A vegetation fire in the Berkeley hills Monday night was possibly caused by a firework; PG&E has begun shutting off power in the North Bay; and apparently Gavin Newsom is very popular in China.
An illegal firework sparked a grass fire Sunday night in McLaren Park; Amici's East Coast Pizzeria is closing its last SF location; and President Biden condemned the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity.
More ugly news for SF’s hospitality industry, as the 3,000-room Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 complex was just valued at only $550 million, after being valued at $1.6 billion eight years ago. And now the two hotels are just months from foreclosure.
The San Francisco Police Department will be the first department in the nation to pilot-test a new device that checks suspects’ saliva to see if they’ve been using fentanyl.
We’ve seen the last splash of Klay Thompson in a Golden State Warriors uniform, as the beloved and prolific shooting guard is ending his 13-year career with the Warriors and taking his talents to Dallas.
The Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision Monday tossing two cases back to lower courts, stymieing a Republican-led effort to litigate their feelings about social media platforms' handling of the 2020 election, and of Donald Trump after January 6th.
State Senator Scott Wiener’s bill intended to eliminate reviews and challenges to housing proposals has now done just that, as the state just forced San Francisco to streamline approvals and massively speed up housing production.
Thanks to an emergency bill that was introduced in early June by the same lawmaker who co-sponsored the law banning "junk fees," an exception was carved out for the California restaurant industry to continue charging those unpopular surcharges.
It’s now officially PG&E power outage season again as the impending heat dome rolls in, with public safety power shutoffs possible this week for eight NorCal counties, including Napa County and Solano County.
![[Update] Three Coyotes Shot and Killed After Aggressive Coyote Attacks Child In SF Botanical Garden](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1546904307-c89f37db2324?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wxMTc3M3wwfDF8c2VhcmNofDJ8fGNveW90ZSUyMHNhbiUyMGZyYW5jaXNjb3xlbnwwfHx8fDE3MTk4NTU0NDd8MA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=640)
It's the second time in three years that a coyote has menaced a child in the San Francisco Botanical Garden, and this time the animal bit the child.
One person died in a residential fire in SF's Tenderloin this morning; the Pride Parade on Sunday went off without a hitch; and a major heat dome is forming over NorCal that will bring some record-breaking temps in the coming days.
Two people were shot in Oakland Saturday evening, one fatally; the Rainbow Family has relocated to another part of Plumas National Forest; and Dyke March did happen, but it was fairly small.
Former DBI plan checker just got a year in prison; the big rainbow lasers shining up Market Street this Pride Weekend are even brighter than before; and some deplorable teen tossed out an M100 or similar while dirt-biking past Mayor London Breed and the laser-light switch-on ceremony.
A trio of 18-year-olds allegedly crashed a BMW in San Francisco on Wednesday after carjacking the vehicle from an Alameda woman who had a two-year-old and four-year-old child in the car.
The ACLU says it will keep up its legal battle with SF following the Supreme Court's ruling on homeless encampments; Mayor Sheng Thao has a new lawyer; and Biden visited the site of the Stonewall Riots today as Pride Weekend kicks off.
A minor figure in the expanding political storm over the Sheng Thao FBI raid says he’s had some major harassment and violence directed at him, and shots were fired at his home just days before the raid.
The Mission District bar Mother, in the former home of Esta Noche, has put itself on the map by making Bon Appetit’s “11 Best New Bars in the US” roundup.
The FiDi's only gay bar returns, Fiorella expands to Noe Valley, and longtime Mission stalwart Regalito is going to become something new in a matter of months.
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.
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.
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.
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.
![[Update] Castro Mollie Stone’s Reopens After Shutdown Over Rodent Infestation](https://img.sfist.com/2024/06/molliestone_cover_bracco-4.jpg)
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.
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.
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.
