SF News SF Teacher Strike Averted, After All-Night Bargaining Session Produces Significant Pay Raise A San Francisco teacher strike looked likely when 97% of the union voted in favor of a strike just last week, but an all-night session at the bargaining table just produced a new deal with a substantial pay raise.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Protesters Chain Selves to Federal Building Calling for Ceasefire in Gaza This week’s heat wave has cooled off into a fog wave, President Biden addressed the nation calling for more aid to Israel, while protesters at an SF federal building had other ideas on the matter.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Wants to Jack Your Rates Up By 22% Gavin Newsom is the latest U.S. politician heading to Israel, it’s a surreal scene inside that Folsom Street Target that closes Saturday, and PG&E is asking permission to lay a 22% rate increase on us.
SF News SFPD Releases Bodycam Footage of Shooting of Man Who Drove Into Chinese Consulate We still don’t know the motive of the man who was shot and killed after driving into the SF Chinese consulate last week, but at a town hall meeting showing the officers’ bodycam videos, we see that the suspect was indeed swinging a knife.
Arts & Entertainment Page Slow Street Gets Sweet New Public Parklet, First One in SF That’s Fully Open to the Public SF’s new completely public parklet has opened on Page Street near Golden Gate Park, as that designated Slow Street gets a public parklet with benches, plants, and a tiny free library.
SF News Mission Street Vendors Not at All Happy About New Vending Ban, Which May Only Be a 90-Day Ban Most Mission Street vendors do not even realize that SF is gearing up to ban vending on Mission Street, and we now learn the vending ban might only be in effect for 90 days.
SF News Jelly Belly, Iconic Bay Area Candy Maker, Sells to Midwestern Candy Company Jelly Belly, which is headquartered in Fairfield and one of that city’s largest employers, announced the bittersweet sale to Chicago-based Ferrara Candy Company Wednesday.
SF News Dozens of Speed Cameras Planned in SF for Areas With ‘Known Risks’ Like Crashes and Sideshows Thanks to a new traffic safety state law, SF is getting 33 speed cameras, to be placed in school zones and areas with the highest crash rates.
SF News The MyShake App Went Off at a Highly Inconvenient Wrong Time for Earthquake Preparedness Alert There are some “You had one job” jokes being made at the expense of the MyShake earthquake notification app, as today’s scheduled 10:19 a.m. test alert instead blared out a 3:19 a.m. alert to potentially more than a million people.
SF News Three More Arrests Made In June's Rolling Gun Battle Down Embarcadero The SFPD announced three more arrests — two adults and one juvenile — in connection with a wild rolling gun battle in June down the Embarcadero from Fisherman's Wharf that left a young girl injured.
SF News Valencia Street Vintage Store Stuff Closing in January Over Apparent Landlord Dispute The gigantic vintage modern collective Stuff has been at Valencia Street near Duboce Avenue for 12 years, but has announced a January 31 closure over what the owners say is an untenable rent increase.
SF News Mid-Market Luxury Apartment Tower NEMA, a Symbol of Last Tech Boom, Faces Foreclosure A decade ago we were cringing in horror over the douchey marketing video for a luxury apartment tower that went up next door to the building we used to call the Twitter Building. Now, it's facing foreclosure.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Pedestrian Struck and Killed By Muni Bus, Van Ness Closed A pedestrian was struck and killed around 1 a.m. Thursday by a Muni bus on Van Ness Avenue; there was more drama at the SF Police Commission Wednesday; and Jim Jordan is not seeking a third floor vote for Speaker of the House.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oregon Couple Killed While Biking In Napa Identified A Muslim woman says she was spat on and harassed in Burlingame; an audit has found more irregularities at SF's Community Challenge Grant Program; and a pair of bicyclists killed in Napa Tuesday have been identified as a couple visiting from Oregon.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Pro Soccer Teams Unveil New Stadium Designs, Ask for Public Feedback The Oakland Roots men’s soccer team and Oakland Soul women’s team have released renderings of their new proposed stadium designs, for if and when they move into their new home next to the Oakland Coliseum.
SF News APEC Summit Will Close Freeway Ramps, All Streets Around Moscone Center, and Central Subway for Six Days Well, it looks like this major trade conference that is bringing a bunch of world leaders from the Asia-Pacific sphere to San Francisco in a few weeks is going to snarl traffic and cause transit headaches way bigger than Dreamforce ever does.
SF News Encampment Guy Infuriating Richmond District With ‘Free Fentanyl,’ ‘Meth for Stolen Items’ Signs Near School Some joker with a tent encampment in the Inner Richmond has posted hand-scrawled signs reading “Free fentanyl 4 new users,” and “Meth for stolen items!” across the street from a school and a church. Oh, and he's a registered sex offender, and he claims he's not joking.
SF News Rollover Crash In SF's Broadway Tunnel Injures One, Tunnel Partially Closed There was a rollover crash Wednesday morning apparently only involving one car inside the Broadway Tunnel connecting North Beach and Russian Hill.
SF News Valencia Street Center Bike Lane Causing Confusion, Exasperated Shops Say It's Ruining Business Add Valencia Street merchants to the chorus of people complaining about Valencia Street’s new center bike lane, as shops say it’s drastically cut their revenue, and transit advocates howl that it’s unsafe and counterintuitive.
SF News Great Shakeout Earthquake Drills Scheduled for Thursday, Which Means Yet More Earthquake Alerts Your phone may be blaring another earthquake alert Thursday morning at 10:19 a.m., as California and the nation at large encourage earthquake kits and preparedness with the Great Shakeout earthquake drill.
SF News Two Suspects Charged In Smash-and-Grab Involving Car at Union Square Dior Store The pair of suspects arrested in connection with last week's brazen smash-and-grab robbery at the Christian Dior store in Union Square — a robbery that involved ramming through the front gates and door of the store with a car — have now been charged.
SF News Street Vending to Be Banned Outright on Mission Street, as City Workers Cite Assaults Supervisor Hillary Ronen made the surprise announcement that the city will ban all vending on Mission Street (or try to, at least), as threats and attacks on city workers have apparently been escalating.
SF News Hundreds of SF High School Students Stage Walkout In Protest of Israel's Bombing of Gaza An unknown number of high school students in the San Francisco Unified School District are staging a walkout today in protest of the violence in the Middle East, and saying they demand a ceasefire.
SF News 4.1M Earthquake Centered In Sacramento River Delta Prompts ShakeAlert on SF Phones A 4.1M earthquake centered in Isleton, in Sacramento County, prompted an Emergency Alert on phones in the Bay Area from the ShakeAlert system — though you might not have felt any shaking in SF.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Another Heatwave Arrives It's going to be a hot few days in the Bay Area; SF Supervisor Hillary Ronen says she now backs a tiny-home village at 16th and Mission; and X/Twitter is going to start charging new users $1 to use the platform in two countries.
