SF News Tahoe Sees Second-Snowiest Winter on Record; Snow Buries Ski Lifts in Sierras Even the tops of the ski lifts are buried in snow in the Lake Tahoe area, as this winter is now officially the second-snowiest season ever since records began being kept in 1946.
Business & Tech Google Unveils Its AI Chatbot, Called Bard The Bay Area is now home to two big companies with AI chatbots that may or may not be writing your niece's term papers right now. Google has just opened up access to its chatbot, called Bard, at least in the U.S. and U.K.
Arts & Entertainment Rupert Murdoch, 92, Looks Forward to the 'Second Half' of His Life With New Fiancée, a Former Bay Area Socialite and Prison Chaplain Conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch has wasted no time in his hunt for wife number five, and he's found her in onetime Bay Area resident Ann-Lesley Smith, who has twice been married herself to multi-millionaire husbands.
Business & Tech New Video By SF Business Lobby Taps Giants Announcer Jon Miller to Lure Businesses Here A coalition of the city, bankers, and big-business types is using the voice of the Giants' Jon Miller in a new marketing video to bring businesses to San Francisco, in a campaign that conveniently ignores the affordability issues that keep them from doing so.
SF News Car Fire on Bay Bridge Causes Traffic In Both Directions A car on fire in the eastbound lanes of the Bay Bridge, east of Treasure Island, caused a traffic headache for drivers on the bridge Tuesday morning.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Sikh Group Protests at Indian Consulate A crack in the road on I-580 has become a landslide; a violent protest came to the Consulate General of India in SF; and Sup. Myrna Melgar wants to hold a hearing about the rash of youth violence.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Moderna Set to Open New Bay Area Office Cruise is looking to expand its robot-car testing across the state; Oakland is dealing with a surge in robberies of mail carriers; and Moderna has taken out a lease in South San Francisco to open its first Bay Area biotech office.
Business & Tech Game Developers Conference Opened Today at Moscone Center, Drawing an Estimated 24,000 The big annual Game Developers Conference returned to San Francisco with its Monday morning opening, and it runs through Thursday at the Moscone Center, with twice as many attendees expected compared to last year’s scaled-down version.
SF News San Jose Woman Sentenced to 13 Years For 'Baby Brandon' Kidnapping; Accomplice Gets Five Years The San Jose woman responsible for last year's dramatic kidnapping of an infant, with the help of a man she was dating and in order to dupe another man she was involved with, has just been sentenced to 13 years and four months.
SF News Friday Night Lights Above NorCal Freak People Out, Were Actually Just Space Junk What appeared to be a fleet of invading space alien ships above Sacramento and much of Northern California Friday night spurred plenty of Cloverfield chatter, but it was apparently just flying, discarded parts from the International Space Station.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Upcoming Openings of The Dawn Club and Madarae Show Faith In Downtown Nightlife Returning This Summer/Fall In case you hadn't heard, two new nightclubs are headed for downtown San Francisco, with the owners banking on the fact that the wholesale-abandonment-of-SF story has been overblown.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trans Woman Calls on SF Cheesecake Factory to Better Train Employees After Bizarre TERF Harassment An awkward and insulting situation that unfolded recently at the Cheesecake Factory in San Francisco's Union Square was caught on a TikTok stream, and the trans woman who filmed it hopes it can be an example for restaurants to learn how to respond better in the moment.
SF News Nob Hill’s Century-Old Huntington Hotel Has Been Bought (Out of Foreclosure) Closed for the entire pandemic, and foreclosed and in default for the last six months, Nob Hill’s 101-year-old Huntington Hotel has new owners who apparently bought it on the cheap and claim they will make it “the single finest luxury hotel in San Francisco.”
SF News The Kids Are Not Alright: Teens Brawling In Large Mobs at Stonestown Mall After a spate of incidents made the news recently involving Bay Area kids bringing weapons to school and stabbing their classmates, we're getting news of multiple incidents of mob violence among school-age kids at Stonestown Galleria.
SF News Sunday Night Shooting On Muni Bus Leaves One Injured, Suspect Still at Large A Muni bus shooting just before 6 p.m. Sunday night, apparently on the 49-Van Ness, left one 34-year-old man injured and hospitalized, and the suspect fled the scene and is still at large.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Landslides Block Road Between Napa and Lake Counties The next round of rain will hit early Tuesday morning and into the commute hours; BART is beefing up its police presence on trains starting today; and landslides are blocking Highway 29 north of Calistoga.
SF News Three Juveniles Hospitalized Following Fireworks-Related Injuries at Ocean Beach Saturday Night Around 8 p.m., a group of about 30 youths on Ocean Beach were setting off fireworks, when three people got hurt, two of them with serious injuries.
SF News Antioch Man Arrested After Allegedly Stabbing Pregnant Woman and Two Children Police responded to 911 calls of a stabbing and took the three victims to the local hospital for their injuries, where two are still in critical condition.
SF News Sunday Links: California Enters 10-Year Partnership With Drugmaker to Start Producing $30 Insulin for Residents Another storm is coming to the Bay Area this week, but it won't be as bad as the last few ones; Newsom announced a plan to turn San Quentin prison into a rehabilitation center; and California is set to start manufacturing state-branded, affordable insulin.
SF News SFPD Searching for Missing One-Year-Old and Mother Who Allegedly Abducted Him Friday Evening Authorities asked for help locating the missing child and his mother, Chelsea Tamulevich, a 38-year-old woman suspected of abducting her 1-year-old son, Caspian, from a residential facility in the Panhandle.
SF News Details Emerge In Fatal Accident Where Fremont Woman Was Forced Onto I-880 Shoulder by Assailant and Hit by Car The 20-year-old woman, Fremont resident Diamond Ki’ilani Kamehaiku-Sysco, was apparently left stranded on the freeway by an attacker after an altercation over a plastic sign.
SF News Saturday Links: Ex-Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes Promises Judge She Won't Try to Flee U.S. (Again) Before Jail Sentence Starts A 2-car crash in Antioch killed one and injured two Friday night; two minors were arrested after a fight at the Santa Rosa school where a fatal stabbing took place last month; and Holmes' prison sentence is starting next month.
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SF News Day Around the Bay: Reddit Office Leaving SF Mid-Market for Rincon Hill The Mission’s favorite queer bar El Rio debuted three new bathrooms; Reddit is downsizing its office space and moving east; and two Bay Area jurisdictions are testing wastewater for drugs.
SF News Reminder: SFPD Will Have DUI Saturation Checkpoints All Over Town For St. Patrick’s Day As they do every year, SFPD will have DUI saturation patrol checkpoints around town for St. Patrick’s Day, so stay out of the paddy wagon on St. Patty’s Day and do not drive while intoxicated tonight.
