SF News Instagram-Famous Pug Stolen From Mission District Apartment, Found After Owner Offers $15K Reward This pug who has more followers on Instagram than you probably have (over 16,000) was apparently stolen out of his human's apartment in the Mission District on Wednesday night, and the dog has now been safely returned after a frightening ordeal.
SF News OMG: The Central Subway Has Been Delayed Again, Pushed to 2021 The Central Subway now will not be opening until mid-2021, a full three years behind schedule, and a year and a half later than we were last told. Construction isn't even set to be finished until the middle of next year, and then a year of train testing begins.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Brock Turner Judge Fired From Tennis Coaching Gig An SFPD motorcycle cop was injured in a Duboce Triangle collision, an historic rent-control bill is headed to the governor's desk, and one of the dismissed Ghost Ship jurors speaks out.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Warm Weather Arrives Again The cable cars all go offline for 10 days starting Friday, Trump decides to ban e-cigarettes, and that RV and homeless vehicle "triage" lot near Balboa Park BART has been approved by the Supes.
SF Politics SFPD Says It Wants To Do Better Responding To Racially Biased, 'BBQ Becky'-Style Calls The SFPD brass, along with community members and policy makers, convened a meeting on Tuesday to come up with a policy statement concerning non-emergency police calls that could result in "bias by proxy."
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SF Restaurants, Food & Drink South Park Cafe Gets New Life With Backing From Credit Card Startup Brex South Park's go-to lunch and dinner spot, South Park Cafe, shuttered two years ago when its owners retired, and now some fintech guys have reopened it for the benefit of the 'hood.
Business & Tech ‘Gig Worker’ Wage And Benefits Bill Passes Both Chambers Of Legislature, Likely To Become Law The gig may be up for the so-called unicorn startups who’ve coasted on crazy cheap labor, as California is poised to become the first state in the nation to make companies classify independent contractors as employees.
SF News Recalled Judge From Brock Turner Rape Case Coaching Girls' Tennis; Parents Want Him Fired Former Santa Clara County judge Aaron Persky, who was recalled by voters last year in a historic vote, took a new job recently coaching the junior varsity girls' tennis team at Lynbrook High School in San Jose.
SF News Ghost Ship Jurors Spill The Beans On Behind-the-Scenes Drama Three Ghost Ship fire trial jurors have opened up about what exactly happened with those dismissals, and the tensions that lasted through the final day of deliberations over whether to convict Derick Almena.
SF News Return Of Warm-Water 'Blob' In the Pacific Prompts Fears Of Algae Blooms, Another Drought A large mass of unusually warm water in the Pacific Ocean has marine biologists once again concerned — a "blob" just like this lingered for a year and a half in the ocean between 2014 and 2016, leading to a toxic algae bloom and lots more problems.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Steam, Not Smoke, Billows Out of Salesforce Tower, Causing Some Alarm Once again, there was no traffic nightmare because of a concert at the Chase Center (and a Giants game), firefighters around town hold 9/11 commemoration ceremonies, and that was just condensation coming out of the top of Salesforce Tower this a.m.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Bounce House Canceled Due To Goose Poop in Park A 12-year-old boy was struck by a car and seriously injured in the Tenderloin, the Board of Supes supports buying PG&E's power grid for SF, and a brush fire prompted evacuations in Novato.
SF News Notorious SF Landlord Anne Kihagi Sued For Back Pay By Her Own Attorney Landlord Anne Kihagi gets sued by the attorney who still works for her, but that lawyer insists it’s just a completely normal “mechanism to secure regular payments from my client.”
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Teeny Tiny Studio With Toilet-Shower For $2300/Mo The holy grail of SF apartment living remains being able to live by oneself without breaking the bank, and a newly listed studio in Lower Nob Hill will let you do just that, for the not-quite bargain price of $2295 per month.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: 80-Year-Old Emperor Norton Plaque Unveiled at the Salesforce Transit Center The Salesforce Transit Center cracks a beam of historical joy by reinstalling the Emperor Norton plaque that used to be at the Transbay Terminal, now fully restored by the de Young Museum.
Business & Tech Apple Unveils iPhone 11, Uses Free Apple TV+ To Sell More iPhones CEO Tim Cook unveiled some more details and trailers for Apple TV+, as well as a new 10.2-inch iPad, Apple Watch Series 5, and the new iPhone 11 models that are just supercharged versions of the X models that came out in 2018.
SF Politics The NRA Is Suing San Francisco Over That 'Terrorist' Label After a San Francisco supervisor got a resolution passed last week declaring the National Rifle Association a "domestic terrorist organization," the notoriously vocal gun group has shot back with a lawsuit.
SF News Video Shows Close Call Between Sailboat and Humpback Whale in the Bay A sailboat and a humpback whale nearly collided in San Francisco Bay over the weekend, and the incident, along with an earlier one involving a speedboat doing doughnuts around a whale, is prompting outcries from naturalists.
SF Politics Tuesday Morning Briefing: Supervisors Say Mental Health Beds Must Be Filled The chief of police in Richmond is out, a man has been released from jail after deputies shot his dog while serving a bench warrant, and three more Camp Fire victims' remains have been identified.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Embarcadero Residents Lose Latest Legal Move Chance the Rapper has postponed his Chase Center show on Saturday, Kaiser is facing more heat from the state, and the FBI is now investigating that dive-boat fire.
Business & Tech FDA Pens Strongly Worded Letter to Juul About Claims That Vaping Is Safer Than Cigarettes Swiftly on the heels of incendiary national news stories about the growing number of cases of serious vaping-related lung illnesses, the FDA issued a warning letter to SF-based Juul Labs saying the company has already violated federal regulations with its marketing claims.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Matthews Show at Chase Center Will Coincide With Giants Game Tuesday Night Tomorrow night (Tuesday) will be the first test of what happens with Muni and traffic when there is both a Giants home game and a big concert at the Chase Center, as Dave Matthews Band arrives just as the Giants are playing the Pirates.
Bay Area Sports Niners Kick Off 2019 Season With A 31-17 Win Against the Buccaneers The San Francisco 49ers won't be at Levi's Stadium for their first official home game of the season until September 22, but the season officially started for them on Sunday in Tampa Bay — and they're OK so far.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Rolls Out Criminal Justice Reform Plan In Hopes of Reigniting Campaign Our one-time San Francisco district attorney is at least the sixth Dem presidential candidate to put out a criminal justice reform plan, but critics will charge that she was against all of these policies before she was for them.
