SF News Violent Brawl and Student Stampede at Novato Middle School Has Parents Up In Arms Novato’s Sinaloa Middle School was the scene of a brawl between four teenage girls Friday, which begat a mob of students stampeding the campus and sometimes trampling one another, which then begat a large meeting with irate parents Tuesday night
SF Politics 'Appeal to Heaven' Flag, Part of City Collection For Decades, Quietly Removed From SF's Civic Center Plaza A flag that had caused zero controversy for much of its time in a San Francisco city-owned collection of historic flags, which have flown outside City Hall since the 1960s, has been quietly removed by Rec & Park staff after it has come to take on new meaning.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Scott Peterson Back In Court The David DePape state trial gets underway; Scott Peterson is back in court to argue for his new trial; and residents in a South Lake Tahoe neighborhood are upset after a man shot a bear cub.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Surfboard-Stealing Otter Resurfaces in Santa Cruz Some lane closures and street repairs will muck up traffic on part of 19th Avenue this week; an extremely rare whale was spotted near Point Reyes; and Santa Cruz’s infamous Otter 841 has reappeared and is taking over people’s surfboards again.
Arts & Entertainment Skrillex and Fred Again to Play Outdoor Show Saturday Night at Civic Center Plaza, Though It’s Already Sold Out Does it matter that the freshly announced Skrillex and Fred Again show this weekend at Civic Center Plaza is already sold out, considering the show will be outdoors, and these gentlemen are not known for being particularly quiet? We’ll find out Saturday.
SF News SF’s Water Pollution Lawsuit Against the EPA Is Heading to the US Supreme Court The US Supreme Court is wading into the mess of San Francisco’s wastewater and sewage treatment controversy, and will take the case in which SF sued the EPA over how much sewage they can allow into the Pacific Ocean.
SF News 'Bad Breath Rapist,' On the Run For 16 Years, Found and Arrested In the East Bay A fugitive who had been on trial for sexual assault almost 17 years ago in Massachusetts was recently apprehended by US Marshals in the East Bay, where he had apparently been staying for some time.
SF News SF Health Department Urges Queer Community to Get Vaccinated Against Mpox Ahead of Pride As the summer and Pride season are upon us, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) is urging everyone who wants to — but particularly men, trans people, and nonbinary people who have sex with men — to get the two-dose regimen of the mpox (aka monkeypox) vaccine.
SF News SFUSD Will Ask Voters to Approve a Nearly $800 Million Bond Measure in November, Largest in City History The financially troubled San Francisco Unified School District will come asking voters for a bond measure that’s in the neighborhood of nearly a billion dollars in November, the most expensive bond measure ever in SF.
SF News David DePape Offers Apology at Second Sentencing, Says He's Doing Better Mentally Following an error by a judge at the first sentencing for Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape, DePape was resentenced Tuesday morning in federal court to 30 years in prison.
SF News BART Track Work to Cause Suspension In Service Between 24th Street and Daly City This weekend, June 1 to 2, there will be no BART service — as in no trains running, bus bridge instead — between 24th Street & Mission Station and Daly City, so plan accordingly.
SF News Nearly Three-Hour Police Standoff In San Jose Ends With Discovery of Woman’s Dead Body San Jose police responded to reports of a possible shooting Monday night, with a suspect barricading himself inside a home for nearly three hours once they arrived, and a woman's dead body being found in the home after he surrendered.
SF News Fatal Shooting Leads to Crash Near Oakland-San Leandro Border A man was found fatally shot Monday night after he crashed his car in San Leandro, near the Oakland border.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Firefighters Put Out Encampment Fire Inside Old Industrial Building The SFFD put out a fire inside an industrial building in the Bayview; workers on the Alcatraz ferry went on strike over the holiday weekend; and Steph and Ayesha Curry just had a fourth child.
SF News Oakland Firefighters Contain Huge Four-Alarm Blaze at Lumber Warehouse A massive fire broke out at the Economy Lumber warehouse in East Oakland Sunday night, sending thick smoke billowing over the city.
SF News Memorial Day Headlines: Neighbors Hold Fundraiser Barbecue For Fire-Displaced Dogwalker Neighbors had a block-party fundraiser Sunday for the fire-displaced family on Grove Street; an SF man was shot and critically wounded in Oakland; and 50 residents of a senior care facility in Oakley were displaced by a sewage leak.
SF News Mysterious Surge in Bay Area Sea Lion Pup Deaths Stumps Researchers Scientists are trying to figure out what's behind a dramatic rise in dead, stillborn, and malnourished sea lion pups, in the Bay Area and along the West Coast.
SF News Sunday Links: Lowriders On Parade The lowriders were on parade this morning in the Mission for Carnaval; the Chronicle delves into a new wage-theft complaint at Horn Barbecue; and Bradley Cooper and Steph Curry were tossing cheesesteaks into the crowd at BottleRock.
SF News Saturday Links: SF Mayoral Candidate and Levi's Heir Daniel Lurie Says He's Self-Funding His Campaign Rich SF mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie said Friday that he will opt out of public financing for his campaign; a man was convicted for molesting a high schooler on a Muni bus; and Napa's Bottle Rock music festival is starting this weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Free Solo Rock Climber Sets (Another) Speed Record for Solo-Climbing on Yosemite's El Capitan Alex Honnold set a new solo speed record on the longest route on El Capitan, the Salathé Wall; police used less-lethal force on a man carrying around a rifle in the Bayview on Thursday; and Kaiser medical residents in NorCal are unionizing.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Settle Ongoing Lawsuits Against Santa Clara, But Santa Clara’s Mayor Says It’s ‘a Loan-Shark Type Deal’ The San Francisco 49ers organization agreed to cough up more money to the City of Santa Clara by settling two lawsuits, but the city bizarrely must still pay for “buffet service” for 49ers fans in the most expensive seats, and there’s a new $4 charge on Levi’s concert tickets.
SF News Elderly Woman Struck By Cable Car Wins $11 Million Settlement From SF A woman who was struck and injured by a cable car in Russian Hill in December 2022 has won an $11 million settlement.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Tadich Gets a Pan, But Scoma's Keeps Delivering After Six Decades Outta Sight Pizza expands to Chinatown, Bettola gets set for opening in the Inner Richmond, and Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan pans Tadich Grill but says 60-year-old Scoma's on Fisherman's Wharf is still keeping quality high.
SF News Yet More Turmoil at SF’s Aquarium of the Bay, Which Just Lost Its Accreditation A terrible week gets even worse for SF’s Aquarium of the Bay and its parent nonprofit Bay.org, as the aquarium just lost its accreditation with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, amidst an almost-daily array of other scandals for the nonprofit.
SF News The Same Insurrectionist Flag That Flew Over Samuel Alito's Beach House Just Flew Over a Building In SF's Jackson Square In an eery sign suggesting that Trumpists and fomenters of civil war are everywhere among us, a flag that was flown by January 6th insurrectionists, and recently by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito made an appearance this week atop a building in San Francisco's Jackson Square.
