SF Politics After Biden’s Debate Train Wreck, Both Newsom and Harris Insist They’re Not Replacing Him With President Joe Biden giving probably the worst debate performance in modern history Thursday night, the two leading “Break glass in case of emergency” candidates, Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom, are both holding firm that they won't step into his spot.
SF News One Lake Merritt Shooting Victim Was a Bystander Allegedly Targeted by Teen Suspect The family of one of the victims in last week's mass shooting event at Lake Merritt is telling a disturbing story that could amount to a hate crime, and this victim was not even a participant in the unsanctioned Juneteenth party that was going on.
SF News High-Speed Rail Now Has Full Environmental Approvals For SF-to-LA Route While still sorely short on funds to actually get built, California's high-speed rail project reached a planning milestone on Thursday, with full approval now secured for a rail line linking San Francisco to Los Angeles.
SF Politics Supreme Court Ruling Could Have Broad Implications for Homeless Encampment Sweeps In California The Supreme Court has, predictably, ruled in favor of the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, weighing in for the first time on the issue of homelessness and how cities and states may legally enforce laws around public camping.
SF News [Update] Castro Mollie Stone’s Reopens After Shutdown Over Rodent Infestation It’s not a Happy Pride for the Castro’s Mollie Stone’s grocery store, as the SF Department of Health shut them down over a rodent infestation Thursday, but the store blames nearby construction and says they’ll reopen Friday afternoon.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Environmental Group Sues Navy Over SF Shipyard Cleanup An environmental group has made good on a legal threat to sue the Navy over the Hunters Point Shipyard cleanup; the Supreme Court has overturned yet another huge precedent with wide-ranging consequences; and several UC Berkeley swimmers are headed to the Olympics.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Massive Heat Wave Heading Toward Bay Area Next Week SoMa’s Buzzworks bar is planning a rooftop expansion; Dr. Fauci popped in to San Francisco for a chat about the early days of HIV; and the year's biggest heat wave yet appears headed to California next week.
Arts & Entertainment That Record Number of Sea Lions at Pier 39? They’re All Gone Now Those 2,000 sea lions who’d crammed the docks of Pier 39 are now basically zero sea lions at Pier 39. But don't worry for them, they’re just off getting laid.
SF News Pro-Palestinian March In Castro to Coincide With Sunday Pride Parade A queer- and trans-led alternate march, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, is planned for Sunday in the Castro, dubbed 'No Pride in Genocide.'
SF Politics Vallejo’s Own E-40 Is Doing a Post-Presidential Debate Rally With Joe Biden While Fat Joe may be the headliner of the event, Vallejo native E-40 is also on the card for a Friday rally for Joe Biden in swing state North Carolina after Thursday night’s highly anticipated presidential debate.
Arts & Entertainment A Brief History of Pride Weekend In San Francisco San Francisco plays host every June to one of the biggest LGBTQ gatherings in the world, reminding everyone that this city is still the epicenter of the queer universe — even if that universe has grown much bigger since the early days of "gay liberation."
SF Politics Scandal Believed to Be Behind FBI’s Sheng Thao Raid Had 93 Alleged Illegal Donations — Some May Be to Recall Backers Embattled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao may have received donations through a campaign money laundering scheme that could be the root of last week’s FBI raid of her home. But of the 93 alleged illegal donations, some may have gone to top Recall Sheng Thao backers too.
Sponsored Alan Walker to Unleash 'Horror House' at San Francisco's Bill Graham Auditorium Norwegian DJ and music producer phenom Alan Walker, known for his hypnotic and high-intensity records, is about to send shivers down San Francisco's spine with his upcoming 'Horror House' gig on Halloween night at Bill Graham Auditorium.
SF News Rainbow Family Gathering Ordered Out of National Forest For First Time, Threatened With Fines It's not all peace, love, and mushroom tea in the Plumas National Forest, with around 500 members of the Rainbow Family gathering five miles north of Antelope Lake, and federal authorities are trying to kick them out.
SF News Fire Destroys Warehouse In West Oakland Next to Wood Street Encampment A three-alarm fire broke out Wednesday night at a roofing supply warehouse in West Oakland, and the fire appeared to have started outside the building, possibly in a debris pile.
SF News 25-Year-Old Oakland Firefighter Dies By Drowning in San Diego Early Thursday Morning A tragic day today for firefighters in both Oakland and San Diego, as four-year veteran of the Oakland Fire Department Caeden Laffan died by drowning in San Diego at about 2 am Thursday morning, while attending the California Summer Firefighter Games.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Supreme Court Hampers More EPA Efforts A teen had to be rescued in Alameda after getting stuck in some shoreline mud; Tesla's been ordered to stop polluting; and the Supreme Court released another handful of big decisions, including one about the EPA.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Curious Coyote Wanders Onto Pink Triangle In SF Thieves used a car to ram and burglarize a cigarette store in SF's Richmond District; Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is fundraising to fight the recall; and a curious coyote wandered onto the Pink Triangle on Twin Peaks Tuesday.
SF News Just 10 Days Out From the Annual Dolores Hill Bomb, SFPD Gearing Up For More Skateboard Mayhem The annual, unpermitted and outlaw Dolores Hill Bomb event is being advertised as happening on Saturday, July 6, and neither police nor event organizers appear to be changing their approach after last year’s fiasco that saw 81 minors arrested.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Giants Cracking Down on Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog Carts Outside Oracle Park Isn’t the unpermitted sale of bacon-wrapped hot dogs the most victimless crime imaginable? The SF Giants and the city’s Department of Public Health feel otherwise, and have launched a new wave of enforcement against the hot dog carts.
SF News BART Offering 'Most Robust Service Ever' For Pride Sunday BART is planning to run trains every five minutes through San Francisco starting Sunday morning, in what it says is its "most robust service ever" for San Francisco's Pride Parade.
SF News Dyke March Officially Cancelled, But May Happen Anyway It hasn't exactly been the most organized and controversy-free event of the Pride Season, but this year's Dyke March is apparently coming with some extra organizational turmoil.
SF News Entire Hells Angels Chapter Arrested in SoCal on Kidnapping, Robbery, and Gun Charges Apparently every member of the Bakersfield Hells Angels chapter was arrested in an early Tuesday morning raid of eight different Southern California locations, conducted by 150 various law enforcement officers.
SF News Legal Dispute Could Impact Opening of Ultra-Luxe Private Club at Transamerica Pyramid A potential legal battle between the developer and owner of the Transamerica Pyramid and the high-end private club that was supposed to become a main tenant there makes it sound like all is not well with this partnership.
SF News Supreme Court Briefly Leaks Decision Indicating It Will Temporarily Allow Emergency Abortions to Continue In Idaho The Supreme Court may be sidestepping a thorny abortion case, but the result appears will be that a lower court's pause on Idaho's near-total abortion ban will continue.
