SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Z&Y Restaurant Opens Offshoot Focused on Peking Duck, Called Z&Y Peking Duck Chinatown’s Z&Y Restaurant has held a Michelin bib gourmand recognition for more than ten years running, and now they’re getting down with a duck-focused spinoff, Z&Y Peking Duck.
Business & Tech Elon Musk's Hyperloop One Is Shutting Down After Nine Years, Laying Off Everyone Elon Musk's dreams of building a high-speed steel-tube transit network that would theoretically make train and short-haul airline travel obsolete appear to be dead. Hyperloop One, founded in 2014, is shutting down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Weed Company Names Strain After French Laundry, French Laundry Sics Lawyers on Them An LA-based pot company thought they’d have a laugh by naming one of their products “French Laundry,” until attorneys for the famed Yountville restaurant had some blunt legal threats.
SF News Jury Convicts SF Man of Public Nuisance After He Displayed 'Free Fentanyl' Sign Outside Public School On Friday morning, a jury convicted a homeless man of "willfully and unlawfully creating a public nuisance" after he piled belongings on a sidewalk and displayed signs near a school advertising "Free Fentanyl 4 New Users."
SF News Sure Enough, Shoplifting Was Not the Reason For the Closure of Target at Folsom and 13th Streets When Target announced they were closing an SF store in SoMa, they blamed “theft and organized retail crime.” Uhh, turns out that Target had the least reported crime of any Target store in the entire Bay Area.
SF News Suspect In Pacifica Homicide, a Colma Firefighter, Found Dead of Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound In Ukiah The suspect in Thursday's double stabbing in Pacifica, which was described as an incident of domestic violence and in which one male victim died, was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Ukiah.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Lines Out the Door at Oakland Airport A dog had to be rescued after a fall at Fort Mason Thursday night; a Daly City man is in critical condition following a shooting; and lines were already reportedly snaking out the door early Friday morning at Oakland Airport.
SF News Shortest Day of the Year Around the Bay: Not Much Snow in Tahoe This Christmas Santa Clara and the 49ers are in another dispute over that big Christmas Night game; a police chase rattled the Precita Park area last night; and the Christmas weekend snow depth at Tahoe will likely disappoint skiers.
SF News California’s Largest Dispensary Chain Stiiizy Accused of Running Illegal, Underground Pot Shops After an LA Times investigation connected the co-founder of huge dispensary chain Stiiizy to nine illegal marijuana shops in Southern California, a new lawsuit accuses Stiiizy of operating twice as many illegal, unlicensed dispensaries.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best New Restaurants In San Francisco 2023 Despite the dominant narrative about San Francisco being "over" this past year, you wouldn't know it from the vibrant, resurgent restaurant scene. Here are our picks for the dozen new restaurants everyone who loves food should try.
SF News Decapitated Baby Seals on NorCal Beaches Confound Biologists, But Now They Know the Culprits Baby seals have been turning up with their heads ripped off on beaches from Santa Cruz to Mendocino County. Now researchers know who’s behind this curious phenomenon, and it’s predators with a newfound taste for seafood.
Arts & Entertainment Life-Size Gingerbread House Has Returned to Fairmont Hotel, So Gumdrop It Like It's Hot The two-story, walk-in, 7,750-brick gingerbread house is back to spice up San Francisco’s holiday season, and the icing on the cake is that you can book a dinner inside of it.
SF News Two Stabbed, One Fatally In Pacifica; Suspect Search Prompts Lockdown An investigation was underway after an alleged domestic violence-related double stabbing in the Vallemar neighborhood of Pacifica Thursday morning, and both a male and female victim were stabbed by a "known suspect."
SF News Oil Companies Pushing State Ballot Measure to Drill Next to Schools, Homes California passed a law prohibiting oil companies from drilling within two-thirds of a mile of schools, homes, and hospitals. Big Oil fought back, and now the issue is heading to your November 2024 ballot.
SF News SF Got Three Inches of Rain This Week; Mount Tam and Santa Cruz Mountains Got Double That The raw data is in on the Bay Area's rainfall totals this week, and we now see that San Francisco got an unusually high share of the rain with this recent parade of atmospheric river storms.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Martinez Residents Protest Refinery Flaring Martinez residents showed up at the city council meeting last night to protest recent flaring and emissions at the refinery there; an Oakley man was fatally shot outside his home; and BART was having some track trouble Thursday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Judge Rejects 'Lenient' Plea Deals for Fentanyl Dealers A federal judge has rejected two recent plea deals for Tenderloin drug dealers; another federal judge has put a halt on California's concealed-carry gun law; and a Berkeley man is among those in a prisoner swap with Venezuela.
SF News Stolen San Jose Statue Sold For $800, But Will Cost $100,000 to Replace The wild story of a stolen San Jose statue got wilder when a reporter found the missing statue in a scrapyard. But that proved the statue was only worth a few hundred bucks as scrap metal, and the city is not willing to cough up $100,000 to put it back up.
SF Politics Now California’s Lieutenant Guv Wants Trump Forced Off the California Ballot, Too California’s Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis is calling for California to follow the lead of Colorado, and kick Donald Trump off the Republican ballot for the state’s coming March 5 state primary.
Business & Tech Once High-Flying Scooter Company Bird Declares Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Scooter startup Bird already left San Francisco in February blaming “onerous regulations,” but ten months later they’re declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy as their stock is down 97%, so you have to wonder about their business acumen.
Business & Tech In Contrast to Cruise, Waymo Is Touting Its Vehicles' Safety In New Report We started the year with two main competitors in the robotaxi space, but we are ending the year with just one. And that company, Waymo, has a new peer-reviewed study to share that shows how safe its autonomous cars are compared to cars driven by humans.
SF News Rain and Floods Snarl Travel In SF and Bay Area, Oakland Zoo Closed for the Day Wednesday’s continued rainstorms caused traffic jams and commute messes across the Bay Area, while the Oakland Zoo closed up shop in heavy rains, and more than 200 flights have been delayed today at SFO.
SF News SF’s Population Has Actually Grown the Last Two Years, While California’s Population Is Still Shrinking Updated population numbers were released Tuesday showing the state of California still losing residents in 2023, but San Francisco throws a wrinkle in the doom loop narrative by gaining residents at the fourth-highest rate of any California county.
SF News Arrest Made In Fatal Shooting In SF's Oceanview Last Week A 46-year-old suspect is in police custody following a December 13 shooting that killed a 48-year-old man in San Francisco's Oceanview neighborhood.
SF News Vallejo Officer Who Killed Sean Monterrosa Won't Be Charged; California DOJ Says There's Not Enough Evidence The 2020 killing of San Francisco native Sean Monterrosa by a Vallejo police officer remains a painful memory for Bay Area residents and a tragedy for Monterrosa's family. And now, after a review by the state attorney general, the criminal case against the officer is not moving forward.
