SF News Snowfall Totals Are In For Tahoe Area; Sugar Bowl Got 10 Feet The snowfall totals are in for this past weekend's blizzard up in Tahoe. And while it sounds like major records were not broken, it was still a whole ton of snow that no one knows what to do with — except the ski resorts.
SF News Are the Waymo and Tesla Arsonists the Same Person? The SFPD has reportedly made an arrest in connection with the arson of an autonomous Waymo taxi in Chinatown last month, and they say the suspect is linked to other vehicle arson cases.
Business & Tech Apple Slapped With $2 Billion Fine In EU Over Alleged Anti-Competitive Apple Music Practices Regulators in the European Union have hit Apple with a $2 billion fine (actually 1.8 billion euros) over allegations that Apple Music has been muscling out other streaming music platforms like Spotify in the App Store.
SF Politics Adam Schiff and Katie Porter Make Their Final Campaign Stumps Here in SF Before Tuesday’s Vote Rep. Katie Porter was at Manny’s barnstorming for votes Sunday, while Rep. Adam Schiff was across town at Dogpatch’s the Pearl, as their primary race for Dianne Feinstein’s former Senate seat looms Tuesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boichik Bagels Is Opening Three New Locations In San Francisco At long last, the acclaimed and quickly expanding Berkeley bagel operation known as Boichik Bagels has announced its first San Francisco locations, which are all set to open this spring.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: I-80 Reopens Near Tahoe After Four Days Closed Travel around the Tahoe area remains difficult as I-80 remains closed; a shooting at a house party in Monterey County killed four people; and the Supreme Court has ruled in Trump's favor in the Colorado ballot case.
SF News Some San Francisco Public Schools Face Closure as Enrollment Plummets The school district of San Francisco, grappling with declining students and a looming budget deficit, is set to close or consolidate an unspecified number of schools by fall 2025, Superintendent Matt Wayne said.
SF News Sunday Links: Pro-Palestine 'Hands Off Rafah' Protest Gathers Thousands In Downtown San Francisco Pro-Palestine protesters gathered at SF’s Embarcadero Plaza Saturday, as part of an international "Hands Off Rafah" call to action; the blizzard hitting Tahoe this weekend forced the closure of I-80 and the resorts; and scattered showers will continue in the Bay Sunday.
SF News Goldenvoice Is Throwing a ‘Doom Loop’ Concert in SF The festival producer behind Coachella and Portola is leaning into the "doom loop" narrative and throwing a small one-day show at the Regency Ballroom in March named after it.
SF News Saturday Links: Four People Injured After Big Tree Falls on Car in SF's Fillmore Neighborhood Amid Storm Friday Night Friday's storm knocked a tree over onto a car near Golden Gate and Laguna Streets; the SF Zoo and Mayor London Breed really want to bring a giant panda to the zoo; and SF Giants signed third baseman Matt Chapman for another three years.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco's Homeless Population Is Decreasing, New Survey Shows A new count of tents and vehicles to measure San Francisco’s homeless population was conducted last week; Bay Areans are gearing up to ski in Tahoe after this weekend's blizzard; and Steph and Ayesha Curry are expecting a fourth child.
SF News State Agency Giving Fishermen ‘Ropeless’ Dungeness Crab Traps, So the Season Won’t Keep Getting Delayed The California Ocean Protection Council has authorized a couple million dollars to give fishermen whale-safe, ropeless Dungeness crab traps, in hopes of stopping the constant delays to crab season.
SF News Waymo Gets State Approval for Los Angeles and SF Peninsula Expansion — and Freeway Driving The era of calling a robocar to the airport may be getting closer, after the California Public Utilities Commission just granted its permission for Waymo to expand into San Mateo County and down the Peninsula.
SF News SFUSD Finally Replacing Their Disastrous, $40 Million Payroll System That Failed to Actually Pay People A two-year-long SF Unified School District payroll fiasco is still not resolved, so the district has decided to cut ties with the calamity of a payroll system called EMPower, and start over with a whole new vendor.
SF News Construction Is Actually Happening Inside the Forever-Delayed Trader Joe's In Hayes Valley It's been a while since we had any update on the long-awaited, approved but still not open Trader Joe's at Fulton and Laguna streets. But there is movement happening inside the store space!
Business & Tech SF’s Former Westfield Mall Being Rebranded as ‘The Emporium Centre San Francisco’ In an apparent attempt to halt the nonstop parade of terrible headlines about the former Westfield San Francisco Centre mall, the mall’s new management is renaming it “the Emporium Centre San Francisco” while promising more security and new attractions.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Brunch Spot Comes to NoPa The NoPa neighborhood gets a delicious new brunch spot, a popular Oakland taco stand has gone legit, and the beloved Cafe Jacqueline in North Beach is temporarily closed, with 87-year-old chef Jacqueline Margulis sidelined with a broken arm.
SF News San Francisco Man Convicted of Brutal Beating and Stabbing Over $100 A verdict has been reached in a case from February 2023 involving a beating and stabbing in San Francisco's SoMa district.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Candidates Appear Virtually at Public Forum The four candidates for the next chief of police in Oakland that were put forward this week by the city's police commission addressed the public and introduced themselves at a candidate forum Thursday night.
Arts & Entertainment Huge New Amos Goldbaum Mural Now Adorns 13 Panels at Bernal Heights Street Garden The latest large-scale but insanely intricate work by SF muralist Amos Goldbaum jazzes up a little-known yet gorgeous public garden walkway in Bernal Heights.
Business & Tech Elon Musk's Falling Out With Sam Altman Turns Into Lawsuit Against OpenAI Elon Musk, who helped to co-found OpenAI nine years ago, is now suing the company and its CEO Sam Altman, arguing that it has abandoned its professed mission to develop AI "for the benefit of humanity broadly."
SF Politics Yes Indeed, Aaron Peskin Is Running for Mayor, According to Multiple Media Outlets Supervisor Aaron Peskin has repeatedly said he’s not running to be mayor of San Francisco in November 2024, but it was easy to dismiss those claims as a chess-match ploy. And now, multiple local media outlets say that yes, Peskin will run for mayor this year.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Asking Rents In San Francisco Come Down Alameda County DA Pamela Price's office is being accused of violating the state's Public Records Act; Discovery Bay was rattled by another earthquake last night; and asking rents in San Francisco have come down compared to the same time last year.
SF News Leap Day Around the Bay: Gavin Newsom Now Says Panera Won’t Be Exempt From Minimum Wage Law UC Berkeley spent nearly $7 million to clear protesters out of People’s Park; the next ‘Star Wars’ movie will be shot entirely in California; and Gavin Newsom is responding to blowback by saying Panera won’t be exempt from an upcoming minimum wage increase.
Bay Area Sports USF Dons Basketball Team Has Huge National TV Game Against Gonzaga Tonight, Being Played at Chase Center The red-hot USF Dons men’s basketball team is playing at the Chase Center tonight in a monster game that will be on national TV (well, ESPN2), but they’re up against Gonzaga, who have beaten them 28 times in a row.
