SF Politics Will Newsom Appoint Barbara Lee to the Senate? Or Send In Shirley Weber as 'Interim'? Governor Gavin Newsom is now faced with the awkward moment he has not wanted to face, with a second senate seat to fill by appointment, and a two-year-old pledge he may have come to regret.
SF News Millennium Tower Residents Stuck With Unanticipated $6.8 Million Tab For Repair Cost Overruns The good news is that the infamously leaning and sinking Millennium Tower seems on the way to being fixed. The bad news for homeowners at the tower is they just got hit with an unexpected $6.8 million bill for the repairs, with a due date of October 1.
SF News Utility Worker Who Died In Trench Collapse Identified The man who died Thursday morning when an underground trench he was working in collapsed, burying him alive, has been identified.
SF News California Congresswoman Was Among Last to See Feinstein Alive, Says She 'Worked to Her Dying Day' "I was the lucky one," says former House Rep. Jane Harman of Los Angeles after she revealed that she had a 5 p.m. meeting with Senator Dianne Feinstein at her home in Washington D.C. Thursday.
SF Politics Oakland Police Chief Search Halted as Police Commissioners Boycott Their Own Meeting Some next-level dysfunction in the search for a new Oakland police chief, as the members of the Oakland Police Commission boycotted their own meeting Thursday, denying the commission quorum or the ability to make a vote.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein, Lioness of the Senate and Onetime SF Mayor, Dies at Age 90 Senator Dianne Feinstein, the first woman to represent California in the Senate and a onetime mayor of San Francisco who led the city through a tragic and tumultuous time, died Thursday night at age 90.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Driver Killed In Bay Bridge Crash A 70-year-old driver was killed in a crash on the Bay Bridge approach in Oakland Thursday evening; light rain is heading for the coast tonight; and New York is going through a major rain event right now.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Government Shutdown Could Indeed Cancel Blue Angels’ Fleet Week Air Show A man was found dead at the 16th Street BART Plaza, the first snow of the season is expected Saturday in the Sierras, and we now learn that a government shutdown could indeed cancel the Blue Angels air show component of Fleet Week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Alums to Open New 'Izakaya-Like' Chinese Restaurant, Four Kings A space at the edge of both Chinatown and the Financial District is going to become a permanent home for Four Kings, the nostalgic Cantonese and Hong Kongese pop-up from former Mister Jiu's chefs Franky Ho and Mike Long.
Bay Area Sports SF Reportedly on the Verge of Getting the 2025 NBA All-Star Game at the Chase Center It’s not official, but plenty of sportswriters with “sources” say that the NBA will soon announce that the 2025 All-Star Game will be played at the Chase Center, which means haha, Charles Barkley will be forced to come back here and get heckled again.
SF News SFPD Chase of Murder Suspect Ends With Van Crashing at Third and Folsom Streets, During Moscone Center Conference The California Highway Patrol started a pursuit of a reported Oakland homicide suspect in Redwood City Thursday, and the chase didn’t end until the suspect crashed his white van into the wall of the Moscone Center parking lot.
SF News San Francisco May Ban Security Guards From Drawing Guns Over Property Crime Supervisor Dean Preston proposed a new ordinance earlier this year that would bar armed security guards from drawing their weapons in response to a property crime in progress — following the widespread outrage over the April killing of Banko Brown.
SF News Lululemon Store on Fillmore Targeted Twice For Organized Theft Last Week, Four Suspects Charged The SFPD made multiple arrests last week in connection with organized retail thefts in the city, but two incidents happened at the same store, the Lululemon at 2040 Fillmore Street.
SF News Now 16th Street BART Plaza Has Those Metal Anti-Vending Barricades Put Up, Too The waist-high barriers meant to curb illegal street vending at 24th and Mission streets have now also popped up at the 16th and Mission Street BART Plaza too, though they may be deterring sidewalk access more than they deter street vending.
SF News Historic Warfield Building Moves Forward Toward Residential Conversion; Eight Other Downtown Buildings Could Follow While we still may be years out before we see lots of residential units hit the market in former downtown office buildings, at least eight landlords of downtown buildings are putting out feelers about converting — and the developer behind 100 Van Ness is eyeing a big building on Spear Street.
SF News [Updated] Utility Worker Dies After Collapse of Trench at Oak and Divisadero Some sort of sidewalk collapse occurred Thursday morning over a utility trench near the Lower Haight neighborhood, trapping one person underground.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisherman’s Wharf Restaurants Fishermen’s Grotto and Tarantino’s Both Face Eviction Over Unpaid Rent Two more historic Fisherman's Wharf seafood restaurants may be biting the dust, as the 88-year-old Fishermen’s Grotto No. 9 and the 77-year-old Tarantino’s have both received eviction notices for unpaid back rent.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland Police Commission Hosting Town Hall The Oakland Police Commission is holding a town hall tonight on the search for a new chief; two collisions led to a major backup on the Dumbarton Bridge; and the Powerball jackpot has swelled to $925M.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley Murder Suspect Misses Court Appearance A man was shot by Fairfield police for allegedly having a gun near a school; Berkeley murder suspect Jonah Roper failed to appear in court today; and two women have been charged with a brazen retail theft in Pacific Heights.
SF News Government Shutdown Could Clip the Wings of Fleet Week, Which Technically Starts Monday Bad news for Fleet Week fans, but good news for dogs, as the looming federal government shutdown could end up scaling back next week’s Fleet Week activities.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trumer Opening Its First US Taproom In Berkeley, With an Oktoberfest Grand Opening on October 7 The 400-year-old Austrian beer Trumer Pils is opening its first-ever US taproom in Berkeley next weekend, and celebrating with an Oktoberfest party that will feature some of their other Bavarian-inspired lagers (and costume contests).
Arts & Entertainment Local Architect Proposes a Much Saner Solution For Troubled SF Mall: Legoland San Francisco architect Mark Hogan, founder of OpenScope Studio, has thrown out an idea for filling the vacant former Nordstrom space in the mall formerly called the Westfield Centre on SF's Market Street, and it makes a lot more sense than a soccer stadium.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jeopardy!' Champ Amy Schneider's First Book, 'In the Form of a Question,' Hits Shelves Next Week The Bay Area's own 40-game 'Jeopardy!' champion Amy Schneider has been at work on a book in the 20 months since her historic run on the game show ended, and it is set to land in stores on October 3.
SF News DNA Evidence Reopens 1987 Cold Case of Abused and Murdered Solano County Boy, New Suspect Arrested While both the victim and the wrongly accused are now deceased, Solano County prosecutors have identified and arrested a suspect in the 1987 kidnapping and murder of a six-year-old boy thanks to new DNA evidence.
SF News Predictably, Story About Sleeping Pods Prompts Investigation By SF Building Inspectors Today in unsurprising news: The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection has launched an investigation into those $700/mo sleeping pods on Mint Plaza, which may not be permitted.
