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.
SF News Former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan And Her Husband Plot Outer Sunset Pot Dispensary With Apothecarium Team Quondam Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, the first woman elected to that office in 2011 after her work as a member of Oakland's City Council, has some new, shall we say, high ambitions. Quan,
SF News Fire At Noriega And 21st Leaves 3 Injured, 9 Displaced A 2-alarm fire at 1814 21st Avenue has left three people injured and nine Sunset residents without a home. The fire began at 6:41pm on Friday night and according to SFFD, was
SF News Get Some ID Before You Let That PUC Worker Come In Your House It's kind of scary that when many of us see a person in an "official" looking vest, we assume that the person is actually "official." (Remember this guy?) But that trust is what
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outerlands To Reopen Soon, But With A New Chef For those of you ardent fans of cult favorite, critically raved-about, Outer Sunset restaurant Outerlands, it's been a very impatient couple of months. They closed for renovations after the new year in order
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Zigzag Stairs up to Grand View Park, as seen by Gerard Livernois.
SF News N-Judah Hits Pedestrian At 9th Avenue A pedestrian was taken away in a stretcher after being struck by an outbound N-Judah train. The accident took place at 9th and Judah within the last two hours. Witness Bonnie Burton reported
SF News Weather Report: Stop The Outer Sunset Myth As of 11:52 a.m., your editor has politely IM'd several friends to request that they bike messenger us a box of donuts and a soft blanket posthaste. Why? Because the sun
SF News Sup. Katy Tang Not a Fan of Naughty Massage Parlors Supervisor Katy Tang, who succeeded Carmen Chu to head up District 4 in February by mayoral appointment, proposed some tougher legislation today to crack down on brothels/handjob parlors fronting as massage parlors
SF News Man Stabbed In Botched Outer Sunset Mugging The increasingly hip Outer Sunset just got a little more gritty this week. A man was stabbed in the chest while waiting for a friend near 25th Avenue and Ortega Street around 9
SF News Video: Armed Thugs Rob Two Local Pharmacies For OxyContin As you know, we're completely mesmerized by SFPD's Vimeo channel, which the department has been using to crowdsource justice lately. A local version of America's Most Wanted, if you will. The latest video
SF News Stomach Flu Outbreak Prompts S.F. Private School Closure Noted private school St. Ignatius College Preparatory canceled classes for the day after an outbreak of the stomach flu struck an estimated 50 students. Ugh. According to SF Examiner, "the campus will be
SF News Sunset District Home Invasion Leaves Two Women In Critical Condition A 76-year-old woman was attacked in her home on 20th Avenue near Moraga in the Sunset District Thursday night. A second 56-year-old woman delivering food to the elderly woman's home around 9:20
SF News Squirrel Monkey Stolen From SF Zoo The San Francisco is asking for the public's help to retrieve a reportedly stolen squirrel monkey. "This morning zoo staff discovered a 17-year-old male squirrel monkey, 'Banana-Sam,' was missing from an exhibit
SF News Self-Shooter Fakes Home Invasion Robbery Story On Sunday night, a man near the SFSU campus reported to be police being shot during a gruesome home invasion robbery. Which: not true. The man, who sustained non-life-threatening injuries, later confessed to
SF News 8 Injured In 19 Avenue Crash Oh oh. 19 Avenue struck again as 8 people were injured in a vehicle crash in the Sunset District on Monday afternoon. According to BCN (via SFAppeal), "a gold Ford Taurus was heading
SF News Suspects in Home Invasion Caught on Tape You'll recall the home invasion robbery we mentioned last week, which happened in a Sunset district home, and in which one 40-year-old man ended up dead. As SFist commenter Joel was quick to
SF News Man Shot, Killed In Sunset Home Invasion An entire familyA possibly unrelated group of people was tied up and one man was murdered in a home invasion robbery on Moraga Street last evening. As the Appeal reports, two suspects, both
SF News Another Sunset Pot Bust More than 100 pot plants were found yesterday afternoon, near St. Ignatius College Preparatory School. This is part of the city's "dismantling of a large-scale pot-growing operation in the city," according to reports.
