SF News Protesters Gather Near Coast Guard Island In Alameda Ahead of Immigration Operation, at Least Two Already Injured Ahead of a planned immigrant round-up operation by federal agents in the Bay Area that seems likely to look like previous operations in Southern California, protesters gathered early Thursday morning outside the agents' staging area on Alameda's Coast Guard Island.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: City Lights Unfurls Protest Banners City Lights Bookstore has put up banners on its facade quoting a poem about tyranny by founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti; BART's board discusses Monday's disruption; and Michael Wolff is suing Melania Trump.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Teen Driver Charged In Marin Crash The teen girl in April's deadly crash in Marin County has been criminally charged; Meta is cutting 600 jobs in its AI units; and Paramount is making offers on Warner Bros. Discovery.
SF News Former SF Sheriff Chief of Staff Will Not Stand Trial for Hit-and-Run Where He Lied, Chronicle Obtains Video of Crash Former SF Sheriff's Office chief of staff Richard Jue got lucky with a diversion program sentence rather than having to stand trial for a March hit-and-run where he lied to investigators, and the Chronicle just obtained video of the crash.
SF Politics 'Don't Take the Bait': Bay Area Leaders Plead With Potential Protesters to Stay Peaceful as Trump Sends Federal Agents Thursday could bring chaos to the Bay Area, and local leaders are hoping against hope that any protesters can temper their passions long enough to avoid what Trump and his team surely want, which are television images of violence and protest chaos that they can use to make their case for fascism.
SF Politics Now There’s Speculation That Supervisor Connie Chan Might Run for Nancy Pelosi’s Seat Scott Wiener shook up the race by announcing this morning he’s running for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat, but the publication Politico just shook it up even more, saying that SF Supervisor Connie Chan might run for that seat against him.
SF News Trump's Federal Invasion of San Francisco to Begin on Thursday It's unclear if or how the National Guard might be involved, but apparently a large contingent of federal agents, including US Customs and Border Protection personnel, is headed to the Bay Area on Thursday for some sort of operation.
Bay Area Sports Giants Hire College Coach Tony Vitello as New Manager, First College Coach to Jump Straight to MLB Manager SF Giants president Buster Posey is taking a big swing by hiring the first ever college coach with no MLB experience whatsoever as the team’s new manager, as University of Tennessee coach Tony Vitello will now manage the Giants.
SF Politics Newsom Deploying National Guard to Support Local Food Banks, In Response to Government Shutdown In a political gesture to match Trump's own, many political gestures, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that he was deploying the National Guard, like he did during the pandemic, to support food banks in California.
Arts & Entertainment Napa’s Blue Note Club Is Closing Permanently, But Teasing a Possible New SF Space The nine-year-old Blue Note Napa just announced they’ll close after a final show on New Year’s Eve, but the club’s top brass are dropping some notes that they may intend to open a San Francisco venue instead.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisherman’s Wharf’s Oldest Restaurant Castagnola’s Will Reopen, After Settling Messy Lawsuit With the City The crab cocktail will flow again at Fisherman’s Wharf steak-and-seafood spot Castagnola’s, which has been closed since the pandemic and embroiled in a $1.1 million lawsuit over unpaid rent, but they’ve just settled that lawsuit.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Formally Announces Run for Congress, Ahead of Any Pelosi Decision State Senator Scott Wiener confirmed the news that was leaked last week that he will run for Nancy Pelosi's seat in the US House of Representatives, regardless of whether Pelosi plans to retire.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Serial Harasser Already In Jail In SF Serial harasser of women Bill Gene Hobbs was arrested in SF again Tuesday for violating his parole; South Lake Tahoe has chosen a new mayor; and we are now in the second-longest government shutdown in US history.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lurie Touts ‘Zero Arrests’ at SF No Kings Protests, Probably Hoping to Keep Trump’s Troops Out The 40-year-old Mission Street restaurant Mission Hunan is closing; the alleged mistress in a Walnut Creek double-homicide is facing more charges; and Mayor Lurie is hyping up the "zero arrests” at Saturday’s SF No Kings protests.
Bay Area Sports OMG, Now Anh Phoong’s Law Firm Is Putting Her Ads on the Sacramento Kings’ Jerseys This Year The NBA’s Sacramento Kings have “GOT-PAIN” on their jerseys this year, as Anh Phoong’s law firm has secured a space that her law firm’s logo will appear as the ad on the Kings’ jerseys all season long.
Arts & Entertainment Chris Stapleton to Do SF Show at Bill Graham on Super Bowl Weekend There will be a big concert in the middle of SF's Civic Center the night before Super Bowl Sunday in February, with headliner Chris Stapleton joined by at least one other artist, Grammy-winner Sierra Farrell, and other concerts TBA.
Business & Tech Palo Alto-Based Startup Admits Its ‘Smart Weather Balloon’ Likely Hit and Grounded a United Airlines Flight A Palo Alto startup that makes weather balloons admits it was “likely” their balloon that struck a United Airlines flight this past Thursday, cracking the windshield, injuring a pilot and forcing an emergency landing.
SF Politics SF City Attorney Vows Legal Action If Trump Sends In National Guard, Joins Amicus Brief at Supreme Court Mayor Daniel Lurie might be trying to avoid a verbal confrontation with President Trump, but City Attorney David Chiu came out swinging Tuesday about this National Guard business.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Season Preview: We May Have Steph Curry and Seth Curry on the Same Team Your Golden State Warriors tip off their 2025-26 NBA season tonight against the Lakers. And this year, they’ll likely have another Curry, as little brother Seth Curry is expected to join Steph Curry on this season’s Warriors roster.
Business & Tech Academy of Art, Which Assembled Huge and Controversial SF Real Estate Portfolio, Now Selling a Portion of That Portfolio It's a sign of the times for Academy of Art University, the San Francisco-based art college that once attracted students from all over the country and now has many of its students taking classes remotely.
SF News Serial Harasser Bill Gene Hobbs Apparently Out of State Prison, Back to Harassing Women on SF Streets SF’s most notorious serial groper and harasser is reportedly out of prison and back on SF streets, and was spotted Monday approaching women in the Castro and Dolores Park, often “yelling indecipherably.”
SF News Oakland Woman Describes Days of Torture, Rape, and Sexual Trafficking By East Palo Alto Man She Met Online An East Palo Alto man with multiple violent charges on his record, several of which involved assaults on women, allegedly met a woman on Facebook Dating in June and proceeded to kidnap, rape, brutalize, and sexually traffic her over a six-day span.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Vallejo Man's Bulldog Was Dognapped During Robbery A Vallejo man is offering a reward for the return of his stolen bulldog; a Daly City man was arrested in connection with a pair of assaults last week; and someone has been tucking transphobic messages inside books in a Noe Valley bookstore.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor Lurie Says National Guard Can't Arrest Drug Dealers SF Mayor Daniel Lurie issues a new statement about Trump's National Guard threat; BART has not clarified what the 'equipment issue' was this morning; and police in Atlanta may have thwarted a mass shooting at the airport there.
SF News Trump Military Accident In San Diego Manages to Hit Highway Patrol With Artillery Shrapnel Yes, there were “live weapons over the freeway” on I-5 near San Diego Saturday for a JD Vance and Pete Hegseth party, but the show had to be called off early, as the artillery blew off prematurely and pelted CHP vehicles with shrapnel.
