SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 14-y-o Girl Uses Snapchat to Escape Kidnapper in San Jose Four were arrested in San Jose for operating two alleged brothels, 300 flights were delayed or canceled Thursday at SFO, and Pelosi made it back from D.C. in time for the SF Ballet opening gala last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Single Tunnel Likely to Be Built Under the Delta Travel to Tahoe is pretty much impossible tonight due to snow, a stomach illness has now hit 170 visitors and employees at Yosemite, and the Giants just hired the MLB's first full-time female coach.
SF News Pigeon Found Wearing Tiny Sombrero In Reno Prompts Calls of Animal Abuse An amusing internet meme in December featuring pigeons wearing cowboy hats in Las Vegas has ended in death for one of those birds, and there's a copycat in Reno who has apparently glued a sombrero to a pigeon there.
Business & Tech Google/Alphabet Joins Apple and Microsoft in the $1 Trillion Club Alphabet officially reached a valuation of $1 trillion on Thursday, becoming only the fourth American company — and the fourth tech company in history — to reach this once unthinkable milestone.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Create 12 New Commercial Districts Ahead of Ballot Vote on Retail Vacancy Tax In an effort to curb the trend of landlords leaving retail spaces vacant, the SF Board of Supervisors voted this week to establish a dozen new Neighborhood Commercial Districts (NCDs) that will fall under a new vacancy tax law that's on March primary ballot going before voters.
SF Politics Pelosi Slams ‘Irresponsible’ Facebook Disinformation; Hands Out Impeachment Pens As the Senate impeachment trial technically started this morning with the swearings-in, the partisan food fight sees Pelosi take unexpected jabs at Facebook.
SF News Winter Storm Brings Hail and... Thunder? Today's moderate to heavy rains in SF came with a surprise bout of thunder and lightning. What's up with that? Also, there was hail falling all over, and snow on Mount Diablo.
SF News 68-Year-Old NorCal Woman Survived In Snow-Covered Car For Six Days Under Floor Mats An elderly woman with dementia who disappeared last week was found alive Wednesday by Butte County Sheriff's deputies in a helicopter, after her SUV drove off the road in snowy conditions.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Restaurant Openings: Magpie, Viridian, and Kitchen Story Make Debuts With the holidays behind us, new restaurants and bars are starting to emerge out from under their construction dust on both sides of the Bay. And in Oakland, there are three debuts to talk about this week.
SF News Newsom Wraps Up Homeless Tour Today In Oakland With Showcase Of Trailers Governor Gavin Newsom is concluding a four-day tour of homelessness outreach operations across the state with a stop near the Oakland Coliseum where he'll be showing off a key component of his new state program.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Flood Warning Issued For SF A man was killed in a wrong-way crash on Highway 1 in Pacifica, Google is revising a huge transit village plan in downtown San Jose, and low-lying areas should beware of flooding as rains intensify this morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Healthcare Conventioneers Complain About SF's Streets A healthcare exec in town for a convention just called SF "the Bill Clinton of cities" because it "squandered itself with its flaws," a missing 68-year-old Oroville woman has been found, and Pier One Imports is closing Bay Area stores.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Modern Irish Cocktail Bar Casements Debuts In the Mission, With Meat Pies The newest addition to SF's bar scene is an Irish bar, but it's not the kind that you think.
SF News 40-Story Tower at Van Ness and Market Delayed as Developer Seeks Buyer A 420-foot, 40-story residential tower at the intersection of Market Street, Oak Street, and Van Ness, dubbed One Oak, in planning since 2014, apparently doesn't "pencil" in the parlance of developers, and its entitlements are now up for grabs.
Business & Tech Apple Clashes With Justice Department Yet Again Over iPhone Backdoor A case backed by Attorney General William Barr is escalating quickly at the Department of Justice that will once again pit Apple against the federal government in a fight over smartphone privacy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrated Croissant-Maker Arsicault Bakery Opens New Civic Center Location The Inner Richmond's Arsicault Bakery, which a couple of years ago was named Bon Appetit's "Bakery of the Year" in part because of its perfect croissants, is expanding for the first time and has just quietly opened a second location in Civic Center, just around the corner from 7th and Market.
SF Politics D1 Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer Announces She’s Not Running for Re-election The District 1 supervisor will be a one-and-done, leaving the seat up for grabs in the November race.
SF News SamTrans Being Blamed For Dumping SFO's Homeless On Embarcadero There's a weird story today in which a San Francisco supervisor is pointing the finger at San Mateo County and the SamTrans bus agency for intentionally shuttling homeless people out of SFO and dropping them off at 2 a.m. at the new "end of the line" near the Embarcadero.
SF News 'Purple People' Sex Commune In Lafayette Hit With Racist Graffiti A 52-year-old communal living curiosity in the East Bay is making news again for an unfortunate reason this week after vehicles and buildings on the property were hit with racist graffiti.
SF News After Arrests and Eviction, Moms 4 Housing Group Plots Next Steps The two women who were arrested Tuesday morning at the home in which they were squatting in West Oakland were released following misdemeanor charges. Now the group Moms 4 Housing is hoping they can keep the momentum going.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Zoe Lofgren Selected As Impeachment Manager Pelosi has picked her impeachment managers, a Mission high school gym has become a homeless shelter, and San Jose's Doobie Brothers are being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Four SF Juveniles Arrested For Cellphone Thefts Oakland records its first homicide of the new year, Tahoe sees hurricane-force winds during today's winter storm, and a Beefeater-dressed doorman at the Sir Francis Drake retires after 43 years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Casual Spinoff Mamahuhu Debuts Wednesday In the Inner Richmond Based on a 2018 pop-up of the same name, chef Brandon Jew's Mamahuhu is opening its doors to the public on Clement Street on Wednesday, January 15, and you can expect this will be quite popular.
SF News Oakland Kicks Off ‘Homelessness Audit’ In Hopes of Better Managing Encampments One of Moms 4 Housing’s biggest advocates at Oakland City Hall is demanding answers on how many encampments are in Oakland, and whether the city’s $32 million annual investment is even making a dent.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 28-Year-Old SoMa Mainstay Fringale Closes Citing Central Subway Construction Woes One of SoMa's longest continually running restaurants, Fourth Street Basque-French bistro Fringale, is set to close on January 25 after nearly three decades in business.
