SF News Man Gets Five-Year Prison Sentence for Huge Marijuana Grow In Los Padres National Forest Found After Dolan Fire A 56-year-old man will be doing five years in prison for running a giant illegal cannabis grow that was discovered in a Monterey-area national forest after the Dolan Fire, which itself was started by another rogue marijuana grower.
SF News 60-Year-Old Man Shot By Police In South San Francisco Is Identified The man who allegedly engaged police in a shootout Monday in South San Francisco and was fatally shot himself has been publicly identified.
SF News Three Suspects Sought After Attempted Robbery and Shooting on 17th Street San Francisco police are looking for three male suspects after an attempted robbery that turned violent early Wednesday in the Mission District.
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 Mendocino County Sheriff’s Deputy Accused of DUI and Hit-and-Run, Seemingly In Their Own Patrol Car It’s probably not the best idea for a sheriff’s deputy to drive to a bar in their patrol car, get intoxicated, and then drive with the dashcam recording, a lesson that one Mendocino County sheriff's deputy is currently learning all too well.
Arts & Entertainment Actor Jeremy Renner Describes Tahoe Near-Death Experience In New Memoir Oscar-nominated actor Jeremy Renner was as close to death as one can get after his 2023 snowplow accident in Tahoe, as he describes in his new memoir My Next Breath — and he may have, in fact, briefly died.
SF News Dazzling New Butterflies Introduced in Presidio to Replace Dazzling Butterflies That Went Extinct The Xerces blue butterfly that used to flutter across SF’s western dunes went extinct 80 years ago, but wildlife experts have identified the closest known relatives of that butterfly, and they just reintroduced a bunch of them in the Presidio.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Reptile Shop Finds Rare Two-Headed Snake A pet store in Berkeley that lays claim to the title of oldest reptile shop in the US, the East Bay Vivarium, has been taking care of a California king snake with a rare mutation — and even more rare is that it has survived over six months.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Harris Planning to Lay Into Trump In SF Speech Kamala Harris is reportedly planning to sharply criticize Trump in a speech in SF tonight; Oakland teachers are still intending to strike tomorrow; and we can expect some rain this weekend around the Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Betty White Postage Stamps Have Arrived We’re now learning that Monday’s South San Francisco police shooting may have been over a tree-trimming dispute; Berkeley City Council passed another one of those Gaza resolutions; and the Betty White forever stamps are now arriving at SF post offices.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Couple Seeks to Create Dinner Party Vibe at New, Music-Centric Potrero Spot Side A A new restaurant serving bistro and comfort-food classics, done up with a Californian attention to freshness and seasonality, along with a side of live DJs takes over the former Universal Cafe space as of this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Polk Gulch Wine and Spirits Emporium The Jug Shop Has Been Evicted Despite being an SF legacy business, 60-year-old SF wine and spirits store The Jug Shop appears to have served its last drop, as its owner confirms the shop has been evicted from their Polk Gulch location.
SF Politics SF Audit Finds City Hall Departments Overcharging Other City Hall Departments, Despite Nearly Billion-Dollar Deficit A report from the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst shows that City Hall departments are billing each other to the tune of nearly $80 million a year, and then not paying, allowing for confusion or even chicanery on the following year’s budget.
SF Politics Trump Administration Now Looking Into Building Immigrant Detention Camp In Solano County As part of its broader plan to use military facilities to house immigrants before systematically deporting them, the Trump administration is reportedly looking into creating a detention camp at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield.
Business & Tech Meta Launches Standalone AI App, Hopes It Will Compete With ChatGPT If the Meta brand weren't so tarnished, one could see its standalone AI app doing fairly well. But will anyone actually care or use this thing?
SF News Newsom to Set Strict Staffing Rules at For-Profit Mental Hospitals After Reporters Exposed Conditions A series of recent press exposés showed California’s for-profit mental health hospitals have way lower staffing than their nonprofit counterparts, so now Governor Newsom is pushing an emergency order forcing the for-profits to beef up their staffs.
SF News International Tourism to California Is Taking a Beating Under the Trump Administration Far fewer tourists from other countries are visiting California since Donald Trump took office again, and visits from Canada and Mexico are down particularly sharply, amidst immigration anxiety and tariff resentment.
Arts & Entertainment Designer Ken Fulk Has Not Sold His 'Magic Factory' In SoMa, Will Start Throwing Events There Again It looked like the end of an era for Ken Fulk's loft-like office and event space on Seventh Street in SoMa when he put it on the market three years ago. But it has not sold, and Fulk now says he's going to get back to throwing parties there.
SF News Police Fatally Shoot Armed Man Who Was Firing Gun In South San Francisco South San Francisco police shot and killed a man Monday evening in what's been described as a shootout.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Teachers Planning Strike This Week Oakland teachers are planning a one-day strike over labor conditions on May 1; a small earthquake rocked Sonoma this morning; and George Kittle is now the highest-paid tight end in the NFL.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cybertruck Gets Stuck In Lake Mud Near Truckee Two suspects from Vallejo have been arrested in connection with an April 13 murder in Vacaville; details have emerged about a South Lake Tahoe party where four died; and a foolish Cybertruck owner tried to take "Wade Mode" too far.
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District’s Beauty Bar Reopening Soon, Getting Its Mural Fully Restored We’re looking at a June reopening date for Mission Street’s beloved kitschy nightclub Beauty Bar, which will be under new ownership, and it’s getting its popular mural redone by the same artist who originally painted it ten years ago.
SF Politics Amid Layoffs and Leadership Change, SF Parks Alliance Appears Under Financial Strain A local nonprofit that has had its hands in many prominent projects around San Francisco, and that was linked to the Mohammed Nuru corruption scandal, appears to be under a significant financial burden after some of its funding disappeared.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jewish Deli-Inspired Restaurant (With Cocktails) Coming to the Marina The Causwells team is pivoting their second space, which opened last year as the low-ABV cocktail and snack bar Lilah, and opening a new Jewish deli-inspired concept with high-ABV drinks.
