SF News Steph and Ayesha Curry Oppose New Multi-Family Housing Near Home in Exclusive South Bay Town Golden State Warriors superstar Steph Curry and his wife Ayesha are arguing against new affordable housing in Atherton, which has the most expensive ZIP code in America.
SF News Oakland Police Department Reportedly Facing Lawsuit for Alleged “Ghost Pursuit” that Resulted in Death of Bystander The family of Lolomanaia “Lolo” Soakai, who died in June of 2022 following an alleged Oakland police chase without lights, sirens, or prior authorization, have filed a civil rights suit against the department.
SF News Saturday Links: Bay Area Protests After Release of Video of Fatal Memphis Traffic Stop Resulting in Death of Tyre Nichols Five Memphis police officers were charged with murder and kidnapping on Thursday following the death of Tyre Nichols; a shooting near Beverly Hills killed three people Saturday morning; and a vigil in Half Moon Bay for victims of shootings there draws crowds of hundreds to mourn Friday.
SF News Pelosi Attacker David DePape Puts Out Defiant, Loony Statement Saying 'I'm Sorry I Didn't Get More of Them' The suspect in last fall's hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, David DePape, is doing himself no favors in terms of that "not guilty" plea with a phone call he made from jail Friday to a KTVU reporter.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Deadly Half Moon Bay Shooting Was Second Gun Violence Incident at Same Farm in Past Year A manager at a mushroom farm where a gunman killed 4 people Monday had shot at another employee in August; the release of video of the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband spurs more right-wing conspiracy theories; and SF's population is still declining, but at a much lower rate.
SF News Another Planet Submits New Castro Theatre Plans With ‘Motorized' Flooring, Opponents Not Moved The latest chapter in Another Planet Entertainment’s plans to overhaul the Castro Theatre involve a “motorized raked floor” to quell opponents’ outrage about removing the floor seats, yet opponents seem no less outraged.
Arts & Entertainment 12 Memes That Were Born In the Bay Area It makes some sense that the country's primary hub of technology and social media, the San Francisco Bay Area, would be a font of meme fodder and a haven for the creators of viral memes. And indeed, it has been.
SF Politics $1.7 Million Noe Valley Public Toilet Will Now Only Cost the City $300K The city of San Francisco is reportedly being gifted a pre-fab public restroom to install at a small park in Noe Valley, saving the design and construction costs that helped jack up the price tag on the project to $1.7 million last year. But it's still going to cost $300K?
SF News Dispute That Triggered Half Moon Bay Shooting Was Over $100 Damage Charge Adding to the tragic narrative about underpaid farmworkers and the socioeconomic situation underpinning Monday's shooting in Half Moon Bay, we now learn that the triggering dispute that occurred between the suspect and his supervisor was over $100.
SF News Video Footage of Attack On Paul Pelosi Released By Court Order We now have the disturbing video of the hammer assault on Paul Pelosi that took place in his San Francisco home on October 28, and the immediate aftermath.
SF News BART Had To Halt All Service Early Friday Morning, But Most Lines Now Running As Normal Some “unscheduled track repairs” brought down all service for a while Friday morning. BART now insists “all lines are now restored,” though commenters are noting some lingering delays.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Rain and Then Frigid Cold On the Way Sunday We could be in for some light rain Sunday followed by some very cold temps; there was a vigil in Chinatown for the Half Moon Bay victims; and the oldest person in the world is a woman born in San Francisco.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cop Who Shot Keita O’Neil Wants Case Dismissed, Blames Chesa Gallo Winery is laying off more than 350 people, the Bored Ape company admits their NFTs have no copyrights, and the ex-SFPD officer who shot and killed Keita O’Neil wants the case dismissed on the eve of his first hearings.
Bay Area Sports DoorDash Delivery Guy Walks Onto Floor During Basketball Game, Internet Debates If It Was Publicity Stunt Wednesday night’s Loyola Chicago-Duquesne college basketball game was interrupted by a fake DoorDash delivery person wandering onto the court, and angry school officials insist it was a publicity stunt.
SF News Suspect Arrested In South Bay for Cold-Case 2021 Stabbing In Upper Haight The SFPD believes they have the culprit in a fatal stabbing in the Haight-Ashbury that occurred 16 months ago.
Arts & Entertainment 'Clyde's' Brings Humor to Post-Incarceration Blues at Berkeley Rep On its surface, the summary blurb on Lynn Nottage's Tony-nominated play 'Clyde's' — five formerly incarcerated people grapple with day-to-day struggles in the kitchen of a truck stop diner — doesn't sound like a setup for comedy.
SF News Half Moon Bay Shooting Suspect Admits to Murders In Jailhouse Interview, Suggests He Might Have Mental Illness Zhao Chunli, the suspect now charged with killing seven people on Monday at two mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay, admitted to the murders in a jailhouse interview with NBC Bay Area reporter Janelle Wang on Thursday.
SF News Half Moon Bay Shooting Draws Attention to Squalid Conditions For Farm Workers Who Live On-Site While San Mateo County prosecutors are busy investigating the details of Monday’s mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, they also say “we have to act” on the conditions of farmworkers living in shipping containers, working 70-hour weeks, at well below minimum wage.
SF News Expensively Shored-Up Berkeley Hillside Once Again Giving Way; 14 Homes Red-Tagged Due to Another Landslide A hillside in the Claremont Hills area of the Oakland/Berkeley Hills that has given way in wet winters before — and that has been shored up at great expense by at least two property owners over the last two decades — gave way to a significant landslide again last week.
Arts & Entertainment The North Bay’s Go-To Online Movie Schedule Guides are Shutting Down Today The 28-year run of SonomaMovies.com, and its sister site NorthBayMovies.com, will come to an end today, as the site’s sole proprietor is calling it quits on aggregating movie showtimes for a five-county, 160-mile stretch of Northern California.
SF News All That Rain, and Much of California Still Remains In Moderate Drought (Except Central Coast) You've likely heard it said that we won't be out of this historic drought without several winters like the one we've had thus far. And the latest map from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows us where we're at.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Schiff Makes Senate Candidacy Official Rep. Adam Schiff has made his candidacy for Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat official; isolated Big Sur residents are getting supplies airlifted in today; and Chinese company ByteDance (owner of TikTok) has moved into new offices in San Jose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Another Frozen Waymo Car Caused Another Traffic Jam A judge has ordered the release of audio and video from the Paul Pelosi attack; the Half Moon Bay shooting suspect was arraigned; and we have another 'Waymo car froze and held up traffic' tale from last week.
SF Politics SF Attorney Harmeet Dhillon Might Be Elected Chair of the Republican National Committee This Week “San Francisco Values,” hmmm? Local attorney and longtime Republican gadfly Harmeet K. Dhillon is running against Ronna McDaniel in Friday’s race for RNC chair, but her reported “unity ticket” with the MyPillow Guy might doze her odds off.
SF News Thief Steals Van That Turns Out To Have Eight Dogs Inside, But Dogs And Van All Quickly Recovered A van thief at Buena Vista Park may not have realized the cargo of the vehicle they were swiping, as the Mercedes Sprinter was a dog-walking van with eight dogs inside, but the dog-napping was foiled within three hours.