SF News Battle Between Berkeley Group and UC Berkeley Over Student Population Size Heads to State Supreme Court Depending on what happens at the California Supreme Court, 3,050 fewer students might get acceptance letters from UC Berkeley this spring, because a Berkeley citizens' group is irritated with the pace of the school's growth.
SF News Late-Night Glen Park Encampment Fire Leaves One Dead, Three Critically Injured Four people were trapped inside a confined space within the I-280 overpass near Bosworth Street when an encampment fire broke out early Wednesday morning, and one of them perished as SF Fire crews were able to save the other three.
Arts & Entertainment Firework Flashmob on the Bay Bridge Tuesday Night Brings Delight, Traffic A group of vehicles stopped traffic on Tuesday night and set off some fireworks in the middle of the upper deck of the Bay Bridge, and who can be mad at that?
SF News Humpday Headlines: Snow Reaches Some Bay Area Peaks Three Bay Area counties just reached the CDC's "moderate" tier for COVID transmission once again, the latest cold front brought some snow to high elevations around the Bay, and several spots saw some hail on Tuesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 16-Year-Old SoMa Overdose Victim ID’ed as Missing Stanislaus County Teen A San Jose police sweep nabbed 35 sex assualt suspects, Rep. Adam Schiff is dragging the FBI into the SF rape kit controversy, and the 16-year-old victim of a Friday South of Market overdose has been identified as a Stanislaus County girl who’d been reported missing three previous times.
SF Politics More Stories Surface of Alleged SFPD Inaction on Crimes, Chief Claims ‘Serious Morale Issues’ After a Chronicle report about police inaction toward a suspect trashing a parklet, crime victims are coming out of the woodwork saying they were blown off too, but Chief Scott blames “serious morale issues.”
SF News SF COVID Cases Continue Downward Slide, But Still Not In 'Safe' Territory The masks have come off in many places around the Bay Area, and daily COVID case numbers continue their downward trajectory — but they haven't hit the rock-bottom levels of the early summer or late fall yet.
SF Politics Kamala's Senate Replacement Alex Padilla Files Papers to Run Again, Will Likely Sleepwalk to Victory Appointed last year to fill Kamala Harris's Senate seat, new California Senator Alex Padilla will have to run twice in 2022 to keep the seat, yet both races will likely be among the least compelling in the country.
SF News East Bay Groups Throwing Pride Prom For LGBTQ+ Teens A PFLAG chapter in eastern Contra Costa County is hosting its first ever Pride Prom in April, inviting LGBTQ+ teens from all the local district's high schools to attend.
SF News Bay Area Got a Smattering of Actual Rain Monday Night, Ending a 44-Day Dry Spell The first rainfall since January 8 sprinkled the Bay Area last night! Don’t expect much more until maybe the weekend, but do expect chilly temperatures for the next few days.
SF News There Is a Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in California Native American women in California are being kidnapped and murdered at an alarming rate, and tribes are beginning to speak out against it more and more loudly.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Two Hit-and-Run Accidents on Marin Highways In Two Days A pair of hit-and-run collisions happened on Marin County highways on Saturday and on Monday, the SF school board is taking a vote tonight about layoffs, and the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office is investigating another in-custody death.
SF News Point Bonita Lighthouse Reopens After Two-Year COVID Closure What had been the last manned lighthouse in California is once again allowing people inside, as Marin Headlands attraction Point Bonita Lighthouse resumed tours this weekend.
Business & Tech Trump's Twitter-for-Bigots, Truth Social, Launches Without a Working App Remember how Trump's new media company was launching its own social network, dubbed Truth Social, and Devin Nunes left his job in Congress to help lead this company and this new thing they imagine will go toe to toe with Twitter?
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Booed Rather Roundly, Followed By Handful of Hecklers at Lunar New Year Parade Combine a controversial district attorney with a parade being held in a neighborhood where he is not terribly popular, and you get Chesa Boudin getting booed along Saturday's Lunar New Year Parade route.
SF News January 6th Lawsuit Brought Against Trump By Eric Swalwell Moves Forward A judge on Friday ruled that a lawsuit against Donald Trump filed a year ago by East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell could move forward, acknowledging that it is an unprecedented civil prosecution of a U.S. president.
SF News Sir Francis Drake Hotel to Reopen With New Name: The Beacon Grand The Sir Francis Drake Hotel in SF's Union Square, closed since the start of the pandemic, will reopen next month fully rebranded and renovated, under a new name and with new owners.
SF Politics Breed Goes on ‘Meet the Press’ as Small Potatoes, Off-Year School Board Recall Still Making National Headlines SF’s low-turnout, off-year local school board race is still generating national coverage as a revolt against the “woke left,” and Mayor London Breed hit ‘Meet the Press’ on Sunday to ride that narrative.
SF News SF Police Investigating Suspicious Death of 16-Year-Old In SoMa On Friday, San Francisco police were called around 6:33 a.m. to assist on-site paramedics in a possible drug overdose on the 600 block of Minna Street. Upon arriving, the victim — a 16-year-old female — was found dead, and the death has been deemed suspicious.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bomb Scare at San Jose's SAP Center A 36-year-old man was found shot dead in a car in the Mission District, a bomb scare disrupted the exit from a San Jose Sharks game Sunday night, and protests are continuing in Oakland over planned school closures.
Arts & Entertainment Hunky Jesus, Foxy Mary Competitions Will Return As In-Person Events for Easter Sunday This Year The pandemic forced the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to move their Easter festivities away from Dolores Park... and onto the internet. But for the first time in two years, the Sisters are expected to bring their Easter Sunday shenanigans back to the Mission District park on April 17.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: SF's Chinese New Year Parade Returns in All Its Pyrotechnic Glory San Francisco was alive with the sounds of beat drums and ignited firecrackers as the city's 163rd Chinese New Year Parade — which remains one of the largest of its kind outside of Asia — weaved around Chinatown Saturday night, offering a glimpse into a familiar post-pandemic future.
SF News Sunday Links: Small Earthquake Rattles Off Near Gilroy Massive delays were reported early Sunday along I-880 in Oakland after CHP responded to a fatal crash, a small 2.8M earthquake struck near Gilroy this morning, and Queen Elizabeth II has tested positive for COVID-19.
SF News Gunfire Erupts in Mission District Friday Night, Leaves One Person With Life-Threatening Injuries San Francisco police responded to a shooting on San Jose Avenue near 23rd Street Friday night. Per an eyewitness account, shots were fired between two cars before ending with at least one victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
SF News Saturday Links: Oakland School Board Votes Against Delaying School Closures At least one local rally will be held this weekend in support of Ukraine, the Outer Richmond could see a new non-alcoholic bar open soon, and the Oakland Unified School District board voted against delaying school closures during a virtual meeting Friday.
