SF Politics Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Gives Fiery Press Conference, Demands to Know Why the FBI Needed to Raid Her House Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao made her first public statements since last week's FBI raid on her home, offering some stern words for the agency and the proponents of the recall effort, though she did not take questions from the press.
SF News UC Says No to Proposed Campus In SF's Downtown A kind of moonshot proposal to install a new University of California campus in downtown San Francisco — one of a number of ideas that have been thrown out there in the last year by the mayor to bring new life to downtown — has been declined by the university.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Avocado Truck Overturns on 101 A truck carrying 16,000 pounds of avocados overturned in the northbound lanes of 101 in San Mateo; SF officials pushback on study calling SF the country's "worst-run city"; and a 30-year-old McDonald's has closed at Stonestown.
SF News Sunday Links: Yet Another Sideshow Shuts Down Bay Bridge There was yet another sideshow on the Bay Bridge early this morning; four people were injured in a shooting in Vallejo; and a two-acre grass fire broke out in San Francisco Saturday night.
SF News Paul Pelosi Attacker David DePape Found Guilty In State Trial It's a second guilty verdict for David DePape, the man who attacked Paul Pelosi two years ago who was earlier convicted in federal court, and he is likely to spend the remainder of his life behind bars.
SF News One Killed In Shooting In SoMa, Near SF's Civic Center One person was killed Friday evening in a shooting in SoMa, and this fatal shooting followed an earlier one that occurred just a few blocks away.
SF News Saturday Links: World's Ugliest Dog Crowned at Sonoma-Marin Fair A three-time second-place winner named Wild Thang won the World's Ugliest Dog contest Friday; an attorney for Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao says the raid on her home was "bad optics"; and beloved local chef and food writer Narsai David has died.
SF News Mayor Breed’s Budget Cuts Leave Alemany Flea Market on the Chopping Block, Vendors Revolt The City of San Francisco’s $800 million budget deficit is leaving many programs under the scalpel, and Portola neighborhood vendors are furious that the Alemany Flea Market may be one of them.
Business & Tech Cruise Fined $112,500 by CPUC Over Pedestrian-Dragging Incident, But Avoids Independent Investigation Cruise was fined the maximum allowable fine of $112,500 for burying evidence in the incident where their car dragged a pedestrian 20 feet. But the self-driving car company got off easy, as state regulators rejected calls for an independent investigation into what actually happened.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Castro and North Beach Both Welcome New Bars New bars have opened in both the Castro and North Beach neighborhoods, Lazy Bear is set to close this summer for a renovation, and the Chronicle's critic sees a lot of greige at RH's Palm Court restaurant.
Business & Tech Have You Had Your Electric Bike Stolen? It Might Be in Mexico and Being Sold on Facebook A recent WIRED investigation uncovered a high-end crime ring that appeared to be shipping stolen Bay Area electric bikes to Mexico. New reporting shows that the local epicenter of this ring may be a transmission shop in San Jose.
SF News Air Taxi Service Plans 2025 Launch In Bay Area, Offering Rides Between Napa, Livermore, San Jose, and South SF A new electric air taxi service is looking to launch in the Bay Area, with its first taxi-port to be built at a South San Francisco office complex — and they have plans to offer 10-minute rides to San Jose and 15-minute rides to Napa.
SF News We’re Getting Clues On Why the FBI Raided Sheng Thao’s Home, and Other Oakland Politicians Might Be Worried Too Thursday’s FBI raid on Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s house appears to be part of a larger investigation of Oakland’s trash pick-up contractor, and this thing might be a Mohammed Nuru-caliber scandal that ensnares many more politicians in Oakland — and beyond.
SF News The Rainbow Family Gathering Is Happening In a Northern California Forest and Locals Are Freaking Out An area north of Antelope Lake in Plumas National Forest is going to play host to around 10,000 unwashed hippies next month, and area residents and the local sheriff are sounding alarm bells and wondering what kind of mess they'll be cleaning up.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Heat Wave Descends on Bay Area Parts of the East Bay could see 100-degree temps this weekend; the CPUC says AT&T has to continue being the carrier of last resort for rural communities; and KTVU says goodbye to Julie Haener.
SF News Longest Day of the Year Around the Bay: Laguna Honda Hospital Fully Recertified and Refunded The doctor who drove his family off a San Mateo cliff will avoid jail time; another SFO runway is reopening in time for a coming travel rush; and Laguna Honda Hospital is officially off the schneid and fully recertified.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Has Now Spent More Than $1 Million In SF Mayoral Race Levi Strauss family heir money and venture capitalists’ bucks are flying into the campaign accounts for SF mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie, but he’s burning through it too, and has spent $1.2 million with Election Day still five months out.
Bay Area Sports Spike Lee Pops By Willie Mays Shrine at Oracle Park: ‘I Had To Pay My Love And Respect In Person’ Academy Award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee was among the many who paid homage to the late Willie Mays at Mays’s Oracle Park statue Wednesday, so who knows, maybe Spike Lee will show up at the ballpark for Thursday night’s free showing of Giants’ Negro Leagues tribute game.
SF News California Supreme Court Blocks Anti-Tax Ballot Measure In Rare Move, Siding With Newsom and Legislature The California Supreme Court has struck down an anti-tax measure that had qualified for the November ballot through a signature drive, saying that it violates state constitutional procedure.
SF News Notorious Flooded Luxury Apartment High-Rise 33 Tehama Rebrands as 'Spera,' Claims New, Different Address Hoping to memory-hole the flooding drama at 33 Tehama, the luxury SoMa high-rise is suddenly rebranding itself as “Spera,” and while it is at the exact same location, it now claims to be located at 39 Tehama Street.
SF News East Bay 'Scholar-Activist' Arrested for UC Berkeley Arson Incidents That Were Possibly Linked to Pro-Palestinian Protest A 34-year-old man was arrested Monday in connection with multiple arson incidents and the firebombing of a campus police vehicle at UC Berkeley, and these may have been acts of protest over the university's treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters.
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Hopes to Have Legal Cannabis Sales and Smoking at Civic Center Plaza Party A highly historic feature could be puffing up at this year’s SF Pride celebration, with Civic Center Plaza planning to host SF Pride’s first-ever legal marijuana sales and consumption area — though the permit has technically not been approved yet.
Arts & Entertainment Tyler, the Creator Drops Out of Outside Lands Lineup, Will Be Replaced By Sabrina Carpenter A lot of tickets have already been sold, and fans of Tyler, the Creator will be disappointed to learn that he will not be making a return visit to Outside Lands this year after all.
SF News FBI Agents Raid Home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Not sure what's going on here, but hours after a shooting at Lake Merritt, and less than a day after signatures were verified in a recall campaign against her, the FBI raided the home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao.
SF News [Update] 14 People Shot at Unsanctioned Juneteenth Event at Oakland's Lake Merritt Fourteen people were injured, one of them critically, in a shooting Wednesday evening after a fight broke out during an unsanctioned Juneteenth gathering by Lake Merritt in Oakland — which also devolved into a sideshow. This is the second Juneteenth shooting in Oakland in three years.
