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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Business & Tech
Nintendo Announces They’re Opening a Store in SF’s Union Square, Only Their Second Store in the US
Mario, Luigi, and Pokémon are swooping in to hopefully save San Francisco’s Union Square, as the video game giant Nintendo just announced they’re taking over one of the many vacant retail spots in the beleaguered shopping district sometime in 2025.
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Update: Shooting Follows Graduation Ceremony at Oakland's Skyline High; Three Injured, One Person Arrested
Graduation ceremonies went terribly wrong at Skyline High School in Oakland Thursday night, as a shooting after the ceremony left three people injured, and one suspect has reportedly been arrested.
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Big Rig's Trailer Catches Fire On Westbound Bay Bridge Near Yerba Buena Tunnel; Accident Also on Eastbound Deck
There were traffic situations in both the eastbound and westbound directions on the Bay Bridge Friday morning, with a semi truck's trailer fully engulfed in flames just east of Yerba Buena Island.
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Friday Morning Constitutional: Missing 70-Year-Old Oakland Woman Found Safe
A 70-year-old Oakland woman who disappeared while hiking near Fort Bragg was located Thursday; the candidates for mayor of SF all gather for a Milk Club forum; and a group of Valencia merchants want the SFMTA director to resign.
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Day Around the Bay: Record Travel Volume Expected for Memorial Day Weekend
Berkeley's famed baby falcons now have names from their naming contest; Alcatraz ferry boat drivers might be going on strike soon; and Memorial Day weekend travel volumes are expected to meet or exceed the all-time record.
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Homicides Were Down So Far This Year In SF, But We May Have Just Had Three In One Week
Three deaths are being investigated as homicides in San Francisco, all of which occurred since last Friday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink
JFK Promenade’s Summer Pop-Up Beer and Wine Garden Returns, Now With Cocktails and Called ‘The Whale’s Tail’
This weekend kicks off the third year in a row for the Beer and Wine Garden in Golden Gate Park, but this year they’re serving cocktails too, and renaming it “The Whale’s Tail.”
Business & Tech
Facebook Remains Bad at Restoring Peoples' Hacked Accounts
If this has happened to you, then you know what an incredible pain it is to get Meta to help you get your account back. And some states' attorneys general are pushing back.
Arts & Entertainment
How Weird Street Faire 2024 Will Indeed Happen, Rescheduled to September 21
The 25th anniversary How Weird Street Faire was abruptly postponed not even 48 hours before its gates were scheduled to open in early May, but the festival has announced it will be held on September 21, 2024, with an “Autumn Equinox” theme.
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Another Planet Entertainment Loses Court Battle With Insurance Company Over COVID Losses
The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously today in favor of an insurance company in a case involving pandemic-related closure orders and whether property loss insurance could be applied to address economic losses from a virus.
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Bay Institute and Aquarium of the Bay Scandal Explodes, CEO Resigns Amidst Reports of Extravagant Spending
What started as a bookish academic kerfuffle has blown up into a larger scandal of financial mismanagement, and the CEO of the SF Aquarium by the Bay and Bay Institute has stepped down as reports surface that he blew huge money on lavish travel and concerts in Dubai.
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SFPD Conducts Another Prostitution Sting In the Mission, Busting Johns and Sex Workers
San Francisco police are touting a new round of pointless arrests that they made last week during an eight-day operation to discourage sex work in a section of the Mission District where it has basically existed, undeterred, for three decades or more.
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Bicyclist Arrested For Hit and Run That Seriously Injured an Elderly Woman In North Beach
A 36-year-old man is under arrest after allegedly striking a female pedestrian with his bicycle in North Beach Wednesday and then fleeing the scene.
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Thursday Morning What's Up: Contra Costa Fair Workers Robbed at Gunpoint
Two workers at the Contra Costa County Fair were robbed at gunpoint; UC Berkeley had a big power outage; and the Justice Department is now suing Live Nation for having a monopoly on ticket sales.