues as County Leaders Scoff at Lawsuit Threat San Mateo County officials put out a statement this week in response to a government claim by embattled Sheriff Christina Corpus, a claim which, they say, is riddled with "incorrect and misspelled names" and "is largely devoid of any alleged facts supporting its conclusions."
SF Politics Lurie Announces City Hall Hiring Freeze on First Full Day in Office, Fentanyl Emergency Order Coming by Tuesday New SF Mayor Daniel Lurie declared a City Hall hiring freeze (but not for cops or firefighters) on Day One of his administration that faces a $876 million deficit, and he says he’ll have his fentanyl crackdown plan ready to pass on Tuesday.
SF News Attempted Murder Charges Filed In Two SoMa Shootings In two separate shooting incidents that have occurred since the new year began in the SoMa neighborhood, two suspects are now facing attempted murder charges.
SF News UC Berkeley Custodian Takes Plea Deal In Oakland Gay Hookup Murder A former janitor at UC Berkeley has opted not to stand trial for the March 2023 killing of a beloved Oakland Gay Men's Chorus member and sometime drag performer, who died in his own apartment after what appeared to be an early morning hookup.
SF News Four Found Dead In Santa Rosa Senior Community From Apparent Homicide, Senior Community Obviously Shocked A Wednesday afternoon welfare check in the Santa Rosa senior community of Valle Vista found four people dead, and while police are ruling it a homicide, they’re not saying much more about the circumstances.
SF News Lurie Inaugural Bash In Chinatown Draws Thousands Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown was packed Wednesday night, as a night market, street performers, mainstage acts, and a VIP banquet celebrated the inauguration of Daniel Lurie as the city's 46th mayor.
SF News Walgreens Closing 12 SF Stores In Late February, Here’s a Map Showing Which Ones are Closing Those 1,200 nationwide Walgreens closures are starting to kick in, and 12 Walgreens stores in SF will close in late February, including the one where Banko Brown was shot. The company blames high rent, but legal settlements probably have a hand in this too.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Respite In SoCal Winds to End, More Fire Danger Looms Wind conditions are expected to worsen in LA throughout the day Thursday; the lack of rain this winter in SoCal is consistent with La Niña; and police in Santa Rosa arrest an alleged carjacker who shot at them.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Cutting Some Service on Popular Bus Lines Muni is cutting midday service on some bus lines to address budget woes; the official death toll in the LA wildfires rises to five; and Trump is trying to blame Newsom for the fires, again.
SF News City Attorney Threatens Mission-Bernal Property Accused of Throwing Illegal After-Hours Parties An upstairs spot above two unassuming Mission-Bernal restaurants has reportedly been a hotbed of unpermitted late-night after-hours parties complete with gambling machines for the last two months, and City Attorney David Chiu is investigating.
SF Politics Rafael Mandelman Is Your New SF Board of Supervisors President, Because No One Ran Against Him District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is now a heartbeat away from being mayor, as he was just elected President of the SF Board of Supervisors, and somehow extinguished an expected challenge from Supervisor Myrna Melgar.
SF News Retiring Chronicle Reporter Kevin Fagan Would Like Everyone to Stop Sending Him Zodiac Killer Tips The enduring legend and unsolved case of the Zodiac murders in the Bay Area has now haunted multiple generations of both police detectives and crime reporters in the city. Kevin Fagan is one of them, and he's retiring, effective today.
Arts & Entertainment Like It or Not, 45-Foot Statue of Nude Woman Coming to Union Square Shortly Union Square retailers and tourism officials are hoping that a Burning Man statue of a 45-foot-tall nude woman is going to rev up the beleaguered district’s shopping scene, and we’ll see if they’re right when it goes up in early February.
SF News 'Safety Isn't Just a Statistic': Read SF Mayor Daniel Lurie's Inauguration Speech Daniel Lurie was sworn in Wednesday as the 46th mayor of San Francisco, giving an inauguration speech that was predictably focused on the hot-button issues of drugs, crime, and the perception of safety on city streets.
SF News Kidnapping and Assault Victim Denise Huskins Helped Law Enforcement Find More Victims of Matthew Muller New revelations about a previously unknown kidnapping for ransom in Contra Costa County allegedly committed by Matthew Muller, the culprit in the 'American Nightmare' kidnapping and assault of a Vallejo woman in 2015, came in part due to that woman's advocacy.
SF News Bay Area Firefighters In LA as Eaton Fire In Altadena Threatens Thousands of Homes The raging fire situation in LA looked ominous for many residents this morning, even if they were not immediately in view of the flames. And while the Palisades Fire has captured coverage in the last 12 hours, the Eaton Fire in the northeastern part of the county is looking even more destructive.
SF News Massive Office and Housing Development Proposed for What Is Now Just a Bunch of SF Caltrain Tracks The latest twist in the ambitious plans to extend Caltrain to the Salesforce Transit Center is a developer hoping to send Caltrain tracks underground, and cover that land with new towers, one of which would be taller than the Transamerica Pyramid.
SF Politics No Time to Retire, Barbara Lee Makes Her Bid For Oakland Mayor Official Confirming what was already looking likely earlier this week, recent former Congresswoman Barbara Lee announced Wednesday that she will, indeed, be running for mayor of Oakland in an April special election.
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.
