SF Politics South Bay Congresswoman Anna Eshoo Announces She Will Not Run for Reelection Longtime Peninsula Congresswoman Anna Eshoo is planning to retire from the House next year, and she announced Tuesday that she will not be seeking reelection.
SF News Have You Heard About the $15 Million Teardown In Hillsborough? Yeah, barf. 21st Century American decadence, real estate insanity, and hate-reads about the wealthy all combine in a story about a recently constructed 6,400-square-foot modern Tuscan villa on the Peninsula that some new owners intend to demolish in order build something bigger and more "them."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Peninsula Restaurant Owner Accused Of Tax Evasion Found With $600K Stashed In Home Russell Deutsch, the 57-year-old owner of Old Port Lobster Shack restaurants in Redwood City and Portola Valley and the Old Port Lobster Grill in San Jose, appears to be in some hot water
SF News Atherton Is Still, Pretty Definitively, America's Most Expensive Zip Code Home prices in Atherton, already sky high as of last fall when Forbes declared it America's toniest zip code, continue to climb, in part because Forbes published that article. As SFGate's real estate
SF News Burglary Scam Involving Snake Ruse Hits Peninsula The same two suspects appear to be connected to at least three burglaries, one in Burlingame, one in San Mateo, and one in Fremont, in which homeowners were distracted by one suspect in
SF News 13-Year-Old Boy Arrested For Making Bomb Threats On Instagram Your ephemeral puppy shots and pre-run shoe photos might be casual fun to you, but to authorities on the peninsula they can be very serious business. A 13-year-old Catholic school student at Our
SF News Convicted Redwood City Poodle Killer Claims Neighbor's Dog Was Boning His Chihuahua 32-Year-old Marcos Montano-Topete, who claimed he was acting in self-defense when he beat a 12-pound toy poodle to death with a brick in Redwood City last year, was convicted last week animal cruelty
SF News Redwood City Man Felt 'Threatened' By Toy Poodle, Beat It To Death With A Brick In Redwood City, a man accused of beating a toy poodle to death is claiming he acted in self defense when he smashed in a 12-pound dog's face with a brick. The suspect,
SF News High-Speed Rail Not in the Clear Yet Though the California legislature has given the green-light for the long-awaited, long-debated high-speed rail connecting L.A. to S.F., there still remain five persnickety lawsuits to be settled or litigated in the
SF News Peninsula BART Riders Get Reading Material Dispensers The last time we heard about BART teaming up with local libraries to dispense reading material through vending machines was three years ago. Back then, the world was an entirely different place. George
SF News Caltrain Strikes, Kills Pedestian On Peninsula Early this morning, a Caltrain killed a pedestrian in San Mateo. "Train No. 198 left San Francisco station at 12:01 a.m. and hit the pedestrian on the tracks about 100 yards
SF News Peninsula Congestion Toll Plan Rejected By Supervisors As expected, the fury-inducing plan to charge up to $6 to vehicularly commute into certain parts of San Francisco was nixed yesterday. "The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, acting as the city's transportation
SF News Peninsula Wealthy Don't Want No Stinkin High-Speed Rail The cities of Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Atherton, along with five environmental and citizens groups, filed suit Monday to stop the proposed high-speed rail that will rip through their quiet enclaves, if
SF News Thousands Lose Power On Peninsula Due to this storm thing that's happening outside, about 26,000 PG&E customers lost power between last night and this morning. Of those, the majority are on the peninsula and in
SF News Why Do Peninsula Folk Fear the High Speed Rail? by Chris Jones The California High Speed Rail Authority released a scoping report [.pdf] yesterday for the San Jose to San Francisco section of the proposed state high speed rail system that will
