SF News Monarch Butterfly Population Sees Thousand-Fold Increase, Likely Thanks to Drought A silver lining of the drought may be that the Monarch butterflies are exploding back after a near-extinction event last year, with one central California beach recording a 3,500% increase in the winged critters.
SF News SF Theft Wave of High-End Bikes Vexes Non-Violent Crime Enforcement Reforms A theft ring targeting expensive bicycles is far more sophisticated than your standard Walgreens shoplifters, creating a new wrinkle for criminal justice advocates who prefer not to incarcerate non-violent offenders.
Arts & Entertainment 'My Fair Lady' Brings Fresh But Old-School Broadway Vigor to the Orpheum The latest touring production of 'My Fair Lady' opened Wednesday at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco — the first new show to play there in almost three years following 'Hamilton's extended residency.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Influential Oakland Restaurant Oliveto Plans New Year's Closing After 35 Years Oliveto, one of the most lauded and influential Italian restaurants in the United States — and one credited with extending Chez Panisse's local-and-sustainable ethos to Italian cuisine — has announced it will close at the end of the year, after 35 years in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood.
SF News Legal Pot Turns 25: The Sticky Road from Medical Marijauna Raids to a $4 Billion Industry It was 25 years ago today that California voters approved medical marijuana, setting off a nationwide chain of legalization — but hitting hard highs and lows along the way.
SF News San Francisco Police Sergeant Arrested For Robbery In San Mateo Rite Aid Incident An SFPD sergeant with 28 years on the force was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of robbery in an odd incident at a San Mateo Rite Aid that appears to have involved stealing painkillers.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Nobody Protested Chappelle at Chase Center We expected to see some protest for Dave Chappelle's arrival in SF but there was none, the latest U.S. jobs report is quite sunny, and Pfizer says that it now also has a highly effective antiviral pill for COVID.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Buster Posey Says Farewell, For Real The SF Board of Ed got Zoom-bombed again last night racial epithets and more, the Oceanwide Center property downtown was seized by creditors as collateral, and Buster Posey explains his decision to retire.
Business & Tech Airbnb Books Highest Net Income Quarter Ever, as People Are Vaxxed and Travelling Again The travel rebound is being very, very good to Airbnb, which just raked in more money than in any other quarter, even though the average booking price is down $12 a day.
SF News [Updated] Another Shooting In the Haight Kills One Person, Injures a Second There was another outburst of violence in the Upper Haight Thursday afternoon with the second shooting in two weeks, and this time at least two people were shot and injured.
SF Politics Former City Hall Power Couple's House, Named In Fraud Indictment, Has Trail of Suspicious DBI Permits The former City Hall power couple who’ve both resigned in scandal allegedly have some fixer-upper issues with their house, like missing permits, numbers that don’t add up, and shoddy work that’s reportedly damaged neighbors’ homes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Reopens With Post-Plague Rebirth-Themed Menu At last, Trick Dog is back open, serving up its excellent cocktails in the Mission District, after a long, 20-month closure. And the menu is appropriately about pandemics, the Fates, and "the string of time."
SF News City Determined to Make Treasure Island Happen With New Ferry, 8,000 Housing Units San Francisco is betting that 20,000 of you would be willing to move to Treasure Island, with spiffy new housing developments, a sweet new ferry, and the toxic materials hopefully cleaned up.
SF News Car Goes Off Cliff Near Devil's Slide On Highway 1, Driver Survives Possibly due to slick road conditions during this morning's rain, a driver on Highway 1 south of San Francisco appears to have skidded off a steep cliff, but he was able to get out of the car and be rescued.
SF News 31-Year-Old San Jose Man Who Spent 9 Months Hospitalized for COVID Finally Comes Home It's been a long and harrowing road for Noah Davis, who at 31 years old became one of the hardest-won success stories in the COVID unit at San Jose's Valley Medical Center this year.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: More Rain Coming Saturday, and Next Week November is getting off to a nicely rainy start with more rain next week, bull kelp has been recovering on the Mendocino and Sonoma coast, and Buster Posey's official retirement announcement is happening at 3 p.m. at Oracle Park.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Longtime Alameda County Supervisor Killed By Car While Walking Dog Wilma Chan, who has served on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors since 1994, was struck and killed by a motorist in Alameda; PG&E agrees to a Kincade fire settlement; and Dave Chappelle arrives in San Francisco tomorrow, likely to face a protest.
SF News Afghan Family Settling In Hayward Tells Harrowing Tale of Escape and Resettlement After months on military bases, families airlifted from Afghanistan are finally being settled into new homes across the country. One such family in Hayward tells their story.
Bay Area Sports Buster Posey Set to Announce His Retirement After 12 Seasons With the Giants Posey instantly goes from “Giants catcher” to “first-ballot Hall of Famer,” as sources say he will announce his retirement Thursday.
SF News Wife of Deceased Recology Exec Sues the Company, Blaming Them for His Suicide One of the darkest episodes of the Recology public corruption scandal will be aired in federal court, as a grieving spouse claims the company tried to pin the bribery on her husband, causing his suicidal breakdown.
SF News San Francisco Wastes No Time In Saying Five-Year-Olds Will Soon Need to Show Vaccination Cards to Get Into Restaurants The CDC just approved COVID vaccinations for younger children aged 5 and up like yesterday, but San Francisco's health officer is already saying that the vaccine mandate for dining indoors and attending indoor events will extend to those kids pretty soon.
Arts & Entertainment Union Square Holiday Ice Rink Opens for First Time In Two Years Holiday season skating returns to Union Square today, after a long, two-year hiatus.
SF News SFPD Arrests Five Men Across NorCal In Connection With Home-Invasion Robbery Spree In San Francisco The San Francisco Police Department today announced the arrests of five suspects who are believed to be responsible for a string of at least three home-invasion robberies in the city's Ingleside neighborhood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina's First-Ever Marin Restaurant Debuts Tonight In Tiburon A Tiburon restaurant that's been four years in the making, The Bungalow Kitchen, debuts Wednesday night, with a swanky house-party vibe and several of chef Michael Mina's greatest hits on the menu.
SF News UC Hastings Will Now Move to Change Its Name After Saying It Wouldn’t The inconvenient truth of founder Serranus Hastings’ genocide and enslaving of Native Americans has the law school’s board pushing through a name change, particularly after a big-bucks megadonor demanded it.
