Business & Tech Two Former Twitter Employees Accused of Spying For Saudi Arabia The U.S. government has accused two former Twitter employees of spying on behalf of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia via their access to sensitive Twitter user data.
SF News PrEP-Maker Gilead Sued by Feds for Patent Infringement Foster City-based Gilead Sciences is accused is ripping off government patents to develop its blockbuster, billion-dollar HIV treatment PrEP.
SF News Shooting At Sixth and Market Injures One, Shatters Window of Nearby Restaurant A shooting Thursday morning near the intersection of Market, Sixth Street, Taylor, and Golden Gate Avenue has left one person injured, and at least one bullet hit the window at Dosa Allee (1020 Market).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trader Joe's Gets Chain-Store Exemption To Move Into Hayes Valley It'll probably be two years before the store opens, but Hayes Valley is finally going to get a grocery store as Trader Joe's won its formula-retail exemption from the Board of Supervisors this week to move into 555 Fulton.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: PG&E Stock Tanks On Latest Losses Newsom has closed-door meeting with PG&E CEO, Alphabet's board is wrapping up a sexual misconduct investigation of some executives, and Suzy Loftus has extended her lead in the DA's race.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Supervisor Angers Police Officers Association The Kincade Fire is 100 percent contained, 42 people have been shot at short-term rentals in 6 months, and Sup. Sandra Lee Fewer has angered the police union.
Arts & Entertainment Madonna Wants To Be Your Mom, Provocateur, and High Priestess in 'Madame X' Tour, and It's A Lot "Are you all starting to get it?" Madonna asked from the stage, at least several times, to a fawning, screaming audience whom she treated more like a kindergarten classroom than who they were — a crowd of mostly middle-aged fans.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Legend Heklina Announces She's Moving On From Oasis, Ending 'Mother' It's the end of an era as one of San Francisco's queen bee drag queens says she needs a "break" and is stepping back from her ownership role at the SoMa nightclub she helped found almost five years ago.
Business & Tech California Sues for Zuck’s Emails as Growing Scandal Reveals More About Facebook Data Dealings A four-pronged scandal-palooza is rocking Facebook’s world today, the worst of which is probably the “Switcharoo Plan” where recent user privacy measures did not apply to choice advertisers.
SF News Orinda Shooting Prompts Town To Change Rental Rules, Airbnb To Vet Guests The Halloween shooting that cost five people their lives at an unsanctioned party in an Orinda Airbnb has led the city council to enact a 45-day emergency ban on all un-hosted short-term rentals.
SF News Dangerous Monterey County Inmates Nabbed At Mexico Border A pair of inmates who escaped prison in Monterey County on Sunday clearly didn't have much of a plan for evading capture. While they appear to have succeeded in the cliche flight to Mexico, they were caught by authorities trying to cross back into the U.S. from Tijuana around midnight last night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Year's Dungeness Crab Season Delayed A Week To Better Protect Whales In an attempt to safeguard marine life, the commercial harvesting season for California’s Dungeness crab will be postponed until November 22nd, a full week past its original start date.
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Someone Brought a Pony On BART A pony appeared on BART Tuesday, and this delighted many people on Twitter.
SF Politics With 70,000 Ballots Left to Count, Props A and D May Still Fail The too-close-to-call races for San Francisco district attorney and District 5 Supervisor will not be decided until some 70,000 mail-in and provisional ballots get counted this week. And if Props A and D don't hold onto their 66.66 percent majorities, they will not pass.
SF Politics Election Results: Affordable Housing Bond Passes, Prop C Dies, DA's Race and D5 Too Close To Call Just over 23 percent of registered San Francisco voters mailed in ballots or went to polling places on Tuesday. And while Mayor London Breed and her $600 million housing bond measure both won easily, a couple of the races remain in ranked-choice limbo as of Wednesday morning.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Mayor Breed Declares Victory The Kincade Fire hits 88 percent containment, a CHP officer pulls a woman out of a burning car in Dublin, and residents packed the Orinda City Council meeting to debate short-term rentals after that shooting.
SF News Day Around The Bay: One Escaped Inmate Possibly Found In Motel 6 Near Salinas The CA DMV revealed private info on 3200 people to federal agencies, one of two of those escaped murder suspects has likely been located in a motel, and BART is recovering from a brief but major delay in the East Bay direction.
Business & Tech Hold On To Your Peaches: Facebook, Instagram Ban The 'Sexual Use’ Of Emoji For those who fancy employing emojis in suggestive fashions — which, let’s be honest, is every person with an internet-connected device — using them in such ways on Facebook and Instagram could (potentially) cause you to get banned from either platform.
Business & Tech Bernie Bashes Apple’s $2.5 Billion Housing Pledge, Calls It Corporate ‘Hypocrisy’ The Democratic candidate slams Apple for being “corporate tax evaders” who “helped create California’s housing crisis.”
SF Politics Here's How to Find Your Polling Place in San Francisco — Go Vote! I know, this is just a local election and the stakes could hardly be lower in most people's minds. But this is basically the first time that San Francisco is electing a new
SF News Mike Pence Is Stopping Through The Bay Area and Monterey Next Week Our extra-special right-wing vice-president Mike Pence is making a couple of Republican fundraising stops in California next week, and dropping by the San Francisco Bay Area for a quick, not-easily-protested speaking engagement.
SF News Massive Junk Lot and Encampment In West Oakland Gets Cleaned Out, Evicting 100 Homeless A major project began Tuesday morning to transform a four-acre parcel of private land in West Oakland from a homeless encampment and automotive dumping ground into a city-sanctioned RV- and vehicle-parking area for the homeless.
Arts & Entertainment Watch a Bear Get Himself Un-Stuck From a Tahoe Dumpster A black bear known to local authorities as "T-Shirt" got himself trapped in a dumpster in the North Lake Tahoe town of King's Beach early Monday morning.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Hosts Off-the-Record Dinner Party With Critics To Discuss Facebook's Political Ad Policy He invited civil rights leaders and other staunch critics of the policy for an intimate dinner at his Palo Alto home Monday evening, because he wants to look like he cares.
SF News Police Explore Link Between Orinda Party Shooting and 2015 Hayes Valley Quadruple Murder An intriguing connection has been found between a shocking quadruple homicide on San Francisco's Page Street in January 2015 and last week's Halloween party shooting in Orinda.
