SF News Laguna Honda Denied 120-Bed Expansion Bid By Federal Regulators A plan to expand Laguna Honda’s patient population space by 120 beds has been denied by Medicare and Medicaid administrators, as the facility still has some reputational fallout from two patient drug overdoses in 2022.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Arrest Made In East Bay Freeway Shootings A 33-year-old Antioch man has been arrested in connection with two freeway shootings on Tuesday; the person who died on a Turkish Airlines flight to SFO has been ID'd; and an unexplained arrest occurred at an Oakland school.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Will Again Be Livestreamed on Amazon Prime and Twitch As it was last year, Outside Lands 2025 will once again be streamed live by Amazon Music on Prime and Twitch, all three days, starting at 1:30 pm.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Big-Time BART Delays as There Was Another Fire Near the Tracks ICE arrested an SF man suffering from mental illness Thursday; Elon Musk’s Starlink suffered a massive hours-long outage; and another fire near the tracks has peppered tonight’s BART commute with numerous delays.
SF News Trump Administration Forces Muir Woods to Alter Its Signage, Because Trump Is Very Easily Offended A sweeping new Trump directive orders national parks to remove any signs that might "disparage Americans,” or hurt the sensitive egos of rich white men, so Muir Woods National Monument is being forced to change some of their signs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink That Tesla-Branded Diner Has Opened In LA, and Predictably It Is Being Yelp-Bombed The 24-hour Tesla Diner just opened earlier this week in West Hollywood, serving smashburgers, hot dogs, chicken and waffles, breakfast tacos, and more. But apparently you can't park there unless you drive a Tesla.
SF News Ex-DBI Commission President Rodrigo Santos Gets Fined $1.4 Million Over City Fraud Cases Former SF permit expediter and one-time president of the Department of Building Inspection Commission Rodrigo Santos is out of prison after the time he did for Mohammed Nuru scandal-related crimes, but he just got hit with a $1.4 million fine for fraud.
SF News SF Pride's Financials Still In the Red, In Part Due to City Revoking $150K Grant As the numbers are becoming clear, it seems that SF Pride's financial situation is not so dire as it may have seemed a few months back, as corporate sponsors and parade contingents seemed to be in a Trump-inspired retreat. But that doesn't mean there isn't still a shortfall this year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hotly Anticipated Modern Cantonese Restaurant Happy Crane Sets Opening Date In Hayes Valley The much anticipated new replacement restaurant in the former Monsieur Benjamin space on Gough Street is getting set to open in two weeks.
SF News Huge Safeway Strike Possibly Looming, Could Start as Early as Saturday Safeway workers all over Central and Northern California could go on strike as soon as Saturday morning, and every Safeway north of Bakersfield could potentially have a picket line if a deal is not reached with parent company Albertsons.
SF Politics Ninth Circuit Shuts Down Trump's Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship, Setting Up Supreme Court Showdown The next legal step after the Supreme Court appeared to roll over multiple times to the will of President Trump this term will be answering the question of whether his executive order barring birthright citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants is unconstitutional.
SF News Giant Lake Emerges at 24th and Mission After Water Main Break In Public Works Project Things are going to be very unusual at the 24th and Mission Muni stop this week and next, as a Public Works project resulted in a large body of water gushing up at what is normally a 14-Mission and 49-Van Ness stop.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SoMa Offices Filling Up Again The street closures in Golden Gate Park have begun ahead of back-to-back concert weekends; the Chronicle food critics are filing dueling reviews of State Bird Provisions; and tech startups are moving back into SoMa.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Richard Tillman's Competency Questioned In Court Richard Tillman, the San Jose arson suspect and brother of the late Pat Tillman, made a court appearance today at which his competency was called in question; an Oakland man was arrested in a Sacramento jewelry heist; and Pam Bondi apparently told Trump directly that he's in the Epstein files.
Business & Tech Sam Altman Warns of Coming AI-Created 'Fraud Crisis' OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued a fairly dire warning about how some personal security apparatuses — particularly things we use to guard our bank accounts and the like — are highly vulnerable to AI-based fraud.
Arts & Entertainment Mission Fried Chicken Joint Hastily Removes Ads From Carlos Santana Mural After Backlash The cult-hit fried chicken chain Krispy Krunchy Chicken slapped some ads on the Carlos Santana mural at 24th and Mission, but quickly removed them after a community outcry from those who felt these were evil ways.
SF News Disbarred SF Attorney Sentenced to Life In Prison For His Role In Murderous 2008 ‘Gay Grifters’ Scandal In a bizarre case that’s been in the courts for more than 15 years, a disgraced one-time SF lawyer has been sentenced to life without parole for helping four “gay grifters” murder an art gallery owner and sell off his possessions.
SF News Lengthy Court Proceeding Over Homeless Encampment Sweeps In SF Ends With $2.8M Settlement A court case that was brought by several homeless individuals along with the ACLU and the Coalition on Homelessness led to a two-year legal battle over the city's practice of clearing encampments from public spaces. It has now ended in a financial settlement of $2.8 million.
Arts & Entertainment First Batch of 2025 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Acts Announced, Includes String Cheese Incident, Reverend Horton Heat This year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival is starting to take shape, and the first line-up of artists just confirmed Wednesday features the String Cheese Incident, Reverend Horton Heat, and Lucinda Williams.
SF News Federal Report Offers Several New Details About Capsize Incident That Left 8 Dead at Lake Tahoe Extreme waves, a dead engine, unworn life jackets, and a tragically poor position on the lake all contributed to the deaths of eight people on Lake Tahoe, according to a newly released preliminary report.
SF News Mother Speaks Out After 9-Year-Old Boy Killed By Father In San Jose Park The 9-year-old victim in last week's San Jose stabbing case has been identified and his mother has now put out a statement about the tragic loss of her son, and his father's undiagnosed mental illness.
SF Politics California Planned Parenthood Loses $300 Million In Federal Funding In Latest Legal Blow A US District Court ruling this week strips every Planned Parenthood location in the state of California of all federal funding, which amounts to about $300 million statewide, though that loss could still be overturned in a future ruling.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, the Dead & Company Shows Will Be Livestreamed on Pay-Per-View From Golden Gate Park There will indeed be a pay-per-view livestream of the sold-out Dead & Company shows August 1-3 at Golden Gate Park, and anyone worldwide can tune in for both the opening acts and the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead performances.
SF News Pedestrian Killed In Mission Terrace Hit-and-Run Collision Early Wednesday morning, a pedestrian was struck and killed in the Mission Terrace neighborhood of San Francisco, and the vehicle responsible fled the scene.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Napa Father Faces Murder Charge for DUI Crash That Killed Son Two people were found dead of gunshot wounds in an East Oakland apartment; a Napa father has been charged with murder for a DUI-related crash that killed his son; and San Jose again ranks high on unaffordability list.
