SF News Berkeley Gets Burned as Federal Appeals Court Overturns Berkeley’s Natural Gas Ban The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned Berkeley’s ban on natural gas in new construction, which could have national repercussions as other cities consider phasing out natural gas stoves, furnaces, and water heaters.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Goes on Tucker Carlson to Talk About the Need for AI That Isn't Politically Correct In recent days we've learned that Elon Musk wants in on the AI game, and now we learn why: He's worried that ChatGPT and other chatbots are being trained to be too politically correct, and this will lead to dystopia, he says, and so he wants to create his own "TruthGPT."
SF News City Hall Inches Forward to Landmark Castro Theatre Seats, Old Contract Comes Back To Haunt Another Planet An SF Board of Supervisors committee was in favor of saving the Castro Theatre seats at a Monday hearing, and while the vote is nowhere near final, they brought up a skeleton in Another Planet Entertainment’s closet regarding millions in unfinished renovations at Bill Graham Auditorium.
SF News San Francisco Marks the 117th Anniversary of the Great Earthquake and Fire Tuesday morning at 5 a.m. it was time once again to gather and place a wreath at Lotta's Fountain — at the intersection of Kearny, Geary, and Market streets — for the annual ritual to commemorate the moment the 1906 earthquake struck at 5:12 a.m., 117 years ago.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Might End Up Pleading Guilty Los Gatos 'party mom' Shannon O'Connor has asked a judge what her sentence might be if she pleads guilty; Fruitvale residents in Oakland want more policing; and Southwest Airlines had another technological meltdown today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Falcon, Who Mated With Berkeley-Born Falcon, Has Died 85% of Bay Area cities still have not passed their Housing Element, the latest Omicron subvariant may be causing pinkeye, and a falcon who mated with the son of our beloved Berkeley falcons Annie and Grinnell has died from avian flu.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Zoo Welcomes Litter of Nine Prairie Dog Pups, Who Have Just Come Above Ground The population of black-tailed prairie dogs at the San Francisco Zoo just grew by nearly 50 percent, as one prairie dog mom just birthed nine pups, who have just emerged into the daylight.
SF News Shady COVID Street Testing Sites, Offering $5 Cash Per Test, Appear Unlicensed A slew of very informal-looking COVID-19 testing sites, paying people $5 a pop to take tests, is drawing another round of scrutiny for their lack of licensed staff and apparent flouting of public health protocols.
SF News Victim In 1998 Santa Cruz Murder Case Finally Identified Though Forensic Technology The John Doe in a 24-year-old Santa Cruz murder case is no longer a John Doe, as he has been identified as Eric Cupo, though the suspects pleaded guilty back in 2000 and have been locked up since.
SF News Luxury Condo In Converted Christian Science Church on Dolores Park Sells For $2.1M Under Its 2017 Sale Price The Light House condominiums — the four units that were carved out inside of the domed former Second Church of Christ, Scientist on Dolores Park — have been a thing of fascination for everyone who's looked at the building from the park and heard about its conversion almost a decade ago.
SF News Outside Judge to Rule on Whether Alameda County DA Can Disqualify Judge Who Tossed Plea Deal A judge from outside Alameda County will now step in to decide whether a judge should continue to try a murder case in which he rejected a plea deal that the defense and prosecution had agreed to, because it was too lenient.
SF News State AG Rob Bonta Investigating Last Week’s Fatal Police Shooting in Newark While it’s unclear whether Newark police, Fremont police, or an Alameda County officer fired the fatal shot in a suspected East Bay carjacking last week, the state attorney general took up an investigation of the police shooting the day after it happened.
SF News Sideshows Barraged All Corners of the Bay Area This Weekend, In SF, Oakland, and San Jose After a wave of sideshows again hit San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose this weekend, police are touting that they did make a few arrests, handed out more than 30 citations, and impounded nearly a dozen cars.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pop-Up Bars, Restaurants, and Market Street Dance Parties Envisioned In New Downtown Revival Program It's the third summer in a row that a new initiative or program is seeking to breathe some life into SF's struggling, sparsely populated downtown. But this time it sounds like money is actually being thrown at filling vacant storefronts.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two Restaurants In Sunset Robbed In One Night A man killed in a freeway shooting in Oakland last week has been identified; two Sunset District businesses were burglarized the same night last week; and a fresh cold front has arrived and will be bringing us a little more rain.
SF News BART Police Arrested 7 Suspects In Separate Incidents Thursday Night People were booked on charges from a range of offenses, such as having two fixed-blade knives, trying to bite an officer, being in possession of fentanyl, and more.
SF News Bay Area Hip Hop Legend E-40 Kicked Out of Warriors-Kings Playoff Game, Alleges Racial Bias Against Security E-40 said in a statement Sunday that he was "subjected to disrespectful heckling" during the game and then "turned around and addressed one heckler in an assertive but polite manner," when a guard escorted him out.
SF News Sunday Links: Possum Takes Up Home In Oakland A's Stadium Press Box the Sacramento Kings pulled ahead of the defending champions, the Warriors to win 126-123 Saturday; A possum has made the Oakland A's visitor's broadcasting booth its new home (and bathroom); and a body was found under a highway in San Jose Saturday.
SF News California Drought Conditions Plummet from 99% to Under 9% Statewide The U.S. Drought Monitor map shows that the only areas remaining in drought are in the far north and southeast of the state, though surrounding areas have abnormal dryness.
SF News Renderings Show Proposed 50-Story Skyscraper Towering Over Outer Sunset Neighborhood The illustrations of the thin, tall, silver tower show it sticking out like a sore thumb above the Sunset's two- and three-story residences, and neighbors aren't too happy.
SF News Saturday Links: Warrior-Kings Playoff Game 1 Ticket Prices Highest for Non-Final Ever The average ticket cost for Saturday's Warriors-Kings playoff game is $668; The Oakland Mayor's car was broken into near Lake Merritt Thursday night; and authorities are investigating after police shot two suspects in Newark, leaving one dead.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Clara City Councilmember Indicted for Lying Under Oath About Leaking Report to 49ers Councilmember Anthony Becker faces charges of perjury for allegedly lying under oath about a grand jury report leak to a 49ers employee; young SF Giants pitcher Logan Webb signs $90M, 5-year contract extension; and the Cal Academy of Science's TikTok is nominated for a famous internet award.
SF News Breed Announces $600 Million Plan To Cut Unsheltered Homelessness In Half Within Five Years Mayor Breed came out with a new $600 million plan to reduce “unsheltered homelessness by 50%” in five years, but the key word there is “unsheltered,” because the details of the plan reveal it would only reduce overall homelessness by 15% over that period.
SF News [Updated] Details Emerge About Murder Suspect Nima Momeni's Motive, and Footage of Stabbing We now have information from prosecutors about a possible motive in the stabbing death of Bob Lee in downtown San Francisco, and suspect Nima Momeni made a brief court appearance Friday, but his arraignment was postponed.
SF News BART Unveils Renderings of Its New $90 Million, Allegedly Evasion-Proof Fare Gates, Which Have Spikes Think you can hop these upcoming new supposedly evasion-proof BART fare gates? Before you jump, realize they’re going to have bird-repellent spikes designed to be very hostile toward gate-hoppers’ hands.
