SF News Sunday Links: Two More (Small) Earthquakes Rattle The Bay Area A fire damages a control tower at BART's Richmond train yard, a body was pulled from a San Jose river, BART is looking to expand service to western SF, and more Sunday headlines.
SF News One San Franciscan's 'No Turn On Red' Petition Hopes To Help Bolster Pedestrian Safety After Lower Nob Hill resident Chandini Davis was almost swatted by an oncoming car (that failed to yield for her) earlier in the week, she's now keen on making her neighborhood crosswalks safer for pedestrians.
SF News Two-Alarm Fire Near Jack London Square Contained Quickly, No Injuries Reported Friday night saw a two-alarm fire engulf the Portobello Condominium complex near Oakland’s Jack London Square, forcing all of its residents to promptly evacuate.
SF News Saturday Links: Sliding Glass Doors May Make Newer Muni Buses More Spacious Sliding glass doors could be coming to newer Muni buses, a San Jose police sergeant drove right into a power pole, meet the Bay Area locals fighting for Hong Kong's future, and more Saturday headlines.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Body Found Near San Rafael Park A local bartender discusses the difficulty of the job in this political age, Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd has died, and Hillary Clinton and Tulsi Gabbard are now at war with each other.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Empress of China Space in Chinatown To Be Revived As Empress By Boon A former chef at upscale Chinese spot Hakkasan is slated to open a new upscale venture in the iconic Empress of China space on the sixth floor of 838 Grant Avenue, which has sat empty for five years.
Bay Area Sports Meet the 49ers' Emotional Support Pup, Zoe Get ready to squee, Bay Area, as the San Francisco 49ers have just become the first NFL team to employ the services and snuggles of an emotional-support pet. Her name is Zoe, and she is a Frenchie.
SF News Suspect Arrested in West Oakland Following Box-Cutter Slashing On BART An apparently mentally disturbed suspect was arrested Friday afternoon after an incident in which a woman was stabbed or slashed with a box-cutter on board a BART train.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF’s Oldest Black-Owned Bar Sam Jordan’s To Close After 60-Year Run in Bayview The Bayview bar and restaurant has legacy status and spawned a street name for the 1940s-era prizefighter, but his kids are hanging up the gloves.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tsuta Offers An Authentic, Michelin-Starred Ramen Experience Some 5,000 Miles From Tokyo Ramen aficionados, ready your chopsticks — because the Metreon is now home to the West Coast outpost for the world's first-ever Michelin-starred ramen emporium, Tsuta.
Arts & Entertainment Multiple Whales Were Breaching Wildly In Monterey Bay Right After Tuesday Earthquake Moments after the Tuesday afternoon 4.7M earthquake near Hollister, at least seven humpback whales were spotted simultaneously breaching, six of them in pairs, off the Monterey coast. Coincidence?
SF News SF Sends Out Citywide Alert Test to Everyone's Cellphone, Slightly Late On Thursday evening, a scheduled test of a new citywide emergency alert system took place, 30 to 60 minutes behind schedule, but nonetheless seemingly successfully. Still, it freaked a lot of people out.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Lake County Wildfire Contained PG&E will sit down with regulators in SF today, another Bay Area resident has pleaded guilty in the college admissions scandal, and a 25-acre wildfire that prompted an evacuation in Lake County last night has been contained.
SF News Day Around the Bay: City College Evacuated For Bomb Threat The city of SF has filed a motion to dismiss the NRA's lawsuit over that 'domestic terrorist' designation, Juul suspends internet sales of fruity vape pods, and no one knows what bad things we breathed in because of the refinery fire.
SF News Loma Prieta at 30: Bay Area Residents Remember Where They Were When The Quake Struck To wrap up our commemorative coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake today, SFist brings you some memories sent in from readers of what their October 17, 1989 experiences were like here in the Bay Area.
SF News Report: California May Be In For A Dry Winter A new federal climate report shows that California could be in for a dry few months and even some drought-like conditions in some regions.
SF News Hayward Fault Earthquake Scenario Imagines 52,000 Homes On Fire, 800 Deaths In commemorating the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, it can't be all about the memories and history. A bigger earthquake is going to hit the Bay Area, and we can't be in denial about the kind of destruction it could leave behind.
SF News Low-Budget Version of Clinton Park Rocks Roils Ingleside, Wall Gets Removed A plywood wall blocking a pedestrian walkway in Ingleside hs been taken down for now, but exasperated neighbors vow to replace it with a gate or some other manner of barrier.
SF News Loma Prieta at 30: 'I Was the Guy Driving the Pickup Behind the Disappearing Car in the Video on the Bay Bridge' An immediately famous bit of video shot on the Bay Bridge in the moments after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake showed two cars driving on the damaged eastern span, with one, a sedan, dropping into the gap created when a 50-foot segment of the upper deck collapsed.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch a Menagerie of Creatures Feasting on a Whale Carcass Near Monterey Bay While exploring Davidson Seamount, an undersea mountain off the Central California coast, researchers with the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary came upon an active feeding frenzy.
SF News Earthquake Early Warning System Launches 13 Years After Project Began Today, on the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, Governor Gavin Newsom, State Senator Jerry Hill, and a group of scientists announced the official launch of California's Earthquake Early Warning System.
SF News Gang of Suspects In Halloween Masks Attempt Two Assaults In Noe Valley A group of men in a white or silver SUV, some wearing Halloween masks, attempted assaults on two men walking on the street in Noe Valley Monday night.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: BART Train Operator's Leg Crushed In Accident Another small earthquake strikes near Hollister, it's back to the drawing board for the Maya Angelou statue, and Rep. Elijah Cummings has died at age 68.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oceanwide Halts Construction On Waldorf-Astoria Hotel A 22-year-old man fell to his death during a rooftop Blue Angels party, Zuckerberg is doing a livestream Thursday morning, and Chinese developer Oceanwide looks to be cutting part of its Oceanwide Center project downtown.
SF News Loma Prieta at 30: Remembering the Horror of the Cypress Freeway Collapse As we get set to mark the 30th anniversary of the earthquake that massively shook the Bay Area on October 17, 1989, we're taking a moment to retell the history of the biggest tragedy of that day, via CHP footage and interviews with those who witnessed it.
