Arts & Entertainment Marin County Woman Liberates Baby Fox From Peanut Butter Jar Stuck On Head It's both a lesson in wildlife trapping and rescue and a lesson in how not to recycle your peanut butter jars!
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Missing SF Man Found Dead In Desolation Wilderness 32-year-old Jia Huang of San Francisco was found dead of an apparent drowning in Lake Aloha, a vigil was held in Oakland for the bystander killed in a crash early Sunday, and Gary Payton II may be headed to the Trailblazers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vacant Homes Tax Has Enough Signatures to Make November SF Ballot Kamala Harris is in the Bay Area to (what else?) raise money, East Oakland native and Warriors fan favorite Juan Toscano-Anderson is leaving for the Lakers, and the Vacant Homes Tax has thousands of signatures more than it needs for the November ballot.
SF News Wallethub Names SF Second-Worst Run City in America, City Hall Officials Are None Too Pleased The SF City Controller and Chief Economist would like a word with the Listicle Department at Wallethub, after the credit card lead-generator site ranked San Francisco as the second-worst run large city in the United States.
Arts & Entertainment California State Fair Announces Cannabis Competition Winners, Here’s Where to Buy Them in the Bay Area 60 different strains of weed just won official competitive honors in the California State Fair’s extremely awesome new marijuana category, and several of these winners can be found on SF and Oakland dispensary shelves.
SF News Central Valley Portion of High-Speed Rail Gets Funded In New State Budget The political wrangling has finally ended, and the last $4.2 billion in the state's high-speed rail bond funding is being spent on the rail system in the newly approved state budget.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trouble Coffee, Which Helped Launch the Artisan Toast Craze, Has Closed After 15 Years In the Outer Sunset A beloved and eccentric business out in the Avenues has called it quits after 15 years, and we should all take a moment to mourn it.
SF News Suspect In Austin Murder of SF-Based Cyclist Captured In Costa Rica After Going On the Run for 43 Days Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, the woman who had been sought for over a month in the May homicide of San Francisco-based competitive cyclist Moriah Wilson, was arrested Wednesday in Central America by the U.S. Marshals Service.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Runs to Fire-Charred Woods to Make Video Response to Supreme Court's EPA Decision In just a week's time, the conservative-led Supreme Court — more the Alito Court than the Roberts Court at this point — has made itself Enemy Number One of the Democratic Party, and of women, LGBTQ people, climate activists, and liberals generally.
SF News Oakland Hells Angels Founder Sonny Barger Has Died A figure in Hunter S. Thompson books who elevated the Hell’s Angels to a national movement, Oakland Hells Angels chapter founder Sonny Barger has passed away at 83.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland School District Moves Ahead With Closures The Rices Fire in Nevada County is being held at 900 acres, the body of a missing Oakland teenager has been found in waters of Alameda, and the Oakland school board voted for a third time to move ahead with closing or consolidating around 10 schools.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 77-Year-Old San Jose Woman Charged With Killing Husband A 77-year-old San Jose woman is accused of setting her house on fire to kill her husband, SF-born Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer retires tomorrow, and Steph Curry has been named the host of the ESPYs.
Business & Tech Top FCC Commissioner Demands Apple and Google Yank TikTok From Their App Stores A leading FCC commissioner calls Chinese-owed TikTok an “unacceptable national security risk” and is ordering both Google and Apple to remove it from their app stores, and the clock is ticking on his July 8 deadline.
SF News Source: Two Rookie Oakland Cops Engaged Sideshow Car In Chase That Ended In a Pedestrian Death New allegations are emerging from an Oakland Police Department source regarding a Sunday morning crash in East Oakland that may have been spawned by an unsanctioned high-speed chase by rookie officers — who then allegedly fled the scene without calling for medical help.
SF News Starbucks Near Oakland Airport an Apparent Hot Spot for Smash-and-Grab Thieves Right Now Don't stop for coffee on your way to or from Oakland Airport with a car full of luggage, because opportunistic thieves may just smash in and grab it all.
Business & Tech SF-Based Pokémon GO Creator Niantic is Laying Off Nearly 100, Canceling Games Not Named Pokémon GO Just six months after being handed $300 million, but a full six years since their last real hit, the game company behind Pokémon GO is letting “85 to 90 jobs” go.
SF News Fish Are Falling From the Sky In SF, and Clumsy Pelicans Are Likely to Blame A seasonal boom in the anchovy population on the San Francisco coast and in the Bay is causing some heavy traffic among feasting seabirds, and this is apparently leading to fish seeming to fall out of the sky in the city and elsewhere.
SF News Here's Hoping That Illegal Fireworks Don't Light the State On Fire This Weekend Cal Fire has put out its annual warning, but in this particularly drought-parched year, conditions are ripe for wildfires caused by illegal fireworks over the Fourth of July weekend.
SF News State Considers Propping Up Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant With $75 Million Boost — Straight to PG&E California is pushing for green energy and wants to avoid blackouts, but giving PG&E $75 million to handle radioactive waste at Diablo Canyon may sound like a deal with the devil.
SF News BART Police Arrest Two Suspects In Weekend Shooting BART police have arrested two suspects, a San Francisco man and an Oakland woman, in connection with a Saturday shooting that took place onboard a train.
SF News San Francisco Man Arrested After Alleged Crime Spree That Ended With Murder of Truck Driver In Central Valley A 21-year-old San Francisco man is in custody after a truck driver was found fatally stabbed over the weekend at a remote gas station along I-5, and the suspect has been tied to multiple crimes including one Friday night in Oakland.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Wildfire Near Nevada City Grows to 769 Acres The Rices Fire has been burning since Tuesday in Nevada County and is now threatening over 500 buildings, SF street vendors of often stolen goods remain defiant in the face of a new crackdown, and Nancy Pelosi just received Holy Communion in Rome.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Supervisors Have Ended Single-Family Zoning Local favorites Fort Point Beer Company and Hortica face closures, the party’s over as Airbnb bans parties at their rentals, and the board of supervisors just shot down single-family zoning in San Francisco.
Business & Tech Facebook and Instagram are Deleting Posts About Abortion Pills, Sometimes ‘Within Seconds’ Big Brother is declaring it’s a thoughtcrime to mention the availability of abortion pills on Meta’s Facebook or Instagram platforms. But the exact same posts are staying up if they substitute the words “guns” or “weed” for “abortion pills.”
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Won't Say That He Won't Run Again For San Francisco DA In his first interview since being recalled in an election that was covered around the country, SF DA Chesa Boudin says he hasn't ruled anything out in terms of running for DA again.
