SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quince, One of SF's Three Michelin Three-Star Restaurants, to Close For Six-Month Renovation Nine years after its last large-scale renovation, downtown dining destination Quince is closing later this month for six months to undergo another significant overhaul.
SF News Rainy Morning Gives Way to Dry Monday as Next Deluge Sets Up for Tuesday Most of the Bay Area will get a brief respite from the rain today after a wet and windy Monday morning.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Federal Disaster Aid Approved For California Biden approved federal disaster aid for California's storms; BART delays, flooding, downed trees, and more were impacting this morning's commute around the Bay; and NOAA's hurricane hunters are now out studying atmospheric rivers over the Pacific.
SF News Dozens of Abused Chihuahuas Rescued From ‘Filthy’ Home in Livermore Cleaned Up, Ready to Be Adopted Chihuahua lovers can give the rescued dogs new homes now that they have clean bills of health at East Bay animal shelters.
SF News Body Found on Highway 4 In East Bay Confirmed to Be Teenager Missing Since New Year’s Day The body of Pittsburg 19-year-old Damond Lazenby Jr who had been missing for a week was found Saturday afternoon next to a Concord highway, in circumstances his family reportedly calls "suspicious."
SF News Sunday Links: Central Subway/T-Third Link Starts Operating Without Drama The Central Subway T-Third connection between Chinatown and the Bayview began full operations without hitches; the suspect in Friday's Mission District shooting has been ID'd and is still at large; and an Oakland RV fire caused a BART disruption early Sunday morning.
SF News East Bay Water Utility Warns That High Volume of Sewage Overflowed Amid Recent Rains, Possibly Into Bay A Bay Area environmental group called on the East Bay Municipal Utility District to upgrade its sewage systems after the utility said last week that it had several "sanitary sewer spills."
SF News 'Bay Lights' on Bay Bridge Could (Once Again) Go Dark By March If Project's Founder Can't Raise $11 Million One of the largest light sculptures in the world, the “Bay Lights" on the Bay Bridge, again needs $11 million to keep twinkling, and project founder Ben Davis hopes to raise it from big-pocket SF donors.
SF News Saturday Links: Oakland Residents Displaced By Storm Still Unable to Return Home Several Oakland families lack answers about their homes and things after storm damage; Bakersfield Republican Kevin McCarthy finally clinched the House Speaker vote after a tumultuous week; and an SF man alleged to be a Mission gang "shot caller" was charged with firearm possession.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom's Presidential Ambitions Show in Second Inaugural Governor Address Newsom's second term officially began Friday in Sacramento with an anti-Republican speech; The Warriors asked SF to cut the Chase Center's taxes; and a woman pumping gas was reportedly pistol-whipped and had her truck stolen, police said.
SF News Four People Shot, One Killed In the Mission District Friday Morning, Within a Block of SFPD Mission Station Just before 2 a.m. Friday morning, four people were shot on Valencia Street within a stone’s throw of the SFPD's Mission Station. And SFPD has just announced that one 28-year-old male victim has died.
SF News Central Subway to Actually Begin Functioning as T-Line Starting Saturday Yes, the time has come. Saturday is the day that the Central Subway will see its first day of full, integrated operation with the rest of the Muni underground system — and we're taking bets about how smoothly/terribly this will go.
SF News Another Major Rockslide Closes Highway 1 South of Big Sur For Several Weeks, Maybe Longer You will not be able to drive Highway 1 between Big Sur and San Simeon for quite some time, and with good reason, because this rockslide has rendered that road pretty much unnavigable.
SF News Rainy Saturday Will Be a Mild Preview of More Storms to Come Next Week While there isn't another bomb cyclone on the horizon for now, two more atmospheric river storms are headed our way next week, with a bit more Pineapple Express downpour starting Saturday.
SF News Health Officials Urge Contra Costa DA To Investigate Martinez Refinery’s Unreported Hazardous Chemical Release Contra Costa Health Services is demanding the investigation of a release of hazardous metals into the air from a Thanksgiving weekend flare-up at the Martinez Refining Company, which left neighborhoods covered in “mysterious white ash.”
Bay Area Sports A Tale of Two Teams (But Not): A Mid-Season Golden State Warriors Check-In As long as they don't ever have to play on the road again, and so long as players don't get injured, the Golden State Warriors will be the best team in basketball.
SF News SFPD: Woman Admitted to Killing Her Two Daughters In Hunters Point Home More tragic details have now come out in court documents about the case against Paulesha Green-Pulliam, who pleaded not guilty last week to the double-murder of her young daughters two days before Christmas.
SF News Family of Sonoma County Toddler Killed By Fallen Redwood Tree Speaks Out We now have a statement from the grandmother of two-year-old Aeon Tocchini, who was crushed by a fallen redwood tree in Wednesday’s storms. The family has not only lost a son, but their home is also physically destroyed.
SF News Evacuation Warnings Issued For Russian River Valley Ahead of Likely Weekend Flooding The entire Bay Area is once again under a Flood Watch starting on Saturday, as two more storm systems head into the region, and low-lying areas along the Russian River are now under evacuation warnings.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Just Saw Its Wettest 10 Days In 150 Years The SFPD just announced the arrest of a serial commercial burglary suspect, the residents of Capitola are still without power, and the last 10 days are officially the second-wettest ever recorded in downtown San Francisco.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Public Works Sandbag Giveaway Resumes As Reinforcements Arrive Mayor Breed is getting some grief over storm preparedness, two below-ground theater venues found themselves completely flooded, and Public Works is handing out sandbags again after they ran out on Wednesday.
SF News Walgreens CEO Says 'Maybe We Cried Too Much' About Shoplifting, Acknowledges Private Security Didn't Work The CEO of Walgreens now says that shoplifting seems to be down and maybe they made too big a deal about the issue — in SF and elsewhere — the last couple of years.
SF News Fatal Hit-And-Run After Breakfast of Champions Party Leaves One Woman Dead, Another Man Injured The tail-end of the New Year’s Day block party It's A New Day + Breakfast Of Champions was marred by terrible tragedy, as two pedestrians were struck by a hit-and-run driver who’s still at large, and one of those victims died at the hospital.
SF News Coastal Piers Getting Destroyed By 35-Foot Waves In Santa Cruz, Capitola The atmospheric river is rough on ocean areas, as the Capitola Wharf has been crashed in half by waves as large as 35 feet as this storm pummels coastal areas of Santa Cruz and San Mateo Counties.
Arts & Entertainment Longtime Ocean Beach Surf Shop Owner Bob Wise Dies at Age 74 In the surfer community of San Francisco and beyond, if you've been in it a good while, you probably knew about Bob Wise and his half-century-old surf shop at Ocean Beach, Wise Surfboards.
