SF Politics Lurie Names New Planning Department Director, Seemingly Against Wishes of Half the Planning Commission SF’s new Planning Department director is not off to a good start with the Planning Commission that she’ll work with, as half the commission stormed out of Wednesday morning’s vote to approve Sarah Dennis Phillips as that director.
SF News SF Just Got Another 'Magic Mushroom Church’ in Russian Hill A “mushroom church” called the Rising Phoenix Entheogenic Temple just opened its second San Francisco location, some six months after a much larger mushroom church left town claiming they were the victims of “religious discrimination.”
SF News Muni Service Cuts Kick In Saturday, Five Bus Lines Getting Their Routes Trimmed The 21-Hayes will cease to be, effective this Saturday, getting merged into a new line called the 6-Hayes-Parnassus, as five Muni lines are getting their routes snipped in hopes of cutting SFMTA’s ballooning budget deficit.
SF News Suspect Accused In Marina District Antisemitic Attack Charged With Hate Crime A suspect in an antisemitic attack on two people last weekend in SF's Marina District has been charged with a hate crime and is being arraigned today.
SF News Here We Go Again — PG&E Says First Power Shutoffs of Fire Season ‘Likely’ This Weekend A pretty wide net of PG&E customers in Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara counties could see their first wildfire-related PG&E power shutoff of the season as early as Thursday, thanks to this weekend’s looming high winds and dry conditions.
SF News Humpday Headlines: More National Guard Troops Sent to LA For No Reason Trump activates an additional 2,000 National Guard troops in LA; workers at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland are on strike over pay; and the SFMTA board voted on banning RV parking.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Waymo Inches Into a Couple More Peninsula Cities (But Still Can’t Go to SFO) The “People’s March” is returning for 2025 but not at the same time as the Pride Parade; a prisoner who escaped from FCI Dublin in 1994 was finally arrested; and Waymo is now operating in six more cities along the Peninsula.
SF News 19-Year-Old Suspect Arrested After Alleged Vandalism of Pink Triangle In SF The giant Pride Month Pink Triangle on Twin Pinks was reportedly defaced Tuesday afternoon, and police were called and quickly arrested a suspect who was in the act.
SF News Protesters Take Over Board of Supervisors Meeting, Completely Shut the Meeting Down In a protest that had little or nothing to do with Donald Trump, dozens of pro-union protesters managed to shout down and shut down Tuesday's SF Board of Supervisors meeting, in a demonstration against Mayor Lurie’ proposed budget cuts and layoffs.
SF News Phoenix Hotel Calling It Quits After 39 Years, But Will Remain Open for the Rest of 2025 Make your poolside rave plans now for your final visits to the Tenderloin’s Phoenix Hotel, which will be permanently closing at the end of the year — but it will still have its last round of Pride parties and such for the remainder of 2025.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF House Fire Displaces Twelve A fire in SF's Oceanview neighborhood left 12 displaced; a project to renovate Chinatown's Portsmouth Square came in very over-budget; and the Ninth Circuit is having its hearing today about Trump and the National Guard deployment in LA.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pride Banner Vandalized at East Bay Church A Pride banner was slashed with a knife outside a Pleasant Hill church; Trader Joe's is now the cheapest grocery store in SF (besides Grocery Outlet); and a new operator is about to reopen the movie theater at 1000 Van Ness.
SF News Scott Weiner's Latest Bill Would Ban ICE Agents From Wearing Face Coverings in California State Senators Scott Wiener and Jesse Arreguin just introduced a new bill that would ban law enforcement agents from being masked on the job, a move seemingly targeted at federal ICE agents who’ve been wearing gaiters while performing recent raids.
SF News Once Again, Vandals Do Damage to Art Installations at Sunset Dunes, the Park at the Former Great Highway In at least the third incident of vandalism in the last few months at the former Great Highway, now the park Sunset Dunes, a public piano at the park was damaged “beyond repair” over the weekend, after another installation had just been vandalized.
SF News Heir to Hills Bros. Coffee Fortune ID'd as Owner of Tesla Parked In Alta Plaza, Arrested In Bizarre East Bay Incident We're now getting some clues about that Tesla that was found parked in the middle of a walkway in Alta Plaza Park last week, and it appears linked to a local resident from a prominent family who may be in the midst of a mental health crisis.
SF News Trump Administration Deports Livermore Man to Mexico, Even After Federal Judge Ordered Him to Be Kept Here Miguel Angel Lopez has lived in the Bay Area for 27 years, and is father to three US citizens. But the “law and order” Trump administration has ignored legal orders to let him stay here, and he was just deported to Mexico.
SF News With Large Looming Anti-Trump Protest Saturday, Lurie Vows Major Arrests If There’s Any Violence or Vandalism SF streets will be packed with people protesting Trump and ICE at Saturday’s “No Kings” rally, but in a Friday press conference with Mayor Lurie, Sheriff Paul Yamamoto declared “Our jails are prepared to accept guests with no reservations.”
SF News With Appeal Options Nearly Exhausted, Elizabeth Holmes Seeks Two-Year Sentence Reduction Two years into her already reduced, nine-year prison sentence, convicted healthcare fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has put her lawyers to work again in the hope of getting her sentence reduced by another two years due to her upstanding behavior as an inmate.
SF Politics After Getting Shoved to Ground and Handcuffed by Feds, Senator Alex Padilla Goes on Media Blitz California Senator Alex Padilla is getting newfound stardom after he was shockingly wrestled to the ground and handcuffed at a DHS press conference Thursday, and the little-known, soft-spoken senator just got a much higher-profile.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Another Medical Emergency at North Berkeley BART A second medical emergency in five days at North Berkeley BART disrupted train service Friday morning; a meth-laced greeting card was intercepted at Santa Rita Jail; and 'Luigi: The Musical' opens tonight.
SF News National Guard Presence to Remain In LA Into Next Week After Ninth Circuit Blocks Lower Court Order A federal judge issued a restraining order Thursday and declared President Trump's move to federalize the National Guard in Los Angeles "illegal," but two hours later, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit temporarily blocked that order.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Online System ‘Upgrade’ Knocks Untold Number of Customers Out of Their Accounts Trump signed his measure today blocking California’s electric vehicle mandate; Tesla’s robotaxi rollout has of course been delayed again; and PG&E’s so-called “upgrade” of their online system has locked a ton of customers out of their accounts.
SF News Last Month's BART Fire at San Leandro Was Actually a ‘Systemwide’ Issue, and Could Happen Again at Any Station BART officials are revising their explanation of why a fire broke out on the tracks of the San Leandro station and affected service for days, and the problem is apparently a “systemwide” issue that could come up again at any of the 50 BART stations.
SF News Federal Judge Says Berkeley Can Sweep Large Homeless Encampment, But That People With Disabilities Can Stay A mixed bag in a new legal ruling about a big and contentious Berkeley homeless encampment, as a judge says the encampment can be swept, but people with disabilities camping there are allowed to stay put and leave their stuff.
SF News Weekend Likely to Stay Cool With Sunny Friday Afternoon Forecast; Next Week May Be More of This June Gloom It's been a colder-than-average June thus far in San Francisco, with a stubborn marine layer that barely clears much of the city in the afternoons, keeping temperatures a few degrees below average.
