SF News Six Collisions Lead to 19-Car Pileup and Traffic Mess on Southbound 101 In SF A traffic nightmare unfolded on southbound 101 in San Francisco Wednesday morning following an initial collision that snowballed into multiple collisions and a 19-car pileup.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Boy Bitten By Mountain Lion In San Mateo County A boy was bitten and minorly injured by a mountain lion in rural San Mateo County, the Chronicle's Heather Knight is once again calling out the SFPD for doing nothing after a burglary, and rumor has it former Apple design guy Jony Ive just bought a building in Jackson Square.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Kids Throw ‘Wolf of Wall Street’-Themed Kegger, Are Alright 49ers defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans has been poached for a head coaching job, mid-Market vegetarian spot Ananda Fuara is closing, and Glen Park is in a huff after youngsters commandeered a park for a ‘Wolf of Wall Street’-themed keg party.
SF News New Alameda County DA Pamela Price Reopens Case Against Officers Who Conducted Fatal Arrest of Mario Gonzalez Alameda County's new progressive district attorney is using a similar playbook to SF's former DA Chesa Boudin in announcing possible prosecutions of police officers in her first weeks on the job.
Business & Tech SF DBI Just Might Let Twitter Keep Its Unpermitted Bedrooms, If They Get Some Paperwork In Order The permitting dustup over unsanctioned beds and bedrooms at Twitter’s SF headquarters just might end peacefully, as the SF Department of Building Inspection is giving them a path to keep the beds, though the larger problem remains that Twitter is simply not paying rent.
SF News New Proposed Bill Would Require CA Gun Owners to Carry Liability Insurance California could become the first state in the nation to require gun owners to carry liability insurance for negligent or accidental use of the firearms they own, under a new bill just introduced in the state Senate.
SF News New Census Estimate Puts Bay Area Pandemic Population Loss at 177,000 The San Francisco Bay Area still has one of the lowest COVID death rates of anywhere in the country, however, as you've surely heard, our population numbers dropped during the pandemic for other reasons, and those numbers have just been revised downward for last year.
SF News 18-Year-Old Tenderloin Resident Who Went Missing Three Weeks Ago Found Dead In Bayview The 18-year-old kid whose January 6 disappearance we reported on previously, Maxwell Maltzman, has been found dead.
SF News SF Regulators Have Had It With Self-Driving Cruise, Waymo Mishaps, Ask State To Halt Expansion In light of 92 incidents in seven months of self-driving Cruise and Waymo cars stopping, idling, and causing havoc on San Francisco streets, the SF County Transportation Authority is asking the state to hold off on giving them more expanded permits.
SF News CHP Baffled As Same Sinkhole Near Tracy Claims Three Vehicles — All Because Drivers Ignore Road Closure Signs Out in San Joaquin County, it seems a few drivers don't like to abide by road closures that inconvenience them, and this has resulted in three vehicles in two weeks getting fully lodged in a sinkhole that's about 12 to 15 feet wide.
SF News Tilting Millennium Tower To Now Tilt Less, Engineer Says, With Piles Hitting Bedrock The long saga of SF's sinking and leaning Millennium Tower may soon come to a happy end, with the building still mostly upright and residents able to feel more secure.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: This Chilly Weather Isn't Going Away The Arctic air mass currently chilling much of the country isn't lifting off of California before Thursday, Everett Middle School is getting a schoolyard makeover, and Trump's legal tactics aren't working for him so much anymore.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo to Reopen Friday After Sinkhole Situation An employee at Pizza Squared who denied service to SFPD officers has been fired, charges have been filed against the man who allegedly drove his family off a Pacifica cliff, and the Oakland Zoo is opening up again Friday with Glowfari extended.
Arts & Entertainment Kilowatt Has Reopened, Redesigned and Under New Ownership Longtime Mission District punk-rock-sports-biker-dive bar Kilowatt has reopened under its new ownership team of ex-Bottom of the Hill and Thee Parkside bartenders, and here are some first-look pics at the new Kilowatt that will soon be a live music venue again.
SF News Weekend Homicide In SF's Potrero Hill Happens Amid a Barrage of Gunfire One man was killed by gunfire in SF's Potrero Hill neighborhood on Saturday night, in the same Potrero Annex complex where a fire claimed one life last week — and a barrage of bullets was later found having hit homes and vehicles.
Bay Area Sports 49ers' Dream Run Comes to an End with Injury to Purdy and a Blowout by Philadelphia It felt like a game of exceptionally bad luck for the Niners, with mere inches separating glory from disaster early on. San Francisco lost 31-7 to the Eagles and were denied a trip to the Super Bowl, but also denied what would have been one of the great storylines in sports history.
Arts & Entertainment 'Dear Evan Hansen' Still Packs a Punch, But a Smaller One The soaring, anthemic musical numbers and hyper-contemporary book of Dear Evan Hansen still feel relevant and powerful in the latest touring production to arrive in SF. But it's starting to show a little wear, seven years out from its initial run.
SF News Renowned South Lake Tahoe Pro Skier Kyle Smaine Killed In Avalanche In Japan A former world champion halfpipe skier and gold medal winner, Tahoe-based freestyle pro skier Kyle Smaine, died Sunday morning in an avalanche in Nagano, Japan.
SF News Oakland Homeless Woman Found Dead In Tent Following Cold Night The Bay Area saw a major cold snap overnight with frost and hard-freeze warnings in various locales. And in Oakland, CHP officers found a homeless woman dead this morning in her tent, possibly because of the cold.
SF News Senior Care Worker Charged With Elder Abuse After 94-Year-Old Man Dies From Drinking Cleaning Fluid A San Pablo woman has been charged with felony elder abuse after a resident at the Atria Senior Living facility in Walnut Creek died from drinking cleaning fluid, in a death that the facility allegedly first attempted to blame on Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Closure of Hawker Fare Adds to Darkened Restaurant Storefronts in the Mission Hawker Fare, chef James Syhabout's often bustling, casual Northern Thai and Lao restaurant at Valencia and 18th, served its last meals on Sunday, adding to a string of closures across the Mission.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Downtown Oakland Once Again Sees Big Protest Over Police Killing Many hundreds (thousands?) gathered in Downtown Oakland Sunday to protest the police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis; Elon Musk has apologized for linking to a conspiracy story about the Paul Pelosi attack; and three years ago today the WHO first declared COVID a global emergency.
SF News California Man Jailed on Suspicion of Attempted Murder For Driving Tesla With Family Inside Off South Bay Cliff The rescue and survival of Patel, his wife, 7-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son, had originally been called a miracle, but California Highway Patrol investigators reportedly "developed probable cause to believe this incident was an intentional act."
Former North Bay Mayor Pleads Guilty to Several Counts of Child Sexual Abuse The former Sebastopol mayor, 45-year-old Robert Jacob, pleaded no contest to six counts of child sex crimes this month, the Press Democrat reported.Jacob, the founder of a medical marijuana dispensary in Sebastopol,
SF News Sunday Links: 49ers Rookie Brock Purdy’s Injuries Forces Him Out of Playoff Game, Fourth-String Josh Johnson Enters 49ers’ rookie third-string 23-year-old quarterback Brock Purdy suffered a right elbow injury on the team’s first drive; potential frost and freezing warnings could happen this week; and a Tesla spontaneously caught on fire just outside of Sacramento.
