SF News Day Around the Bay: Judge Ends VTA Worker Strike A judge in Santa Clara County called an end to the VTA workers' three-week strike; an elderly fisherman from Oakland was pulled from the waters at Rodeo Beach Tuesday; and imported cars and car parts are about to get significantly more expensive thanks to Trump's 25% tariff.
Bay Area Sports SF Giants Season Preview: It’s the Dodgers’ World, Can Buster Posey Ruin It for Them? Giants legend and fan favorite Buster Posey is now running the team's baseball operations, but as the new season starts Thursday, he faces a challenging landscape where the defending World Champion bum Dodgers keep getting richer with superstar talent.
SF News SFPD Encourages More Ricci Wynne Sex Assault Victims to Come Forward In a sign that they clearly think “anti-crime” crusader and indicted child pornographer Ricci Wynne has plenty more skeletons in his closet, the SFPD is putting out a public dragnet asking that any of Wynne’s victims come speak to their investigators.
SF News Last Week’s Big 40-Arrest Raid at Market and Van Ness Produced Exactly Zero Criminal Charges A much-publicized March 19 drug bust at Market and Van Ness got plenty of headlines for resulting in 40 arrests, but in a much-less reported development, absolutely none of the people arrested will face any criminal charges.
SF News Purported 'Zizian' Follower Enters Not Guilty Plea In Vallejo Murder Maximilian Snyder, one of seven members of a strange, cult-like group with Bay Area origins who are currently in police custody for a series of seemingly linked crimes, made another court appearance on Wednesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Network Celeb Stephanie Izard's New Sunnyvale Restaurant Opens Monday Valley Goat, the much-anticipated Bay Area debut restaurant from multi-hyphenate chef and food-world celebrity Stephanie Izard, will open its doors in Sunnyvale on March 31.
SF News Woman Charged With Stealing $56,000 Worth of Merch From SF Sephora and Luxury Eyewear Stores A 22-year-old woman stands accused for her alleged role in an organized theft ring that plucked a total of $56,000 in merchandise from local Sephora and high-end sunglasses shops, and was on supervised release at the time of the thefts.
SF News Oakland Man Accused of Trying to Sexually Traffic Woman Who Mistook His Car for Uber A man has been arrested and appeared in court Tuesday in Oakland to face a gun charge, but investigators say that he tried to force a woman he didn't know into prostitution earlier this month.
Arts & Entertainment 'Justice For Heklina' Protest March and Vigil Planned on Folsom Street Monday Following a march taking place in London to protest the apparent police bias that has held up the investigation into the 2023 death of SF drag legend Heklina, a similar march and vigil, with two "angry drag shows," will be happening here in SF.
SF News Water Main Break Leaves Bernal Heights’ Cortland Avenue With Sinkhole, Cars Diverted A block of Cortland Avenue at Moultrie Street is fully shut down to car traffic Wednesday morning after a water main ruptured, but 24-Divisadero buses are still running normal routes.
SF News Humpday Headlines: A Tesla Drive-In Movie Theater? A judge could decide the fate of the VTA workers' strike; The Atlantic has published all of the Signal thread from those Trump officials; and Elon Musk is looking to open a Tesla charging station that doubles as a 24-hour diner and drive-in theater.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Napster Still Exists, Somehow Just Sold for $207 Million A toxic algae bloom is killing sea lions all over the California coast; Elon Musk’s ‘What Did You Do Last Week?’ emails are now creating bouncebacks because the mailbox is full; and the dead, dusty bones of Napster just sold for more than $200 million.
Bay Area Sports Stanford Fires Football Coach Troy Taylor After Bullying Scandal, People Want Them To Hire Andrew Luck The once-mighty Stanford football program just fired its coach amid a four-season tailspin, and some are clamoring for star quarterback Andrew Luck, who’s been recently hired to run the football program from an administrative standpoint.
SF News Watch: Older Woman In Berkeley Gives a Whoopin’ to Pro-Trump Counterprotester Who Tried to Stun-Gun Her The Bay Area’s latest viral video star is a woman who opened a can of whoop-ass on some young Trumper half her age after he tried to stun-gun her at a Berkeley Tesla protest Saturday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Appears to Be Plotting a New Fine Dining Restaurant Where His Old One Used to Be In the Westin St. Francis There are few details and zero confirmations so far from the hotel or the MINA Group, but all signs point to an impending return of celebrity chef Michael Mina to the grand space off the lobby at the Westin St. Francis, after an ongoing renovation is complete.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Brucato, a New Restaurant and Distillery Tasting Room, Opening Next Month In the Mission A trendy new local maker of excellent amari — Italian-style, herbal digestif and aperitif liqueurs — Brucato Amaro, has set an opening date for their first tasting room, which is doubling as a full-service restaurant and cocktail bar.
SF Politics Ousted Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone Speaks Out, Blasts Both Lurie and Breed Freshly fired SF Police Commissioner VP Max Carter-Oberstone gave a lengthy exit interview, and painted both Mayor Lurie and ex-Mayor London Breed as being imperious, vindictive, and defensively secretive.
SF News San Francisco Federal Buildings Spared, For Now, as GSA Pares Down Its List of Real Estate to Sell Two federally owned office buildings in San Francisco, one dating to the 1930s and the other a contemporary architectural landmark built less than 20 years ago, are not on the drastically pared-down list of "assets for disposition" now on the General Services Administration website.
SF News Union Square Chanel Store Rammed by Car In Apparent Smash-and-Grab Attempt Yet another would-be smash-and-grab was unsuccessful at the Union Square Chanel store early Monday morning, though the would-be burglars did serious damage to the storefront, and police suspect the same burglars tried this again at a nearby McDonald’s.
SF News Oakland and Half Moon Bay Both Broke High-Temp Records Monday This mini-heatwave we're having, a welcome introduction to the official spring season — even though the Bay may still be in for some wintry turns before all is said and done — included some record-setting high temperatures on Monday.
Arts & Entertainment Doja Cat, Hozier, and Tyler, the Creator to Headline Outside Lands 2025 The lineup is out, as expected, this morning, and it includes several of the guessed-at acts that were teased in videos by the promoters over the weekend.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Santa Clara County Raises Trans Flag The trans flag has been raised in front of Santa Clara County's Government Center, where it will remain indefinitely; the innocent passenger killed in a high-speed-chase crash in Pittsburg has been identified; and a Trump-appointed judge on the Ninth Circuit made a questionable gun video.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF City Hall Bad at Rooting Out Conflicts of Interest A new report confirms what everyone knows about SF City Hall and conflicts of interest; Willie Brown is auctioning off some of his wardrobe; and the Trump administration has made its first of likely many jaw-dropping military intelligence flubs.
Bay Area Sports March Madness Is Back at the Chase Center This Weekend, But Ticket Demand Is Surprisingly Weak The March Madness college basketball “Sweet 16” games come back to the Chase Center Thursday, but ticket prices for the games here are slumping, thanks to low-interest match-ups of schools that are located 2,000 or so miles away.
SF News Flight to Shanghai Diverted to SFO, Because the Pilot Forgot Their Passport The latest major US airline snafu does not involve any of Elon Musk’s DOGE staffing cuts, but instead just some United Airlines pilot forgetting their passport, forcing an emergency landing at SFO.
