SF Politics SF District Attorney Reverses Herself On Changes to Sanctuary City Policy Sensing the political winds might not always be in her favor, SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has done a — for her thus far — rare about-face on a policy decision, regarding SF's sanctuary city status.
SF News [Update] Goat Mystery Deepens as There Were Multiple Loose Goat Sightings In SoMa We knew there was one goat sighting Wednesday in SoMa near the Bay Bridge, but it turns out there was a whole group of goats on the loose, and SF Animal Care & Control has no leads on where they came from.
SF News Oakland Gay Men's Chorus Member Stabbed And Killed In His Own Lake Merritt Apartment Building We now have more information on a bizarre fatal stabbing near Lake Merritt this past weekend, and the victim was Curtis Marsh, a 53-year-old member of the Oakland Gay Men's Chorus and occasional drag performer.
SF News KGO-TV Reporter Luz Peña Recovering From Near-Fatal Ski Accident in Tahoe You haven’t seen KGO’s Luz Peña on the ABC7 news for four weeks, and it turns out that she suffered a ski accident that left her unconscious and unable to breathe, and she nearly needed to have a leg amputated.
SF News Lake Oroville Is Now 61 Feet From Capacity; Rain, Snow Runoff Likely to Trigger Need For Spillway It's been a total reversal of fortune this year for Lake Oroville and the recreational houseboaters who like to hang out on the reservoir, with the water level now over 100 percent of its historical average. But Lake Oroville is returning to a point of too much of a good thing.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Getting Ready For Big Rain Our third La Niña is officially over and there is reason to believe next winter will be an El Niño season; Gov. Gavin Newsom has COVID again; and you can expect the rain to hit most of San Francisco by afternoon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Goat Spotted Running Loose In SoMa Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered a $54M contract canceled with Walgreens over their abortion drug decision; a suspect in an attempted robbery died in an Oakland crash; and a random white goat was running around in SoMa today without explanation.
SF News Sup. Preston Pushing to Extend SF Eviction Moratorium Another 60 Days With the end of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency proclamation now in sight, Supervisor Dean Preston is proposing to tack an extra 60 days onto the city’s eviction moratorium that would otherwise end once the emergency proclamation ends.
SF News Person Having Mental Health Episode Shuts Down Lower Deck of Bay Bridge A person having some sort of mental health crisis was apparently pacing back and forth in lanes of traffic on the eastbound (lower) deck of the western span of the Bay Bridge Wednesday afternoon, near Treasure Island.
Arts & Entertainment Report: Two Remaining 1980s-Era Members of Journey Hire Bodyguards to Protect Them From Each Other The SF-founded band Journey is on tour again, but the two remaining 1980s members Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain are suing each other while on tour, and each has allegedly hired bodyguards to keep the other out of their dressing rooms.
SF Politics New York Times Spotlights Barbara Lee and the Glass Ceiling For Many Black Women In Politics Longtime California Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) has thrown her hat in the ring to become the next Senator from California, vying for Dianne Feinstein's seat in what may become an uphill battle.
Arts & Entertainment Falcons at UC Berkeley Have Two Eggs In Nest, Third Likely Today Just an update on the peregrine falcons atop UC Berkeley's Campanile: There are already two eggs in Annie's nest, and she's ahead of the usual schedule with the laying by a week or two.
Business & Tech Tesla Faces New Federal Probe Over Possible Autopilot Crash In Walnut Creek; Also, Musk Seems to Have 'Disbanded' Their PR Department A Tesla that may have been operating in "Full Self-Driving" mode crashed into a firetruck at high speed on I-680 last month, and this has triggered a new investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Superstar Team's New Hayes Valley Spot, Teakwood, Readies For Opening The team behind Burma Superstar and Burma Love is expanding once more, this time in Hayes Valley, in the Grove and Gough corner space formerly occupied by Anka, and before that Barcino, Boxing Room, and Citizen Cake.
SF News Fairfield Police Find Remains of Missing Woman, Husband Already Charged With Murder The burnt remains of Fairfield woman Anu Anand Hobson, missing since Valentine’s Day, were found in Fresno County. And it does not look good for her husband, who’s been charged with murder.
SF Politics Supervisor Catherine Stefani Has Filed to Run For State Assembly In 2024 Assemblymember Phil Ting’s seat is up for grabs next year, and District 2 Supervisor Catherine Stefani has filed to run for it — she's also changed her Twitter handle, and set up a campaign website.
SF News SF Braces For More Rain, Floods; Public Works Giving Out Sandbags Again "Now is the time to prepare!" says the National Weather Service, as pretty much all of Northern California is under a Flood Watch starting Thursday, with another incoming atmospheric river that promises to drench much of the state.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Berkeley Attorney Confirmed For Federal Office A man who lit himself on fire on the Berkeley campus last week has died from his injuries; two dozen cars got flat tires on the San Mateo Bridge; and Berkeley-based white-collar attorney Ismail Ramsey has been confirmed to be U.S. Attorney of the Northern District of CA.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Marin County Appraiser Ordered To Pay Up In Notorious Racial Disparity Case A study shows the Bay Area has actually gotten more affordable for many renters in the last decade, protesters disrupted a PG&E wildfire mitigation conference in San Ramon, and the real estate appraiser who seemingly lowballed a Black couple has agreed to pay a settlement.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Keep Remote Public Comment In Place For Now, But Changes Could Be Coming The threat to end public comment by phone at City Hall meetings did not succeed at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, but a new set of public comment rules is in the works for mid-April which could somehow shorten those lengthy public comment sessions.
SF Politics AG Bonta's Office Has 90 Days to Review SF Police Shooting Case — and Jenkins's Handling of It The California Attorney General's Office has responded to a San Francisco court proceeding involving what would have been the first-ever prosecution of an on-duty SFPD officer for a fatal shooting, asking for 90 more days to review the case.
SF News Martinez, Pacheco Residents Urged Not to Eat Produce From Their Own Gardens, Thanks to Refinery Incident Folks in parts of Contra Costa County are being advised not to eat produce grown in soil near the Martinez Refining Company, after its November hazardous chemical release left white ash strewn about their neighborhoods.
SF News Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Shannon O'Connor Allegedly Beaten Up By Cellmates The Los Gatos "party mom"/"cool mom" who is still awaiting trial for allegedly corrupting high schoolers and encouraging sexual assault has not been having the best time in jail, and was apparently injured in a beating by cellmates.
SF Politics YIMBY Law Set to Sue Sausalito Over Allegedly Out-of-Compliance Housing Element The YIMBY crowd is unleashing their lawsuits on cities whose housing elements are not yet approved by the state, and in the case of an impending Marin County lawsuit, claiming that some proposed housing sites are literally “in the water.”
Business & Tech High-Profile Tech Layoffs Continue With Thousands More Expected at Meta This Week Facebook parent entity Meta is reportedly planning to lay off thousands more employees in a second round of cuts, possibly happening as soon as this week.
