SF News Massive Sinkhole Forms After Water Main Break On Fillmore In Pacific Heights A huge sinkhole has formed at the intersection of Fillmore and Green streets in Pacific Heights, as a result of a water main break Monday morning.
SF News Seven Oakland Shootings Between Friday Night and Monday Leave Four People Dead A rash of shootings in Oakland between Friday night and about 3 a.m. Monday morning has left four victims dead, and as of yet, there are no arrests reported, suspects named, nor suspect descriptions released.
SF Politics Newsom Tried to Sidestep His Pledge to Appoint a Black Woman to Feinstein's Seat, and Barbara Lee Is Pissed The awkwardness continues for Governor Gavin Newsom around the hypothetical second appointment he could conceivably have to make to the U.S. Senate, as questions about Dianne Feinstein's health remain.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Woman Carjacked In Piedmont While Putting Child In Carseat A woman was carjacked in Piedmont Sunday morning while putting a child in a carseat; a new poll finds 60% of Californians opposing cash reparations; and the number of homes for sale in SF just jumped.
SF News BART’s Revamped Schedule to Start Monday, Promising Shorter Waits and Shorter Trains The transit agency is rolling out long-awaited service changes to enhance rider experiences starting September 11 — here's what's new.
SF News Potentially Thousands of Lightning Strikes Touch Down Across Central Coast and Bay Area Saturday Up to 6,000 separate lightning strikes were reported across Monterey and San Benito counties, as well as the Santa Cruz mountains and San Jose, between Friday night and Saturday night.
SF News Sunday Links: Pet Owners Warned to Keep Dogs Away From Bay Area Sea Lions to Avoid Deadly Disease Many Bay Area sea lions have leptospirosis, which is deadly to dogs; X aka Twitter is suing California over a state content moderation law; and a group of teenagers got into a big fight at the Westfield Saturday.
SF News SFPD in Standoff Following Fight and Stabbing in SoMa Area Police are urging people to avoid the area after the suspect in a stabbing that hospitalized one sought refuge in a residence near Essex and Folsom streets and is refusing to come out.
kaiser permanente Kaiser Permanente to Pay $49 Million State Settlement for Improper Disposal of Medical Waste and Patient Records Undercover trash inspectors found thousands of patient records, pharmaceutical drugs, syringes vials containing human blood and bodily fluids, and hazardous materials like batteries, aerosols, and electronic waste at 16 Kaiser medical facilities.
SF News Saturday Links: Big SF Tourism Group Appoints New President and CEO The tourism industry group San Francisco Travel Association tapped Scott Beck as its new leader; residents of the Oakland hills report a mountain lion sighting; and a body was found in the Bay near Treasure Island Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART to Retire All Legacy Trains After This Weekend BART will exclusively run its “Fleet of the Future” trains starting Monday; the driver who hit and killed cycling champion Ethan Boyes in SF might face federal charges; and Gov. Gavin Newsom swears he's not running in 2024.
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Oakland Pride Is This Weekend, With Deborah Cox and Block Parties Starting Friday Night Oaklash takes over a block of Downtown Oakland Friday night to kick off this weekend’s Oakland Pride, while Fairyland gets a FairyProud Pride Night Saturday, and of course the East Bay’s biggest Pride Parade is on Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Gets Closer to Approval for Extra Weekend of Polo Field Concerts, Free Downtown Concerts A proposal for an extra weekend of Golden Gate Park concerts the weekend after Outside Lands, plus three free concerts in downtown SF, picked up steam with approval this week from a key Board of Supervisors committee.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Admits to Preventing Ukrainian Drone Strike on Crimea These are extraordinary times when a billionaire capitalist is able to singlehandedly intervene in an international conflict on his own whims. But that appears to be at least partly what happened in an incident last year that's described in a new book about Elon Musk.
SF News SFPD Releases Bodycam Footage From Tenderloin Shooting of Knife-Wielding Man As part of its transparency protocol, San Francisco police held a town hall meeting Thursday and presented body-camera footage from an August 28 incident in which multiple officers shot and wounded a man who refused to drop a knife he was carrying.
SF News Crusty Sailboat Owner Shows Up In Federal Court Barefoot, Promises to Get Stranded Boat Off Stinson Beach A sailboat that ran aground on Stinson Beach in July has until Monday to get back in the water, a federal judge has ruled, or else Marin County authorities are going to start taking it apart. Its crusty captain made a notable appearance in federal court on Thursday.
SF News Pleasanton Man Arrested For Murder of Fiancee, Whose Dismembered Body Was Found On Alameda Shoreline In July Alameda County authorities have arrested and charged a Pleasanton man in connection with the death of a woman he called his fiancee, after her body was identified last month.
SF News City Hall May Revive Gold Rush-Era SF Patrol Special Police, Who Look Like Cops But Technically Aren’t Cops The SF Patrol Special Police look like police officers, but they’re not, and there’s only one of them left. Now Supervisor Aaron Peskin wants to beef up the 176-year-old program.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Square Outage Cost Bay Area Businesses Thousands; Company Says It Will Publish Full Report on the Cause Square and its parent company Block have apologized for a nationwide outage on Thursday that impacted businesses' ability to collect customer payments, but one can easily see how an outage like this is not the same as when Instagram goes down.
SF News SF Art Institute Could Be Saved as an Art School; Group Including Laurene Powell Jobs Looking to Buy It A group of deep-pocketed investors and arts patrons is reportedly lining up a bid to buy the bankrupt and shuttered SF Art Institute, a group including Laurene Powell Jobs, and they’d be keeping the famed Diego Rivera mural right where it is.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Not Retiring, Will Run For Re-Election In 2024 Depending on how you see it, it's either a lioness of Congress keeping hold of her role representing our city in Washington and continuing to school the youngsters in how to get stuff done, or it's another stubborn and aging politician refusing to cede power to the next generation.
SF News Family Says San Francisco Boy Was 'Poisoned' By Intensely Spicy 'One Chip Challenge' Another TikTok challenge is wreaking havoc across the country, this time on the gastro-intestinal systems of tweens and teens, and there's been a case of serious illness here in San Francisco.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Square Says Services Slowly Returning After Outage Square and CashApp are recovering from a Thursday outage; police in Hayward fatally shot a man holding a BB gun outside a Safeway; and a suspect in a San Jose murder trial violently attacked his own attorney in court.
datb Day Around the Bay: California Legislature Decriminalizes Psychedelic Shrooms Walgreens settled with jilted patients over Theranos fraud claims, the New York Times gave the Tenderloin a glowing write-up, and a bill to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms is heading for Gavin Newsom’s desk.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rapper Lyrics Born Now Has a Cooking Show, And He’ll Even Cook for You Next Week Callin’ out to all area crew: Berkeley-based hip-hop legend Lyrics Born has started an online cooking show, and you can even sample his food at a pop-up next week at a Maui fire benefit in Oakland.
