SF News San Francisco Cracks Down on E-Scooter and E-Bike Fires with New Battery Fire Codes After mobility device battery-related fires spiked in the past few years, the San Francisco Fire Department changed its codes regarding lithium-ion batteries, and they went into effect Thursday.
SF News Another United Flight From SFO Needed To Make An Emergency Landing After System Issues On Friday A United Airlines jet headed to Mexico City experienced a problem with the aircraft's hydraulic system, prompting an emergency landing at LAX on Friday afternoon.
SF News Saturday Links: SF's Union Square In Bloom With Over 80,000 Tulips for Annual Tulip Day Saturday Afternoon Tulip Day attendees can receive up to eight complimentary tulips; SF's animal shelter is at full capacity, so it's a great time to adopt a dog; and a motorcyclist fatally crashed in Golden Gate Park on Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Unemployment Hits 4% in San Francisco Amid Tech Layoff New data shows that unemployment in SF jumped to the highest levels in the past two years; a new luxury women's knitwear store is bucking trends and opening a Union Square storefront; and the recall effort for the Alameda County DA is facing self-dealing allegations.
SF News Former Lefty O’Doul’s Owner Nick Bovis Sentenced to Nine Months in Prison Over Mohammed Nuru Case The one-time owner of Lefty O'Douls and the Gold Dust Lounge Nick Bovis is now heading to prison, as he was sentenced to nine months for fraud and bribery in the Mohammed Nuru case.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Dinner Is Back at Tartine Manufactory, With Pizza Tartine Manufactory returns to dinner service with a sourdough pizza-focused menu, Four Kings debuts in Chinatown, and a new wine bar is headed for the Lower Haight.
SF News SF Shakespeare Festival Van Was Stolen In Oakland, and They're Asking the Public to Look Out For It Police in the East Bay don't exactly have the bandwidth to track down stolen vehicles. But the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival thought for sure someone would have spotted their stolen 12-person passenger van, with their name and logo emblazoned on it, by now.
SF News Another Massive Main Water Disaster Near Stern Grove, the Second One in Three Years Another mountainous gusher of water was spewing sky-high near Stern Grove Friday morning, and while the water burst has been stopped, Parkside residents may be faced with unusually low water pressure.
SF News California Forever Puts Out First TV Ad, Which Is Predictably Short on Specifics The first TV spot for the campaign to get a new city-from-scratch built on Solano County farmland in the coming years has hit the airwaves, and much like the website for the project, it touts big plans and promises for housing and jobs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cheesecake Factory Fans Are Literally Talking About a Ballot Measure to Keep It From Closing While there has been plenty of online grief pouring out about the eventual loss of Macy's in SF's Union Square, for some, the conversation quickly turned to "What is going to happen to the Cheesecake Factory?"
SF News Plea Deal Falls Through for Serial Stonestown Target Shoplifter Accused of Stealing $40K In Merchandise The $40,000 in allegedly stolen merchandise from Target is just one of the many SF shoplifting cases against Aziza Graves, who is not in jail, but instead back in court for hearings that have dragged on for nearly two and half years.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Restoration Work Begins With the Grand Ceiling A month after its final public events before renovations began, the Castro Theatre is undergoing the first phase of its glow-up, and restorers are already working on the elaborate, gilded ceiling.
SF News Formerly $1.7 Million Toilet Has Arrived In Noe Valley (But Won’t Function For Another Three Weeks) The head that made headlines for nearly a year and a half over its initial $1.7 million price tag has finally squatted down in Noe Valley, but it won’t be up and flushing until the end of the month.
SF News Suspect In Pleasanton Murder Leads Police On Pursuit, Takes Own Life On 580 Freeway A total shutdown of I-580 in both directions Thursday morning in San Leandro was the result of a reported murder-suicide case that began with a homicide in Pleasanton.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Shooting In SF's Outer Mission A shooting at a home in the Outer Mission left one person critically wounded; the former Fremont city manager has been convicted of misusing city funds; and UC Berkeley parents are hiring private security guards.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ron Conway Is a ‘Top Funder’ of the Recall Sheng Thao Campaign The CPUC approved yet another PG&E rate hike; we’re learning about more scary SFO plane equipment failures; and the Recall Sheng Thao campaign says Ron Conway is one of its “top funders.”
SF News Yerba Buena Center CEO Steps Down as Gaza Protest and Boycott Continues to Rollick Museum After a February 15 pro-Palestine protest, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ response that spurred calls for a boycott, the center’s interim CEO has stepped down over the whole mess.
SF News Another Day, Another Two Union Square Retailers Say They're Closing — Zara and The North Face In addition to news that The North Face is closing its only San Francisco store in Union Square this month, we now have word that Zara plans to close its longtime boutique on the square too.
SF News Debt-Ravaged Dispensary Chain MedMen Closing SF Store, They Claim ‘Temporarily’ The dispensary chain MedMen was once the largest pot shop franchise in the US, but they’re closing their Cow Hollow shop in SF today, amidst widespread closures of their stores across California.
SF Politics Changing to 'A City of Yes': SF Mayor London Breed Touts Accomplishments In State of the City Address Coinciding with Biden's State of the Union address this evening, San Francisco Mayor London Breed gave her annual State of the City address to supporters and business leaders today, touting all the positive change she's seeing in SF.
SF News Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Retains New Attorney Who Questions Why She's Still Being Held Without Bail We are coming up on three years that Shannon O'Connor, the mother of two boys at Los Gatos High School who was arrested in 2021 for throwing illegal, booze-drenched parties for teens at her home, has been behind bars.
SF News Alameda Police Retail-Theft Bust Nets $75,000 In Stolen Merchandise At Oakland Home The February 9 mass robbery of an Old Navy in Alameda was tracked to a house in Oakland, which Alameda police raided, and found $75,000 in merchandise — with the tags still on all of the items.
SF News Japan-Bound United Airlines Flight Out of SFO Loses Tire During Takeoff, Gets Diverted to LAX A United Airlines flight leaving SFO had a problem during takeoff on Thursday and ended up being quickly diverted to Los Angeles.
SF News Thousands of Gallons of Wastewater Spills From Treatment Plant Into Russian River A significant spill of partially treated wastewater, likely storm-related, happened in Sonoma County last weekend, but officials seem to be downplaying the matter.
Business & Tech Bay Area Man Arrested For Stealing AI Trade Secrets From Google, Shipping Them to Chinese Companies A Chinese national living in Newark was arrested by the feds for allegedly stealing AI technology from Google, and secretly sending the information to two Chinese companies he was working for on the sly.
