SF Politics Porter, Steyer, Becarra Push For Single-Payer Health Care In Their Campaigns For Governor While California Governor Gavin Newsom was unsuccessful at implementing single-payer health care during his reign, three 2026 candidates have all included promises to fight for CalCare in their platforms.
Video: Sideshow Participant In Hayward Crashes Stolen Vehicle Into Semi Truck A sideshow in Hayward consisting of about 60 cars early Saturday morning culminated in a participant crashing into a semi truck then abandoning it in the middle of an intersection.
SF News SFPD Arrests Driver In Chinatown Crash That Killed One Pedestrian, Injured Another The elderly driver who allegedly crashed into a Chinatown building while parallel parking last month, killing one person and injuring another, was arrested for vehicular manslaughter Friday, and it turns out he crashed into the building from across the street.
SF News Saturday Links: Man Suspected of Killing Laney College Coach Ruled Incompetent to Stand Trial Historical Native American remains were found at UC Berkeley; oil prices went down by nine percent following the re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz; and Cedric Irving, who’s suspected of killing Lane College Coach John Beam was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial.
SF News Day Around the Bay: NPR Receives $113 Million From Two Donors, the Largest of Its Kind A building in SF’s Duboce Triangle was evacuated due to a suspected gas leak; longtime local angel investor and political donor Ron Conway announced he has a rare form of cancer; and NPR received the largest donation in its history from two major donors.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Anyone Want to Buy a Legacy Taqueria? El Faro is in trouble again, popular smashburger pop-up Maillards has a new Outer Sunset home, and Eat Americana has closed its doors in the Richmond, all in This Week in Food.
Arts & Entertainment New Mural at Oakland Ice Center Pays Tribute to Skaters Alysa Liu and Kristi Yamaguchi Bay Area artist Julie Engelmann completed a new 100-foot mural on the exterior of Oakland Ice Center honoring Olympic figure skaters, Alysa Liu and Kristi Yamaguchi, who both trained there during their professional careers.
SF News East Bay Company Dumps Debris Into Customer’s Yard Over Unpaid Bill, But They Moved Out Frustrated over an unpaid debt and faced with a $1,000 bill to discard a giant pile of junk at the dump, an East Bay dumpster company instead unloaded it back into the nonpaying customer's yard, but the problem is they moved out when they rented the dumpster.
SF Politics AOC Declines to Endorse Former Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti In Awkward Video Maybe this was a strategic decision on her part, but Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clearly declined to offer an endorsement of Saikat Chakrabarti when asked by a reporter this week about his primary race in SF.
SF News Eight Years Later, the First of Those Fancy New Trash Cans Arrive on SF Streets After the very long and some would say unnecessary selection, design, public comment, and fabrication process, the first of those fancy new, custom-made rubbish bins have arrived on San Francisco streets.
SF News SF Now Second Only to Baltimore In Overdose Deaths New data from the Centers for Disease Control finds that Baltimore and San Francisco are, among major cities, home to the highest concentrations of overdose deaths in the last year.
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 at Hippie Hill Is Still Canceled, But a Lot of People Will Probably Show Up Anyway, Per Usual While 4/20 at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park has been canceled for the past three years due to budget cuts and low sponsorship, a few thousand diehards still show up annually to mark the occasion.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Philz Coffee Reverses Pride Flag Policy After Backlash, Boycott Threats After a truly baffling decision by its CEO to demand the removal of Pride flags and other flags from all of its stores, Philz Coffee will go back to allowing the flags, and the CEO has issued an apology.
SF News Suspected Car Thief Fleeing Police Crashes Head-On Into SF Muni Bus A driver who was being pursued by San Francisco police Thursday suffered serious injuries after he collided with a Muni bus and had to be extricated from the vehicle using the Jaws of Life.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: California Schools See Enrollment Drops Enrollment is down across the board at California schools, both public and private; an at-risk 80-year-old woman is missing in SF; and singer D4vd has been arrested for the murder of his underage girlfriend who went missing in 2024.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Ramon Earthquakes Causing Widespread Leaks The swarm of small earthquakes in San Ramon has been causing more underground damage than previously realized; that AI-run boutique in Cow Hollow gets bad reviews; and Utah is seeing a whole lot of measles.
Business & Tech Meta Is Creating an AI Version of Mark Zuckerberg to Attend Meetings for Him Imagine a world where your boss says she doesn't have time to meet with you, but she's sending her AI to meet with you instead. That world may not, in fact, be too far in the future.
SF News SF Supe Pushes to Ban Smoking on Bar Patios, as Most Bay Area Cities Have Already Done Supervisor Myrna Melgar has introduced a ban on smoking at outdoor bar and tavern patios in San Francisco, which would make it one of the last major cities in the Bay Area to do so, and some local venues fear the ban would kill their business.
SF News Mercedes Driver Charged With Murder After Hit-and-Run In SoMa The 30-year-old man who allegedly ran into and then ran over an elderly woman in SoMa on Monday has now been charged with murder.
SF News Disturbing Details Emerge In Death of 37-Year-Old Woman on Big Sur Camping Trip Friends say they're heartbroken and details remain sketchy following the death last week of a 37-year-old woman in the Ventana Wilderness area of Los Padres National Forest, near Big Sur.
SF News SF DA Charges Couple With Murder Over Toddler’s Fentanyl Overdose Death In addition to earlier charges of felony child endangerment, the district attorney's office has added murder to the charges against an SF couple whose two-year-old daughter died of a fentanyl overdose in February — the city’s first time filing a murder charge in such a case.
SF Politics With Swalwell Out, New Governor's Race Poll Has Republicans In Lead, But Democrats on the Rise Several Democrats in the race for California governor gained some ground in a new poll conducted just in the last two days, following the swift downfall of Eric Swalwell, but the two Republican candidates still hold a small lead.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Yolo County Explosion Defendants Make Court Appearance Six of the people indicted last week in Yolo County over last July's fireworks explosion are appearing in court; two Inner Sunset buildings had to be evacuated due to an electrical pole fire; and a missing Berkeley man has been found alive.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Snap Inc. Lays Off 1,000 Employees, Because of AI BART has had two major train issues during rush hour in the last day; a wealthy benefactor in LA kicked Eric Swalwell out of his house; and Snap Inc. is laying off 1,000 employees.
SF News NYC SantaCon Organizer Accused of Diverting $1 Million In Donations to Personal Account When SF’s organizers disavowed SantaCon in 2014 due to the chaos it brought the city every Christmas, one of the event’s organizers in NYC leaned into the chaos by forming a charity — at first to appease officials and then later to allegedly collect and divert funds for personal use.
