SF News Here Is the Affordable Housing Project Slated to Rise on the Site of Oakland’s Ghost Ship Fire Nearly eight years after the Ghost Ship fire killed 36 people, we have our first look at the plans for the two-building, five-story affordable housing complex being built to replace it in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, and it will have an on-site memorial.
SF News Seven Men Indicted For Organizing Bay Area Sideshows Via Instagram San Jose Police announced the arrest of seven men at a news conference Thursday, under the city's three-year-old law that makes it a crime to promote or organize sideshows.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Postal Truck Caught Pulling a Hit-and-Run in San Ramon Huge turnout is expected to be a wild card in the SF mayoral race; John's Grill will again be hosting its free Election Day luncheon; and surveillance video caught a US Postal truck hitting a car and fleeing the scene in San Ramon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Investigating Possible Homicide In SoMa Building There may have been a third homicide in SF this week, inside a building on Seventh Street; testimony today centered on DNA evidence in the Nima Momeni trial; and SF just lost another big conference.
SF News Nearly Three Years After It Opened, Bayview RV Triage Site Finally Gets Decent Electricity The Bayview RV triage site that opened in January 2022 has been dubbed the “most expensive homeless response” ever because of PG&E and Urban Alchemy costs. The problem was that PG&E never delivered that electricity, but they finally got it up and running this week.
SF News SF City Attorney Files Lawsuit to Shut Down Tenderloin Corner Stores Raided for Being Gambling Dens Those two Tenderloin convenience stores SFPD raided last month for being underground gambling dens were allegedly also dabbling in guns, ammo, and illegal weed, and City Attorney David Chiu just filed suit to shut them both down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro's QBar Reopening Next Week After Five-Year Closure Over in San Francisco's Castro District, a storefront that has sat dark and boarded over for five years, which was once one of the buzzy nightlife magnets of the neighborhood, is making a comeback after a very lengthy remodel.
Business & Tech Russia Fines Google $20 Decillion For Blocking Channels on YouTube A Russian court has ordered Google/Alphabet to pay two undecillion rubles in fines — that's a two followed by 36 zeroes — in an obviously symbolic ruling expressing the government's wrath over YouTube continuing to block pro-Russian channels.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Monday Fatal Stabbing In the Tenderloin The SFPD today announced the arrest of a suspect in a stabbing Monday that turned fatal in the Tenderloin District.
SF Politics Relative Political Newcomers Vying for Hillary Ronen’s District 9 Supervisor Seat, One of Whom Always Wears a Colorful Hat The race for the seat of termed-out District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen brings some fresh faces who haven’t held a City Hall office before, including the longtime producer of Carnaval, a one-time lobbyist for the Citizen app, and an activist who ran surprisingly strongly against Scott Wiener.
SF News FBI Investigating Unprovoked, Violent Assault on Sleeping Man Onboard United Flight Out of SFO A man is under arrest and under investigation by the FBI after an inflight incident on a Dulles-bound flight out of SFO Monday in which the man allegedly pummeled another man who was sleeping for no known reason.
SF News [Updated] Man Shot and Killed In SF's Tenderloin A man was shot Wednesday night outside of a corner store in the Tenderloin, and the aftermath was captured on video by a local social media chronicler of the neighborhood.
SF News Overnight House Fire In Noe Valley, Caused By Wall Heater, Displaces Five A fire broke out around 2:30 am Thursday at a home in Noe Valley, and grew to two alarms before being contained by the San Francisco Fire Department.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 85 Striking Hotel Workers Arrested in Union Square The Chronicle runs the numbers on SF’s best trick-or-treating neighborhoods; a man’s car was apparently hit by a falling cable on the Bay Bridge; and 85 striking hotel workers were arrested Wednesday for intentionally blocking the cable cars.
Business & Tech 21+ Best Movers / Moving Companies in San Francisco (2024) The moving process in San Francisco can make for an adventure sometimes welcomed and often challenging, reflecting the singularity of the city itself. With its famous hills, and narrow, winding streets, and its
SF News Day Around the Bay: Reddit Made a Profit for the First Time Ever Reddit turned a profit last quarter for the first time in 20 years; Burning Man is out shaking the tin cup for money; and Bay Area kids may need to bundle up Thursday for trick-or-treating, according to the forecast.
SF Politics SF’s Prop D Hopes to Eliminate Most City Hall Commissions, Critics Say It’s Just a Mark Farrell Slush Fund SF’s November 5 measure Prop D has raised more than $9 million in hopes of passing a law to slash the number of City Hall commissions in half, though some allege the money is largely just going to help pay the Mark Farrell for Mayor campaign’s bills.
SF News Northern California Couple Charged With Murder of Two-Year-Old Daughter A young Redding couple has been arrested for and charged with the murder of their two-year-old daughter, sometime in October 2023. The daughter died after extensive abuse, investigators say.
SF News Prosecution Shows Jury Grainy Video of Bob Lee Stabbing In the Nima Momeni trial on Wednesday, the prosecution rolled out the grainy Nest camera footage they have had since early in the case, showing what appears to be the moment Momeni stabbed Bob Lee three times.
SF Politics Recall Sheng Thao Rally Devolves Into Chaos When Passerby Gets Called Out by Name, Tries to Grab Microphone There may not have been many people attending a Recall Sheng Thao rally on Tuesday in Oakland, but it’s making headlines anyway, as a businessman walking past was yelled at from onstage, confronted the speaker, and mayhem ensued.
SF News SF Zoo Claims It’s Nearing Its $20 Million Fundraising Goal to Bring Pandas to Town The zoo may be “dilapidated” and London Breed might not even be mayor anymore once they get here, but the SF Zoo claims they are almost at their $20 million goal to bring two giant pandas to the facility next year.
SF News Teen Girl Suffered Fractured Pelvis In Fleet Week Navy Parachutist Mishap, Faces Lengthy Recovery The US Navy may want to pony up some funds and could be looking at a lawsuit after a Fleet Week incident in which a parachutist crash-landed on a mother and daughter on Marina Green.
SF Politics Michael Moritz Says He Plans to Fund Together SF For 'Five or Six Years' In Lengthy New Profile There are a number of revelations in an extensive new profile of billionaire philanthropist and political activist Michael Moritz by Mission Local's Joe Eskenazi, including what he sees as the trajectory of his political group, Together SF Action.
SF News Those ‘Anti-Sex Work’ Barriers Have Come to Shotwell Street, Some Residents Say They Create Extra Hassles The barriers hoping to prevent bumper-to-bumper traffic caused by street-level sex workers and their johns just went up on Shotwell Street, but some residents complain they’re causing chaos for Waymo cars and delivery trucks, and have people driving on sidewalks.
SF News Three-Year-Old Struck and Killed by Vehicle In Fremont Parking Lot A toddler was killed Monday in a tragic accident in the parking lot of a residential complex in Fremont.
