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.
SF News ICE Raids on Farms Making Their Way Up to NorCal, Farmworkers Statewide Are Terrified The Los Angeles ICE raids are spreading northward in California, with new workplace raids targeting immigrant farmworkers now taking place along the Central Coast and the San Joaquin Valley, and employees are terrified to go to work.
SF News A (Probably Drunk) Tesla Driver Parked Their Car In the Middle of Alta Plaza Park Someone managed to drive their Tesla Model S into the middle of Alta Plaza Park in Pacific Heights overnight and left it there.
SF News Two Palestinian Men Have Their Visas Invalidated at SFO After Arriving for Interfaith Mission A San Francisco supervisor made an emergency trip to SFO late Wednesday night after learning that two Palestinian men with valid visas who had traveled here to speak at interfaith events around the Bay were being denied entry to the US.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Woman Killed In Napa Homicide Was Pregnant With Twins Relatives of the woman found dead Sunday in Napa say she was pregnant with twins; the legal showdown between CA and the Trump administration over the National Guard deployment heads to court today; and over 200 people are dead in a plane crash in India.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Home of Man Killed By South SF Police Robbed By Opportunist Suspects Burglars targeted the home of Brian Montana, the man shot by South SF police in April, and his widow; the FBI is looking for a woman they say led an aggressive skirmish during an ICE protest in Concord; and the entire board of the Fulbright Scholarship program has resigned because of Trump meddling.
SF News Highway Patrol Releases Video of Oakland Car Chase Crash That Took the Life of Innocent Bystander Schoolteacher The May 28 killing of Oakland high school math teacher Dr. Marvin Boomer when he was struck by a speeding vehicle the CHP was chasing has set off more debate over high-speed police chases, and now the Highway Patrol has released video of the pursuit.
SF News Analysts Warn That Trump Could Send National Guard Here to San Francisco, Too We could see scenes in San Francisco like what’s happening in Los Angeles, as political analysts say it’s possible, and even likely, that Trump will send National Guard members or Marines into San Francisco as anti-ICE protests continue.
SF News Sunday Links: SFUSD Partially Ends Teacher Hiring Freeze, Launches 2025–26 Recruitment Musk's SpaceX site in Texas is now called the city of Starbase, which is already making moves to restrict public access to local beaches; Black Oakland business owners rally to support restaurant Pierre Pierre following a shooting there on Friday; and SFUSD has partially lifted its hiring freeze.
SF News Behavioral Health Emergency Temporarily Shuts Down Lower Deck of Bay Bridge An abandoned car and a "behavioral health emergency" led to a major traffic backup on the Bay Bridge and into downtown San Francisco Wednesday afternoon and evening.
SF News Oakland Teachers' Union and District Reach Deal to Avert One-Day Strike A planned one-day strike by teachers in Oakland is now being called off after a last-minute deal was announced by the teachers' union.
SF News Wow, It’s Now Been Five Whole Years Since JFK Drive Went Car-Free Golden Gate Park's east-west road formerly known as JFK Drive, now known as JFK Promenade, celebrated its five-year anniversary as a car-free thoroughfare with a Sunday party.
SF News SFPD Officer Violated Multiple Department Policies After Incident Involving His Son and Brother A San Francisco police officer was called out by the Department of Police Accountability for a June 2024 incident in which he reportedly failed to disclose that he saw his son assault a man, and he failed to activate his body-worn camera in time to document the incident.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Petaluma Man Arrested for Threatening Salesperson A Petaluma man was arrested for allegedly chasing down a door-to-door salesperson with a gun; a large fire damaged a warehouse in downtown Oakland; and the DEA raided an underground nightclub in Colorado, apparently looking to find undocumented migrants.
SF News Sunday Links: Jeffries, Booker Hold Sit-In At Capitol To Protest GOP Budget Plan A Tenderloin resident was critically injured and a dog was killed during a small apartment fire on Friday; SF State has completed a new state-funded student affordable housing complex; and Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker held a sit-in protest Sunday on the Capitol steps.
SF News Local Woman Targeted In Hate Incident On Way To Talk To Supervisors About Rise In Anti-Arab Hate Local organizer and activist Nadia Rahman wrote about a recent anti-Arab hate incident she experienced in front of City Hall on her way to speak to the Board of Supervisors about the rise in anti-Arab hate in San Francisco.
SF News Man Convicted Of Defrauding Bay Area Investors Over Fake Space Tech Company — For A Mere $50K Ramesh Nathan was convicted of wire fraud and money laundering for scamming investors, including veterans, with false claims about a fake space tech company and using their money for personal expenses.
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco Installs City’s First Curbside EV Chargers On Fillmore Street Salinas-based Taylor Farms is being sued by victims from an E. coli outbreak last November; Torani syrups celebrates 100 years of business in the Bay Area; and SF officials installed the city's first curbside EV chargers on Fillmore Street.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bibliophiles Celebrate Indie Bookstore Day Saturday As Amazon Holds Overlapping Sale A former San Bruno elementary school teacher was sentenced to 25 years in prison for molesting four of his students; Cornell removed Kehlani from its Slope Day lineup due to her pro-Palestine views; and Amazon is holding a major sale the same time as Independent Bookstore Day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 87-Year-Old Woman Injured In Fillmore Hit-and-Run An 87-year-old woman was seriously hurt and a hit-and-run collision in the Fillmore; the parents of the 19-year-old girl killed in that Piedmont Cybertruck crash are suing; and YouTube turns 20 years old.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Animal Remains Found In Fremont Identified The remains of a mystery animal found mutilated in Fremont are less of a mystery; Carlos Santa was hospitalized after a medical emergency; and rain is headed our way this weekend.
SF News Sunday Links: Sacramento Sheriff’s Deputy Fired For Shoving Prisoner To The Ground The opening of the new Sunset Dunes park was a big success, but opponents' concerns haven't been addressed; the city announced the winners of its first Culture Forward grant program; and a Sacramento sheriff's deputy was fired for shoving an elderly prisoner to the ground.
