SF News Man In Car Crash on Bay Bridge Leaps Into Bay, Gets Coast Guard Rescue A man involved in a two-car crash on the Bay Bridge Thursday ran from the scene, perhaps to escape law enforcement attention, and jumped into the Bay, according to California Highway Patrol.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco's Food Scene Has Changed Wildly, Mostly for the Better, In the Last 20 Years It's SFist's 20th anniversary week this week, and it seemed like a good time to look back on how we've covered food and the local restaurant scene going back to the site's early days, spanning an era in which SF restaurants became some of the most buzzed-about places in the country.
SF News Outer Sunset Affordable Housing for Teachers Project Swamped With 900 Applications for Just 135 Units The good news is that the highly anticipated affordable housing complex for SFUSD teachers is just a couple months from allowing its new tenants in. The bad news is that the vast majority of applicants won’t get a place, as applicants outnumber available units by about sixfold.
SF News BART Installing the Evasion-Proof Fare Gates Throughout Civic Center Station, Starting Today Heads up, gate-hoppers: BART is installing their supposedly evasion-proof Next Generation Fare Gates at Civic Center Station starting today, hoping to stem fare evasion at one of their most notorious stations.
SF News SFist Turns 20: Here's to 20 Years of Gossip, Snark, and Covering This Beautiful City Hey everybody, SFist is celebrating its 20th anniversary this week! To honor the occasion, we look back with fondness on these two madcap decades of this site, and the writers who made us the best smart-ass news publication in town.
SF Politics Pelosi, the Biden Whisperer? Former Speaker Reportedly Tells Biden He Won't Win House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi may be playing one of the most consequential roles of her career this week, that of tough-love confidant to the president at a pivotal moment in the 2024 race.
SF Politics Car Lovers Holding ‘Car Rally’ Thursday To Protest Car-Free Great Highway Plan Some people are not fans of the car-free Great Highway proposal slated for SF’s November ballot, and they’re organizing a car caravan Thursday morning to honk their displeasure at the idea.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Mick Jagger Cracks Bay Area Jokes at Levi’s Stadium Stones Show SF drug overdoses hit a two-year low in June; the Motel 6 near Ocean Beach might become an affordable housing complex; and Mick Jagger busted out some solid Silicon Valley wisecracks at Wednesday night’s Rolling Stones concert.
SF News Day Around the Bay: City Looks at Total Reimagining of Embarcadero Plaza The city and the owners of Embarcadero Center are looking to build a new park at Embarcadero Plaza; 23andme is looking to settle a case about their data breach last year; and Biden has COVID.
SF News FBI’s Sheng Thao Raid Investigation Has Now Expanded to the Oakland Police Department It may just be a legal technicality, or it may be a sign that the FBI smells something fishy with the Oakland PD, as the latest federal subpoena in “Sheng Thao raid-gate” asks for a slew of records from the Oakland Police Department.
SF News Twin Peaks Tunnel Closes This Weekend for Repairs, Muni Trains Stopping at Castro The Twin Peaks Tunnel, which connects Castro Station to West Portal on the other side, will be closed throughout this weekend for repairs, and will be closed again in August.
SF News City Gives Final Approval to Massive Stonestown Redevelopment Project, With 3,500 Housing Units The San Francisco Board of Supervisors made it official-official on Tuesday, voting unanimously to approve a huge new project on what is currently parking lots surrounding the Stonestown Galleria mall.
SF News Fresh Heatwave on the Way, Maybe Not as Hot as Last One Another heatwave is taking shape that will bring more triple-digit temperatures to some inland areas, especially toward Sacramento and the Central Valley, and it should be pretty nice in the city for that Dirtybird rave on the Embarcadero.
Business & Tech Salesforce Work-From-Home Party Is Over, Employees Required to Be in Office Three to Five Days a Week SF’s largest private employer Salesforce is bringing the hammer down on its pajama-clad workers who’ve gotten used to remote work, as the company will start requiring employees to work three to five days a week in the office, and they’ll be monitoring security badge scans.
SF Politics Billionaire David Sacks Takes His Turn Bashing San Francisco at RNC It wouldn't be a Republican convention — hell it wouldn't be a day at Fox News — without someone using "San Francisco" as a symbol for all that is wrong with Democrats and the Left. And at this year's Republican National Convention, it was billionaire David Sacks's turn at the podium.
SF News Doctors and Users Explain Why Fentanyl Users Are Hunched Over So Often We’ve all observed the tell-tale sign that someone is high on fentanyl in that they’re bent over and frozen in the so-called “fentanyl fold,” and a new Chronicle report speaks to medical experts and users about why this happens.
SF Politics Now Adam Schiff Is Calling For Biden to Drop Out Representative Adam Schiff, who is running for one of California's Senate seats in November, is joining the small but growing chorus of Democrats calling on Biden to step out of the race.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Supervisors at War Over Police Pension Ballot Measure San Jose police have confirmed that the father is a suspect in the death of three-year-old Ellie Lorenzo; SF supervisors Hillary Ronen and Aaron Peskin are at odds over a ballot measure; and friends of Tan DaGod say she was targeted in Saturday's shooting.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers’ Star Receiver Brandon Aiyuk Demands to Be Traded The Sunset Night Market is getting ready to double in size; a big political fight just broke out between Supervisors Hillary Ronen and Aaron Peskin; and the 49ers’ leading receiver Brandon Aiyuk has requested a trade amidst a contract standoff.
SF News SFPD Seeks Suspect Who Violently Attacked Disabled Person After Harassing a Waymo Vehicle A person SFPD described as "cognitively impaired" suffered a fractured skull in a recent late-night attack where the suspect also tried to start a fight with a self-driving Waymo, and the police are seeking the brown-haired male suspect seen here.
SF News Spec House In Russian Hill, Bought By Sam Altman For $27 Million, Declared a 'Lemon' In New Lawsuit A house that notably sold well below a sky-high asking price in 2020, designed by a renowned SF architect but heavily renovated to the point that the developer was fined by preservationists, is now the subject of a new lawsuit because of its many reported defects.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Claims He’s Moving X Headquarters to Texas, Because He’s Mad About a New Trans Rights Law Just days after we learned that Xitter is trying to sublease its entire mid-Market headquarters, Elon Musk says he’s moving the company to Texas, and claims it’s because of a new California law about the rights of trans kids.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Huge New Food Hall From Momofuku Alum Coming to Presidio Tunnel Tops A large restaurant space in the Presidio Tunnel Tops park that has been sitting empty has found a taker, and it's an alum from the acclaimed Momofuku restaurant group.
SF News Strict New Wildfire Law Might Ban Plants and Bushes Within Five Feet of Homes in Wildfire-Prone Areas California fire officials are considering implementing a sweeping ban on bushes, brush, or any combustible materials within five feet of homes in areas considered high risk for wildfires.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Slanted Door Space In Ferry Building to Become Big New Destination Restaurant and Bakery From Sorrel Team There's a taker for the prominent anchor restaurant space at the Ferry Building that was officially vacated by The Slanted Door this spring, and it's a new concept from the Michelin-starred team behind Sorrel.
