SF News New Interim SF Fire Chief Sandy Tong Sworn In By Mayor London Breed Mayor London Breed on Tuesday announced and swore in San Francisco's new interim fire chief, Sandy Tong, who takes over after the sudden retirement of Chief Jeanine Nicholson.
SF News Oakland PD Officer Placed On Leave After Giant Illegal Marijuana Grow Found in His Antioch Home Last week CNN ran a report detailing that more than 50 very nice houses in Antioch were just giant hidden illegal pot grow operations, with no one living in the houses. Now it turns out one of those homes is owned by an Oakland police officer.
SF News Weekend Stabbing In SF Turns Into Crime Spree That Ends In Castro District A stabbing Sunday in the NoPa neighborhood led to an alleged rampage by a suspect in a vehicle, including hit-and-run collisions, and an ultimate confrontation with police.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Charges Coming In Union Square Shooting Charges should be filed today or tomorrow in the shooting of Ricky Pearsall; there was an increased police presence in Union Square Sunday and Monday; and a Spare the Air Day has been declared for Tues. and Wed.
SF News Labor Day Links: Shooting of 49er Turns Political With Farrell Comments Mayoral candidate Mark Farrell engaged in some political opportunism vis a vis Saturday's shooting; Ricky Pearsall is out of the hospital; and slain hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin was mourned at events in Berkeley and Jerusalem.
SF News Berkeley-Born Hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin Among Six Found Dead In Gaza Among the six hostages found fatally shot in a tunnel under the city of Rafah on Saturday was American citizen and Berkeley native Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose parents have spent the past eleven months advocating for the hostages.
SF News Sunday Links: Major Hotel Workers Strike to Begin A major hotel workers strike is set to begin; Sonoma County's biggest marijuana trade show is opening its doors; Lottery officials say a million dollar Powerball ticket was dispensed.
SF News 49ers Rookie Ricky Pearsall Shot In Union Square, Currently In Fair Condition 49ers rookie Ricky Pearsall was shot in Union Square Saturday after an apparent attempted robbery. He was rushed to Zuckerberg SF General Hospital, where he is reportedly now in "fair" condiition.
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.
