SF News Rare Baby White Raccoon Spotted Near Oakland's Lake Merritt In — Where Else? — the Trash A rare baby white raccoon was found by a cleanup volunteer in Lake Merritt this month, and naturally, the critter was found inside a trash receptacle.
SF News 34 Years Ago Today, the Bay Was Shaken By the Loma Prieta Quake, and One Local News Anchor Stayed as Cool as Can Be The Bay Area's last major earthquake over 6.5 in magnitude occurred 34 years ago today, on a day when the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's were coming onto the field for their first-ever Bay Bridge Series.
SF News More Details Emerge on the Two Toddlers Who Drowned at a San Jose Daycare Center We now know the identities of the 18-month-old and 16-month-old who died by drowning while unattended at the Happy Happy Home daycare center in San Jose, and the operators of the center have been charged with felony child endangerment.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Announces Ballot Measure to Reduce Police Paperwork, Allow Car Chases For Petty Crimes "Right now [SFPD] officers spend too much time on paperwork, which keeps them off our streets where they're needed most," says San Francisco Mayor London Breed.
Business & Tech Feds Now Investigating Cruise Self-Driving Robotaxis Over Their Behavior Around Pedestrians The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a probe into an unknown number of incidents where Cruise robotaxis allegedly encroached on pedestrians, in the wake of one SF Cruise car running over a hit-and-run victim.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Mayor to Give State of the City Address Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is set to give her first State of the City address; a home in Daly City was badly damaged in a fire Monday evening; and Julia Roberts's Presidio Heights house just sold for an unknown price — asking price $12 million.
SF News Day Around the Bay: DA Jenkins Acknowledges 'Pro-Hamas March' Tweet, Doesn't Exactly Apologize A website falsely reported that Sup. Dean Preston had retired; there was an apparent murder-suicide this morning in Sunnyvale; and DA Brooke Jenkins acknowledged deleting a controversial tweet about Saturday's march supporting Palestinians.
SF News Newsom Gives SFMTA $3 Million to Clean These Damned Streets Before the APEC Summit With the global spotlight of the APEC conference about to shine on San Francisco in less than a month, Governor Gavin Newsom has kicked down a few million dollars in hopes of cleaning up SF streets and transit stops.
Bay Area Sports Giants Interview Assistant Coach Alyssa Nakken To Be First-Ever Woman Manager of MLB Team The first woman to be an assistant coach in Major League Baseball could also be the first ever woman ever hired as manager of a team. The Giants confirmed that they’ve interviewed assistant coach Alyssa Nakken for the head coaching position.
SF News State AG Rob Bonta Announces Five-Year State Oversight of Scandal-Plagued Vallejo Police Department The troubled and some would say trigger-happy Vallejo Police Department is looking at state Department of Justice oversight for the next five years, as California Attorney General Rob Bonta looks to curb the department’s very frequent use of force.
SF News Developer Says That Long-Stalled Hayes Valley Trader Joe’s Will Open By Next Spring While Trader Joe’s has not officially confirmed this, the developer who recently bought the property slated to become the Hayes Valley Trader Joe’s is claiming the new grocery store at 555 Fulton will be open by June 2024.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fiorella Expanding Once Again, Plans Fourth Location In Old Paxti's Space In Noe Valley SF Italian restaurant mini-chain Fiorella has its sights on a new location, and the pasta and pizza will be coming to a former pizza spot in Noe Valley that's been closed for over a year.
SF Politics The Recall Pamela Price Campaign Kicks Off Its Signature-Gathering Effort Here we go again with another district attorney recall campaign, as paid signature gatherers made their first big official push Sunday to collect the 73,000 signatures they need to force a recall election on Alameda County DA Pamela Price.
Business & Tech LinkedIn Lets Go of Hundreds More Employees In New Round of Layoffs Following two earlier layoff rounds that occurred this year, Bay Area-based LinkedIn announced Monday that it is slashing 668 more jobs, or 3% of its workforce.
SF News Anti-Jewish Graffiti Appears on Market Street Following Pro-Palestinian March Following a rally and march Saturday in support of the Palestinian people, which brought thousands of activists marching up San Francisco's Market Street, some anti-Jewish and anti-Israel graffiti was found on windows along the street.
SF News Shopping Center Fire Sends Smoke Soaring Over Livermore Sunday An abandoned shopping center in Livermore went up in flames Sunday evening in a significant blaze.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 4.8M Earthquake Rattles Northern California A 4.8M earthquake and several smaller quakes shook Humboldt County early this morning; Senator Laphonza Butler has COVID; and an 18-year-old girl was fatally shot in Oakland Saturday night.
SF News Sunday Headlines: Oakland Sees 100th Homicide of the Year One person was killed and two others were wounded in an East Oakland shooting Friday; there was a large march up Market Street in SF in support of the Palestinian people; and scammers are imitating SF restaurants on Instagram.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Taylor Swift Movie Premiere Brings Out SF Swifties (And Little Girls) Dressed All Too Well The ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ concert film opened Friday, and San Francisco Taylor Swift fans showed they were evermore than willing to live up to their reputation as highly accessorized, friendship bracelet-wearing devotees.
SF News Saturday Headlines: Automated Speed-Detection Cameras Coming to SF, Oakland Gov. Newsom signed a bill into law that will bring automated speeding tickets to SF, Oakland, and San Jose; a surfer may have gotten a shark bite near Pacifica; and a pedestrian was killed on I-280 in SF early Saturday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Nabs Retail Thieves Who Showed Up at Walgreens With Wagon The SFPD arrested six people who were part of a blitz-style robbery at an Excelsior District Walgreens; a San Jose mother and daughter have been arrested in connection with those two day-care drowning deaths; and the suspects arrested for a string of armed robberies in the Mission were arraigned.
Arts & Entertainment Bearrison and How Weird Street Faire Both Set to Unleash SF Wildness on Saturday It’s effectively the final weekend of festival season in San Francisco, and South of Market will be pumped up with both the Bearrison Street Far and How Weird Street Faire on Saturday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Pizza Burger, Burger Pizza A longtime Italian stalwart in North Beach is calling it quits, a legendary Japanese yakitori shop is coming to Japantown, and more news from this week in the Bay Area food scene.
Arts & Entertainment Too Short Headlines ‘50 Years of Hip Hop’ Party Sunday In SF From Local Record Label Empire The Grammy-winning SF record label Empire has a local celebration for the 50th anniversary of hip hop Sunday, with Too Short, and DJs Sway Calloway and Chuy Gomez.
SF News Kaiser and Healthcare Workers Reach Tentative Deal, Ending Largest Healthcare Strike In U.S. History The biggest healthcare worker strike in the nation’s history technically only lasted three days, but resulted in a 21% wage increase for pandemic-frazzled employees of the Oakland-based healthcare conglomerate Kaiser Permanente.
