SF News Three BART PD Officers, Medical Driver Recovering After Saturday’s High-Speed West Oakland Crash After a Saturday afternoon crash of two BART Police SUVs and a medical supply vehicle responding to an overdose call at the West Oakland station, three BART police officers and the medical supply driver are reportedly recovering.
SF News Norovirus Cases on the Rise Across the Country as Holiday Travels Wrap Up Many Americans have had an unpleasant surprise during these past couple celebration-filled weeks, and that surprise was a gastrointestinal virus.
SF Politics Trump Reverses, Praises President Jimmy Carter After His Death President-elect Donald Trump, in a fairly typical reversal, offered a praise-filled statement in reaction to former president Jimmy Carter's recent passing at the age of 100, after insulting him for years.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Cliff Rescue at Devil's Slide A crew of thieves hit four gas stations in Oakland in quick succession; a hiker required rescue at Devil's Slide; and the mother of the OpenAI whistleblower now says his apartment was "ransacked."
SF News Sunday Links: President Jimmy Carter Has Died Former president Jimmy Carter died today; An airplane crashed in South Korea; and 2024 has set the record for traffic deaths in SF.
SF News Saturday Links: SF Opioid Crisis Saw Signs of Hope in 2024 2024 showed promising signs that the opioid crisis is declining; Mayor-elect Lurie named a few staffers; and a local skateboarding legend had a crowded funeral.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Trump Asks Supreme Court to Delay TikTok Ban Trump is hoping for a stay on the TikTok ban; homelessness surged across the country in 2024; and red wine sales in SF saw a sharp decline this year.
SF Politics MAGA Racists and Tech Billionaires Now at Each Other’s Throats, Musk Calls Some Trumpers ‘Contemptible Fools’ The honeymoon may be over for Donald Trump’s coalition, as the billionaires and bigots are now at open war with one another over immigration and H-1B visas, and Elon Musk called some Trumpers “contemptible fools.”
SF News Santa Cruz Mayor Isn't Committing to Rebuilding Collapsed Section of Wharf Four days after a winter swell took out a 150-foot section of the historic Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, the mayor of Santa Cruz is hedging when asked about whether a rebuilding plan is getting underway.
Arts & Entertainment SF Native Plays Joan Baez In the New Bob Dylan Biopic, Called Joan Baez to Run It Past Her San Francisco-born and Mill Valley-raised, actor Monica Barbaro not only plays Joan Baez in the new movie ‘A Complete Unknown,’ she sings the vocals and plays the guitar herself. That made for a very anxiety-inducing phone conversation with Joan Baez.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: End-of-Year Goodbyes Hard Knox Cafe closes its original location in Dogpatch, Lobby Bar is changing owners in the Castro, and The Forge is moving from Oakland's Jack London Square to Rockridge, all in This Week in Food.
SF News SF Mosque Attendees Harassed With Hateful Acts on Christmas Eve Some character spent his Christmas Eve standing outside a Bernal Heights mosque, ripping pages out of the Quran, and menacing Muslims with a Thor-style giant hammer, in the latest incident of Muslim harassment in San Francisco.
SF News Reminder: Recology Will Take Your Christmas Tree for Free If You Put It Out With Your Trash and Recycling Don’t just abandon your natural Christmas tree on the street! Recology will gladly take it and dispose of it responsibly for free if you put it out with your trash and recycling bins during a specific window of time, starting next Thursday.
SF News Suspect In San Francisco Carjacking Arrested In Sacramento County After Allegedly Firing at Police A suspect in a Thursday carjacking in San Francisco was spotted driving in Rancho Cordova, in Sacramento County, and when sheriff's deputies began pursuing him, he allegedly fired at them out of the car window.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Huge Pothole on I-880 Damages at Least a Dozen Vehicles A massive pothole about one lane wide opened up on I-880 south in Oakland; Oakland saw its 81st homicide of the year on Thursday; and ChatGPT experienced a serious outage.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFO Gets a New ‘Sensory Space’ for Neurodiverse Travelers Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie named a few more new staffers; the egg shortage is showing no signs of cracking for Bay Area grocers; and the SF International Airport just opened their new Sensory Room.
SF News 29-Year-Old Woman Busted in Sonoma for Organized Retail Theft, Tries to Tell Cops She’s 12 Years Old A 29-year-old Antioch woman with outstanding warrants was arrested with a carload of allegedly stolen merchandise in Sonoma, and her alibi that she was just some innocent 12-year-old girl did not fool the deputy sheriffs.
Business & Tech Parents of OpenAI Whistleblower Don't Believe He Died By Suicide, Order Second Autopsy There is a bit more intrigue around the tragic death late last month of former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji, who was found dead in his Lower Haight apartment of an apparent suicide.
SF News Smash-and-Grab Burglars Ram Car Into Montclair Lucky Supermarket, Make Off With ATM A string of car-ramming burglaries continued in Oakland early Thursday morning, as the Lucky Supermarket in Montclair was rammed into with a vehicle by a team of thieves who went straight for the ATM.
SF News Heavy Rain Now Expected Thursday Night You had your Christmas break from the rain, but it arrives back in the city later today, with a not-insignificant three-quarters of an inch set to fall tonight.
SF News Muni Will Be Free on NYE (Don't Tag Your Clipper Card) Once again, in order to encourage people to use public transit and not drive on New Year's Eve, SF Muni buses and trains will be free to ride on the evening of December 31.
SF News Man Dies After Saving His Family From Early Christmas Morning Fire In Oakland The Christmas morning actions of 37-year-old Steven Weatherford saved the lives of his aunt, uncle, and brother when their Oak Knoll house caught fire Christmas morning, but Weatherford himself would perish after saving his family.
SF News Amid High Surf Conditions Around the Bay, Warning Issued for Swimmers, Beachgoers Residents and visitors heading to Bay Area beaches are being warned to stay out of the water, and to stay off rocks and jetties near the water, amid a high risk for rip currents, sneaker waves, and dangerous high surf starting starting Thursday.
SF News Boxing Day What's Up: Car Collides With Golden Gate Bridge Tollbooth A building burned after an apparent explosion in Capitola Village Christmas morning; a car crashed into the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza; and the Chronicle explores "NDA wines."
SF News Christmas Day Car Crash Near Golden Gate Park Leaves One Dead Firefighters and other first responders arrived at the crash scene just before 4 pm near the south side of Golden Gate Park at Park Presidio Bypass.
