Business & Tech Guess Who's Helping Pay For Trump's Ballroom? Alphabet, Meta, Apple, Palantir Given how the billionaire CEOs all lined up to throw money at Trump's second inauguration, helping the despot feel like the king he's always wanted to be, his royal ballroom is also being funded by these billionaires, including the Bay Area's tech-wealthy.
SF News Huge Spike in SF Criminal Trial Cases Prompts Audit, Bogged-Down Courts to Release Some Defendants Some pre-trial defendants will be released from SF jails merely because there aren’t enough lawyers for their cases, and now the SF Controller will audit the situation, as DA Brooke Jenkins has brought a wave of misdemeanor prosecutions.
SF News Five People Stabbed In SF's Inner Richmond, Possibly In Bar Fight Five people were stabbed early Friday morning, four of them requiring hospitalization, during some sort of altercation inside a business in the Inner Richmond.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee Gets Confirmation That No Immigration Operations Are Happening In Bay Area Oakland Mayor and former Congresswoman Barbara Lee never had the pleasure of a phone call from President Trump on Wednesday. But she now says that she has otherwise been able to confirm that no immigration-arrest "surges" are happening in the Bay Area, full stop.
Arts & Entertainment New CBS Legal Drama From 'Good Wife' Creators Robert and Michelle King to Focus on Silicon Valley Tech World A new legal drama titled 'Cupertino' has been greenlit at CBS, and it's a procedural along the lines of 'The Good Wife' that will focus on David-versus-Goliath legal battles in the world of the tech elite.
SF News Two Injured After Bizarre Incident Where U-Haul Was Driving 'Erratically’ Around Coast Guard Island Protest A baffling incident capped off a day of protests at the Coast Guard base in Alameda, as officers opened fire on a U-Haul whose driver seemed intent on ramming into something, leaving two people injured.
SF News One Person Shot on SF's Sixth Street, One Arrested You may have received an alert from San Francisco's Department of Emergency Management Thursday afternoon about police activity at Sixth and Minna Streets. Here's what we know.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Point Man Fatally Stabbed, Woman Arrested A vegetation fire in San Jose grew to 10 acres on Thursday; a man was fatally stabbed in a home in Bay Point and a 57-year-old woman was arrested at the scene; and SF has landed on a list of safest cities for travelers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Four Nabbed for Stealing Halloween Decorations in El Cerrito The NFL Pro Bowl will be played at the Moscone Center; Francis Ford Coppola is auctioning off his watches after his last movie flopped so hard; and four people have been arrested for stealing Halloween skeletons from yards in El Cerrito.
SF News Planning Commission Approves Lurie’s Proposal to Let People Park In Their Own Driveways After a media dust-up over an SF couple who got fined $1,500 just for parking in their own driveway, the SF Planning Commission just approved Mayor Lurie’s proposal to simply allow people to legally park in their own SF driveways.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Group Behind Bourbon & Branch and Rickhouse Opens New Bar With Rotating Globally Inspired Menus A new cocktail destination debuts in North Beach today called Long Weekend, and its menu and decor will change on a rotating basis, focusing on a single global city at a time.
SF News 22-Year-Old Charged With Murder for Allegedly Selling Fentanyl to Two Santa Rosa Teens Who Fatally OD'd Two Santa Rosa teens died from overdoses, and two more were hospitalized in February after ingesting what they thought was cocaine but "was most likely fentanyl." The 22-year-old who sold it to them is now facing murder charges.
SF Politics Trump and Lurie Have Their Moment as Oakland Braces For Its Own Possible Federal 'Surge' SF Mayor Daniel Lurie, who has spent months treading carefully when it comes to discussing national politics, has now emerged as an unlikely recipient of praise from President Donald Trump, among Democratic mayors.
SF Politics Marc Benioff Helped Talk Trump Out of Federal 'Surge' In San Francisco; White House Says 'We'll Be Watching' After potentially helping encourage Trump two weeks ago in his quest to invade Democratic-led cities, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was reportedly one of several "friends" Trump spoke to Wednesday who talked him out of a planned incursion in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Outlaw’ Bernal Hill Swing Gets Featured In SF Tourism Ad Campaign A slick new prime-time TV ad features the beloved — but illegal — Bernal Heights Hill swing that Rec & Parks keeps tearing down, so we spoke to the person that just keeps putting the swing back up, about its newfound TV fame.
SF News Rallies and Marches Planned Thursday as Federal Agents Arrive In East Bay As federal agents are now arriving in the Bay Area, there are rallies and marches scheduled for Thursday afternoon and evening to protest whatever it is Trump’s goons may be planning to do.
SF Politics Trump Tells Mayor Daniel Lurie That Federal Deployment In SF Is Called Off In a confusing turn of events, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie says he had a phone call with President Trump Wednesday night, and the president said he was calling off any federal deployment in the city. But does that mean federal agents will focus on Oakland or another locale?
SF News Protesters Gather Near Coast Guard Island In Alameda Ahead of Immigration Operation, at Least Two Already Injured Ahead of a planned immigrant round-up operation by federal agents in the Bay Area that seems likely to look like previous operations in Southern California, protesters gathered early Thursday morning outside the agents' staging area on Alameda's Coast Guard Island.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: City Lights Unfurls Protest Banners City Lights Bookstore has put up banners on its facade quoting a poem about tyranny by founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti; BART's board discusses Monday's disruption; and Michael Wolff is suing Melania Trump.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Teen Driver Charged In Marin Crash The teen girl in April's deadly crash in Marin County has been criminally charged; Meta is cutting 600 jobs in its AI units; and Paramount is making offers on Warner Bros. Discovery.
SF News Former SF Sheriff Chief of Staff Will Not Stand Trial for Hit-and-Run Where He Lied, Chronicle Obtains Video of Crash Former SF Sheriff's Office chief of staff Richard Jue got lucky with a diversion program sentence rather than having to stand trial for a March hit-and-run where he lied to investigators, and the Chronicle just obtained video of the crash.
SF Politics 'Don't Take the Bait': Bay Area Leaders Plead With Potential Protesters to Stay Peaceful as Trump Sends Federal Agents Thursday could bring chaos to the Bay Area, and local leaders are hoping against hope that any protesters can temper their passions long enough to avoid what Trump and his team surely want, which are television images of violence and protest chaos that they can use to make their case for fascism.
SF Politics Now There’s Speculation That Supervisor Connie Chan Might Run for Nancy Pelosi’s Seat Scott Wiener shook up the race by announcing this morning he’s running for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat, but the publication Politico just shook it up even more, saying that SF Supervisor Connie Chan might run for that seat against him.
SF News Trump's Federal Invasion of San Francisco to Begin on Thursday It's unclear if or how the National Guard might be involved, but apparently a large contingent of federal agents, including US Customs and Border Protection personnel, is headed to the Bay Area on Thursday for some sort of operation.
Bay Area Sports Giants Hire College Coach Tony Vitello as New Manager, First College Coach to Jump Straight to MLB Manager SF Giants president Buster Posey is taking a big swing by hiring the first ever college coach with no MLB experience whatsoever as the team’s new manager, as University of Tennessee coach Tony Vitello will now manage the Giants.
