SF News Great Highway Park Effort Receives $1 Million Grant On Friday, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department announced the award of a $1 million grant from the California State Coastal Conservancy Board to help protect the proposed park from flooding and construct safe walkways for pedestrians.
SF Politics Car Lovers Holding ‘Car Rally’ Thursday To Protest Car-Free Great Highway Plan Some people are not fans of the car-free Great Highway proposal slated for SF’s November ballot, and they’re organizing a car caravan Thursday morning to honk their displeasure at the idea.
SF News Residents of Westside Neighborhoods In SF Meet With PG&E About Frequent Power Outages SF Supervisor Myrna Melgar organized a special meeting with PG&E Monday for residents of her district frustrated with the fact that they've experienced multiple power outages so far this year.
SF News Sunset District Police Officer Injured While Trying To Stop Car Break-In An SFPD officer responding to a report of a car break-in was injured Wednesday night when the suspects' getaway car dragged him down the street.
Arts & Entertainment Go Enjoy This Weekend: Sunset Night Market, Greek Food Fest, and Haight Street Fair It’s technically the final weekend of the summer, and SF has free-admission culture fairs and festivals all over town, culminating with Sunday’s 44th annual Haight-Ashbury Street Fair.
SF News Developer Behind Absurd 50-Story Tower Proposal In the Sunset Sues City For Not Approving It More intentional drama is being generated over the implausible 50-story condo tower a developer is proposing to build in the Sunset District, as after City Hall rejected it for the umpteenth time last month, the developer is now suing the city.
SF News Progress Hardware, Yancy’s Saloon Both Still Shuttered After Last Week’s Inner Sunset Fire Last week’s three-alarm fire at Irving Street and Eighth Avenue is still creating fallout, as Yancy’s Saloon is still closed, and Progress Hardware has turned to crowdfunding in hopes that the shop can survive.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Firefighters Contain Two-Alarm Blaze In Sunset District A two-alarm residential fire in the Sunset left two injured Thursday night; Sen. Dianne Feinstein flies home today for the August recess; and Taylor Swift fans are likely to be lining up when the parking lot at Levi's opens today at 2 p.m.
SF Politics Sunset NIMBYs Once Again Appealing 90-Unit Affordable Housing Project at Irving Street and 28th Avenue After losing a court battle as well as a previous government appeal, the “No Slums in the Sunset” crowd is back with another appeal of an affordable housing project, this time claiming concerns over “soil vapor.”
SF News Tenant of Sunset District Home That Exploded Due to Alleged Drug Lab Re-Arrested on Murder Charge Darron Price, the Sunset District resident who was arrested in February after his home exploded due to what investigators say was a leaky butane tank that was part of an illegal drug manufacturing lab, is now facing a new murder charge and was re-arrested.
SF News Supervisor Introduces New Method to Stop Catalytic Converter Thieves: Put SFPD Logos On the Converters District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio is launching a free program to etch vehicle ID numbers and paint SFPD logos on catalytic converters, hoping to deter thieves with an idea that may be just crazy enough to work.
SF News Five People Injured In Early Morning Sunset Fire, Believed to Be Caused by E-Bike Battery Two people were injured leaping from windows to escape the fire, with three others injured by the fire itself, as an early Tuesday morning fire at the Sunset’s Avalon Sunset Towers is believed to have been caused by an e-bike’s lithium-ion battery.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Explosion Suspect Pleads Not Guilty Heavy gunfire rang out at Ninth and Howard in SoMa today in a driveby; Sunset District explosion suspect Darron Price entered not guilty pleas today; and someone wearing a 'Scream' mask freaked out people in Sonoma Plaza.
SF News Sunset Home Explosion Suspect Granted Bail, Ordered Released, Neighboring Family Remains Homeless Darron Price, the man whose alleged hash oil operation is suspected of blowing up his home and killing his wife, has been ordered released to home detention. It’s unclear what home he has to go to, but a neighboring family is also very much without a home.
SF News 51-Year-Old Woman Killed In Sunset Explosion ID'd; GoFundMe Launched For Injured Caregiver The woman killed in last week's home explosion in the Sunset District has been identified, and it was the wife of the suspect whose alleged home drug lab is believed to have caused the explosion.
SF News New Video From Next Door Shows Moment of Sunset Home Explosion Newly obtained surveillance video from one or two doors away from the 22nd Avenue home that exploded Thursday shows the moment of the blast and its immediate impact on nearby cars.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Sunset Home Explosion Was Allegedly Making PCP and/or Hash Oil In the House Police arrested a 53-year-old San Francisco man Friday on suspicion of manslaughter, drug manufacturing, and child endangerment, in connection with the deadly explosion in the Sunset District on Thursday that destroyed two homes and damaged several others.
SF News Cause of Sunset District House Explosion May Be Related to Mysterious Barrels and Cylinders Found In Rubble It may be days or weeks before we get anything more definitive about the cause of yesterday's massive home explosion on 22nd Avenue, but with speculation running rampant in the last 24 hours, we at least now have a clue.
SF News Body Recovered at Site of House Explosion and Fire In the Sunset; Six Homes and Five Cars Damaged In Blast There is still no explanation for a dramatic explosion that occurred at a single-family home on 22nd Avenue in the Sunset District Thursday morning, but rumors of a fatality were confirmed when a body was recovered Thursday night.
SF News 'Possible Gas Explosion' and Fire Destroys Sunset Home, Damages Others A fire quickly consumed and destroyed a home in San Francisco's Sunset District, and the fire reportedly began with or included an explosion that shattered windows in neighboring homes.
SF News SF's Sunset District Terrorized Monday by Two Home Invasions, and an Armed Robbery/Carjacking At least one group of people with guns spent all day Monday committing several crimes across the Sunset District.
SF Politics Judge Tosses NIMBY Legal Motion Against Sunset 100% Affordable Housing Project The “No Slums in the Sunset” crowd is slumming it today, as their restraining order to stop the project was thrown out, but they’re still suing the city to prevent a 100% affordable housing project at 26th Avenue and Irving Streets.
SF News 87-Year-Old Woman Goes Missing In Sunset District, Later Found Stabbed An 87-year-old woman went for a walk in the Sunset District on Thursday evening and her family reported her missing after she did not return within a couple of hours. Then a few hours after that, she was found stabbed multiple times but still alive.
SF News Showdown Looms Between SF Board of Supervisors and Sunset Residents Angrily Opposed to Affordable Housing One of San Francisco's least-dense neighborhoods, where the city probably should have been pushing for more multifamily and affordable housing for decades, is the site of the latest showdown between city leaders and NIMBY residents.
SF News Thousands Gather in Peaceful Protest at SF's Ocean Beach A demonstration billed as a Sunset Solidarity March for Black Lives Matter took place Tuesday afternoon along the Great Highway by Ocean Beach, and images appeared to show at least 1,000 people in attendance.
