SF Politics Daniel Lurie Names OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to His Mayoral Transition Team San Francisco Mayor-Elect Daniel Lurie named some heavy hitters to his transition team in a Monday morning announcement, and the heaviest of these hitters is none other than OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
SF News Nima Momeni Back on Witness Stand, Answering Questions From Jury Accused murderer Nima Momeni returned to the witness stand Monday morning answering written questions submitted by jurors about the night he stabbed Bob Lee in April 2023.
SF News San Jose Police Shoot and Injure Suspect They Say Was Threatening Them With a Knife A Sunday night domestic disturbance led to a knife-wielding suspect barricading themselves in a home and threatening police in San Jose’s East Virginia neighborhood, and officers shot that suspect who is now hospitalized.
SF News Atmospheric River Likely to Bring Much Rain to North Bay, Two Inches to SF The first big winter storm of the season appears to be headed our way, but it won't be a direct hit, and there are still some variables that could affect how much rain we actually get.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Man Arrested for Burglary and Homicide in Rural Sonoma County A man was arrested for allegedly breaking into a home and murdering someone in Sonoma County; a coalition of unions is protesting proposed Oakland budget cuts; and now carrots are being recalled due to E.coli contamination.
SF News Chyanne Chen Claims Victory in District 11, Leads by 190 Votes Chyanne Chen has claimed victory in the race to become the next District 11 Supervisor, in a desperately needed ray of hope for progressives. She will be succeeding the termed-out Ahsha Safai.
SF News Sunday Links: Shen Yun Under Scrutiny Over Child Labor Practices Shen Yun is under investigation for its treatment of its young performers; A Napa County Supervisor says she has been harassed by wine executives; and S.F. State has declared a state of financial emergency.
SF News District 11 Still Too Close To Call, Chen Leads by 90 Votes She has experienced a late surge over Lai thanks to votes transferred to her from third-place finisher Ernest “EJ” Jones. In that area, she leads 2,833 to Lai's 1,566.
SF News SF Firefighters Put Out Encampment Fire Along South Van Ness On-Ramp Near 13th Street San Francisco firefighters were called to the scene of an encampment fire along a freeway on-ramp at the edge of the Mission District on Saturday afternoon.
SF News Saturday Links: Pamela Price Refuses to Concede Recalled DA Pamela Price is refusing to concede; Gavin Newsom's bought a new house in Marin; and Trump's victory has triggered record high prices for Bitcoin.
day around the bay Day Around The Bay: Oakland Headed Towards Bankruptcy Oakland is apparently on course for bankruptcy; A Victorian-themed fair is headed for the Cow Palace; and a significant amount of rainfall is headed for the North Bay.
SF Politics Kamala Harris for California Governor? New Poll Shows She'd Be the Frontrunner A new LA Times poll finds the job of succeeding Gavin Newsom as California Governor could easily be Kamala Harris’s if she wanted it, in large part because hardly anyone recognizes the names of the other people expected to run.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Multiple New Openings Ahead of the Holidays In addition to Morella and Kayah by Burma Love opening in San Francisco this week, we have news of a splashy new, Michelin-hopeful prix-fixe spot opening around the corner from Sonoma Square in early December, all in This Week In Food.
Business & Tech Cruise Fined $500,000 for Filing False Reports to Feds After Pedestrian-Dragging Incident Yet another hefty fine for the self-driving robotaxi company Cruise for sweeping things under the rug after one of its cars dragged an SF pedestrian 20 feet, as the US Department of Justice has hit them with a $500,000 fine for falsifying reports on the incident.
Arts & Entertainment Mosswood Meltdown 2025 Announces Headliners Devo and Kreayshawn, But It Won't Be On July 4th Weekend John Waters’s trashy annual punk rock music festival Mosswood Meltdown won’t be on July 4 weekend in 2025, but it’s still at Mosswood Park on July 19 and 20, and will feature Devo, Oakland native Kreayshawn, and LA garage rockers Osees.
SF News Golden Gate University Campus, Once Slated to Become 50-Story Tower, Sits In Limbo The Brutalist building at 536 Mission Street that houses Golden Gate University was up for sale in recent years, and university leaders thought it was a potential goldmine, given that it had been rezoned for up to 700 feet in the Transit Center District Plan.
SF News SF Robbery Suspect Crashes Car Evading Police, Leaps 40 Feet From Overpass, Suffers Life-Threatening Injuries After an alleged three-robbery bender, a suspect evading SFPD totaled his car in a crash, lept 40 feet from a 101 overpass, and injured himself severely before being arrested and hospitalized.
SF News [Update] Dogs on the Loose Create Chaos In Fillmore District After Biting Two People An apparently vicious dog was shot by police in the Fillmore District and led to an alert from the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management Friday morning due to other dogs on the loose.
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SF News Trump’s Defense Secretary Pick Was Investigated for Sexual Assault in Monterey There’s already dirty laundry galore with many of Trump’s cabinet picks, and the latest shoe to drop comes from Monterey County, where Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth was investigated for sexual assault in 2017.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jaja's African Hair Braiding' at Berkeley Rep Is a Timely, Poignant Comedy About the Immigrant Experience 'Steel Magnolias' first showed the theatrical and storytelling potential of the hair salon. And Jocelyn Bioh's 2023 play 'Jaja's African Hair Braiding' adapts the concept to a modern-day hair-braiding shop in Harlem, where most of the characters are African immigrants.
SF News Woman Stabbed In Fight at Fifth and Mission Streets It's been a spate of knife crimes in San Francisco the past couple of weeks, and now we have a report of a woman who was stabbed in SoMa on Thursday afternoon.