SF News Day Around the Bay: Hotel North Beach to Become Sober Living Facility Mayor Breed has been pushing the move as an addition to SF's supply of permanent supportive housing; Nima Momeni's sister is being charged in her whip-it DUI from November; and Lindsay Lohan revealed that Steph and Ayesha Curry are her son’s godparents.
SF News Former Mission-Bernal Big Lots Slated to Become 70 Units of Affordable Senior Housing The big lot that used to house Big Lots on Mission Street may soon be home to an affordable senior housing complex, from the same nonprofit that’s rebuilding the burnt remains of the 3300 Club across the street.
Bay Area Sports London Breed and Kansas City Mayor Make Most Predictable Super Bowl Bet Possible The mayors of SF and Kansas City made their obligatory Super Bowl friendly wager Friday morning on MSNBC, both offering up the most extremely obvious food dishes associated with their cities.
SF News School Board Member Being Investigated and Teacher Put on Leave Amid Ongoing 'Woke Kindergarten' Dustup In East Bay In case you hadn't heard, a Bay Area school district has been the subject of some national conservative outrage over federal money that it spent on a program that is misleadingly named Woke Kindergarten.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Bars Galore A new pop-up comes to The Midway in Dogpatch, and new bars are in the works or opening on Polk Street, in the Castro, and in the Osito-adjacent space that was briefly just The Bar at Osito.
SF News Man Who Rampaged Naked Shooting Gun In Richmond District Had Psychotic Break on Mushrooms, Attorney Says The man who was seen by neighbors having a violent mental health crisis on New Year's Even is a Marine Corps veteran with PTSD, his attorney said, and the breakdown he had was caused by a high dose of psychedelic mushrooms.
Business & Tech SF Pot Dispensary CEO In Hot Water Over Video Where He Brags About Not Paying His Bills The CEO of the Off The Charts dispensary chain, which has one location in San Francisco, has gone viral for the wrong reasons, in a video where he’s caught blustering to his colleagues he doesn’t pay “these f*cking mom and pops” vendors who supply his stores.
SF News Former Mr. Bungle Band Member Pleads Not Guilty In Murder of Girlfriend The East Bay man arrested last month for the murder of Capitola resident Alice “Alyx” Kamakaokalani Herrmann, who was his girlfriend, was arraigned Thursday in Santa Cruz County.
SF News Longtime SF Herbal Apothecary Scarlet Sage Herb Co. to Close Permanently This Month The 29-year-old herbal shop Scarlet Sage Herb Co. had just moved from Valencia Street to Lower Pac Heights last year, but city red tape and slow foot traffic have the store announcing they’ll close permanently “at the end of February.”
SF News Owner of San Jose Yum Yum Donuts Busted for Making and Selling ‘Pink Cocaine’ Out of Shop “Pink cocaine," also known as "Tusi", "Pantera Rosa," or “Pink Panther," is a new synthetic drug cocktail containing a mix of ketamine, MDMA, methamphetamine, cocaine, and opioids.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Body Found In Oakland Identified A body found in late January in a canal in Oakland has been identified; a new progressive action group has launched in SF; and king tides return today around the Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Kicks Off Friday, Opening Gala Returns to Pier 35 It's that time of year again, when brewers from around the city, the Bay, and across Northern California come together to celebrate and sip all manner of hazy IPAs, sour beers, pastry stouts and everything in between.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former Bagdad Café Space to Be Reborn (Again) as Bar 49 It’s confirmed that the potential 49ers championship parade would indeed be in San Francisco and not Santa Clara; a Fremont man was arrested with 500 pounds of copper wire; and the old Bagdad Café space will rise again as a new bar from a Hi Tops manager.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Backs Republican-Led Campaign to Overhaul Prop 47 Facing less-than-outstanding poll numbers in the November election and being hammered by her opponents on crime, Mayor London Breed campaigned Thursday for a Republican-authored effort to redo the state’s Prop. 47 sentencing law.
SF News Repeat Offender Allegedly Steals Pastries, Causes Chaos, Assaults Employee at Castro Bakery An apparently very angry homeless man who was familiar to police from previous arrests caused some mayhem Thursday morning at Le Marais, a bakery cafe in the Castro that has been the site of multiple incidents of crime.
SF News SFPD Announces Street Closures for Super Bowl Sunday, Anticipating 49ers Fan Mayhem Whether the 49ers win or lose Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday, SFPD and the Highway Patrol say they're still shutting down streets and highway off-ramps in anticipation of the rowdy public lunacy that may break out in the Mission District.
SF News We Now Have a Delivery Date and First Look at the Formerly $1.7 Million Toilet Coming to Noe Valley You won’t have to hold it much longer for the public toilet at Noe Valley Town Square, as there’s sneak peak at the prefab facility once infamously priced at $1.7 million (but will now be much cheaper), and a March 7 delivery date for it.
SF News 22-Year-Old Suspect Seen In Viral Video Stealing Dozens of iPhones In Emeryville Is In Jail Now Another viral retail-theft video was making the rounds earlier this week, following a brazen Monday morning robbery caught on camera at the Apple Store on Bay Street in Emeryville.
Real Estate 16+ Best Property Management Companies in SF of 2024 Property managers in San Francisco range from traditional teams who handle every aspect of the rental process to new-age apps that interface with renters and landlords through a smartphone. This list covers the options.
SF News 'Super El Niño' Has Peaked, Chances High for La Niña Pattern By Fall This winter's El Niño was, indeed, historically strong, as it was predicted to be back in December. But it is now on the wane, and not all big weather events — like last weekend's atmospheric river storm — can be directly attributed to it, experts say.
SF Politics Governor Newsom Sending In Wave of State Attorneys to Prosecute Crime in Alameda County Gavin Newsom’s Oakland and East Bay anti-crime crusade continues, now with Newsom announcing he’s sending a bunch of state Department of Justice attorneys to prosecute crime in Alameda County, which may be a message to DA Pamela Price.
SF News Owner of East Bay Popeyes Who Allegedly Hired a 13-Year-Old Fined For Child Labor Violations and Wage Theft The owners of a Popeyes franchisee, which ran three fast food restaurants in Oakland, Tracy, and Newark, had to pay $212K after a federal investigation revealed numerous labor law offences.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Pedestrian Killed On SF's Sixth Street A pedestrian was struck and killed early this morning on Sixth Street in SoMa; the power is still out for almost 13,000 PG&E customers after Sunday's storm; and the Supreme Court was hearing arguments today about Trump's eligibility for the Colorado ballot.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Rosa's La Tortilla Factory Relocating to Kansas A pair of SF tow-tuck operators accused of fraud; another video goes viral of a brazen retail theft, this time in Emeryville; and Santa Rosa's 47-year-old La Tortilla Factory is shutting down.
SF News Sinkhole Opens Up, Damages Car on 14th Street In San Francisco A fairly large sinkhole opened up Wednesday afternoon in the Mission District, and it opened up right underneath an SUV that was driving over it.
