SF News Sunset District Businesses File Lawsuit Over December Power Outage A group of Sunset District businesses are filing a lawsuit against PG&E seeking compensation for lost business during the December 20 power outage, which for some lasted multiple days.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Sideshow In Outer Richmond Leads to Arrests The SFPD made several arrests following a Sunday night sideshow in the Outer Richmond; staffers at a prison in Chino were apparently sickened by an unknown substance; and Solano County sheriff's deputies are helping patrol Vallejo.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fremont Is Getting the Largest H Mart Location in the Entire United States One person was killed in a Hayward-San Mateo Bridge crash Tuesday; some DOGE bros are under investigation for shady use of Americans’ Social Security numbers; and Fremont is getting the biggest H Mart ever in the US.
SF News Freight Train Strikes and Kills Pedestrian in West Berkeley, Victim Was Allegedly Trespassing on Tracks A yet-unidentified man was hit by a freight train and killed in West Berkeley Monday morning, though the railroad’s operator Union Pacific says the man was trespassing on the tracks.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Star Jimmy Butler Tears ACL and Will Miss Rest of the Season, Pundits Speculate Warriors’ Dynasty Is Over The Warriors’ season crashed into disaster when forward Jimmy Butler suffered a season-ending ACL tear Monday night, and the national media are declaring the Warriors’ dynasty is over, while fans are madly concocting trade scenarios.
Business & Tech The Sam Altman-Elon Musk Feud Had Another Public Escalation Today OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who hasn't been afraid to publicly rebuke his former friend Elon Musk in the past, once again appeared to have had it with Elon on Tuesday.
SF News BART Entrance Sealed Off at SF Centre as Official Closing Date for Mall Arrives This Week The lights officially go off after this weekend at the SF Centre (formerly Westfield) mall in downtown San Francisco, marking a final death knell following a very long, slow, and painful demise.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley-Born Peet's Coffee Closing 30 Bay Area Locations, Including Castro and Cole Valley Shops The Castro is losing its second major coffee shop in four months, with the popular Market Street location of Peet's set to close later this month, and more Peet's locations are also getting axed.
SF Politics ‘Call a Republican’ Phone Goes Up on Valencia Street (Just Be Aware That It’s Some Startup Recording You) A “emotional fitness community” that just got $26 million in venture capital thrown at them has installed a phone on Valencia Street that lets you “Call a Republican” in Texas, perhaps to foster unity, or perhaps just to record you.
Business & Tech SF Parents Putting Teens and Tweens In Waymos By Themselves, Violating Company Policy It's become common practice for busy San Francisco parents to summon Waymos for their kids, whatever the expense, to avoid having to chauffeur them everywhere, and because they're safer than Ubers or Lyfts.
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Film Festival to Honor John Waters This Year With Special Award, 'Serial Mom' Screening The great John Waters, self-described maven of filth and a pioneer in queer underground cinema, will be receiving a special honor from Frameline in March, at the Castro Theatre.
SF News Two Years In, Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Prevention Nets Have Almost Completely Eliminated Bridge Suicides In their second year since completion, the Golden Gate Bridge suicide prevention barriers allowed only four suicides in the first half of 2025. In the second half of 2025, the bridge saw zero suicides.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Protests Planned Marking One Year of Trump 2.0 Protests are planned marking Trump's first year in office; a 17-year-old girl from Mendocino has been missing for three weeks in SF; and there's another Pride flag controversy at a school in Sonoma County.
SF News MLK Day Around the Bay: 28-Year-Old SFO Worker Dies In Accident An SFO worker was killed in an accident Sunday; a high-speed rail collision in Spain led to 40 deaths; and an explanation of BART's nightly Grand Meet, which has been going on for 50 years.
Arts & Entertainment Green Apple Books’ Sunset Location Finally Gets a New Tenant In Upstairs Mezzanine: A Literary Co-Working Space The long-empty and effectively forgotten upstairs mezzanine area of the Inner Sunset’s Green Apple Books on the Park has at last been filled, by a co-working space dedicated specifically to writers called the Backstory Above.
SF News Bedraggled Coyote Filmed Stepping Foot on Alcatraz Island for the First Time in History A coyote recently made its way to Alcatraz Island for the first time in documented history, most likely from SF’s Coit Tower area, after it likely got caught up in the bay’s current, which was stronger than usual that day due to recent storms.
SF Politics Rep. Eric Swalwell Calls for Trump’s Removal From Office Over Seemingly Dementia-Fueled Text to Norway's PM President Trump reiterated calls to invade Greenland because he’s mad at Norway for not giving him the Nobel Prize, leading many to wonder about Trump’s current mental capacity, including East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell.
SF News California Forever Group Petitions Feds to Turn the Delta Into a Maritime Prosperity Zone In its quest to build a new California city in Solano County, the billionaire-backed California Forever group continues its work to also create an economic engine for that city, which it envisions being a new shipbuilding hub.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay to Get Its First Flour + Water Pizza Shop This Week The pizza empire of SF's Flour + Water is growing again this week, with the first location of Flour + Water Pizza Shop debuting in Oakland, near Lake Merritt.
Business & Tech Man Claims Self-Driving Zoox Smashed His Hand, Zoox Claims the Guy Doored Their Vehicle Gadzooks! A new SF self-driving car controversy, this time as a man claims one of Amazon’s Zoox self-driving cars hit his vehicle and smashed his hand, while Zoox instead insists that the man opened his door into incoming traffic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Last Squat & Gobble Set to Close After 32 Years Squat & Gobble, the local creperie chain that long outlived a crepe trend that swept the country decades ago, and even outlived that trend's 90s resurgence, is having its swan song this week at its last remainin location in West Portal.
SF News Downtown Muni Service Restored After Planned PG&E Outage; Richmond to Lose Power Tonight As PG&E works to make repairs to the Mission substation that was damaged in December, causing a huge swath of the city to lose power, power was cut to the Civic Center area Sunday night into Monday.
SF News Gang of Deplorable Teens Beats and Robs Man at Fisherman’s Wharf Teen trouble down by the SF Maritime Museum on Saturday, as a group of teens ganged up on and walloped a man who admonished them to slow down on their bicycles, and then they tried to rob him, but bystanders shooed the teens away.
SF News Five Residents and One Firefighter Injured In Apartment Fire In Downtown Oakland A three-alarm fire that broke out Monday morning at a building in downtown Oakland has left six people with injuries, including one firefighter, and three were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Tenderloin Assault Becomes Possible Homicide The victim in an assault last week in SF's Tenderloin has died; a suspect armed with a rifle was arrested in San Leandro following a chase; and hundreds rallied in SF Sunday in solidarity with protesters in Iran.
