SF News Missing East Bay Woman Who Disappeared From Houston Airport Found Safe The missing woman from Piedmont, who last week disappeared from George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, has been found safe and her family is very relieved.
SF Politics Supervisor Safai’s ‘Cop Tax’ Headed for the March 5 Ballot, But Would Fund More Than Just Cops SF Supervisor and mayoral candidate Ahsha Safai may have won the first battle in the war of the 2024 SF elections with a new ballot measure tying police staffing to tax revenue, though a colleague called it “the worst-written piece of legislation I think I’ve seen.”
Arts & Entertainment Festival La Onda, a New Latin Music Fest From the BottleRock Team, Coming to Napa In June The lineup is set to be announced Monday for the first-ever, major music festival devoted entirely to Latin music in Northern California, and it's called Festival La Onda.
SF News Humpday Headlines: David DePape Back In Court In SF Accused Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape will make another appearance in state court today; some illegal street vending seems to be persisting in the Mission after the ban took effect; and the world's first Ohlone restaurant is returning in Berkeley.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Silicon Valley Bank (Sort Of) Back From the Dead, Leases SF Space From LinkedIn Valencia Street’s Stonemill Matcha is going to reopen, Oakland is getting a new minor league baseball team, and the bankrupt-but-acquired Silicon Valley Bank has agreed to leasing some space in the downtown SF LinkedIn building.
SF Politics Facing Crucial Deadline on High-Stakes Housing Ordinance, SF Supervisors Just Plain Delay Their Vote With a 30-day state deadline that has potentially hundreds of millions of dollars at stake on a critical piece of housing legislation, the SF Board of Supervisors yawned, stretched, and delayed their vote by another week at Tuesday’s meeting.
Arts & Entertainment SF Approves Reborn Version of The Stud's Liquor License for Its New SoMa Location The Stud stepped forward toward getting a liquor license at their new Folsom near Seventh Street location Tuesday, as the SF Board of Supervisors endorsed granting a liquor license to the reborn incarnation of The Stud.
SF News Jewish Group Sues UC Berkeley Law School Over Student Groups' Anti-Zionism Stance A Jewish advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. has filed a lawsuit that alleges that UC Berkeley's law school has permitted the "longstanding, unchecked spread of antisemitism" among its student groups.
SF News Vallejo Police Publish Photos of Unmasked, 'Smiling' Assailants Sought In Theft of $12K In Levi's Jeans A case of organized retail theft in Vallejo over the holiday weekend left investigators with some pretty clear photographic evidence, but they still need the public's help in identifying the assailants.
SF News Heads Up: BART Trains Won’t Run Though Glen Park, Balboa Park, or Daly City Stations This Weekend Inconveniences and delays of up to 30 minutes loom this weekend for BART riders, as they’re shutting down train service between the Glen Park and Daly City stations and offering buses instead, but the ripple effects will affect riders at other stations too.
SF News Arrest Made Following Drunken Melee Outside San Mateo Dive Bar That Ended In Stabbings One suspect has been arrested in connection with a chaotic fight outside Yuppie Cantina in San Mateo last month that left two men with stab wounds.
SF Politics Newsom Announces $300 Million In New Grants to Clear Homeless Encampments Governor Gavin Newsom says he’s handing $300 million to cities and state organizations to clear homeless encampments, but insists it’s not just for clearing encampments, but for providing shelter too.
SF News Murder Suspect Nima Momeni's Sister Arrested In Alleged DUI Crash The sister at the heart of the murder case against Nima Momeni, in which Cash App founder Bob Lee was killed in downtown San Francisco in April, was caught up in an alleged crime of a different nature on Monday morning in SF.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Scattered Rain Expected Late Tonight Four people were injured in a crash into a 7-11 in Novato; tomorrow is the last day to use paper tickets on BART; and scattered rain showers are going to drizzle around the Bay starting late tonight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Chevron's Richmond Refinery's Smokestacks Flaring After Power Outage Chevron's Richmond refinery was flaring from all its smokestacks Monday afternoon; a 28-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday night in Oakland's Fruitvale; and a 9th Circuit judge says he resigned because of the Supreme Court's rightward shift.
SF Politics Sean Hannity Saying Curiously Complimentary Things About Gavin Newsom Fox News host Sean Hannity is on a media blitz promoting his show’s somewhat puzzling Thursday night debate between Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis, and surprisingly, Hannity keeps talking about how much he and Newsom “hit it off.”
SF News One of Two Stabbing Victims Dies After Crashing Car En Route to SF General One of two men who were stabbed and attempting to drive themselves to SF General's emergency room Friday night/Saturday morning has died from his injuries. He was 27 years old.
Business & Tech Google Will Begin Mass-Deleting Unused Accounts on Friday, Purging Accounts Not Used In Two Years If you have an old Gmail account you haven't used in two years, be warned it is on the chopping block, as on Friday Google will start deleting accounts that have not been used in two years or longer.
Sponsored Tower of Power Set to Electrify Fox Theater in Oakland Holiday Spectacle Tower of Power, Oakland's pride, is now set to excite its hometown this December 15th with a show that embodies the essence of their legacy.
SF News Five-Year-Old Merced Girl Swept Out to Sea Near Half Moon Bay Identified A five-year-old girl who, along with her grandfather, was fatally swept out to sea from Martin's Beach in Half Moon Bay on Saturday, has been identified.
SF News Bay Area Mother of Two Goes Missing From Texas Airport A Bay Area woman has gone missing after she was last seen at an airport in Houston, Texas on the day before Thanksgiving, and her family is desperate to locate her.
SF News BART and Muni Getting Huge State Bailout to the Tune of $661M, But It Comes With Conditions After two years of talk of fiscal cliffs and the threat of service cuts, BART and the SFMTA have been thrown a lifeline in the form of state and regional transit subsidies — and the two agencies will be taking the lion's share of the money allocated to the Bay Area.
SF News Monday Night Vigil to Mark 45th Anniversary of Harvey Milk and George Moscone Assassinations One of the darkest days in SF history will be marked with the annual vigil in the Castro honoring the legacies of Harvey Milk and George Moscone, both murdered 45 years ago today.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Went to Israel to Show He's Not Antisemitic Musk decided to pay a visit Monday to Israel and to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, following a week and a half of negative attention about antisemitism on X/Twitter.
SF News New Names Being Floated for the Renaming of Stow Lake A years-long campaign to change the name of Stow Lake, named for a man with an ugly legacy of antisemitism, has resulted in a short list of ten suggested new names for the 130-year-old man-made lake.