SF News Sea Otter Reintroduction Plan Gains Momentum in Bay Area Efforts to repopulate the Bay with sea otters and help the coastal kelp forest gain support in Sonoma County, although local fishers and sharks could stand in the way.
SF News A Record Number of Container Ships Are Anchored in SF Bay as U.S. Imports Boom We may not actually be out of this pandemic, but a late-pandemic buying boom is sweeping the country and it can be seen in dramatic form in San Francisco Bay right now.
SF News Body Found Floating In Bay Near Alameda Deemed 'Suspicious' Police have launched a suspicious death investigation after a male body was found floating in the San Francisco Bay this weekend. A spokesperson with the Alameda County Sheriff’s office says that the
SF News Sunken Barge In Bay Is Resting Atop Transbay Tube We learned on Friday that in the midst of that windy storm, just after midnight Thursday night, a barge with a crane on top of it that was under contract to BART capsized
SF News Large Debris Washed Into The Bay Takes At Least One Commuter Ferry Out Of Commission Major amounts of large debris, including whole tree trunks, have washed down from rivers and other waterways in recent storms into San Francisco and San Pablo Bays, creating potential hazards for boats. CBS
SF News Video: Shark Spotted By Kayaker Near Mission Rock A man kayaking in San Francisco Bay Saturday morning spotted the shark you see in the video above, which swam up to his kayak and then under it before swimming off. He was
SF News Video: Pod Of Whales Frolics Near Crissy Field Bay boaters should make sure to be on high alert today, after multiple sightings of whales near the San Francisco shore. According to CBS 5, two whales were spotted swimming between Alcatraz and
SF News Fishermen Find Limbless Female Torso In Bay Area Marshlands Bay Area law enforcement officials continue to search the waters and land near the Dumbarton Bridge today, after some fishermen stumbled upon a woman's torso with the head and limbs removed. A spokesperson
SF News Family Of Humpback Whales Vacationing In The Bay A trio of humpback whales has been spotted cavorting in San Francisco Bay this week in a fairly rare sighting. As Mary Jane Schramm of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
Arts & Entertainment Migrating Whales Make Pit Stops At Alcatraz, Ferry Building, Angel Island Not even whales on their way to sex and dinner are immune to San Francisco's charms, as in recent days at least three have taken a detour from their annual migration down the
SF News Google Barge Must Go, Says State In a nearly unprecedented move, the tech industry is being told it can't do whatever it wants in San Francisco. The four-story Google barge structure floating in the Bay, it seems, doesn't have
SF News Yikes: Ship's Anchor May Have Hit Transbay Tube BART trains temporarily stopped service Friday afternoon after a ship's anchor allegedly struck the Transbay Tube. A frightening thought, indeed. "At 8:45 a.m., a ship lost propulsion in the bay, so
SF News Mysterious Google Barge Now Under Investigation The ongoing saga of Google's mysterious barge/Glass showroom/"technology learning center" continues this week with news that the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission announcing that they've launched a formal investigation
SF News Mysterious Google Barge Is Officially A Floating Retail Store About a month after news broke that Google's mystery barge in the San Francisco Bay was more like a fancy Google sailboat, a few more details have emerged about the floating heap loaded
SF News Google Releases Official Statement About Barge In The Bay Regarding that barge floating in the San Francisco Bay, Google released an official statement about the hunk of metal and mystery. Basically, it's going to be an interactive learning space to learn more
SF News Photos: A View From The New Bay Bridge After years of political battles, and then years more of construction, the new east span of the Bay Bridge will finally open early next week. Before the entire bridge closes to allow Caltrans
SF News Windsurfers Rescue Puppy Stranded In The Bay A pair of windsurfers and a boat commuter (!) banded together Monday evening to rescue a dog found paddling frantically in the middle of the Bay. The pup, a labrador mix or mastiff, was
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On The New Bay Bridge Span... Although the new eastern span has its fair share of snafus going on at the moment, today its roads were give a microdermabrasion scrub. On Friday, workers pave the new deck. The bridge
SF News Also, America's Cup Opened Yesterday According to the Chronicle, yesterday's kickoff to the America's Cup drew "throngs to the waterfront." The controversial race, dating back to the Victorian era, will pit four countries against each other: Oracle Team
SF News BART Strike: Commuter Forced To Ride His Boat To Work While some of you kowtowed to AC Transit, the ferry system, or, far worse, casual carpooling (the horror), Wayne Phillips managed to get across the Bay the right way. After waiting in a
SF News Photo: SFFD Pulls Woman From Bay Photog David Gallagher snapped this shot and provided the following description of the scene: Just before 5pm Friday a woman sitting on Pier 45 behind the Musée Mécanique fell into the water. She
Arts & Entertainment This Mission Creek Houseboat Will Make You Cry The New York Times is good at reminding us about everything we're not. We're not especially fashion conscious by comparison, we're not preoccupied by Ivy League admissions (thank god), and we're certainly not
Arts & Entertainment Video: Precocious Youths Capsize America's Cup Boat The American Youth Sailing Force, a group of young sailors ages 19 to 24 who will represent the U.S. in the Red Bull Youth America's Cup, capsized their 45-foot boat on Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Best Bars Along The S.F. Waterfront As (comparatively) warm weather approaches and the Giants head into a long summer stretch, isn't it time you checked out one of the many fine watering holes along the waterfront? We're not talking
