Arts & Entertainment Meet Your 2023 'Hearts in San Francisco,' Now On Display at the Ferry Building SF’s annual display of giant Valentine’s hearts beats on for its 20th year, and here’s your Hearts of SF class of 2023, which will remain at the Ferry Building through February 28.
SF News All-Female UCSF Surgical Team Performs Heart Transplant Surgery, In Likely Historical First Some historic heart-related news on Valentine's Day, as UCSF has recorded the first heart transplant performed entirely by a team of women — a first for the school, and possibly the first in history.
SF Politics Feinstein Makes It Official, She Will Retire After Next Year Though her ongoing effectiveness in the Senate has been questioned by colleagues over the last year, Dianne Feinstein has made it official that she doesn't intend to retire before her current term is up.
SF Politics Mayor Seeks Extra $27.6M to Cover SFPD Overtime Costs Amid Crackdown on Drug Dealing, Petty Crime A week after her State of the City address, SF Mayor London Breed is asking the Board of Supervisors to approve a new chunk of money in the budget for police overtime costs — and she stresses this is about improving street safety across the city.
SF News Ransomware Attack On City of Oakland Leaves City Hall Closed, Many Systems Still Paralyzed A ransomware attack on the City of Oakland is now dragging into its sixth day, and the city’s IT department “has taken affected systems offline” to try to minimize the damage.
SF News Weather Report: The Winter Chill Returns For Another Day If you thought it felt extra-frigid when you got up this morning, you'd be right. Gusty northwest winds are bringing some fresh arctic chill our way, but it will be short-lived.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Franciscans Mostly Over Valentine's Day There was a homicide in the Tenderloin early Tuesday; the person who won that $2 billion Powerball jackpot in LA County has come forward; and a survey of SF Bumble users found that a third say Valentine's Day is about "self love."
SF News Day Around the Bay: Car Smashes Fisherman's Wharf Store In Burglary A car was used to smash into the Lids store at Fisherman's Wharf this morning for a burglary; Shake Shack is paying $20K to a former trans employee who was harassed by coworkers; and another sideshow shut down the Bay Bridge early Sunday.
SF News Rejoice, Outer Richmond: The 1X-California Express Bus Returns This Month, Though With Very Limited Service The 1-California’s express bus was halted by the pandemic, but returns February 21, though will only run a few times a day during weekday commute hours.
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SF Politics Supervisors Might Spike Plan for Temporary Tiny Homes for Homeless at 'Monster In the Mission' Site A plan to put up 70 temporary tiny homes/cabins in the former Walgreens parking lot behind the 16th and Mission BART plaza, ahead of a planned affordable development, may be getting killed after negative community feedback.
SF News Berkeley Man Gets Four Years Prison for Selling Fentanyl and Meth to Undercover Agent In Tenderloin 20-year-old David Ordonez of Berkeley pleaded guilty to selling 90 grams of fentanyl and 100 grams of meth to an undercover agent, but the larger problem was probably his backpack crammed with 1,120 grams of fentanyl.
SF News Mission District Couple Describes Brutal Attack Near Dolores Park on Super Bowl Sunday A couple walking on 18th Street outside Mission High School on Sunday says they were set upon and assaulted by two female suspects, allegedly for no reason, or because they were blocking the path of the suspects' electric scooters.
SF News Los Altos Hills Homeowner Is Giving the ‘Builder’s Remedy’ a Go, Submits Plans to Build 20-Unit Complex On His Property In what appears to be the first Bay Area attempt at the “builder’s remedy” for a town without an approved housing element, a Los Altos Hills property owner is trying to subdivide his home into 20 units. Though he admits that if the scheme works, he’s just going to sell the property and move.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Copra, a Southern Indian Food Destination From a Michelin-Star Chef, About to Make Its Debut on Lower Fillmore A much anticipated new Indian restaurant is getting ready to open in the splashy former Dosa space at the corner of Fillmore and Post streets, and it's just gotten a full makeover.
SF News Harrowing Story Emerges of SFO-Bound Flight Out of Maui That Nearly Plunged Into the Ocean A United flight out of Maui, bound for SFO, took a steep dive during inclement weather, right after takeoff, and came within about 700 feet of the Pacific, according to a newly discovered report.
SF News East Bay Bike Party Marred By Alleged Multiple Instances of Car-Dooring, Two Injured A half-dozen or more separate incidents of cars allegeldy dooring bicyclists took place in the lead-up to and the wake of Friday’s East Bay Bike party, and the bicyclists say 14 of them were targeted, and at least two suffered serious injuries.
SF News New Video From Next Door Shows Moment of Sunset Home Explosion Newly obtained surveillance video from one or two doors away from the 22nd Avenue home that exploded Thursday shows the moment of the blast and its immediate impact on nearby cars.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sacramento Man Arrested In Brutal Hit-and-Run A 28-year-old Sacramento man is accused in a brutal hit and run that killed five people in an SUV he was driving; supplies are being sent from the Bay Area to Turkish quake victims; and US officials continue scrambling to identify objects that flew into US airspace.
Castro Valley 77-Year-Old Woman Intentionally Hit by Car in East Bay Church Parking Lot The female victim and unknown male suspect allegedly got into a verbal altercation before he deliberately drove into her, and she's now recovering from non-life threatening injuries.
SF News San Francisco Landlords Have Filed a Lawsuit Trying to Stop the City’s ‘Empty Homes Tax’ The vacancy tax was approved by 54.5% of voters last year to start in 2024 to direct money to adorable housing, but landlords and property owners are calling it "unconstitutional."
morning links Sunday Links: Super Bowl LVII Will Feature Bay Area Local in First All-Women National Anthem Flyover Navy Lieutenant Commander Calli Zimmerman, who grew up in San Jose, will be in this Super Bowl's flyover; SF wants to make parking meter hours much longer; and evictions have returned to pre-pandemic levels in four out of five Bay Area counties.
SF News Large Statue Stolen from San Jose Park Reportedly Located by Local Journalist in Lobby of Troubled Scrapyard After publishing a story about the statue’s history last week, Mercury News reporter Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler says he found it "hours" later inside the headquarters of a scrapyard that's had many police citations.
SF News Saturday Links: Lawsuit Alleges Scandal-Plagued Bayview Homeless Services Org Funds Went to CEO's “Lavish” Lifestyle The troubled organization United Council of Human Services faces a new lawsuit about the misuse of funds; Davis is California's most "college-y" town with the highest proportion of the population students; and a cybersecurity attack has hit Oakland's systems.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Sunset Home Explosion Was Allegedly Making PCP and/or Hash Oil In the House Police arrested a 53-year-old San Francisco man Friday on suspicion of manslaughter, drug manufacturing, and child endangerment, in connection with the deadly explosion in the Sunset District on Thursday that destroyed two homes and damaged several others.
