SF Politics Trump Administration Unleashes Mortgage Fraud Investigation on Eric Swalwell, His East Bay Enemy in Congress Trump’s Department of Justice has opened a probe into East Bay Congressman and Trump enemy Eric Swalwell for mortgage fraud, though several members of Trump’s cabinet have engaged in the same mortgage practices as Swalwell.
SF Politics New SF Supervisor Beya Alcaraz Abruptly Resigns After New Revelations on Potential Tax Fraud at Pet Shop After reports broke late Thursday that new SF District 4 Supervisor Beya Alcaraz had paid employees under the table and misrepresented expenses on her taxes, Alcaraz resigned from her supervisor seat about four hours later.
SF News Arrest Made In Shooting of Famed Laney College Football Coach John Beam Oakland police have announced that an arrest has been made in connection with Thursday's shocking shooting at Laney College, which left a beloved football coach critically wounded, and more details about the crime have emerged.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Court Blocks Immigrant License Rule Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon arrived at UC Berkeley to make a show about investigating a protest; a federal appeals court has blocked a new rule about immigrants' commercial driver's licenses; and Trump angers his base by softening on H1-B visas.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Valencia Street’s Artists’ Television Access Threatened by Massive Back Rent Debt Trump’s Justice Department is suing California to block Prop 50; Whoopi Goldberg brought Berkeley’s famed Top Dog hot dogs onto ‘The View,’ and Valencia Street’s ATA is in dire straits with a $45,000 back rent bill.
SF News California Revokes 17,000 Immigrants’ Commercial Driver’s Licenses After Pressure From Trump Administration More than 17,000 California commercial driver’s licenses issued to immigrants have been revoked, as the state speeds up to comply with new federal rules that driver’s licenses can’t be valid for those no longer legally allowed to be in the US.
SF News Legendary Oakland Football Coach Celebrated in Netflix Series Shot at Laney College It’s Oakland’s second school shooting in two days, with Laney College on lockdown Thursday over an active shooter, and the man who was shot was the school's famed former football coach who was featured in a 2020 Netflix series.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Opens Pabu-Chan, a New Sake Tasting 'Jewel Box' In Plaza of 101 California Just outside the doors of PABU, the 11-year-old izakaya that Michael Mina opened in the base of 101 California, there is a new separate sake bar and private event space, and it's called Pabu-Chan.
Arts & Entertainment Epic New Santacon Documentary Traces the Event's Rise and Fall, and It’s Streaming This Weekend A new documentary details how Santacon evolved from a clever SF culture prank to a widely despised black-out-and-vomit nuisance event, and that feature documentary is streaming this weekend for $15.
SF News 3.6M Earthquake Rumbles Under Vallejo, Follows Earlier Swarm of Quakes A small but noticeable 3.6-magnitude earthquake happened Thursday at 12:41 pm, with an epicenter two miles southeast of Vallejo.
Business & Tech Legal Dispute Continues Between Transamerica Building Owner and High-End Private Club That Was Set to Be a Tenant A legal battle that's been ongoing for about 18 months between upscale membership club CORE and SHVO, the developer behind the revamp of the Transamerica Building, appeared to escalate this week.
SF Politics SF’s Trumper Archbishop Rebukes Trump For Once, Condemns Immigration Crackdown The new “woke pope” seems to be trickling his wokeness down to even the ultraconservative Archbishop of San Francisco, who just joined more than 200 other US bishops in condemning Trump’s immigration crackdown.
SF News [Update] SFO Sees Nearly 400 Delays, 55 Cancellations as Storm Conditions Collide With FAA-Ordered Cuts Almost 400 flights departing from or arriving at SFO have been delayed so far on Thursday, with 55 flights canceled outright — though the majority of the cancelations may be due to the FAA-mandated decrease in air traffic related to the government shutdown.
SF News BART Service Impacted by ‘Unstable Individual' Barricading Self at Train Yard In Hayward BART officials say that an “unstable individual” with a knife barricaded themselves in the Hayward BART maintenance complex for about four hours Thursday morning, though that person has been taken into custody and trains are largely back on schedule.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Fender-Benders Mar Morning Commute There were some car crashes during this morning's very rainy commute; Live 105 has cancelled their rebooted Not So Silent Night concert; and the government shutdown is officially over.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bye Bye, Breda Train Transit fans toast to the final rides of the last 90s-era Breda light-rail train on the J-Church line; a former Newsom aide is indicted for stealing funds from Becerra; and there was a shooting at Oakland's Skyline High School.
SF Politics San Leandro City Councilmember Dragged Into Sheng Thao Scandal May Be on Verge of the Feds Flipping Him A big fish in the Sheng Thao scandal may be ready to turn evidence against Thao and the people accused of bribing her, as San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo might sing like a bird to avoid his own bribery charges.
SF News Someone Finally Bought the Beleaguered Former Westfield Mall, at Just 10% of Its Previous Value A conglomerate of big-name banks just finally bought the San Francisco Centre mall for a fraction of its previous value, though this tells us nothing about what will happen to the mall, as those banks are just going to sell the place again.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pigs & Pinot Returns to Healdsburg With Chefs Charlie Palmer, Emeril Lagasse, and Wolfgang Puck Cooking With Their Sons In what will be the 19th annual iteration of the festival, Bay Area chef Charlie Palmer's renowned Pigs & Pinot returns to Healdsburg in a new location in March, with a unique, all-star roster of father-son chef teams.
SF News Former Santa Clara County Undersheriff Kenneth Binder Named New San Mateo County Sheriff San Mateo County begins a new law enforcement era today with the naming of new Sheriff Kenneth Binder. Binder replaces Sheriff Christina Corpus, whose two-year tenure was rife with controversy, and who retired last month after county supervisors voted to remove her.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Check Out the Renovation Work Happening Inside the Castro Theatre We now have the most in-depth peek to date inside the still under-construction Castro Theatre, as crews complete what's been a nearly two-year-long, $41 million renovation project.
SF News Lurie’s Latest Fentanyl-Fighting Strategy Is to Arrest Drug Users and Put Them in a ‘Sobering Center’ A vacant city-owned warehouse is going to become the “drunk tank” for people on drugs, as arresting people and trying to sober them up is Mayor Lurie’s latest attempt to cut down on drug use on San Francisco streets.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre 2026 Film Events to Include 'Hedwig' Screening, Silent Film Fest The spring and summer schedule at the revamped and renovated Castro Theatre is getting filled in further today with the announcement of several film screenings, and confirmation that the SF Silent Film Festival will be returning there.
Business & Tech Waymo Launches Freeway Service In Bay Area and LA For Select Users, SFO Service Still to Come Waymo announced Wednesday that its cars are officially being deployed on Bay Area freeways, and while not all riders will have access to the service right away, you can theoretically now take a Waymo from downtown San Francisco to downtown San Jose.
SF News Castro Valley Road Rage Incident Takes Life of Father of Nine A Saturday night road Castro Valley car crash and subsequent brawl is being investigated as road rage, and the 49-year-old man killed in the incident was a father of nine taking his kids for ice cream.
