SF News Paul Flores Gets 25 Years to Life For Kristin Smart Murder Paul Flores, who was convicted last fall in the 1996 murder of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, was sentenced Friday and received 25 years to life.
The Warriors Take Two Steps Forward, Then Two Steps Back, Toward the Playoffs It's felt like the Dubs have turned a corner several different times this season, only to turn three more to arrive right back at the same this-is-where-we-finally-turn-things-around point yet again.
SF News Floods Force Road Closures Across Bay Area; Ducks Were Swimming On I-580 In Oakland The latest round of storms have left flooded roads that have stranded hundreds in the Santa Cruz Mountains, with flood advisories in effect for several Bay Area counties, and a flooded I-580 in Oakland was taken over by a paddling of ducks.
SF News The Armory Building In the Mission Set to Return as Concert Venue With Additional Smaller Jazz Club Inside The former Kink.com Armory, which Kink moved out of and sold five years ago, is set to return to being a concert and event venue — which it was briefly before the pandemic — but the new owners have also submitted plans to add a jazz club inside.
SF News City Attorney Sues Company Behind Workplace Posters That He Says Falsely Impersonate the Government SF City Attorney David Chiu has brought a lawsuit against a company he says is “impersonating government actors” and forcing small businesses to buy bogus workplace compliance posters and threatening $37,000 fines if they don't.
Business & Tech Silicon Valley Bank Shut Down By Regulators In Biggest Bank Failure In 15 Years In what may be a harbinger of more hard days ahead for the tech world in the Bay Area, a prominent lender to startups and one of the 20 largest banks in the country, SVB Financial Group or Silicon Valley Bank, has failed.
SF News Roof Collapse Kills One, Injures Another at Coffee Warehouse In Oakland A section of roof collapsed early Friday at a coffee distribution warehouse in East Oakland used by Peet's and Philz, killing one many who man who apparently worked there.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Tree Crushes Tesla On San Mateo County Road A fallen tree crushed a Tesla in San Mateo County last night; flooding is already occurring across Santa Cruz County; and the Russian River is expected to crest today below major flood stage.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Entwined LED Forest Has Its Closing Party Canceled Over Weather The Cure is coming to the Bay Area in May, the 49ers laid off a bunch of longtime stadium staffers while making some dubious revenue claims, and the big Saturday night closing party for the LED forest Entwined has been canceled because of the rainy weather.
SF Politics Rupert Murdoch Rips Kim Guilfoyle In Leaked Fox News Text, Also Gets Her Name Wrong As more bombshell leaked texts come out in the Fox News-Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit, we see one where Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch declared that Kimberley Guilfoyle is “not good people!”, though he gets her name wrong.
Arts & Entertainment SF-Based 'Weird Al' Yankovic-Themed Burlesque Group Is Making a Documentary, Will ‘Bare To Be Stupid’ “The world's first and only all Weird Al themed burlesque troupe” Tight and Nerdy was founded here in San Francisco, and after a slew of sold-out shows, they’re crowdfunding a full-length feature documentary about their troupe called “Showgals.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Late-Night Eats Slowly Return to SF With Dragon Horse In SoMa, Extended Hours at Beep's Burgers, and More The days of SF being moderately well appointed with 24-hour diners and late-night restaurants are well behind us, and even before the pandemic a slew of reliable, after-midnight standbys had shuttered. But that may be slowly changing.
SF Politics SF District Attorney Reverses Herself On Changes to Sanctuary City Policy Sensing the political winds might not always be in her favor, SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has done a — for her thus far — rare about-face on a policy decision, regarding SF's sanctuary city status.
SF News [Update] Goat Mystery Deepens as There Were Multiple Loose Goat Sightings In SoMa We knew there was one goat sighting Wednesday in SoMa near the Bay Bridge, but it turns out there was a whole group of goats on the loose, and SF Animal Care & Control has no leads on where they came from.
SF News Oakland Gay Men's Chorus Member Stabbed And Killed In His Own Lake Merritt Apartment Building We now have more information on a bizarre fatal stabbing near Lake Merritt this past weekend, and the victim was Curtis Marsh, a 53-year-old member of the Oakland Gay Men's Chorus and occasional drag performer.
SF News KGO-TV Reporter Luz Peña Recovering From Near-Fatal Ski Accident in Tahoe You haven’t seen KGO’s Luz Peña on the ABC7 news for four weeks, and it turns out that she suffered a ski accident that left her unconscious and unable to breathe, and she nearly needed to have a leg amputated.
SF News Lake Oroville Is Now 61 Feet From Capacity; Rain, Snow Runoff Likely to Trigger Need For Spillway It's been a total reversal of fortune this year for Lake Oroville and the recreational houseboaters who like to hang out on the reservoir, with the water level now over 100 percent of its historical average. But Lake Oroville is returning to a point of too much of a good thing.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Getting Ready For Big Rain Our third La Niña is officially over and there is reason to believe next winter will be an El Niño season; Gov. Gavin Newsom has COVID again; and you can expect the rain to hit most of San Francisco by afternoon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Goat Spotted Running Loose In SoMa Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered a $54M contract canceled with Walgreens over their abortion drug decision; a suspect in an attempted robbery died in an Oakland crash; and a random white goat was running around in SoMa today without explanation.
SF News Sup. Preston Pushing to Extend SF Eviction Moratorium Another 60 Days With the end of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency proclamation now in sight, Supervisor Dean Preston is proposing to tack an extra 60 days onto the city’s eviction moratorium that would otherwise end once the emergency proclamation ends.
SF News Person Having Mental Health Episode Shuts Down Lower Deck of Bay Bridge A person having some sort of mental health crisis was apparently pacing back and forth in lanes of traffic on the eastbound (lower) deck of the western span of the Bay Bridge Wednesday afternoon, near Treasure Island.
Arts & Entertainment Report: Two Remaining 1980s-Era Members of Journey Hire Bodyguards to Protect Them From Each Other The SF-founded band Journey is on tour again, but the two remaining 1980s members Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain are suing each other while on tour, and each has allegedly hired bodyguards to keep the other out of their dressing rooms.
SF Politics New York Times Spotlights Barbara Lee and the Glass Ceiling For Many Black Women In Politics Longtime California Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) has thrown her hat in the ring to become the next Senator from California, vying for Dianne Feinstein's seat in what may become an uphill battle.
Arts & Entertainment Falcons at UC Berkeley Have Two Eggs In Nest, Third Likely Today Just an update on the peregrine falcons atop UC Berkeley's Campanile: There are already two eggs in Annie's nest, and she's ahead of the usual schedule with the laying by a week or two.
Business & Tech Tesla Faces New Federal Probe Over Possible Autopilot Crash In Walnut Creek; Also, Musk Seems to Have 'Disbanded' Their PR Department A Tesla that may have been operating in "Full Self-Driving" mode crashed into a firetruck at high speed on I-680 last month, and this has triggered a new investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
