SF News Where's the Cheapest Gas In the Bay Area Right Now? Pleasanton, and Kenwood It does not make sense to drive too far out of your way to fill up your tank, but with gas prices as crazy as they are in California right now, apps and websites that track gas prices are your friend.
SF Politics Tuesday Morning Topline: Newsom to Give State of the State Address Today Newsom will give his third State of the State address today at 5 p.m., two workers had to be rescued after a 75-foot fall off an Oakland hills home on Monday, and problems continue after an electrical issue on BART's Richmond line.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vallejo Mayor Weighs In on Strange Death The mayor of Vallejo has made a public statement about a death that he says should not have been ruled a suicide, Newsom's CARE Court idea probably needs a lot more funding, and Joe Rogan has chimed in about the South Bay MMA vigilante case.
SF News In More Fourplex Legislation Drama, SF May Un-Streamline the New Streamlined Approval Process Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s fourplex legislation is not a done deal yet, and the expedited review process could still be yanked from the recent SB-9 legislation
SF News After Winning UC Berkeley Enrollment Cap, Neighborhood Group Now Playing Games and Offering New Terms The NIMBY group Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods won a court battle and trimmed UC Berkeley’s enrollment by 3,000. Now they’re offering a new deal to cut it by only 2,000, but the school says ‘No thanks, we’ll keep fighting you.’
SF News The Biggest Cannabis Dispensary Chain Yet to Arrive in SF, MedMen, Opens Store in Cow Hollow The largest, nationwide legal marijuana retailer San Francisco has seen yet, MedMen, just opened a Cow Hollow outpost. But the former high-flying Green Rush “unicorn” arrives in SF awash in red ink and restructuring after a high-profile flame-out.
SF News Omicron Wave Was Far Deadlier For the Vaccinated Elderly In CA Than Delta As the U.S. death toll from the pandemic nears one million people and the worldwide death toll hits six million, new data suggests that the recent Omicron wave was much deadlier for the elderly, whether they were vaccinated or not, than previously understood.
SF News [Update] Jury Reaches Verdict, Acquits SFPD Officer on Three Counts for Use of Force, Deadlocked on One Count The jury in the historic trial of a San Francisco police officer for the excessive use of force used to detain a suspect reached verdicts on three of four counts on Monday, acquitting Terrance Stangel of the charges, but they remained deadlocked on a final count.
SF News People, There Is a $1 Shuttle That Goes Between Downtown SF and MacArthur BART The cheapest deal in Bay Area public transit takes you ten miles for a measly dollar, as a little-known Caltrans shuttle offers $1 dollar trips between Pier 30 and MacArthur BART, and it’s been quietly running for almost 45 years.
SF News Car-Free JFK Drive Gets Boost From Rec & Parks Report, Will Ultimately Be Up to Supes A new report from the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department strongly recommends that the city make JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park permanently free of vehicle traffic, and following a hearing on the proposal Thursday, the ball is in the Board of Supervisors' court.
SF News USF Student Found Dead In Rented Tesla In Fresno County Following public pleas last week on social media by his brother to help locate him, 21-year-old Christopher Liang appears to have met a tragic end while on an "erratic" road trip from the Bay Area.
SF News SF Animal Control Warns of Possible Outbreak of Canine Distemper San Francisco Animal Care & Control put out a warning over the weekend to be on the lookout for animals like coyotes and foxes appearing disoriented, because there have been recent instances of canine distemper.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Netflix Shuts Down Service In Russia A dead body was found near the Harrison Street off-ramp from the Bay Bridge on Sunday, a 61-year-old woman was killed in a hit-and-run on International Blvd. in Oakland, and Netflix and TikTok are shutting down in Russia.
SF News Bay Area Eateries Hold Fundraisers to Raise Money for Humanitarian Efforts in Ukraine San Francisco's only Ukrainian restaurant, Pushkin, and One House Bakery — an artisanal bakeshop located in Benicia — recently held separate fundraising events to aid humanitarian efforts spurred by the war ravaging Ukraine, which has left more than 1.5 million people to flee the country.
SF News [Update] Three Identified In Saturday Morning Drug Overdose Deaths In Mission District San Francisco police responded to a report of three unresponsive individuals on the 3400 block of 19th Street Saturday around 7:52 a.m.; though emergency responders were on-site to offer medical aid, all three were pronounced dead on the scene.
SF News Sunday Links: Expect Overnight Lane Closures on the Bay Bridge for Awhile Three men were shot near the Oakland airport Friday, Bay Area COVID-19 cases continue falling (though might not hit rock bottom for a few more weeks), and it looks like we can expect overnight delays on the Bay Bridge until at least March 23.
SF News Caught On Camera: Burglary Turns to Food Fight at San Francisco Walgreens ABC 7's Dion Lim, who at this point is essentially the station's Walgreens theft beat reporter, brings us another video of a brazen shoplifting incident that devolves into food being thrown.
SF News Maki, the SF Zoo Lemur That Was Stolen (Then Found) in 2020, Has Died at 22 Years Old Maki — the SF zoo lemur that captured hearts around the world after he was kidnapped (and then recovered) in October of 2020 — has passed away at the ripe old age of twenty-two, according to San Francisco Zoo & Gardens officials.
SF News Saturday Links: SF College Student Goes Missing After 'Impulsive' SoCal Trip Only 16% of renters who applied for rent relief from CA have received their payments, a small 3.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded near Pinnacles Park this morning, and USF student Christopher Liang hasn't been heard from since going on an "impulsive" trip Monday from SF to Irvine.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Russian Couple in SF Raise Almost $200K for Ukrainian Refugees Highway 50 near South Lake Tahoe is back open, Bay Area rent prices continue inching closer to pre-pandemic levels, and a local couple — with the help of their friends — has raised nearly $200K in funds to help people fleeing Ukraine.
SF Politics Boudin’s Office Releases 2021 Prosecution and Conviction Data, Opponents and Supporters Both Say ‘I Told You So’ District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s office released an annual report on SF convictions and prosecutions, giving both sides grist on whether he’s prosecuting hard, or hardly prosecuting.
Business & Tech Apple Says It Has 'Paused' Product Sales In Russia, But Resellers Are Still At It Apple has "paused" the sale of its products in Russia in protest of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and Apple Pay has been disabled or "limited" in the country as well.
SF News Five Gold Ingots From China, Looted From an 18th Century French Shipwreck, Returned to French Government Via SF The Department of Homeland Security just returned a trove of artifacts deemed to be the property of the French government, and five gold ingots that were likely smuggled to the U.S. decades ago and which landed in a Bay Area auction house, were among them.
SF News SF Unified Backtracks, Says Masks Will Be Optional at Many City Schools Starting March 12 Just four days after suggesting it would be extending the mask mandate for San Francisco students beyond the state's recommended date, San Francisco Unified School District announced Friday that the masks will, in fact, be optional starting March 12 at middle and high schools.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant In Scala's Bistro Space at Union Square Will Be French, Led By Roland Passot's Left Bank Team The longtime home of Scala's Bistro at the hotel formerly known as the Sir Francis Drake will be reborn shortly as a French brasserie from the Left Bank Brasserie team, possibly called Left Bank.
