SF News Castro Valley Woman Calls Amazon Driver a B**ch, Gets Beaten, Driver Arrested An Amazon delivery driver in the East Bay took out some anger on a 67-year-old customer Thursday evening, all of it caught on video, and the driver has since been arrested.
SF News BART Ramping Up Service Monday for Antioch, Berryessa, and Richmond Trains Though trains will still stop at 9 p.m., and Sunday trains will remain rare, most BART lines will see far more trains on their tracks, starting this Monday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurant News: The Brixton Comes to Hayes Valley, Vico Cavone Takes Former Firewood Space In Castro The Brixton is taking over the former Stacks in Hayes Valley, The Sentinel is back slinging sandwiches downtown, and the Castro is getting a new Italian restaurant this fall from a longtime Poesia guy.
SF News You May Want to Answer Unknown Calls For a Couple Weeks As CA's Vaccine Lotto Kicks Off How will you know if you've won $50,000 or one of the $1.5 million grand prizes in California's vaccine lottery drawings? State health officials are going to try to call you on the phone, so you may want to answer unknown calls on your cell for the next couple of weeks.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Dandelion Chocolate Lays Off Staff, Union Effort Vows Legal Challenge The unionization effort at Dandelion Chocolate may have just been melted down, as “a number” of Dandelion employees were laid off Thursday.But the unionizers say they’ll fight it.
Business & Tech Mid-Market's NEMA Seeks City Approval For Corporate Rentals In what appears to be the first instance of a building owner seeking approval from the city under a new ordinance limiting the number of units that can be corporate rentals, the developer behind the NEMA building downtown is looking to convert 200 units.
Business & Tech Facebook Is Suspending Trump for Two Years, Or Until He's No Longer a Danger to the Republic Facebook says that Trump's punishment for inciting a riot at the Capitol on January 6th will be a two-year suspension, and that suspension will only be lifted if he no longer represents a "risk to public safety."
SF News We Are In For an Especially Sh**ty Fire Season, and It's Already Begun In terms of wildfires in Northern California this year, it's not a matter of if but a matter of when, where, and how terrible. That's according to new maps showing the extreme fire potential taking shape with dry fuels across the region.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Vaccinated Napa Woman Dies From COVID The first California vaccine lottery drawing happens today, the Board of Supervisors is holding a hearing about gas line safety, and a San Francisco man recently returned a Bob Dylan record to a library 48 years late.
SF News Day Around the Bay: No Charges to Be Filed Against Nuru For Odd Knife Incident No charges are being filed against Mohammed Nuru in that knife incident and the DA says it was just a misunderstanding, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis says she won't play politics with the recall, and Honey Mahogany talks about her political ambitions after becoming SF Democratic Party Chair.
SF Politics Stanford Backtracks, Will Allow Student Who Mocked Conservatives To Graduate Conservative cancel culture lost its latest fight at Stanford, as a law student will now be allowed to graduate after posting a very funny satirical flyer linking a right-wing group to the Capital insurrection.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink To-Go Cocktails and Outdoor Dining Extended In California Restaurants and bars in California can continue selling to-go booze through the end of the year, and outdoor parklet dining and alcohol sales are being extended as well, ahead of state laws that will solidify both.
SF Politics Details About Nuru Arrest Remain Sketchy as Supervisors React With Terms Like 'Unravel' and 'Downfall' It may be that we won't ever get a completely reliable description of events of what happened with disgraced former Public Works head Mohammed Nuru to lead to his arrest Wednesday on a robbery charge. But that hasn't stopped some city officials from reacting.
SF News Video: Pacific Heights Man Engages In Racial Profiling, Questions Bike Messenger About Stolen Packages Another white person in Pacific Heights has been captured on video being an asshole to a person of color, this time questioning a man who was delivering Narcan to a nearby halfway house.
SF News Longtime Bay Area Anchor Frank Somerville Off Air Since Slurred-Speech Broadcast On Sunday KTVU anchor Frank Somerville, one of the most recognizable of the Bay Area's news personalities having been on the air at KTVU since 1991, was pulled from a Sunday broadcast and has not returned since after slurring his speech on air.
Business & Tech Twitter Launches Subscription Service That Will Allow Users to 'Undo' Tweets Twitter just announced the launch of its Twitter Blue product, a new subscription service with extra perks for avid users that is rolling out today in Australia and Canada ahead of a wider launch.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Cal/OSHA to Keep Mask Requirements for Many Workers State regulators are likely keeping mask rules in place for workers after June 15, Google has reassigned a diversity figure for antisemitic comments, and a dump truck driver did an apparent dump-and-run following a messy accident in Fremont.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Man Shot By Plainclothed Officer Staking Out His House Federal investigators recently seized over 40 lbs of fentanyl from an alleged Honduran cartel in the East Bay, the San Jose PD has a lot of questions to answer about a Monday night shooting of a man outside his home, and the 92-y-o Bellevue Club in Oakland is becoming a new location of The Battery.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flint’s Barbecue Set to Return As a Travis Kalanick Ghost Kitchen, Community Not Thrilled Legendary Oakland BBQ stop Flint’s Barbecue may finally have its brick-and-mortar reincarnation, but there’s community pushback against the ghost kitchen facility that would house it.
SF Politics Mohammed Nuru Arrested After Allegedly Pulling a Knife While Volunteering at Food Bank Former San Francisco Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was reportedly arrested Wednesday morning following a strange-sounding incident at the SF-Marin Food Bank warehouse in the Dogpatch neighborhood.
SF Politics ROFL: Trump Shuts Down His Blog After One Month Because No One Is Reading It In an entirely predictable turn of events, our former president has abruptly shut down his "From the Desk of Donald Trump" weblog, barely a month after it launched.
SF News Anti-LGBT 'Karen' Video Emerges From Hotel Pool In Sacramento; Oakland Woman Was Allegedly Upset Over Women Kissing Just in time for Pride Month, we have a new video going viral of an outraged white woman being escorted out of a hotel pool area in Sacramento after allegedly complaining about the fact that two women were publicly kissing with children present.
Business & Tech Sea Cliff Mansion Set to Be Foreclosed Upon for Second Time In a Year Could Be Yours for $17.5M A six-bedroom home with its own private beach cove, overlooking Baker Beach and the Pacific Ocean in SF's tony Sea Cliff neighborhood, is facing its second foreclosure in a year after failing to sell for the umpteenth time in the last decade.
Bay Area Sports SF Giants to Be First MLB Team to Display Pride Rainbow Colors on Uniforms For Saturday's home game against the Chicago Cubs at Oracle Park, the San Francisco Giants will sport LGBTQ Pride colors on their uniforms for the first time — and becoming the first team in Major League Baseball ever to recognize Pride Month in this way.
SF News Santa Clara Sheriff Releases Body Cam Footage From Last Week's VTA Shooting The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office has released body-worn camera footage from the department's response to the mass shooting at the VTA maintenance yard last Wednesday.
