Bay Area Sports Giants Bring Back ‘The Panda’ Pablo Sandoval For Now the Third Time Do you still have your Pablo Sandoval “panda hat” from ten years ago? You may be able to put it to good use, as the Giants have just re-signed Sandoval to a minor-league contract, though with no guarantees he’ll play again in the big leagues.
SF News Library Patrons Gone Wild: Antioch Library Temporarily Closes After Reports of Sex, Drugs, Car Break-Ins The Antioch Public Library was temporarily closed this weekend after reports of on-site drug use and sex, plus the discovery of pools of blood and bullet casings, though the library is expected to reopen Tuesday with beefed-up security.
SF News Storms Cause Highway 84 in Alameda County to Just Crack Open and Fall Into Creek There’s only one lane open on State Route 84 a.k.a. Niles Canyon Road west of Sunol, because part of the other lane has simply broken off and fallen into Alameda Creek.
SF News Well-Known Oakland Auto Repair Shop Owner Shot and Killed in His Own Store A 68-year-old Oakland auto repair shop owner, who once worked alongside Cesar Chavez in the United Farm Workers movement, was on the verge of retirement. But he was shot and killed in his shop, ending that dream.
SF News Concord Is On Track to Get Rent Control, More Bay Area Cities May Follow Rent control is going beyond Oakland and San Francisco, as Concord is on the verge of implementing it, and a handful of other Bay Area cities also have rent control ballot measures in the works.
SF News Almost 3,000 People Exited Homelessness In San Francisco Last Year, But Many Leaving Shelters Have Unknown Outcomes San Francisco and its nonprofit network are doing an increasingly better job of guiding homeless individuals toward services and into temporary or permanent housing, with figures now in from 2023. But one group is calling out the trend of "unsuccessful" outcomes for those seeking shelter.
SF News 90-Year-Old Man Found Dead In Overturned Truck In Dublin Creek An elderly man whom neighbors had not seen in about a week was found deceased on Sunday, having apparently crashed his pickup truck into a creek in Dublin.
SF News President's Day Headlines: More Rain and Possible Thunder Coming Through Trees were down all over the Bay on Sunday including on Highway 13 in Oakland; tornadoes are possible in the Central Valley today; and COVID and flu infections are on the wane around the region.
SF News Hazmat Incident Near Union Square Prompts Evacuation, Traffic Delays Three people were treated for exposure to leaked, potentially poisonous refrigerant chemicals. Authorities say it was an isolated incident.
SF News Separate Shootings In SF Hospitalized Two People on Friday Night Police are investigating two unrelated shootings that took place in Cow Hollow and Potrero Hill Friday night, but they haven't arrested any suspects yet.
SF News Sunday Links: Steph Curry Narrowly Beats WNBA Star Sabrina Ionescu In First-Ever Cross-League 3-Point Competition The NBA's 3-point king beat the WNBA's 3-point queen in a shootout during All-Star Weekend; the historic Clay Theater was bought by a very mysterious buyer; and flood warnings are in place for the Bay Area during Sunday's storm.
SF News Ebony Alert Issued for Missing At-Risk Teenager Last Seen in San Francisco on Wednesday Authorities are searching for the girl, who has a central processing disorder, and was last seen on Wednesday afternoon in the Miraloma neighborhood.
SF News Saturday Links: BART Temporarily Suspends Red Line Service For Repairs, So Expect Delays BART is working on repairing the track between Richmond and Millbrae; a possibly 100-person fight broke out in SF after a high school basketball game; and President Biden is returning to the Bay Area to fundraise next week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two New Gray Wolf Packs Identified in Northern California The new wolf packs in the state bring the total to seven, major growth since the species' reintroduction in 2011; downtown SF real estate developer Ian Jacobs wrote a new op-ed about the neighborhood's "boom loop"; and a famous climber was convicted of a 2016sexual assault in Yosemite.
SF Politics Wealthy Donors Funneling a Fortune to Make Prop. 1 Ads That Are Basically Just Brooke Jenkins Ads The latest political campaign money end-around is setting up a state-level committee to prop up local DA Brooke Jenkins, and slather her face and name all over ads for next month’s statewide Proposition 1.
SF News SFMTA Claims New Valencia Bike Lane Is Safer, But They Might Bow to Pressure and Redesign It Anyway If you believe the SFMTA, the new Valencia Street center bike lane has been a smashing success. But businesses say it has smashed their revenues, and some bicyclists say it’s uniquely dangerous, so SFMTA is considering redesigning the whole thing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Chinatown Sees Some Fresh Energy It's Lunar New Year, people have been banqueting, spring has been in the air (sort of), and we have some exciting news to share from the world of Bay Area food, including two new spots in SF Chinatown.
Arts & Entertainment SF Ballet Receives Anonymously Donated $60 Million Gift, Largest In Organization's History The majority of the gift will go to SF Ballet's endowment, which helps fund new shows, a major priority for new artistic director Tamara Rojo.
SF News Scott Wiener Introduces Bill to Halt Environmental Reviews In Downtown SF for 10 Years As downtown San Francisco still has a glut of unused office space, state Senator Scott Wiener says he’s pushing legislation for a decade-long elimination of the environmental review mandate known as CEQA from downtown projects, in hopes of spurring conversion to uses like housing.
SF News Congressman Says His Opposition Is 'Even Stronger Now' to California Forever Development Plan After Ballot Filing Two local Congressmen are continuing to express their concern and extreme displeasure over the proposed California Forever "new city" plan in Solano County, which continues to take shape as it heads for its first hurdle at the ballot box.
SF News Trash and Debris Showing Up Again On SF Beaches, As It Often Does After Rainstorms Fort Funston and Ocean Beach are once again strewn with litter and debris, as rainstorms have a way of drifting white bags and single-use plastics onto the shores near the Pacific Ocean.
SF News Family Killed In San Mateo Murder-Suicide Identified The husband and wife and twin sons who were killed last weekend in a home in San Mateo have been identified, and they reportedly moved into the home in 2020 shortly after the boys were born.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Marks One Year Without a Police Chief Oakland still has no police chief, one year after LeRonne Armstrong's dismissal; an employee of an SF sober living facility died of an overdose; and Joe Machin announces he will not run for president.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose’s Raging Waters Waterslide Park Likely to Reopen This Summer Santa Clara-based Nvidia just became the nation’s third most valuable company; former supervisor John Avalos is in hot water over a provocative tweet; and San Jose’s shuttered Raging Waters park will probably reopen under new ownership this summer.
Bay Area Sports The Giants Are Dumping That GM Cruise Patch on Their Uniforms That Fans Hated Here’s one reason to get excited for Giants baseball after the free agency flops in the offseason — the team won’t be wearing that cursed Cruise patch on their uniforms this year.
