SF News Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Gets Reprieve to Stay Open Past 2025, Could Be Running Another 20 Years California’s last remaining nuclear power plant will definitely remain open at least a couple more years, and the state wants it running until 2023, but PG&E wants it running another 20 years.
SF News There Are New Express Toll Lanes On 101 Between San Bruno and Redwood City, Starting Today You can cruise through traffic in the new express lanes that opened Friday morning on U.S. 101, and it’s free for carpools of three or more people, but it’s a $500 fine if you’re in that lane without a FasTrak.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Takes First Official Steps Toward a Run For Congress State Senator and former SF Supervisor Scott Wiener is making moves in preparation to run for Nancy Pelosi's House seat next year, assuming she plans to retire, which she has not said she will.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Body Found on Daly City Beach The body of an unidentified elderly man was found on a beach in Daly City; Berkeley police say a TikTok challenge is driving car thefts; and a fourth inmate in six weeks has died in custody at Santa Rita Jail.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Now You Have Until October 16 To Do Both Your State And Federal Taxes Another quixotic attempt to make Daylight Saving Time permanent is before Congress, now even Salesforce wants to sublease space in Salesforce Tower, and the state of California has joined the feds in not requiring many Californians to file their taxes until October 16.
Arts & Entertainment 'Cambodian Rock Band' at Berkeley Rep Tells of Khmer Rouge Abuses Through the Lens of Musicians It's no small thing to get an audience standing and dancing, lost in the psychedelic/surf groove of a Cambodian-style rock band from the 1970s, in the wake of a story largely about torture and genocide.
SF Politics Feinstein Sidelined With ‘Health Matter,' Which We Now Know Is Shingles Senator Dianne Feinstein has been missing Senate votes all week, and this morning her office announced she was “dealing with a health matter," which is now reported to be a shingles infection.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Lights on the Bay Bridge Scheduled To Be Shut Off Sunday Night They’re scheduled to hit the kill switch on the Bay Bridge’s Bay Lights at 8 p.m. sharp Sunday night, as a private fundraiser donor drive for another $11 million has apparently come up short.
SF News Today, SFist Is Retiring Its COVID Data Update Page This has been a long time coming. And yes, COVID is still with us, but the daily and weekly case counts we've been tracking for nearly three years are no longer that useful, so it's time to move on.
SF News SF’s Trailblazing Trans Lutheran Bishop Sues Lutheran Church Over Resignation He Now Says Was Forced The initially feel-good story of the first trans Lutheran bishop in the U.S. has now taken another contentious turn, as SF’s Rev. Megan Rohrer is suing the Lutheran Church over his June resignation that he now alleges was orchestrated by higher-ups.
SF News More Than Half of California Is Now Officially Drought-Free You'd think after the rains of this winter that the drought might be completely behind us, but it is not — and, counterintuitively, much of the Bay Area is still officially "abnormally dry" by federal Drought Monitor standards.
SF News More Details Emerge In Fatal High-Speed Fairfield Crash; Teen Victims Had Allegedly Been On Crime Spree We already knew that a fatal February 22 100-mph rollover crash in Fairfield involved an allegedly carjacked vehicle, but we’re now learning that the three who died were teenagers whom authorities say had been on a three-day crime spree that left one man shot and paralyzed.
SF News Snow Is Literally Crushing Buildings In Tahoe Area The weight of massive snow accumulation on rooftops has led to at least two destroyed buildings in the Tahoe area and Sierra foothills, with more perhaps to come.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Teen Killed In Fight at Santa Rosa High School A 16-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by another boy in a classroom fight at a Santa Rosa high school; a man set himself on fire in Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley; and the wife of Wild 94.9's JV says he "will not be coming back."
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Berkeley Falcon Named For Real-Life Partner Of Falcon Annie's Namesake A Mission housing nonprofit is being sued for allegedly "abandoning" veterans, the Chronicle has responded to billionaire Michael Moritz's NYT op-ed dragging them, and the hunky new Berkeley falcon-cam male got a new name with a heartwarming backstory.
SF News Napa Man With 'White Privilege Card' Sentenced to Nine Years Over Plot To Blow Up Democratic State HQ Colorful Trump supporter Ian Benjamin Rogers of Napa planned to ring in the Biden administration by blowing up the state Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento. Instead, he’ll remain in prison for the remainder of Biden’s presidency, and possibly another 45 years to boot.
Arts & Entertainment Drum-Playing Union Square Street Performer Larry ‘Bucket Man’ Hunt Has Died At Age 64 Union Square fixture Larry Hunt has been banging on buckets like they were a set of drums for decades on Market Street, but the beat won’t go on any further, as the “Bucket Man” died Thursday morning at age 64.
SF News Two 17-Year-Old Girls Arrested In Attack Near Dolores Park A pair of juveniles, both female, have been arrested in connection with an unprovoked attack on Super Bowl Sunday in SF's Mission District that left one woman with eye injuries.
Business & Tech Well, Well, Well, Twitter Has Reinstated Its Longstanding Policy Against Violent Speech Twitter announced Wednesday that it has "made a few changes to our policies around violent content and similar language," though it is basically just a rephrasing of what Twitter's longstanding police was, pre-Elon.
SF News Plans For That Second Transbay Tube May Be Getting Shelved Over High Cost, Low Ridership The latest grand plan for a second Transbay Tube would have cost at least $29 billion and wouldn’t have been completed until around 2040, and now regional transit planners are backing off the idea of building that new tube.
SF News All Eyes Are on AG Rob Bonta as Decision to Prosecute Rookie SF Cop In 2017 Keita O'Neil Shooting Rests With Him A San Francisco judge on Wednesday opted to delay a motion from the District Attorney's Office to dismiss manslaughter charges against former SFPD Officer Christopher Samayoa, in order to give the state Attorney General's Office more time to consider the case.
SF News 21-Year-Old San Leandro Man On Probation For Gun Charge Arrested For Gun Battle at Music Video Shoot One suspect is now in custody facing a murder charge for a January 23 shootout that injured four people and killed one, 18-year-old Mario Navarro, during a music video shoot at an East Oakland gas station.
SF News Sierra Snowpack On Pace To Break 40-Year Record, Bay Area Rains Might Last Until April The current gigantic snow dump, combined with January’s storms, could break 40-year-old snowpack records in parts of the state, as the forecast calls for more cold and precipitation through March and possibly into April.
SF News Avalanche Buries Tahoe Apartment Building, Several Areas Evacuated Over Avalanche Risk The first two floors of this three-story apartment building near Palisades Tahoe were completely engulfed by an avalanche Tuesday night, and while everyone inside was rescued, avalanche orders remain in effect in parts of the Lake Tahoe area.
SF News City's Bill For Shelter-In-Place Hotel Damages Rises With $2.9M Settlement For Hotel Tilden While the City of San Francisco continues to negotiate with hotel owners over what the costs of turning their hotels into ersatz homeless shelters during the pandemic turned out to be, one more hotel has just walked away with a considerable damage settlement.
