Bay Area Sports The MLB Lockout Is Over! Giants Likely to Play Ball Starting April 8 We will still get a full 162-game season after all, as the MLB and the players’ union strike an unexpected and sudden tentative labor agreement, and the Giants' Home Opener looks likely to be April 8 against the Miami Marlins
SF News Ferry and BART Ridership See Immediate Spikes as Gas Prices Rise The concurrent rise in gas prices and return to physical workplaces in downtown SF and elsewhere has spurned a sudden and unexpected boom in ridership for both BART and commuter ferries.
SF News After Star Soccer Player’s Suicide, Stanford Acknowledges It Has a Suicide Problem With four suicides in 13 months, and new details about goalie Katie Meyer’s circumstances that don’t make the school look good, Stanford promises to beef up mental health resources for students.
SF News Masks Will Remain Required on Planes and Public Transit Until April 18, TSA Says The federal Transportation Security Administration announced Thursday morning that Americans will need to keep wearing masks through at least April 18 on public transit, on planes, and in transit hubs.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: One Injured In Car-to-Car Shooting In SF Two men died in a fatal shooting at an Oakland Jack in the Box, one person was injured in a car-to-car shooting in SF's Bayview District, and a story about a missing trans woman who was possibly kidnapped in SF has ended abruptly and she has been found.
SF News Day Around the Bay: DA's Office Drops Fourth Charge Against SFPD Officer The SF DA's Office is dropping the last charge against SFPD Officer Terrance Stangel, Mayor London Breed said the city is "thriving" in her State of the City address, Point Reyes Station wants to fight light pollution.
SF News Ack! Mummified Body Found Inside Wall of Old Oakland Convention Center Construction workers tearing down walls at the long defunct Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland made a gruesome discovery Wednesday: a mummified corpse of indeterminate age or sex.
SF News Sacramento Man Convicted of Trafficking Oakland Teen Whom He Busted Out of a Group Home In a story that involves both a jailbreak and breaking a minor out of a group home, the dust has finally settled, and the feds won a conviction of Sacramento man Robert Pierre Duncan.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe Reopens In SoMa, Burger and All It's been two years since anyone has had a Marlowe burger, at least inside Marlowe itself, and the well loved SoMa restaurant is finally back open and serving inside and out.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Speaks After High-Profile Defeat in Prosecution of Officer for Police Beating After losing the trial in the first use-of-force case brought against an on-duty SFPD officer, DA Chesa Boudin says “You can’t be scared to lose,” and is still prosecuting cases against five other officers.
Bay Area Sports Will Ferrell's 'Jackie Moon' Brings Unexpected Fun in Warriors' Win Last night, the Golden State Warriors got a much-needed boost from the bench, a jolt of joy, and a strong dose of defense to snap their season-long five-game losing streak, bringing smiles back to players and fans alike.
SF News [Update] SF and Oakland Police Investigate Disappearance of Trans Woman Possibly Kidnapped Near Fisherman's Wharf A 20-year-old woman who had been staying at a Fisherman's Wharf hotel was abducted by a man, her friends say, and police later found her cellphone, covered in blood, near a clinic in Oakland.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Is Dropping Vaccine Requirement for Bars and Restaurants Starting Friday For the first time in six months, you'll be able to enter a bar or restaurant in San Francisco without showing your vaccination card starting on Friday, March 11.
SF Politics Critics Agree That Newsom's CARE Court Plan Won't Work Without Huge Investment In New Psych Treatment Beds Governor Gavin Newsom last week unveiled an ambitious-seeming plan to push more of the state's severely mentally ill into treatment. But forced psychiatric treatment requires locked wards and hospital beds that the state has been short on for decades, so how is this all going to work?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Reopens For First Time In Two Years; Small Protest Greets Them From Next Door César Tuesday night marked the first night of service in almost exactly two years for Chez Panisse and Chez Panisse Cafe, but the occasion was slightly marred by a demonstration next door from staff and customers of tapas bar César, which is being forced out of its lease by Chez Panisse.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fan Beaten in L.A. is Out of Coma, Standing On Own Two Feet Oakland chef and 49ers fan Daniel Luna is out of his medically induced coma after a parking lot beating during the Niners-Rams game in late January, and while he has plenty of rehab ahead, his recovery is exceeding expectations.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART's Richmond Line Is Still Down Service on BART's Richmond line is suspended for a few more days, Sherri Papini got out of jail on a $120,000 bond, and Oakland native and 'Black Panther' director Ryan Coogler was wrongly detained for a bank robbery in Atlanta.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Conservatory of Flowers and Japanese Tea Garden Will Be Free for SF Residents Apple announces a cheap 5G iPhone, a fully loaded Glock was found in an 18-month-old’s backpack, and two iconic flower gardens at Golden Gate Park will be free of charge for residents of San Francisco.
SF News Ex-Planning Commissioner Poised for $1.8 Million Settlement Over DBI Retaliation Lawsuit Former Planning Commissioner Dennis Richards once told the Department of Building Inspection to “go f*ck themselves,” but several DBI scandals later, Richards gets the last laugh with a $1.8 million lawsuit settlement.
SF News Tiny House Village for the Homeless Opens at the Foot of Gough Street San Francisco's first tiny-home village for the homeless, a pilot project using prefab tiny houses, has just welcomed its first dozen residents at the foot of Gough Street, on a lot owned by a developer waiting for construction permits to build a condo tower.
SF News Supervisors Vote to Crack Down On Stolen-Item Street Vending With Permit Legislation As sidewalk bazaars of items that “fell off a truck” crowd Mission Street and Civic Center, the Board of Supervisors just passed a bill to regulate and permit vendors to keep the stolen stuff out.
SF Politics Judge In SFPD Use-of-Force Trial Balks at Prosecution's Request for New Court Date, Sends Clear Message to DA The judge in the trial of SFPD Officer Terrance Stangel, a trial which ended Monday in a near complete acquittal, sounded less than patient with the District Attorney's Office on Tuesday when a request was made for a new court date.
Arts & Entertainment Potion Putt Arrives in San Francisco With 'Wizardry' Courses, Magical Decor, and Drinks San Francisco has no shortage of pop-up events to attend, but Potion Putt — which is currently occupying the indoor space at SVN West in SoMa — has brought something novel to the city: a reimagining of mini-golf with a magical twist.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outdoor Dining Parklets Becoming Permanent, But New Permits and Costs Are Looming While the “Shared Spaces” program is spawning permanent, lovely parklets in SF and the greater Bay Area, a quagmire of new permits, regulations, and costs will be kicking in soon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Bar Owner Featured on 'Bar Rescue' Convicted of Cocaine Smuggling The owner of a Hayward sports bar that was featured on the show Bar Rescue a few years back has been in some major trouble with the feds, and he was just found guilty of smuggling cocaine via SFO.
