Bay Area Sports It’s Official: San Francisco Is Getting a WNBA Team, Starting In 2025 The increasingly popular WNBA announced at a Thursday morning press conference that they’re bringing a new expansion team to play at the Chase Center, as there will be a Golden State WNBA team starting in 2025.
SF News Will the Blue Angels Be Buzzing Feinstein's Funeral? [Update: Yes] The funeral service for Dianne Feinstein kicks off at 1 p.m. in front of SF's City Hall, just as the Blue Angels pilots are set to begin doing their traditional Thursday-of-Fleet-Week practice flights.
Sponsored Half Moon Bay’s 51st Annual Pumpkin Festival Sprouts Miles Of Smiles The smell of autumn is in the air, and in the picturesque coast around Half Moon Bay, this thrilling season is marked by a festival like no other: the iconic Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival.
SF News City of San Francisco Files Brief With Supreme Court on Homeless Encampment Case Even though San Francisco's own injunction on homeless encampment-clearing is not on trial at the Supreme Court, the city has now filed a brief in another case that is sure to have implications here.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Feinstein Funeral No Longer Open to the Public The Feinstein memorial at City Hall won't be open to the public, officials now say; City Hall is closed for all in-person services today; and Nancy Pelosi offers her remembrances of her friend, Dianne Feinstein.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Badlands in the Castro Just Officially Reopened Wednesday The Blue Angels start flying Thursday as the heat wave intensifies, Dianne Feinstein’s memorial announced it will not be open to the public, and the long-shuttered Castro bar Badlands just reopened under new management.
SF News Bayview RV Triage Center Extension Approved, But Critics Howling Over Its Very High Cost Headlines are blaring that the SF Board of Supervisors just approved the “most expensive homeless response” ever with $140,000-a-year RV parking spots at a Bayview RV triage center, but PG&E and Urban Alchemy are a big chunk of those costs.
SF News Mint Plaza Sleeping Pod Complex Dinged With Violations After City Inspection A resident of one of the latest iterations of the pod-style sleeping arrangements we saw during the most recent SF tech boom boasted about the cheapness of his rent on social media, leading to TV media coverage and, now, a city inspection.
SF Politics DA Jenkins Sued by One of Her Former Investigators, Who Claims She Lied in Dismissing Police Shooting Case Some old Chesa Boudin-era drama is rearing its head again, as DA Jenkins’s former assistant chief of investigations is hauling her to court, saying she lied when dropping the charges against a police officer who shot and killed someone.
Arts & Entertainment 'Terror Vault: Initiation' at the Old Mint Will Have You Running Scared From Cultists It is an anxiety-inducing scenario, being led through a truly labyrinthine set of rooms and sets, up staircases and ladders and down chutes and more staircases, inside a building that feels as already haunted as San Francisco's Old Mint.
Business & Tech Google Is Opening a Visitors' Center at Its New Campus In Mountain View for Tech Tourists Fans of the Google brand and mythology, as well as the architecturally curious, will be able to check out a new visitors' center at the company's "Gradient Canopy" office complex in Mountain View starting next week.
SF News Oakland Police Claim Early Success In Car Break-In Crackdown, Tout Seven Arrests in One Day With smash-and-grab auto burglaries up a stunning 40% over the last year in Oakland, police claim their new crackdown is getting results, with seven car break-in suspects arrested in three separate incidents last Thursday.
SF Politics New Senator Laphonza Butler Defends Her Work for Uber, Plus the Whole Living In Maryland Thing It was seen as perhaps a stumble out of the gate when newly appointed California senator Laphonza Butler was revealed to have been living in Maryland the last two years, so she did a little clean-up on that in her first-day-on-the-job interview with the Chronicle.
SF Politics East Bay School Board Member Who Voted Against LGBTQ Flags Says He's Been Getting Harassed The ostensibly conservative dude who was one of two school board members in the tiny East Bay school district of Sunol to vote against having any Pride or other flags on campus last month says he's been receiving death threats.
SF Politics Feinstein's Body Arrives at SF City Hall, Will Lie In State Through Wednesday Late Senator Dianne Feinstein's remains arrived at San Francisco's City Hall rotunda Wednesday morning, flanked by members of the military, San Francisco firefighters, police, and SF sheriff's deputies all in dress uniform.
SF Politics Temporary House Speaker Evicts Pelosi From Her Capitol Office In what's clearly a petty move on the part of House Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry, Nancy Pelosi was informed Tuesday night that she had until Wednesday to vacate her office space in the Capitol building.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Kaiser Employees, SF School Staff Head to Picket Lines 23,000 Kaiser employees in the Bay Area went on strike this morning; custodial and other staff at SF public schools are almost definitely headed for a strike as well; and SFO is hosting an airtaxi conference.
SF News Day Around the Bay: DPW Employee May Be in Hot Water for Knocking Over Hot Dog Vendor’s Cart A big new heat wave arrives Wednesday, a 72-year-old woman was killed in an Oakland hit-and-run and her body wasn’t found until the next day, and social media is up in arms over a DPW worker’s treatment of a Fisherman’s Wharf hot dog vendor.
SF News Four More Racehorses Just Died In a Two-Week Span at Soon-To-Close Golden Gate Fields Berkeley’s Golden Gate Fields is still running races despite the July announcement of its permanent closure, but there are bound to be questions over how well they’re phasing out operations, as four horses have died there in the last two weeks.
Business & Tech Starbucks Is Closing Seven Downtown San Francisco Locations on October 22 The 59 Starbucks locations in San Francisco will be trimmed down later this month, with Starbucks telling managers that they are permanently closing seven SF stores on October 22, adding to the city's vacancy woes.
SF Politics House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Removed as Speaker Same Day That Laphonza Butler Is Sworn In to Senate Today was a momentous day that should go down in infamy for the House of Representatives, as a predicted outcome of the Republican Party's narrow hold on the chamber has come to pass.
SF News Feinstein Memorial Moved Outdoors to Steps of City Hall; Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi to Speak A Thursday memorial service for Senator Dianne Feinstein, originally scheduled to happen inside the War Memorial Building, in Herbst Theater, now will happen outside City Hall, with the public welcome to attend.
SF News Four SF Men Charged With Murder in Lower Haight June Homicide An early June shooting on the Lower Haight’s Rose Street took the life of 25-year-old Yeurra Blaylock III, but four San Francisco men have been arrested, charged, and are in custody for the killing.
SF News Your Cellphone Is Going to Make an Unpleasant Sound Wednesday Morning, Don't Be Alarmed There's a nationwide test scheduled for Wednesday at 11:20 a.m. Pacific Time (2:20 p.m. Eastern) of FEMA's Emergency Alert System, and it's being sent to all cellphones on all major carriers.
Arts & Entertainment Mariah Carey Announces a New Christmas Tour, But There's No Bay Area Date (Yet) Self-proclaimed Queen of Christmas Mariah Carey is taking her Christmas spectacular on the road this year, and she'll be playing two dates in California — just none in Northern California.
