SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Supervisors Call For Hearing on December Power Outage Supervisor Alan Wong and others are calling for a hearing into PG&E's massive outage last month; Sonoma County is under a flood warning today; and Valero has begun shutting down its Benicia refinery.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Blood-Soaked Fistfight Breaks Out at Disneyland Over People Cutting in Line This year’s SF Sketchfest will feature a live show on a moving BART train; a Union City man effectively busted himself for child porn; and a brawl broke out at Disneyland over line-cutting.
SF News Supervisor Dorsey Introduces Measure to Shut Down More Liquor Stores Earlier, to Fight Sixth Street Blight That Tenderloin “corner store curfew” that shuts liquor stores down at midnight could be extended to a whole bunch of SoMa and beyond, as Supervisor Matt Dorsey wants corner stores shut down earlier in hopes of deterring crime.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Bartender Fired After Viral Incident Involving Drunk and Belligerent Customers The Hazie's bartender who had his hair pulled by a very intoxicated customer who was irate about being cut off on SantaCon Saturday, in a video that went internationally viral, says he's now been fired.
Business & Tech Uber Unveils Robotaxi Design at CES In Las Vegas Uber's line of robotaxis that are set to hit the road in San Francisco sometime later this year made their big public debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Monday.
SF News Judge Shoots Down Lawsuit to Bring Cars Back to Great Highway, Sunset Dunes Will Remain Car-Free Park A last-ditch lawsuit attempting to overturn 2024’s Prop K and bring cars back to the Great Highway has failed, as a judge just tossed out the lawsuit’s claim that the car-free Great Highway ballot measure skirted California law.
SF News West Portal's Long-Shuttered Empire Cinema Could Become Nine-Story, 64-Unit Housing Complex Under New Proposal The former CineArts at the Empire on West Portal Avenue is just a one-story structure, but could become a nine-story housing complex with 64 units under a just-announced proposal from the family that has long owned the building.
SF Politics Trump Announces Fraud Probe of California Social Services, Withholds Federal Funds In Wake of Minnesota Scandals The Trump administration is now waging more political war with Democrat-led states, announcing the withholding of $10 billion in social services funding to five states: Minnesota, California, New York, Illinois, and Colorado.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved North Beach Soufflé Restaurant Café Jacqueline Closes After 46 Years A full-throated "Noooo!" is being shouted around San Francisco today by anyone who knew and loved Café Jacqueline, because the stalwart, soufflé-focused restaurant has closed for good.
SF News Report: Flock Safety, Maker of SF’s License Plate Reader Cameras, Had Gobsmacking Security Flaw Turns out anyone with an internet connection, and not even a password, could access the feeds of a line of the Flock surveillance cameras that are currently all the rage with the SFPD and Oakland Police Department.
SF News Northern California Congressman Doug LaMalfa Dies Suddenly at Age 65 Doug LaMalfa, who has represented California's 1st Congressional District for the last 13 years, died suddenly on Monday at the age of 65. No cause of death has been announced, but LaMalfa's death will further constrain Republicans' narrow majority in the House.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: More Details In Case of Antioch Girl Shot In Head A few more details were released in the case of an 11-year-old girl shot Monday in Antioch; the body of a woman who went missing Friday while hiking was found in the American River; and Newsom begins his final year in office with an $18B deficit.
SF News Day Around the Bay: G'Bye Alioto's The demolition of Alioto's began today at the Wharf; an 11-year-old girl was hit by a stray bullet in Antioch; and Hilton is apologizing for a Minnesota hotel that was refusing rooms to ICE agents.
SF News SF City Hall Employee Who Embezzled $627K, Bought Himself VR Headsets Sentenced to Three Years in Prison The wild corruption case of a SF City Hall Workers' Comp department employee who embezzled $627,118 and blew city money and personal tech gear has ended, and that now-fired employee is headed to prison.
SF News Bay Area Protests Kick In After Trump’s Venezuela Invasion and ‘Regime Change’ Coup After President Trump invaded Venezuela and deposed President Nicolás Maduro Friday night, the Bay Area reacted fast, as protests took over both San Francisco and San Jose by Saturday afternoon.
SF News Sausalito Waterfront Restaurant Associated With the Tequila Sunrise, The Trident, Closes Once More A famous waterfront hangout in Marin County that boasted plenty of celebrity guests in the 1970s — and where Robin Williams once worked as a busboy — has shut its doors for the second time in 45 years.
Arts & Entertainment The SF Zoo Will Be Free For Kids 11 and Under for the Whole Month of January An excellent free activity to take the kids to this month (once the rain dies down), as the San Francisco Zoo will offer free admission to kids 11 and under for the entire month of January.
SF News New Owners of Downtown SF Mall Move to Evict Last Three Businesses Who Have Not Left It seems odd that there are businesses that still want to stay open in a dead mall, but one of them has frontage on Mission Street, and the other two are apparently trying to stick it out for some reason.
SF News SFPD Standoff With ‘Armed Individual’ Has Streets Shut Down Near Embarcadero and Brannan Streets A standoff with an “armed individual threatening to harm themselves and not complying with officers' commands” at Embarcadero and Brannan streets began just after noon Monday, and much of that area remained blocked off for hours.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Feted on National TV For SF Turnaround That He's Taking All the Credit For Daniel Lurie is correct to say that much of the country has "an outdated notion" of what San Francisco has been like the last year or two. But is it right to give him credit for a perceived turnaround in the city that was kind of underway before he took office?
Arts & Entertainment Tommy Lee Jones’s Daughter Had Three Bay Area Arrests Last Year Before Being Found Dead at Fairmont Hotel After the daughter of actor Tommy Lee Jones was found dead in a hallway at the Fairmont Hotel just hours after midnight on New Year’s Eve, we’re learning she racked up something of an arrest record in the Bay Area in 2025.
SF News Two Rescued After Car Bursts Into Flames In SF Crash Near Daly City Border The San Francisco Fire Department performed a rescue and put out a car fire on Junipero Serra Boulevard Sunday morning, and one person in the crash required hospitalization.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Sees Five Homicides In Three Days A 3-alarm fire has mostly destroyed a San Jose Buddhist temple; Oakland saw a triple homicide Saturday morning; and those King Tides continued flooding the Embarcadero over the weekend.
SF News AT&T Outage Causes 911 Call Center Disruptions in Marin, Residents Told to Go to Fire Stations Residents throughout Marin County received alerts Sunday night that emergency dispatch centers were having periodic outages and to seek help at their closest fire stations. AT&T mobile and internet service was reportedly down, which was expected to be restored by 11:30 am Monday.
Arts & Entertainment Mesmerizing Deep-Sea Fish Makes Rare Appearance in Shallow Waters of Monterey Bay A scuba diver in the Cannery Row area of Monterey Bay caught a rare glimpse of an “undulating” juvenile ribbonfish, also known as “king-of-the-salmon,” which is typically found a few thousand feet below the surface.
