SF News Day Around the Bay: Lafayette’s Long-Shuttered Park Theater to Reopen With a $12 Million Renovation The lottery is open for the Pointer Sisters-Lyrics Born show at Stern Grove; a Cotati DUI suspect was pulled over with 70 empty beer cans in his vehicle; and Lafayette’s Park Theater that closed 20 years ago is set to reopen with a big renovation.
SF News Walnut Creek Teacher Facing Rape Charges for Alleged Sex With Teen Student A 43-year-old Walnut Creek teacher has been charged with the rape, unlawful sexual intercourse, and assault of a student, and it does not help his case that he admitted to these things on a phone call that police had secretly wiretapped.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrity Chef Charlie Palmer Readies to Open His Latest Hotel and Restaurant Project In Healdsburg OG celebrity chef Charlie Palmer, who opened Dry Creek Kitchen in Healdsburg in 2003 and has had a big hand in putting the tony wine country town on the proverbial map, is still making moves in his hometown.
SF News Oakland Attorney Arrested for Allegedly Smuggling Contraband Porn Into Solano County Jail A well-known Oakland attorney has been arrested on charges that he tried to sneak contraband to a prisoner in Solano County Jail, and further reporting on the matter says that the contraband he tried to sneak was a stack of pornographic magazines.
SF News Three Bay Area Men In Michael Myers Masks Allegedly Went to Florida to Steal Apple Products, Now Face Federal Charges Three East Bay men are in custody in Florida after an alleged robbery attempt Friday at a seller of Apple products that ended with a chase and a police shooting.
SF News New App Lets Users Crowdsource ICE Agent Sightings, Trump Administration Goes Apoplectic A new iPhone app purports to be “Waze but for ICE sightings” and lets users share the location of ICE operations they see, but now the Trump administration is throwing massive tantrums and claiming they’ll sue CNN for reporting that the app exists.
SF News Newsom Signs Major Rollback of CEQA Reviews, With a Big Carve-Out for Big Tech Gavin Newsom claims it’s the “most consequential housing reform in modern history” that he just exempted most urban housing projects from environmental review, as the new state budget has some additions that hope to weaken the notorious CEQA.
SF News San Francisco May Start to See Fancy New Sidewalk Trash Cans at Long Last, By Next Year Remember those controversial trash cans whose prototype price raised eyebrows and spurred headlines circa four years ago? Well, they are back in the news because they will be coming, soon-ish, to a street corner near you.
SF News Clipper Card System Goes Down, Free-For-All Ensues For BART and Muni There was a widespread outage in the Clipper system Tuesday morning that was impacting commuters on BART, Muni, and Caltrain, but many were just treated to free rides.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Person Rescued From Bay During Shakira Concert SF firefighters rescued a person in a one-alarm fire at a residential hotel on Sixth Street this morning; a person needed to be rescued from the waters behind Oracle Park Monday night; and Golden Gate Bridge tolls go up today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFUSD Opts For Less Controversial Ethnic Studies Curriculum The SF school district is opting for an off-the-shelf ethnic studies curriculum amid controversy; fears of ICE raids cause some CA cities to cancel July 4th celebrations; and the suspect in the shooting of two firefighters in Idaho was a transient living out of a vehicle they told him to move.
SF News Stinson Beach Releases $1.2 Billion Sea-Level Rise Plan, Which Comes Out to About $2 Million Per Resident The Marin County community of Stinson Beach is pretty much surrounded by water, which makes its flood risks off the charts in the climate change era, but the community is contemplating a billion-dollar plan to adapt to rising sea levels.
SF News SF Drag Performer Was Detained By ICE Heading Into Pride Weekend On Thursday of last week as we were leading up to Pride Weekend, a Guatemalan drag performer living in SF and performing under the stage name Hilary Rivers was detained after showing up for an immigration court hearing.
SF News Local Bartender Accused of Slashing Patron's Throat In Random Attack at Divisadero Bar A San Francisco man stands accused of randomly attacking a fellow bar patron last week at a Divisadero bar, and the suspect is himself a bartender who was not working as one at the time.
SF News San Mateo County Sheriff Accused By Civil Grand Jury on Counts of Retaliation and Conflict of Interest The saga continues in San Mateo County as Sheriff Christina Corpus seems dead set on leaving her job kicking and screaming, as opposed to bowing out quietly as the cards keep getting stacked against her.
SF News Slew of New California Laws Set to Take Effect July 1, With Bars Required to Provide Anti-Roofie ‘Drink Lids’ At least four Bay Area municipalities will see minimum wage increases go into effect on July 1, plus there are other new laws targeting hidden Airbnb fees, and bars will have to provide drink lids on request to prevent people from getting roofied.
SF News Antioch Police Fatally Shoot Man Outside Home After Alleged Threats Police in Antioch fatally shot a man who they say was armed with a knife on a suburban street Monday morning, and the man may have been having a mental health crisis.
SF News Photos: The Sun Shined Brightly on SF Pride Weekend 2025 Pride Weekend in San Francisco was remarkably friction-free this year as far we saw, apart from that little booing incident with the mayor at the Trans March, and it seems like a good time was had by all.
SF News There’s Actually Some Thunderstorm Risk (and Wildfire Risk) In NorCal as We Head Toward 4th of July The possibility of lightning has led to Red Flag Warnings Monday and Tuesday in some of California’s northernmost counties, but the low-pressure system that’s bringing them will mostly just bring more fog to San Francisco.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Peninsula Cities Cancel Fireworks Shows Two more Peninsula cities have canceled their fireworks shows on the Fourth; workers at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland have ended their strike; and an SF supervisor is trying to loosen restrictions on communal housing.
Arts & Entertainment Veteran Bay Area Journalists Launch Worker-Owned News Outlet Coyote Media Collective A group of seasoned Bay Area journalists has launched Coyote Media Collective, a worker-owned newsroom inspired by alt-weeklies, aiming to revive independent local reporting with deep stories, sharp opinions, and creative multimedia.
SF News SF Man Charged After Allegedly Attacking a Pedestrian in Hayward While Yelling ‘I’m a Pimp’ A 28-year-old San Francisco man was recently arrested and charged in Hayward after allegedly grabbing and threatening a woman on Jackson Street, shouting “I’m a pimp” as he tried to force her into prostitution, according to police.
SF News Tech Bro Wants to Use Federal Land at Alameda Point for 'AI City,' Drafts Sample Executive Order A tech founder is calling for an executive order to fast-track a new “AI city” on 512 acres of federal land at Alameda Point — the site of an existing VA project and nesting grounds for endangered birds. City officials were never contacted, and the mayor called it a "head-scratcher."
SF News Sunday Links: Thousands Take to SF Streets Saturday for Dyke March and Queer Visibility Democrats in the Senate are imposing a full reading of the 940-page “big, beautiful bill” this weekend in order to stall a late-night vote; a man is in critical condition after falling from a Russian Hill high rise; and thousands took part in SF’s Dyke March on Saturday.
sports Oakland Roots and Soul Soccer Teams Secure Permanent Home at Former Raiders Facility The former Oakland Raiders training facility has been rebranded as the UCSF Health Oakland Roots and Soul Performance Center in a deal finalized Friday by SF-based Redco Development, with the revenue split between the City of Oakland and Alameda County.
