SF News SF to Expect Off-and-On Rain Through Thanksgiving, Though Most of Thursday Could Be Dry After some record-setting rainfall around the Bay Area last week, we won't be seeing much of a dry spell until later in the week, as showers will continue arriving for the next couple of days.
SF News Judge Dismisses Most Charges Against Gaza Protesters Who Blocked the Golden Gate Bridge A big courtroom win for the protesters known as “the GG26” who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge with a Gaza ceasefire protest on April 15, as an SF judge has thrown out 32 of the 44 charges that DA Brooke Jenkins had brought against them.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Man Dies In Floodwaters Near Guerneville A man tragically died inside a vehicle in rising floodwaters in Sonoma County on Saturday; two men were arrested in Napa for attempted murder; and cable car service in SF is being replaced by buses for the next two days.
SF News 500 More SF Hotel Workers Now Striking They join 2,000 other San Francisco hotel workers already striking since late September, demanding better healthcare, inflation-matched wage increases, and the reversal of post-pandemic staffing cuts.
SF News Purdy-less 49ers Flounder, Get Routed By Packers 38-10 This loss drops the 49ers to 4-6, leaving their playoff aspirations on life support.
SF News Sunday Links: Barbara Lee For Oakland Mayor? Barbara Lee is being pushed as a replacement for Sheng Thao; The culture war comes for a San Francisco high school; and an arrest has been made in relation to a high-speed minivan pursuit.
SF News Hayes Valley Quadruple Murder Suspect Convicted on All Counts Lee Farley, 36, was convicted Friday of shooting and killing four men in the Hayes Valley neighborhood in 2015.
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco Secretly a 'Pinball Mecca' Inside S.F.'s secret love affair with pinball; A 17-year-old is on track to be a lawyer next year; and Kendrick Lamar's GNX is making Warriors fans hopeful for a championship.
SF News Great Highway Park Effort Receives $1 Million Grant On Friday, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department announced the award of a $1 million grant from the California State Coastal Conservancy Board to help protect the proposed park from flooding and construct safe walkways for pedestrians.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Flooding Strikes Across Bay Area Flooding has hit across the Bay; Berkeley has finally called its mayoral race; and a surprise album from Kendrick Lamar.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Say Hello, Again, to Park Tavern Park Tavern is reopening tonight with a famous new chef, a Top Chef alum opens a new Divisadero wine bar, and the Fillmore neighborhood is up in arms about the closure of their only grocery store, all in This Week In Food.
SF Politics Rumor Swirls That Breed Will Appoint Former Aide, Loyal 'Guard Dog' and Potential Chaos Agent as Supervisor Mayor London Breed is rumored to be seriously considering appointing her former aide and more recently campaign advisor Conor Johnston to Catherine Stefani's soon-to-be-vacated seat on the Board of Supervisors.
SF News Lake Tahoe Is Getting An Electric ‘Hydrofoil’ To Speed You Across the Lake In 30 Minutes Time The first ever electric hydrofoil watercraft in the US is coming to Lake Tahoe, promising to be the fastest craft on the water with "hydrofoil wings” that appear to make it fly.
SF News Marina District, I-280, Other Areas of SF Begin to Flood as Flash Flood Warning Issued Low-lying parts of San Francisco are likely to see urban flooding Friday afternoon after the National Weather Service issued a warning of "life threatening flash flooding."
Business & Tech Supreme Court Denies Facebook’s Appeal to Halt Cambridge Analytica Lawsuit From Jilted Investors A multi-billion lawsuit investors brought against Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica data breach can proceed, as the Supreme Court just shot down Facebook’s appeal in a one-sentence ruling.
Arts & Entertainment Local Crypto Mogul Buys That Banana Taped to a Wall for $6.2 Million If you need more evidence that the billionaires are not being taxed enough, SF cryptocurrency mogul Justin Sun just paid $6.2 million for an art piece that is merely a banana duct taped to a wall, and says he is going to eat the banana live on the internet.
SF News Fatal Drug Overdoses In SF May Be Declining Because Fentanyl-User Population May Be Dwindling Many people seriously addicted to fentanyl have already died in San Francisco, and those who are still alive increasingly have access to Narcan and have learned what their limits are, which experts say are both reasons why the number of fatal overdoses has declined.
SF News Severe Flooding in Santa Rosa Leaves 300 People Stranded Cars were headlights-deep in floodwater in Santa Rosa on Thursday, leaving people stranded at a hotel, while a medical center had to be evacuated amidst historical volumes of rainfall.
SF News Atmospheric River Shifts South, Bringing Heavier Rain to SF, East Bay While the North Bay has received the brunt of the rain in the last two days, the San Francisco Peninsula and the East Bay will get a decent dumping Friday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 10-Year-Old Girl Stops Carjacking In Antioch A 10-year-old girl thwarted a carjacking in Antioch; there have been over 100 delays reported so far today at SFO; and Apple is racing to release a more conversational version of Siri to compete with ChatGPT.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Extreme Weather Forces Closure of Famed Redwoods Drive, Travel to Tahoe Not Advised The author of an iconic SF stairway book has died; there’s more damning evidence against the San Mateo County Sheriff; and the bomb cyclone is completely disrupting travel to NorCal and Lake Tahoe.
SF News Multiple Friends Testify In Nima Momeni Trial That Bob Lee Was Never Aggressive on Drugs The prosecution began presenting rebuttal witnesses Thursday in the trial of Nima Momeni, several of them friends and co-workers of Bob Lee who had seen him doing recreational drugs on multiple occasions.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Five Best Cozy Cocktail Spots In SF, Including Three With Fireplaces Tis the season, regardless of what you celebrate, to hunker down in a cozy place and warm yourself with a drink — which sometimes has the added benefit of numbing you to the increasingly cruel world outside.
SF News SFPD Arrests Gang of Teens, One of Them Just 12 Years Old, for String of Walgreens Robberies Totaling $84,000 Eight minors from across the Bay Area, one of them only 12 years old, have been arrested and charged for 23 separate Walgreens robberies in which their estimated alleged stolen loot totaled $84,000 worth.
SF Politics Alameda County DA Pamela Price Faces Another Accusation She Offered Lesser Charges for Campaign Donations Pamela Price has been recalled, but the Alameda County District Attorney is still facing another allegation that she dangled lenient sentencing in exchange for a financial contribution to fight the recall campaign against her.
