SF News SF’s ‘Bus the Homeless Out of Town’ Strategy Now Catching On With Other California Cities A few other California cities are duplicating San Francisco’s tactic to merely hand the homeless a one-way bus ticket out of town, not because it's proven to be a particularly effective strategy, but more because it's just cheap and easy.
SF News Berkeley-Born Animal Rights Extremist Captured For Bay Area Bombings Two Decades Ago A radical animal-rights activist who was linked to three Bay Area bombings in 2003 has recently been captured after two decades on the run, in the United Kingdom.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whiskey Lovers Line Up For Rare Finds at New Pleasanton Costco In case you weren't aware (I wasn't), grand openings at Costco are treasure hunts for a certain band of whiskey lovers and wine aficionados, with certain labels getting stocked just for opening events.
SF Politics FBI Probe That Brought Raid of Sheng Thao’s Home Has Witnesses Giving Closed-Door Testimony The FBI appears to be making progress in whatever investigation resulted in the June raid of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home, as witnesses are being subpoenaed, but we still don’t know why the raid happened or who the FBI’s suspects are.
SF News Man Shot and Critically Wounded In SF's Bret Harte Neighborhood A male victim was found shot and critically wounded Monday night in San Francisco's Bret Harte neighborhood.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Mateo County Sheriff Speaks Out ABC 7 gave a very friendly interview to embattled San Mateo Co. Sheriff Christina Corpus; Urban Alchemy was hit with some hateful graffiti; and Kamala Harris was passing through SF last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pedestrian Killed In the Mission District A pedestrian was killed Sunday morning near 16th and Valencia streets in SF; the family of a Vallejo man killed in 2022 is upset about a lenient plea deal for his killer; and the CHP is starting a 'maximum enforcement period' on Wednesday.
Bay Area Sports Judge Won't Block San Jose State From Conference Volleyball Tournament Over Alleged Transgender Player The San Jose State Spartans women’s volleyball team will still compete in the Mountain West Tournament this week, after a judge just refused to rule the team out of the tournament following a lawsuit from nine players over a supposedly transgender player.
Arts & Entertainment Pictures: They’ve Got Baby Reindeer at the Cal Academy of Sciences for the Next Two Weeks for a Holiday Exhibit This is not the kind of baby reindeer you see on Netflix, but instead real, live baby reindeer at the Cal Academy of Sciences through December 5, and the museum is also bringing in baby camels and baby yaks for their ‘Tis the Season for Science’ exhibit.
SF News SF-Bashing Twitter Troll ‘Raw Ricci’ Arrested for Allegedly Pimping Women Out of His Luxury SoMa Apartment One of SF's most notorious Twitter provocateurs and “anti-crime” Fox News guests finds himself in SF County Jail today, after being arrested at SFO on pimping and pandering charges that allege he ran a sex work ring from his upscale apartment.
SF Politics President of Oakland City Council, Nikki Fortunato Bas, Declares Victory In County Race, Complicating Mayoral Transition Who will be interim mayor of Oakland? That's a more open question now as City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas announced victory in her bid to become an Alameda County supervisor.
SF News BART Police Arrest Man for Fare Evasion, He Turns Out to Be an SF Murder Suspect A routine fare evasion arrest at the Bay Fair BART station turned up a suspect for a San Francisco murder, and 36-year-old Johnathon Calvin Wright was handed over to SFPD and is now in County Jail on that murder charge.
SF News Buyer Interest Emerges for Macy's Union Square Property; City Holds Out Hope Macy's Will Stay In Some Form The Macy's corporation hasn't shared much in the way of plans since its bombshell announcement earlier this year that it would close its flasghip San Francisco store. But there are a couple of possibilities emerging for the property.
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.
