SF News Young Girl Left Severely Injured in SF Shooting, Police Say A young girl in San Francisco was rushed to the hospital yesterday evening after suffering a gunshot wound at her home on Chicago Way, a neighborhood on the southern end of the city.
SF News Saturday Links: Caltrain to Offer $1 Youth Fare Caltrain wants to offer youths a $1 fare; A once-loved San Jose lake is seeing cleanup efforts; Kamala Harris's housing plan might do more harm than good.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Dispute Over Chicken Farms Roils Sonoma County A battle over chicken farms is gripping Sonoma County; X is now suspended in Brazil; new vaccines for COVID variants have arrived.
SF News CNN Report Finds Giant, Illegal Marijuana Grows Operating Out of Luxury Homes in Antioch Not even the ritziest enclaves of Contra Costa County are immune to having large-scale illicit marijuana grow operations, as a CNN report found three homes on the same street in Antioch were busted for not being homes, but instead enormous indoor pot grows.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, There’s an SF Burning Man at Ocean Beach Saturday, Co-Organized by… Former SF Supervisor Eric Mar? There are actually several contingents of Burners heading to Ocean Beach Saturday to put on their own miniature versions of Burning Man, but one of them appears to be co-organized by former District 1 Supervisor Eric Mar.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: The Brixton Is Back In this week's food news, a new Peruvian-influenced spot comes to NoPa, The Brixton reopens with a new menu, and The Slanted Door is set to return to its old spot.
SF News Lombard Street Home of Woman Who Fought to Save Redwood She Planted Hits Market For $5.2M A house on SF's famous Lombard Street — the "crookedest" block of Lombard, in fact — has just hit the market, and it has some stories attached to it.
SF News SF Firefighters Rescue Paddle Boarder After Incident at Ocean Beach San Francisco Fire Department paramedics were called to Ocean Beach Friday morning after surfers pulled a paddle boarder out of the water who was floating and apparently unresponsive.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Weekend’s Bizerkeley Food Fest Set to Serve Up ‘Meat Eater-Approved Vegan Food’ The Bay Area’s big Labor Day weekend street fair will be Sunday’s fourth annual Bizerkeley Food Fest, with samples and delicious dishes galore of eats “made by vegans for a meat eater's tastebuds.”
Arts & Entertainment Institute of Contemporary Art Moving to Downtown SF's 'Cube' Building The two-year-old Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco is expanding and moving to a new space in San Francisco's Financial District, in a deal with a real estate investment firm.
Arts & Entertainment Downtown SF Oktoberfest Will Be the First Boozy, Open-Container ‘Entertainment Zone’ Party The streets will be closed to cars and the beer steins flowing at Oktoberfest on Front, as the Oktoberfest block part will be California’s first alcohol-drenched “entertainment zone” party under new legislation.
SF News Father Mourns Son and Ex-Wife Killed In Wrong-Way Crash In San Jose A Bay Area man posted a moving tribute to his son and ex-wife on Reddit, after they were both killed in a tragic collision Monday afternoon on a freeway in San Jose.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Pedestrian Killed In Hit-and-Run In Oakland A man in his 70s was killed in a hit-and-run in East Oakland; Kamala Harris says she'd appoint a Republican to her cabinet; and a Castro business owner says he's fed up with break-ins.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Bringing Those ‘Evasion-Proof’ Fare Gates to 24th Street Station Next Week 49ers receiver Brandon Aiyuk just ended his holdout; Scott Wiener’s controversial AI safety bill has passed the state legislature; and they’ll begin installing BART’s jump-proof fare gates at 24th Street station starting Tuesday.
SF News Bill Allowing Marijuana Sales at Farmers' Markets Clears State Legislature, Heads to Newsom’s Desk You may soon be able to stock up on cannabis at a discount price at your local farmers’ market, as the state legislature has approved a proposal to let growers sell there directly. Oh, and Matt Haney’s “cannabis cafe” bill has passed too.
Business & Tech Bye, Elon!: Xitter to Exit the Twitter Building For Good on September 13 Finally shedding the last vestiges of the company once known — and still often referred to — as Twitter, Elon Musk is shutting the operation down for good at the Twitter Building on mid-Market Street on Friday the 13th of September.
SF News Scandal-Plagued SF Towing Company Hit With Federal Indictment for Faking Car Accidents, Collecting Insurance Money New federal indictments lay out a slew of insurance fraud charges against the co-owner of the Bayview’s notorious Specialty Towing, among them a charge that he loaded a tow truck full of four clunkers, faked an accident, and tried to collect full insurance.
Arts & Entertainment Oprah Winfrey Hosting Prime Time Special on AI Featuring Sam Altman, Bill Gates Oprah is taking on the topic of artificial intelligence, and she'll be airing a prime-time special on ABC in September to ask the question "AI: What is it?" and other things your parents and grandparents have been asking.
SF News Meet the New Drones the SFPD Will Be Using (and Is Actually Already Using) SFPD now has six drones in their fleet after voters approved the department's use of drones this past March. Here's what those six drones look like, and how they will be deployed.
Business & Tech Google Says It's Fixed Gemini People-Generating Feature, Also It's Releasing Customizable Chatbots Google's AI project Gemini hit a snag earlier this year when its image-generating feature was found to create wild historical inaccuracies in the interest of diversity. Google says it's been working on that, and the new and improved people-generator will made available to some paid users soon.
SF News Dublin Student's Mother Speaks Out, Says Son's Beating Was Case of Mistaken Identity The mother of the Dublin High School student who was bizarrely attacked by a group of people, including a parent, in the school locker room last week, is speaking out and calling for better security at the school.
SF News California Legislature Passes Bill to Ban or Limit Cellphone Use in Schools California will likely soon become the fifth state in the nation to ban students from using smartphones in schools, though the full ban likely would not go into effect until the 2026-27 school year.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Rare Bee Documented on Mount Tam A 27-year-old man was killed while working in East Oakland; a 20-acre brush fire destroyed several structures east of Petaluma Wednesday; and a rare bee not documented in 45 years has been spotted in the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Muni Buses Collide, Four Hospitalized Four people, including two bus operators, were injured in a crash of two Muni buses in the Bayview; a person was reportedly struck by a BART train in downtown Berkeley; and the final legal dispute over Salesforce Transit Center's construction has been resolved.
SF Politics New January 6 Video Shows Pelosi Calling Trump a 'Domestic Enemy In the White House’ Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had choicer words than we realized for Donald Trump in the aftermath of the January 6th insurrection, calling Trump “a domestic enemy in the White House” and saying, “He’s gotta pay a price for that.”
