SF News San Francisco Resident Dies In House Fire In Parkside Neighborhood One person died following a house fire in San Francisco's Inner Parkside neighborhood Friday morning, after being rescued by firefighters.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Beat Seahawks, Clinch Playoff Berth and Keep Rolling With Brock Purdy Would it be premature to go get a Brock Purdy tattoo?
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Silicon Valley Economy Grew Wildly During Pandemic The economy of Santa Clara County grew more than any other large county in the country during the pandemic, Tenderloin businesses want their tax money back, and John's Grill in Union Square won a rare pandemic insurance settlement.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Someone Tried To Bring A Gun Into SF City Hall You can now order another batch of free at-home COVID-19 tests, North Beach jazz bar Savoy Tivoli reopens today, and someone tried get a handgun through the metal detector at City Hall.
SF News Activists Blast ‘Developer Dirty Bomb’ And Lack of Racial Equity In SF’s Housing Element Plan The phrase “developer dirty bomb” entered the chat surrounding the San Francisco Housing Element debate at Thursday’s Planning Commission meeting, as affordable housing activists argue the soon-to-be-final draft of the plan gives short shrift to racial equity.
SF News Three Suspects Arrested In 2021 Freeway Shooting of Two-Year-Old Jasper Wu Four alleged San Francisco gang members have been identified as the suspects in last year’s I-880 shooting of toddler Jasper Wu. Three were arrested today, the fourth was already shot and killed in a separate drive-by shooting last month.
Bay Area Sports It Looks Like Steph Curry Will Be Out for a Few Weeks With a Shoulder Injury The actual moment that led to Steph's injury was completely innocent looking. The Pacers' Jalen Smith was driving to the basket when Curry reached out with his left hand and got all ball — Steph immediately winced and grabbed his shoulder.
Arts & Entertainment 'Beetlejuice' the Musical Can't Help But Kill Audiences With Laughs If ever there was a musical theater adaptation from a movie that I didn't see coming, it's 'Beetlejuice.' But the darkly comic Tim Burton classic from 1988 translates remarkably well to the stage, with plenty of tweaks and updates, and a terrific score by Australian singer-songwriter Eddie Perfect.
SF News Billionaire 555 Fulton Developer Arrested In London On Mohammed Nuru Bribery Charges Mega-rich developer Zhang Li, accused of buttering up Mohammed Nuru with a $2,000 bottle of wine and luxury trips, was arrested in London and is expected to be extradited to the U.S. to stand trial for bribery.
SF News SFPD Seeking Suspect Who Kicked Elderly Woman As He Exited Muni Bus The SFPD on Wednesday released Muni surveillance video of an incident in which a male suspect kicked an elderly woman in the stomach on his way off of a Muni bus.
SF News Former Twitter Employee Sentenced to Three and a Half Years In Saudi Espionage Case A former Twitter media partnerships manager who took bribes from a representative for the Saudi royal family in exchange for sensitive data about dissidents has been sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Macy's Union Square Employees May Strike Before Christmas A 21-year-old suspect has been charged in the killing of a father and son at a Hayward party, two people were shot in an ambush in Castro Valley Wednesday, and Macy's Union Square employees are threatening to strike next week.
SF News SFPD Officer Named In Celeste Guap Scandal Still Making Full Salary, Relegated to SFPD's Version of a 'Rubber Room' SF taxpayers have paid about $17 million to continue to employ police in desk jobs for largely disciplinary reasons, including one officer implicated in the notorious Celeste Guap scandal who’s pulling up to $240,000 a year.
SF News Yes, It Takes Forever To Build Anything In San Francisco, and That Is Part of Why Luxury Housing Is All That Gets Built Anyone with even a passing connection to the real estate world in San Francisco, or anyone who knows anyone who's tried to get a permit for an addition or to build a single-family home or duplex in SF, knows that this is a yearslong process. Does it have to be? Will it ever not be?
SF News Pelosi 911 Call and DePape's Hospital Confession Heard In Court; DePape's Target List Also Included Tom Hanks Some of the overwhelming evidence regarding David DePape's alleged October 28 attack on Paul Pelosi was presented in a preliminary hearing Wednesday in San Francisco attended by a whole lot of media.
SF News Violent Night: Five Separate SF Shootings In Six Hours on Monday Night While all eight victims have thus far survived, it’s concerning that San Francisco saw five separate and seemingly unrelated shooting incidents between 8 p.m. Monday night and 2 a.m. Tuesday morning.
SF News Arrests Made In Crazy San Bruno Ambush Shooting Over Thanksgiving Weekend Three men who are suspected of belonging to an Oakland-based gang have been arrested following a multi-agency investigation into a violent shooting caught on camera in San Bruno that injured one man.
SF News Too $hort Movie Shooting In Oakland, But Businesses Blow the Whistle Over Disruption, Lack of Notice There is no shortage of frustration over Too $hort’s 'Freaky Tales' filming in Oakland, where business owners say film crews blocking their storefronts have cost them tens of thousands of dollars — and they were not given much notice that all this would be happening.
Business & Tech The Twitter Account That Was Tracking Elon Musk's Private Jet Has Been Shut Down Shockingly, it took just over six weeks for "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk to suspend the automated Twitter account that has been tracking the movements of his private jet for the last year.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pelosi Attack Suspect Faces Preliminary Hearing Pelosi attack suspect David DePape is appearing in court today for a preliminary hearing, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says he takes responsibility for controversial moderation decisions, and Mayor London Breed doesn't want to end traffic stops for minor infractions.
Day Around The Bay: Union Square Macy’s Employees Might Strike Before Christmas They’re building a gondola between two major Tahoe ski resorts, ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s Stanford parents may be in hot water too, and the Union Square Macy’s might be looking at an employee strike before Christmas.
Business & Tech Twitter Reportedly Not Paying Rent as Musk Lawyers Up For That and Other Legal Battles Twitter has reportedly not been paying rent at its San Francisco headquarters, or any of its offices, in the six weeks since the start of the Elon Musk regime, and Musk has shaken up his legal team in anticipation of an avalanche of lawsuits from jilted creditors.
Arts & Entertainment Life-Size Gingerbread House Back At Fairmont Hotel, And You Can Book A Dinner Inside It The 22-foot-tall, 3,300-brick life-size gingerbread house is back at the Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill, and you too can make a dinner reservation to eat inside of it, for what shakes down to about a $1,500 minimum.
SF Politics Progressive Supes Defy Mayor and Health Department Over Safe-Consumption 'Wellness Hubs,' Say They Will Open Plans to create a dozen "wellness hubs" around the city to replace the Tenderloin Center and permit safer consumption of dangerous drugs like fentanyl are stalled due to legal concerns.
Business & Tech United Airlines Planning to Hire Thousands More SFO Employees Next Year The contraction of the air travel industry in 2020 has been followed by a steady rebuilding, and now United Airlines says it's planning for a major expansion at San Francisco International Airport and other hubs.
