SF News Six Former BART Employees Sue in Federal Court Over Being Fired for Refusing to Get Vaccinated A few holdout BART employees who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and lost their jobs because of it, have taken their case to a federal court, claiming BART did not honor their religious exemptions.
Bay Area Sports NBA Season Preview: Warriors Come Out to Play, Without Klay, For First Time In 14 Years In a season where the All-Star Game will be played right here in San Francisco, the Golden State Warriors’ hopes to be contenders again probably depend on whether they actually have more than one all-star on this team.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Modern French Bistro — With DJ Booth — Opens In Former Hard Water Space on Embarcadero A new French bistro, with a focus on Champagne and small plates, has just debuted at Pier 3 on SF's Embarcadero, from the owner of Sens at Embarcadero Center, and Barcha in SoMa.
Arts & Entertainment New 2,000-Pound Star Sculpture From Occasional Burning Man Artists Arrives In Mint Plaza A new star-shaped, gold-painted sculpture, which will cast entrancing shadows from a light within it at night, has just been installed at Mint Plaza.
SF News City Hall Unveils Latest Plans to Redevelop Candlestick Point, 11 Years After 49ers Left More than a decade after the 49ers left Candlestick Park, the city has unveiled new plans for Candlestick Point, with 7,200 new homes, but it seems questionable whether there will be much call for all of the office space in this plan.
SF News Tensions Escalate During Fourth Day of Sister's Testimony In Nima Momeni Trial; Victim's Ex Lashes Out The tone of things became more combative Wednesday in the courtroom where Nima Momeni is being tried for the April 2023 murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee.
SF News Partially Mummified Corpse Found Sitting on Toilet In Union City This one sounds like the opening scene from a horror film and probably could be, and it just so happens to coincide with pre-Halloween Week.
Arts & Entertainment SF Getting Another Mosaic Tiled Stairway, This One In Anza Vista, as a Tribute to ‘Grandpa Vicha’ Ratanapakdee SF’s next tiled mosaic stairway was just approved to be installed without fees, and it’s a powerful homage to late 84-year-old “Grandpa Vicha” Ratanapakdee, who was killed nearby in a brazen morning attack in 2021.
SF News Buddhist Nuns' Residence Next to Mission District Temple Burns In Two-Alarm Fire, Four Displaced The nuns' residence next door to Hua Zang Si temple on 22nd Street was heavily damaged in a fire Tuesday, but luckily firefighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to the temple building next door.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SFO's Beloved Bouncy Walkways Are About to Go Away The bouncy rubber walkways of SFO's Terminal 3 are set to be demolished; DA Brooke Jenkins talks to Mission District businesses about crime; and Tyler, the Creator announces Bay Area tour dates.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Transamerica Pyramid Will Be Rocking Another Light Show Tonight People are talking about a Geary Boulevard subway again; the former Westfield Mall is switching its name once more; and the Transamerica Pyramid will host another light show Tuesday night to ring in this week’s TED AI San Francisco conference.
SF News SF Supervisors Strengthen Legacy Business Protections, Hoping to Save La Mediterranee and Others After a billionaire bought up several Upper Fillmore buildings and legacy businesses there were given their walking papers, Supervisor Aaron Peskin just passed his bill adding protections to keep those businesses in place.
SF News Aquarium of the Bay’s Ex-CEO Goes Nuclear With Lawsuit Full of Wild Allegations Over His Ouster The former CEO of Bay.org George Jacob resigned in May amidst reports of lavish spending, but he’s hitting back with a ferocious new lawsuit claiming staff tried to secretly sell shark blood to Disney, and wanted to release all the animals back into the ocean.
SF News Trial Begins For Alleged Serial Killer Accused In Cold Case East Bay Double-Murder From 1986 David Misch, a man who's been imprisoned for murder since 1990, has yet to be tried for three homicides that took place in the Bay Area in 1986 and 1988. But one of those trials just kicked off on Monday in Dublin.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Newest Park Just Opened Right Next to Chase Center, Featuring Steel Beams From the Old Bay Bridge SF’s newest park has some retro charm in the form of benches and beams from the disassembled old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, as the $32 million Bayfront Park just opened Tuesday right next to the Chase Center.
SF News Male Pedestrian Killed By Dump Truck In SF's Parnassus Heights A pedestrian was killed Tuesday morning at the intersection of Parnassus Avenue and Stanyan Street, in a collision involving a dump truck.
SF News Sister of Accused Killer Nima Momeni Describes 'Amicable' Night Between Her Brother and Bob Lee Monday was a big day of testimony in the trial of Nima Momeni for the April 2023 killing of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, and one in which the jury heard the first-hand account of sister Khazar Momeni about the final hours of Lee's life.
SF News NAACP Lobbies for Release of Man Who’s Already Supposed to Be Out of Santa Clara Jail Carlos Harris has already served a 20-year sentence for a crime he says he did not commit, and a judge ordered his release from Santa Clara County Jail last week. But thanks to bureaucratic red tape, the jail can not release him.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Peskin Says He Declined Ranked-Choice Alliance With Breed Mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin says he "politely declined" a ranked-choice alliance with London Breed; Pacifica police find a stolen vehicle inside another stolen vehicle; and the Oakland Zoo's last elephant has arrived in his new home.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Runner Recreates Chappell Roan Album Cover on Strava Vallejo police are seeking help solving a fatal shooting this morning; Bay Area artist Ruth Asawa gets posthumous White House honor; and an SF runner recreates Chappell Roan's album cover using the Strava app.
SF News New SFUSD Interim Superintendent Maria Su Makes First Public Remarks Since She Was Hired Friday After a whirlwind weekend that saw SFUSD Superintendent Matt Wayne resign Thursday and Dr. Maria Su installed as his interim replacement Friday, Su was introduced Monday and spoke publicly for the first time since her appointment.
SF News Car Crashes Into 48 Muni Bus In Noe Valley Causing Multiple-Vehicle Collision, Muni Driver Hospitalized There was a multiple-vehicle crash just before noon Monday in Noe Valley, as one car hit a 48-Quintara/24th Street Muni bus and several other cars, and the Muni driver has been hospitalized.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Coffee Chain Andytown Expands With Eighth Location In Financial District It's not every day that we have stories of new businesses opening in downtown San Francisco, but it has, in fact been happening. And now Andytown Coffee Roasters is expanding with a new cafe on Front Street.
SF News Two Oakland PD Officers Arrested for Driving Under the Influence — While on Duty We’ve seen police officers arrested on DUI charges before, but not while they were on the job. Yet it has come to light that two Oakland Police Department officers were arrested for DUI while they were on duty in 2023.
SF News Keller Fire 90% Contained, All Oakland Hills Residents Return Home The scary Keller Fire which broke out Friday afternoon was a cause for traumatic memories for some longtime Oakland hills residents of the firestorm of 1991, the 33rd anniversary of which was on Saturday.
