SF News Homeless Man Who Died In Golden Gate Park, a Notorious Hater and Attacker of Dogs, Gets ID'd Via DNA A homeless man in his 40s who was found dead in his sleeping bag near Metson Lake in Golden Gate Park in 2021 has been positively ID'd through DNA and forensic genealogy.
Business & Tech SF-Based First Republic Bank In Huge Trouble As Shares Collapse By More Than 70%, Trading Halted The feared “contagion” from the Silicon Valley Bank collapse has now spread to banks whose branches and ATMs you see around San Francisco, as the SF-based First Republic Bank tanked in the markets over bank-run fears.
SF News With Floods Threatening Closure On Multiple Roads, Monterey Peninsula Could Become an 'Island' This Week Flooding on the Salinas River was expected to crest Monday ahead of another round of rain, and ways of ingress and egress to the Monterey Peninsula were potentially all going to be cut off.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bay Lights Came Back On Sunday Due to 'Glitch' The Bay Lights were back on Sunday night due to a "glitch"; there were two fatal shootings in Oakland over the weekend; and President Biden gave a brief televised statement urging everyone to stop panicking about banks.
SF News Monday's Atmospheric River Will Be a Fast-Moving One But Bring Bursts of High Winds and More Rain The National Weather Service has issued high wind warnings and flood warnings for many parts of the Bay Area, urging residents to have emergency plans in place.
SF News Some Bay Area Reservoirs Overflowing Amid Recent Rain This weekend’s rains have replenished local reservoirs, and many in the East Bay, North Bay, and South Bay have reached capacity.
SF News Sunday Links: Several Lanes of Interstate 880 Near Fremont Flooded and Closed The rains from Saturday night into Sunday morning flooded many lanes of northbound and southbound I-880; an overnight car chase involved CHP vehicles and an airplane in Oakland; and San Jose's History Park had a two-alarm fire Sunday morning.
SF News Six Bodies and 154 Remains Found In Suspended Crematorium's Hayward Warehouse The crematorium, Oceanview Cremations Corporation, had allegedly been operating on a suspended license for the past few years, and its owner wouldn't pick up the phone to tell families where their loved ones' remains were.
SF News Fallen Tree In Stern Grove Damages SF Landmark Trocadero Clubhouse An 85-foot tree — about 10 stories tall — fell onto the Clubhouse around 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning, busting the roof and water system of one of the oldest buildings in the city.
SF News Saturday Links: Pajaro River Levee Breach Triggers Floods and Forces Hundreds to Evacuate Hundreds of Watsonville residents were evacuated following a levee breach in Monterey County; Tahoe's famous Emerald Bay froze over for the first time since the early 90s; and the St. Patrick's Day Parade is taking place Saturday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect Arrested in Fatal Stabbing of Singer in Oakland’s Gay Men’s Chorus SF opened a limited number of shelter beds for unhoused individuals amid the ongoing atmospheric river; OPD arrested a suspect in the murder of a member of the Oakland Gay Men's Chorus; and a Golden Girls restaurant pop-up is coming to SOMA in April.
SF News Stormy Turbulence Forced Several SFO and San Jose Flights to Be Rerouted Thursday Night The unfriendly skies during Thursday night’s atmospheric river storm limited arrivals at the San Francisco and San Jose airports, causing some impromptu detours to Oakland.
Business & Tech Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Reverberates Through Bay Area Wine Industry, Tech Startups In addition to the many local tech companies large and small that are likely to be impacted by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), we're learning that they were a major lender and banking partner for the wine industry, accounting for about 2% of the bank's total business.
SF News Paul Flores Gets 25 Years to Life For Kristin Smart Murder Paul Flores, who was convicted last fall in the 1996 murder of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, was sentenced Friday and received 25 years to life.
The Warriors Take Two Steps Forward, Then Two Steps Back, Toward the Playoffs It's felt like the Dubs have turned a corner several different times this season, only to turn three more to arrive right back at the same this-is-where-we-finally-turn-things-around point yet again.
SF News Floods Force Road Closures Across Bay Area; Ducks Were Swimming On I-580 In Oakland The latest round of storms have left flooded roads that have stranded hundreds in the Santa Cruz Mountains, with flood advisories in effect for several Bay Area counties, and a flooded I-580 in Oakland was taken over by a paddling of ducks.
SF News The Armory Building In the Mission Set to Return as Concert Venue With Additional Smaller Jazz Club Inside The former Kink.com Armory, which Kink moved out of and sold five years ago, is set to return to being a concert and event venue — which it was briefly before the pandemic — but the new owners have also submitted plans to add a jazz club inside.
SF News City Attorney Sues Company Behind Workplace Posters That He Says Falsely Impersonate the Government SF City Attorney David Chiu has brought a lawsuit against a company he says is “impersonating government actors” and forcing small businesses to buy bogus workplace compliance posters and threatening $37,000 fines if they don't.
Business & Tech Silicon Valley Bank Shut Down By Regulators In Biggest Bank Failure In 15 Years In what may be a harbinger of more hard days ahead for the tech world in the Bay Area, a prominent lender to startups and one of the 20 largest banks in the country, SVB Financial Group or Silicon Valley Bank, has failed.
SF News Roof Collapse Kills One, Injures Another at Coffee Warehouse In Oakland A section of roof collapsed early Friday at a coffee distribution warehouse in East Oakland used by Peet's and Philz, killing one many who man who apparently worked there.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Tree Crushes Tesla On San Mateo County Road A fallen tree crushed a Tesla in San Mateo County last night; flooding is already occurring across Santa Cruz County; and the Russian River is expected to crest today below major flood stage.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Entwined LED Forest Has Its Closing Party Canceled Over Weather The Cure is coming to the Bay Area in May, the 49ers laid off a bunch of longtime stadium staffers while making some dubious revenue claims, and the big Saturday night closing party for the LED forest Entwined has been canceled because of the rainy weather.
SF Politics Rupert Murdoch Rips Kim Guilfoyle In Leaked Fox News Text, Also Gets Her Name Wrong As more bombshell leaked texts come out in the Fox News-Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit, we see one where Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch declared that Kimberley Guilfoyle is “not good people!”, though he gets her name wrong.
Arts & Entertainment SF-Based 'Weird Al' Yankovic-Themed Burlesque Group Is Making a Documentary, Will ‘Bare To Be Stupid’ “The world's first and only all Weird Al themed burlesque troupe” Tight and Nerdy was founded here in San Francisco, and after a slew of sold-out shows, they’re crowdfunding a full-length feature documentary about their troupe called “Showgals.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Late-Night Eats Slowly Return to SF With Dragon Horse In SoMa, Extended Hours at Beep's Burgers, and More The days of SF being moderately well appointed with 24-hour diners and late-night restaurants are well behind us, and even before the pandemic a slew of reliable, after-midnight standbys had shuttered. But that may be slowly changing.
