SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Trump Gives Extended Interview to the Times President Trump gave a wide-ranging interview to the NY Times; a child died from the flu last month in San Mateo County; and Gov. Gavin Newsom is giving his final State of the State address today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oroville Dam Spillway Lets Loose Parts of the Bay Area are under an "extreme cold watch" for Friday morning; another Oakland athletics coach had his life threatened; and ICE agents shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis today.
SF News Building Where Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Took Place Is Up for Additional Historic Landmark Status Now that a private prison company is running a halfway house at the site of the famed transgender protest known as the Compton's Cafeteria Riot, trans activists are hoping to redesignate the site with another set of historical protections.
SF News Accused Killer Testifies In Murder Trial of 84-Year-Old ‘Grandpa Vicha’ Ratanapakdee The 2021 killing of Anza Vista resident Vicha Ratanapakdee has its murder trial underway, and accused 24-year-old killer Antoine Watson took the stand in his own defense Tuesday. His explanations, though, were largely incoherent.
SF News Suspect In Last Month’s SF General Hospital Stabbing Pleads Not Guilty, Attorney Says He Was Suffering 'Crisis’ The accused stabber in last month’s fatal attack on a UCSF social worker at SF General Hospital finally had a court appearance Tuesday, pleading not guilty, with his attorney saying “he was suffering a mental health crisis that day.”
SF Politics Downtown San Francisco Immigration Court Set to Close In a Year The federal immigration court in downtown San Francisco that started 2025 with 21 judges and will soon be down to just four, thanks to Trump administration mass-firings, will close by January 2027.
Arts & Entertainment Controversial Alt-Rock Troll and Trump Fan Ariel Pink Set to Play SF Show at the Chapel Friday Indie musician Ariel Pink is coming to town just days after the fifth anniversary of January 6th — which he actually attended, at least the Trump rally part, though he denies joining the horde that stormed the Capitol.
SF News Testimony at Trial of Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Shannon O'Connor Just as Lurid and Gross as You'd Imagine The trial continues this week of onetime Los Gatos resident Shannon O'Connor, who clearly wanted her sons and their friends to think of her a "cool mom" who'd let them drink, but the alleged teen parties she threw actually sound pretty sordid, and unsafe.
SF News SF Finally Shuts Down Tenderloin Massage Parlor That Was ‘Blatantly Operating as a Brothel’ The jig is up at the Tenderloin's Empire Relaxation Spa, which has been busted at least four times for selling sex, and now has been shut down permanently with the owners agreeing to pay a $275,000 settlement.
SF News Section of Highway 116 Near Guerneville Washes Out, Could Take a Year to Repair A section of winding Highway 116 slid into the Russian River in Sonoma County on Monday, and the washout near Monte Rio is only expected to grow as the rain-soaked banks of the river continue to be saturated and unstable.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Supervisors Call For Hearing on December Power Outage Supervisor Alan Wong and others are calling for a hearing into PG&E's massive outage last month; Sonoma County is under a flood warning today; and Valero has begun shutting down its Benicia refinery.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Blood-Soaked Fistfight Breaks Out at Disneyland Over People Cutting in Line This year’s SF Sketchfest will feature a live show on a moving BART train; a Union City man effectively busted himself for child porn; and a brawl broke out at Disneyland over line-cutting.
SF News Supervisor Dorsey Introduces Measure to Shut Down More Liquor Stores Earlier, to Fight Sixth Street Blight That Tenderloin “corner store curfew” that shuts liquor stores down at midnight could be extended to a whole bunch of SoMa and beyond, as Supervisor Matt Dorsey wants corner stores shut down earlier in hopes of deterring crime.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Bartender Fired After Viral Incident Involving Drunk and Belligerent Customers The Hazie's bartender who had his hair pulled by a very intoxicated customer who was irate about being cut off on SantaCon Saturday, in a video that went internationally viral, says he's now been fired.
Business & Tech Uber Unveils Robotaxi Design at CES In Las Vegas Uber's line of robotaxis that are set to hit the road in San Francisco sometime later this year made their big public debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Monday.
SF News Judge Shoots Down Lawsuit to Bring Cars Back to Great Highway, Sunset Dunes Will Remain Car-Free Park A last-ditch lawsuit attempting to overturn 2024’s Prop K and bring cars back to the Great Highway has failed, as a judge just tossed out the lawsuit’s claim that the car-free Great Highway ballot measure skirted California law.
SF News West Portal's Long-Shuttered Empire Cinema Could Become Nine-Story, 64-Unit Housing Complex Under New Proposal The former CineArts at the Empire on West Portal Avenue is just a one-story structure, but could become a nine-story housing complex with 64 units under a just-announced proposal from the family that has long owned the building.
SF Politics Trump Announces Fraud Probe of California Social Services, Withholds Federal Funds In Wake of Minnesota Scandals The Trump administration is now waging more political war with Democrat-led states, announcing the withholding of $10 billion in social services funding to five states: Minnesota, California, New York, Illinois, and Colorado.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved North Beach Soufflé Restaurant Café Jacqueline Closes After 46 Years A full-throated "Noooo!" is being shouted around San Francisco today by anyone who knew and loved Café Jacqueline, because the stalwart, soufflé-focused restaurant has closed for good.
SF News Report: Flock Safety, Maker of SF’s License Plate Reader Cameras, Had Gobsmacking Security Flaw Turns out anyone with an internet connection, and not even a password, could access the feeds of a line of the Flock surveillance cameras that are currently all the rage with the SFPD and Oakland Police Department.
SF News Northern California Congressman Doug LaMalfa Dies Suddenly at Age 65 Doug LaMalfa, who has represented California's 1st Congressional District for the last 13 years, died suddenly on Monday at the age of 65. No cause of death has been announced, but LaMalfa's death will further constrain Republicans' narrow majority in the House.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: More Details In Case of Antioch Girl Shot In Head A few more details were released in the case of an 11-year-old girl shot Monday in Antioch; the body of a woman who went missing Friday while hiking was found in the American River; and Newsom begins his final year in office with an $18B deficit.
SF News Day Around the Bay: G'Bye Alioto's The demolition of Alioto's began today at the Wharf; an 11-year-old girl was hit by a stray bullet in Antioch; and Hilton is apologizing for a Minnesota hotel that was refusing rooms to ICE agents.
SF News SF City Hall Employee Who Embezzled $627K, Bought Himself VR Headsets Sentenced to Three Years in Prison The wild corruption case of a SF City Hall Workers' Comp department employee who embezzled $627,118 and blew city money and personal tech gear has ended, and that now-fired employee is headed to prison.
SF News Bay Area Protests Kick In After Trump’s Venezuela Invasion and ‘Regime Change’ Coup After President Trump invaded Venezuela and deposed President Nicolás Maduro Friday night, the Bay Area reacted fast, as protests took over both San Francisco and San Jose by Saturday afternoon.
