SF News UC Hastings Reckons With Founder’s Past, Which Is Chock Full of Genocide and Slavery Turns out that Serranus Hastings amassed his fortune by killing some 300 Native Americans and enslaving countless more, but these revelations are not deterring the law school from keeping his name.
SF News Most Muni Bus Routes Will Likely Be Restored By Spring; J-Church Riders Unhappy About Having to Transfer The SFMTA announced the next step in its process to restore Muni service to near pre-pandemic levels, with a proposed plan to restore five out of seven of the currently suspended bus routes by February or thereabouts.
Bay Area Sports Bay Area Putting In Bid to Host 2026 FIFA World Cup Matches (at Levi's Stadium) Bay Area business leaders, mayors, and the 49ers are lining up to woo a group of FIFA representatives who are coming to visit this weekend to scope out Levi's Stadium as a potential host arena for the 2026 World Cup.
SF News COVID Cases Level Off, Hospitalizations Depressingly Tick Upward In California The steady decline in COVID numbers in California has stopped, and state health officials are somewhat worried that people are tired of vigilance, and we could be headed for a winter surge that no one wants.
Arts & Entertainment Will Golden Gate Park Be a Mud Pit for Outside Lands? We Scoped It Out We checked the mud conditions in Golden Gate Park in the aftermath of Sunday’s ‘bomb cyclone’ storm, as Outside Lands prepares to bring 200,000 pairs of feet tromping through the park this weekend.
SF News Humpday Headlines: U.S. Issues Its First 'X' Gender Passport The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted to support the new A's stadium, two former domestic workers for Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have filed suit against them, and the U.S. has issued its first 'X' gender passport.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Is Reopening Some Restrooms Closed Since 9/11 BART just announced a February reopening for restrooms at Powell Street and 19th Street stations, SF DA Chesa Boudin's dad is officially getting paroled, and Lake Tahoe's water level rose five inches in one day during Sunday's rain, recovering to its normal rim.
SF News Sunday’s Storms Made Gas More Expensive, Thanks To Yet More East Bay Refinery Flare-Ups San Francisco gas prices are poised to hit their all-time high, as the heavy storms caused Richmond and Martinez refineries to experience what they call an “operational upset.”
SF News Hillsborough Heiress, Now in Civil Trial Over 2016 Murder, Unsurprisingly Blames Other Two Suspects A high-profile murder case that produced no guilty verdicts is now in a civil trial, with the accused billionaire heiress in China, but the depositions show the suspects are all still pinning it on the others.
Sponsored No, Tricks, All Treats: Eaze Brings Your Favorite Weed Goodies to Outside Lands Outside Lands is around the corner, and Bay Area natives know exactly what that means: It's time to turn up all Halloweekend long.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now an East Bay In-N-Out Location Has Been Shut Down Over Vaccine Rules, With More to Come The In-N-Out restaurant in Pleasant Hill has now had its food-service permit revoked by the county, and at least two more East Bay locations may be next in line if the company continues openly defying local ordinances about checking for vaccines for indoor dining.
SF Politics QAnon Types Hijacking Los Gatos Council Meetings, Declaring LGBTQ a ‘Terrorist Organization’ Los Gatos Town Council meetings are moved back to Zoom as maskless loons keep revving up the crazy, but they’re also targeting the mayor’s household.
SF Politics Total Scope of California's Unemployment Check Fraud Was Around $20 Billion California state lawmakers held a hearing Monday with officials from the Employment Development Department (EDD), covering the agency's massive fraud problem in 2020, as well as the general dysfunction and bureaucracy in the department.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Will Have a Full-Time House Music Tent, No Comedy This Year Checking out the daily schedules for this year's pandemic-delayed Outside Lands, we now see that the fest has gone the way of Coachella and others and added a full tent venue (besides the cramped Heineken one) that will feature house music DJs all weekend.
SF News Four Suspects In Murder of Santa Cruz Tech/Cannabis Entrepreneur Face Pre-Trial Hearing The four young men arrested and charged almost a year and a half ago in the October 2019 murder of Santa Cruz resident Tushar Atre are now in the midst of a pre-trial hearing in which a judge will decide whether all four will face trial.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Sierra Sees Over Two Feet of New Snow More than 12,600 PG&E customers in the Bay Area are still without power, lawmakers in Sacramento were grilling EDD officials on Monday, and over two feet of snow fell in the Sierra Monday evening leading to a shutdown of I-80.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Might Mandate Sick Leave for Domestic Workers The Board of Supes may seek to mandate paid sick leave for housecleaners and nannies, a man was shot and critically wounded in Hayes Valley/Lower Haight Saturday, and the estimated cost of BART's San Jose extension just shot up.
SF News Lowell High Alums Take More Legal Action To Undo Lottery Admissions After already suing the district over changes to Lowell’s merit-based admissions system, a group of Lowell High alumni are seeking a court injunction against attempts to diversify the prestigious high school’s student body.
Arts & Entertainment Vintage Ad Shows 40 Movie Theaters That Once Dotted San Francisco San Francisco was once home to over 40 movie theaters and one drive-in, but that was way back in 1958. A vintage ad from the era shows us all that we've lost.
Business & Tech Lyft Logged More Than 3,000 Sexual Assault Incidents In Three Years, According to Their Own Data While the company claims that nearly 40% of the sexual assaults were by riders. more than a thousand assault cases a year seems unusually high for any type of business.
Business & Tech Facebook's PR Crisis Continues As More News Outlets Report on the 'Facebook Papers' Revelations about Facebook's knowledge of its enormous and fundamental problems, and the company's ineptitude in handling them or lack of true interest in trying because it would hurt the bottom line, are continuing to roll in.
SF Politics Recall Chesa Boudin Effort Submits More Than Enough Signatures, Recall Election Likely Coming The Recall Chesa crowd submitted 83,000 signatures Friday, and kicked off a PR blitz to welcoming media outlets, as it now appears the recall election will definitely be happening in 2022.
SF News Los Gatos Parents Reveal How They Took Down 'Cool Mom' Shannon O'Connor The undoing of Los Gatos mom Shannon O'Connor, and the first bits of evidence that led to her arrest earlier this month on charges including felony child abuse and sexual assault, may have begun with one drunk teenage boy and his cellphone that kept pinging after he passed out.
SF News Video: Storm Winds Topple Two Trucks on Richmond Bridge Gusty winds from Sunday's bomb cyclone blew over two semi trucks on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, causing at least one injury and damage to other cars.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sunday Was SF's Fourth Wettest Day on Record Flood impacts continue across Marin County, the Napa River is expected to crest just a foot below flood stage on Wednesday, and F-Market streetcars are switching back at the Ferry Building due to Embarcadero flooding.
