SF News Humpday Headlines: Yesterday Was the Hottest Day of the Year In SF Tuesday was the hottest day of the year so far in SF, hitting 88 degrees downtown; SF Rec & Parks identifies new sites for pickleball courts; and some guerrilla public art of Trump and Epstein comes down in DC.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Highway 1 in Big Sur Gets a Reopening Date A Richmond UPS worker was crushed and killed by falling packages; Trump told the United Nations that their countries were all “going to hell;” and Highway 1 in Big Sur has a reopening date — which is still six months from now.
SF News UC Wins This Round Against Trump, Judge Reinstates $500 Million in Research Grants That Trump Yanked What started as some Trump claim that University of California colleges were antisemitic turned into a billion-dollar shakedown, but UC just won this fight (for now) as a judge ordered that $500 million in research grants be reinstated.
SF News Tesla Driver In Deadly January SoMa Crash Charged on Six Counts, But Judge Releases Him From Jail A 67-year-old man has been charged with felony vehicular manslaughter for a January crash that killed a man and a dog plus injured seven people, but a judge just released him from jail, and his Tesla may have been at fault.
SF News Local App-Maker Makes Viral App to Track SF Parking Cops The guy behind the app we recently told you about that tracks the relative hotness of restaurant patrons has a new app that tracks SF's meter maids/parking cops in real time.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OG Whole Foods Location In Mill Valley Announces Permanent Closure, Prompting Outcry, Petition One of the first Whole Foods locations in the country, the one that debuted in a Quonset hut structure on Miller Avenue in Mill Valley over 30 years ago, has been closed since July for "repairs," and now may be closed for good.
SF News Fremont Man Charged With Stalking and Killing Sex Offender He Found on Megan's Law Website A Fremont man who apparently took some delight in killing a man he did not know who was listed on a sex offender website has been charged with his murder, and had a previous arrest in 2021 for hunting someone else he thought to be a pedophile.
SF News Seemingly Bogus Mission District Immigration Attorney Fined $600,000 for Unlicensed Work The Mission District storefront that claims to house a “Law Group” does not, in fact, have any attorneys, and a court just ruled they have to pay $600,000 for conning payments from immigrants seeking legal services for years.
SF News 64-Year-Old Man Accused of Firing Gun at Sacramento ABC Affiliate Allegedly Had Anti-Trump Notes In Car A Sacramento man arrested last week for firing a gun at a local ABC television affiliate — in the wake of the Jimmy Kimmel/Charlie Kirk controversy — apparently had written messages critical of the Trump administration, and made a note to himself about doing something "scary."
SF News Fired SFPD Nonprofit Leader, Under Investigation for Embezzling $100K, Sues for Her Final Paychecks A new Hall of Fame entry in the annals of chutzpah, as the former director of an SFPD-affiliated nonprofit who’s under indictment for embezzling $100 grand has sued the nonprofit for $26,000 in back pay she claims they still owe her.
SF News Walnut Creek Man Charged In Murder of Wife and Mother-in-Law A 43-year-old Walnut Creek man with an alleged history of domestic violence has now been charged with the murder of his wife and mother-in-law in the home that the three shared last week.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Another Hot Day In Store A Heat Advisory is in effect for much of the Bay Area today; Berkeley felt a 3.0M aftershock from yesterday's early morning earthquake; and two major TV station owners are still boycotting Kimmel.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Nick Bosa Now Out for the Season Chipmaker Nvidia is investing $100 billion in OpenAI; Jimmy Kimmel is coming back on the air Tuesday; and 49er Nick Bosa is out for the season with the knee injury he sustained on Sunday.
SF News Mayor Lurie and SFPD Tout Dirt Bike ‘Crackdown’ That Yielded a Measly Four Arrests Daniel Lurie and the SFPD held a press conference Monday to toot their horns over “a crackdown on dangerous stunt driving” of dirt bikes, but the four arrests seems like a drop in the bucket given the huge groups we typically see doing this.
SF Politics Manny Yekutiel of Manny’s Fame Declares He’s Running for District 8 Supervisor While the election is nearly 14 months away, Manny’s owner Manny Yekiutiel announced he’s running for Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s current seat as District 8 supervisor, though he’s already got opponents lining up against him.
SF News SF Rec and Parks Chief Phil Ginsburg Stepping Down After 16 Years The head of the SF Rec and Park Department Phil Ginsburg announced his departure Monday, amid controversies over the car-free Great Highway and the finances of the SF Park Alliance, though it appears he just got a better-paying job.
Arts & Entertainment What You Missed at 2025's Portola Festival In San Francisco The fourth annual Portola Festival lucked out with its sunniest weekend yet by being scheduled a week earlier this year, and an estimated 45,000 attendees per day enjoyed sets by LCD Soundsystem, Dom Dolla, Moby, and Christina Aguilera.
SF News BART Set New Post-Pandemic Ridership Record In August Thanks in part to big events like Outside Lands, and thanks to a new program that provides unlimited rides for UC Berkeley students, BART saw its ridership soar to a new post-pandemic record in August.
Bay Area Sports American Tennis Star Taylor Fritz Pulls Out Win for Team World at Laver Cup In San Francisco It was a "home" tournament win for Team World at this year's Laver Cup, which pits European players against the rest of the world, including Americans. And that was despite two highly seeded Americans bowing out at the last minute.
SF News Muni Breaks Out 78-Year-Old ‘Super Bus’ That Was Supposed to Replace the Cable Cars for Muni Heritage Weekend Built in 1947, the Fegeol Twin Coach Model 44-D buses were supposed to replace the cable cars. They failed, and only lasted six years, but Muni has restored one of them, and it rode again for Muni Heritage Weekend.
SF News Two Charged In Last Week's Triple Shooting In Concord Parking Garage One man faces an attempted murder charge and another man faces a conspiracy charge in connection with a triple shooting last Tuesday in Concord.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Beat Cardinals 16-15 at the Last Second to Stay Undefeated, And Maybe We Finally Have a Kicker We Like A dreadful game turned into a fantastic finish as the 49ers won their home opener in a 16-15 comeback thriller, with new kicker Eddy Piñeiro the last-second hero after the Niners nearly lost this game in the stupidest way possible.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Aftershock Felt In Berkeley A 2.6M aftershock followed this morning's 4.3M quake; Elon Musk appeared to be getting along with Trump again at Charlie Kirk's memorial; and a woman in Rockridge was injured in a hit-and-run while walking her dog.
SF News 4.3M Earthquake Centered In Berkeley Jolts People Awake Early Monday You may have been rudely awoken by an earthquake just before 3 am Monday morning, which turns out to have been a 4.3-magnitude quake on the Hayward Fault, centered in Berkeley.
Arts & Entertainment From the Archives: Scathing Typewritten Letter to a Landlord, Circa 2003 Back in 2003, a friend of SFist found a discarded typewritten letter on the ground in SF’s Financial District, which reads as if Danielle Steele typed it up and tossed it out her Pac Heights window. The very Bay Area-esque diatribe is full of twists and turns.
