SF News Los Altos Hills Homeowner Is Giving the ‘Builder’s Remedy’ a Go, Submits Plans to Build 20-Unit Complex On His Property In what appears to be the first Bay Area attempt at the “builder’s remedy” for a town without an approved housing element, a Los Altos Hills property owner is trying to subdivide his home into 20 units. Though he admits that if the scheme works, he’s just going to sell the property and move.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Copra, a Southern Indian Food Destination From a Michelin-Star Chef, About to Make Its Debut on Lower Fillmore A much anticipated new Indian restaurant is getting ready to open in the splashy former Dosa space at the corner of Fillmore and Post streets, and it's just gotten a full makeover.
SF News Harrowing Story Emerges of SFO-Bound Flight Out of Maui That Nearly Plunged Into the Ocean A United flight out of Maui, bound for SFO, took a steep dive during inclement weather, right after takeoff, and came within about 700 feet of the Pacific, according to a newly discovered report.
SF News East Bay Bike Party Marred By Alleged Multiple Instances of Car-Dooring, Two Injured A half-dozen or more separate incidents of cars allegeldy dooring bicyclists took place in the lead-up to and the wake of Friday’s East Bay Bike party, and the bicyclists say 14 of them were targeted, and at least two suffered serious injuries.
SF News New Video From Next Door Shows Moment of Sunset Home Explosion Newly obtained surveillance video from one or two doors away from the 22nd Avenue home that exploded Thursday shows the moment of the blast and its immediate impact on nearby cars.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sacramento Man Arrested In Brutal Hit-and-Run A 28-year-old Sacramento man is accused in a brutal hit and run that killed five people in an SUV he was driving; supplies are being sent from the Bay Area to Turkish quake victims; and US officials continue scrambling to identify objects that flew into US airspace.
Castro Valley 77-Year-Old Woman Intentionally Hit by Car in East Bay Church Parking Lot The female victim and unknown male suspect allegedly got into a verbal altercation before he deliberately drove into her, and she's now recovering from non-life threatening injuries.
SF News San Francisco Landlords Have Filed a Lawsuit Trying to Stop the City’s ‘Empty Homes Tax’ The vacancy tax was approved by 54.5% of voters last year to start in 2024 to direct money to adorable housing, but landlords and property owners are calling it "unconstitutional."
morning links Sunday Links: Super Bowl LVII Will Feature Bay Area Local in First All-Women National Anthem Flyover Navy Lieutenant Commander Calli Zimmerman, who grew up in San Jose, will be in this Super Bowl's flyover; SF wants to make parking meter hours much longer; and evictions have returned to pre-pandemic levels in four out of five Bay Area counties.
SF News Large Statue Stolen from San Jose Park Reportedly Located by Local Journalist in Lobby of Troubled Scrapyard After publishing a story about the statue’s history last week, Mercury News reporter Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler says he found it "hours" later inside the headquarters of a scrapyard that's had many police citations.
SF News Saturday Links: Lawsuit Alleges Scandal-Plagued Bayview Homeless Services Org Funds Went to CEO's “Lavish” Lifestyle The troubled organization United Council of Human Services faces a new lawsuit about the misuse of funds; Davis is California's most "college-y" town with the highest proportion of the population students; and a cybersecurity attack has hit Oakland's systems.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Sunset Home Explosion Was Allegedly Making PCP and/or Hash Oil In the House Police arrested a 53-year-old San Francisco man Friday on suspicion of manslaughter, drug manufacturing, and child endangerment, in connection with the deadly explosion in the Sunset District on Thursday that destroyed two homes and damaged several others.
day around the bay Day Around the Bay: Authorities Link Leaking Gas Canisters That Closed BART Stops to Sunset District House Explosion The canister was being transported by police when it started hissing potentially hazardous gas on the freeway; the Half Moon Bay mass shooting suspect broke down in tears in court; and nearly 152,000 Californian schoolchildren are missing from the system after the pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Champagne Cabaret’ at the Great Star Theater Is a High-Flying, Lowbrow Valentine's Date Night Revue The uncorked variety show “Champagne Cabaret” bubbles up at Chinatown's Great Star Theater with a sparkling blend of graceful aerial acrobatics and gross-out gags.
SF News Cause of Sunset District House Explosion May Be Related to Mysterious Barrels and Cylinders Found In Rubble It may be days or weeks before we get anything more definitive about the cause of yesterday's massive home explosion on 22nd Avenue, but with speculation running rampant in the last 24 hours, we at least now have a clue.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Daughter's Seven-Second TikTok Video Boosts Business For Parents' Struggling Santa Rosa Restaurant A young woman's brief plea to TikTok about her parents' empty Vietnamese restaurant in Santa Rosa was apparently immediately successful, and business is back up.
Arts & Entertainment Valentine’s Day Pillow Fight Is Back, But Someone’s Trying To Charge Registration For This Free Event The old flash-mob-style Valentine’s Day pillow fight is back this year, but on a down note, some group is trying to hawk paid registrations for this event that remains absolutely free.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Downtown Four Seasons (the Former Loews Regency/Mandarin Oriental) to Open New Italian Restaurant, Orafo A new hotel restaurant is coming soon to the ground-floor space at the Four Seasons Embarcadero — the hotel formerly known as the Loews Regency which is not actually on the Embarcadero, but at 222 Sansome.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Street Irish Pub The Phoenix to Close Next Week, and a Six-Story Apartment Building Will Rise In Its Place The swan song of the 22-year-old Irish bar, The Phoenix, arrives on Super Bowl Sunday, and the owner has permits to demolish the single-story building and construct an 18-unit apartment building in its place.
SF News Possible HazMat Situation Disrupts BART Service at Balboa Park, Daly City, and Colma Stations An apparent butane or propane leak that seems unrelated to BART shut down a few BART stations Friday morning, and it sounds like all traffic on several Daly City thoroughfares is completely shut down as well.
SF News DA Will Indeed Drop Prosecution of Keita O’Neil Police Shooting Case, Says State Can Take It If They Want DA Brooke Jenkins has decided she’s dropping the charges against a former SFPD officer who shot and killed unarmed Keita O’Neil in 2017, but says AG Rob Bonta is free to prosecute it if he wants to.
SF News Body Recovered at Site of House Explosion and Fire In the Sunset; Six Homes and Five Cars Damaged In Blast There is still no explanation for a dramatic explosion that occurred at a single-family home on 22nd Avenue in the Sunset District Thursday morning, but rumors of a fatality were confirmed when a body was recovered Thursday night.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Baker Dies From Injuries After Robbery Oakland baker and activist Jen Angel has died from injuries sustained while trying to chase down thieves; UCSF is seeking help identifying a patient; and a Calistoga man is suing the Napa hotel whose water was found to have high levels of the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease last summer.
SF News Day Around the Bay: We Have New Renderings Of The Housing Going Into the Former Haight Street McDonald’s The Warriors brought back fan favorite Gary Payton II, some 100,000 San Franciscans are about to get their CalFresh food benefits slashed, and a new batch of renderings of the affordable housing project coming to the Haight Street McDonald’s site have been revealed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Begins Friday With Kickoff Tasting Events In North Bay and East Bay; SF Kickoff on Saturday San Francisco Beer Week has very much become Northern California Beer Week over the years, with breweries from as far north as Mendocino and the Sierra joining in, and as far south as Carmel. And this year they're dividing up the kickoff events by subregion.
