SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Sunset District Sees Power Outage SF's Sunset District had a major power outage Thursday morning; BART was experiencing delays due to an "obstruction" on the tracks near Civic Center; and tickets for Sunday's NFC Championship game are very expensive.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man With Gun Arrested for Indecent Exposure Outside SF School A man was arrested for indecent exposure after allegedly sitting in his car outside Washington High in SF; Rep. Josh Harder wants the DEA to criminalize Tranq; and six bodies were found in the Mojave desert under strange circumstances.
SF News Report: SF Sheriff's Deputy from Infamous 2015 Scandal Forcing Inmates to Fight Just Got Himself Rehired The SF sheriff’s deputy behind a scandal where incarcerated people were forced to fight, and sheriff’s deputies bet on them, has been rehired after winning his arbitration case.
SF News Scott Wiener Wants Devices In Cars That Won’t Let Them Go More Than 10 MPH Over the Speed Limit The latest legislation from SF’s state Senator Scott Wiener takes aim at speeding drivers, and calls for all cars sold in California to have devices that don’t allow drivers to go more than 10 MPH over the speed limit.
SF News Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy Shot While Serving Eviction In Union City, One Day After Similar Incident In Oakland Sheriff's deputies are facing violent pushback while serving eviction notices in the East Bay this week, and one was shot and wounded Wednesday afternoon in Union City.
SF News Noe Valley’s Controversial ‘$1.7 Million Toilet’ Back In the News, Mostly Because It’s Still Not Built Hey, remember that “$1.7 million toilet” that had the local media flush with outrage back in 2022? The cost got squeezed down, but still no toilet, and it won’t be plopped down 'til April at the earliest.
SF News High-Speed Rail Still Seems Like a Far-Off Dream, But Designers Are Finalizing the Train Interiors As things move ahead, with a hope and a prayer, on California's high-speed rail project, the first segment of which is on track to open in 2030, we have some new renderings of what the train interiors may look like.
SF News Another Bay Area Carjacking Involves Child Left In Backseat; Child Found Safe, Suspects Arrested Via 'Find My Phone' Just last month we had an incident in San Francisco in which a car was stolen with a child still in the backseat, and now we have another in Oakland, which happened on Tuesday.
SF News Federal Judge Has Had It With Oakland Taking So Long to Find New Police Chief The U.S. District Court judge in charge of the Oakland Police Department's federal oversight says he’s “concerned” that the city hasn’t had a police chief for a full year now. Well, how do you think 450,000 Oakland residents feel, pal?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Award Semifinalists Include Hayes Valley's Kiln and Rintaro Chef Sylvan Mishima Brackett The James Beard Award "long list" is out, and while it hardly guarantees any more Bay Area love than the awards saw fit to dole out last year (which was almost none), there are at least a dozen local chefs and restaurants in contention for shortlisting.
Study: Climate Change Likely to Mean San Francisco's Population Will Grow as Other Cities Falter A new study suggests a pretty positive century ahead for population growth on the West Coast, and cities like San Francisco that are less car dependent and already dense are likely to fare
SF News Mayor Breed Touts Claim That Crime Is Down 7% In SF Over the Last Year As the 2024 mayoral race heats up, Mayor London Breed is hyping fresh statistics saying that overall crime was down by 7% in San Francisco in 2023, though that number depends on how you cook the books.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Another Walgreens Set to Close In SF A standoff ensued Tuesday night in Oakland after an eviction notice was served; a woman was rescued from floodwaters atop her car in Livermore; and a Walgreens in downtown SF is set to close.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vandal Suspect Arrested for Doing $10,000 Damage to Restaurant That Hadn’t Opened Yet A widely TikTok-mocked office-to-condo conversion has actually sold; now even teenagers are getting jilted out of payments by the SFUSD payroll fiasco; and SFPD has arrested a suspect in this week’s vandalism of planters outside the restuarant Alora that's opening Wednesday.
SF Politics Former Tech Exec Bilal Mahmood Declares He’s Taking on Dean Preston for District 5 Supervisor The Elon Musk and tech-PAC wing of the local SF political scene has their man to run against District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston in November, and it's tech founder and former Assembly candidate Bilal Mahmood who just announced he's running for Preston's seat.
SF News Woman Dies In Domestic Violence Shooting In Brentwood, Man Takes His Own Life After 12-Hour Standoff A Brentwood woman is dead at the hands of her significant other, and authorities engaged in a standoff with the apparent shooter outside a bedroom in Brentwood for 12 hours before he ultimately took his own life Tuesday morning.
SF News Uh-Oh! Trash From Sewer ‘Outfalls’ Now Strewn All Across Ocean Beach, Fort Funston Trash and refuse now cover the sand at SF’s Fort Funston and Ocean Beach, but don’t go picking it up — as it’s from sewer system “outfalls.”
SF News Lesbians Who Tech Summit Dumps SF for New York City, After Street Closures Rankled Locals The Castro just lost a big conference in the ten-year-old Lesbians Who Tech summit, but there may be no love lost, as Castro Street merchants had been bitter over how the summit shut down and gated off the neighborhood’s main corridor for five days.
SF News Pair Arrested In 2019 Suitcase Murder In San Francisco Finally Convicted Two people who were apprehended fairly quickly following a grisly torture and murder case that took place inside a mid-Market apartment in 2019 are finally facing sentencing following a jury verdict.
SF Politics Florence Kong, Former SF Contractor Linked to Mohammed Nuru Bribery Ring, Gets One of the Largest Ethics Fines In City History Florence Kong, one of the many, many people ensnared in a federal probe of San Francisco City Hall that dates back to 2019 and beyond, has just agreed to an eyebrow-raising $750,000 settlement with the city.
SF News Man With Machete Arrested on Crowded BART Train In SF A machete-wielding man, who was reportedly just casually waving his large knife around while seated on a crowded BART train, was arrested Monday morning in San Francisco, and it sounds like he's been a frequent flyer with local authorities.
SF Politics Debate for Feinstein’s Senate Seat: Adam Schiff, Katie Porter and Barbara Lee Spar, Steve Garvey Wishy-Washes Monday night saw the first debate for Dianne Feinstein’s former Senate seat, where Katie Porter and Adam Schiff took center stage, while Barbara Lee fought to stay in the game, and Republican Steve Garvey stumbled in his attempts to not seem like he was a Republican.
SF News Wily and Elusive Dog Gets Into Muni Tunnel, Disrupts Service and Evades Capture for Hours San Francisco commuters who use the Muni underground likely encountered some trouble Monday if they were trying to get home after 6 p.m., and it's because of what SFMTA officials said was a "determined and elusive" dog running in the downtown tunnel.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Tonga Room Nixes Ceramic Tiki-ware A planned condo tower at the base of Telegraph Hill has grown from 16 to 24 stories; the Tonga Room is replacing all of its ceramic mugs with more standard glassware, after many thefts; and Greta Gerwig got snubbed in the Oscar nominations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Whole Foods Space at Eighth and Market Is Up For Lease Chunli Zhao, the man accused in last year's mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, was just formally indicted by a grand jury; the short-lived Whole Foods space on mid-Market is up for lease; and Judge Judy is out campaigning for Nikki Haley.
