SF News Longtime Bay Area Meteorologist Roberta Gonzales Still Lives For the Drama at KTVU We at SFist have long been fans of weatherwoman Roberta Gonzales, who blithely delivered the weather for two decades over at KPIX for decades, and now she's in the middle of all this weather news in her post at KTVU.
SF Politics Orange County Rep. Katie Porter Announces Run For Dianne Feinstein's Senate Seat Fresh on the heels of her latest meme-worthy display at the Capitol — quietly reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck for the cameras while the Kevin McCarthy speaker-vote drama raged — Rep. Katie Porter says she is running for the Senate.
SF News Here's a Satellite Image of the Storm Currently Battering Northern California The storm bringing with it heavy rain, high winds, and thunderstorm cells can be seen as a distinct cyclone off the coast of Oregon and Northern California — and it's not through with us yet.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Wind, Blinding Rain, and Hail Cause Damage Around the Bay Hail fell hard around San Francisco at 6:15 a.m. and continues to fall around the Bay, downed trees are being reported all over, and an apartment complex in South San Francisco had part of its roof blown off.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo Takes In Second Orphaned Mountain Lion Cub Another mountain lion cub was found abandoned near Santa Cruz and brought to the Oakland Zoo, some spots to our south saw 10 inches of rain between last night and this morning, and Mary's Pizza Shack is closing several more locations.
SF News SFPD Arrests 17-Year-Old In Connection With Kicking Elderly Woman on Muni Bus A juvenile suspect is in custody in connection with a widely covered December 3 Muni bus assault involving an elderly victim near Japantown.
Arts & Entertainment SFJAZZ Center Celebrates Tenth Anniversary, Will Be Hopping All Week This year marks a double-anniversary: the 40th of the San Francisco Jazz Festival and this week’s 10th anniversary of the SFJAZZ Center, and the stars will be out including Laurie Anderson, Bill Frisell, and Marcus Shelby.
SF News Compromise With NIMBYs Over Six-Story Building On 18th Street Near Dolores Park Rejected By State Housing Officials A multi-unit building that's become a cause célèbre for pro-housing activists after loud pushback from neighbors over its height and sunlight concerns may revert back to its original design, after state housing officials stepped in to scold SF over a compromise plan that is one story shorter.
SF News DA Jenkins’s Office Can Prosecute Resentencing the Murder Case Against Mayor Breed’s Brother, Court Rules A San Francisco Superior Court judge denied a motion Monday morning that asked to take the murder resentencing of Mayor Breed’s brother out of the hands of DA Brooke Jenkins’s office, a motion that was made by Breed’s brother’s attorneys.
SF Politics Board of Supervisors Palace Intrigue: Peskin Takes Presidency as Board Ousts Walton From Top Spot If you thought last week’s Kevin McCarthy drama was nuts, wait 'til you hear about Supervisor Aaron Peskin winning the SF Board of Supervisors presidency after 17 votes, in what was either a masterful move of three-dimensional chess, or a sign of just utter dysfunction.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Win 10th Game In a Row to End Regular Season, Face the Seahawks In Wildcard Game Next Week With one of the best records in the league, it's kind of a bummer that the 49ers have to play in the wild-card round. But that is what's happening on Saturday.
SF News Huge Landslides Shut Down Roads In Santa Cruz County, Including Southbound Highway 17 Impacts from the ongoing parade of storms continue to be most severe just south of the Bay Area in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, and on Monday, the main route into Santa Cruz from the north, Highway 17, was completely blocked by a landslide.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Drops Its 2023 Lineup: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lizzo, Lil Nas X, and More The tenth anniversary BottleRock lineup and dates were just announced, with tickets going on sale Tuesday for a jam-packed roster of artists that includes Lil Nas X, Smashing Pumpkins, Sheryl Crow, and the Wu-Tang Clan.
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.
