Bay Area Sports 49ers Head Coach Kyle Shanahan Suffers 'Severe Concussion' in Car Accident Proving the 49ers' recent inability to avoid injuries isn't limited to the players on the field, the team announced that head coach Kyle Shanahan was involved in a serious car accident earlier this month that's left him with numerous non-life-threatening injuries that include a severe concussion.
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco's Century-Old Hotel Utah Saloon Once Again Up For Sale Mistah FAB responds after arrest over illegal fireworks; documentarian Ken Burns hits Bohemian Grove to deliver a lesson in history; and Tour de France officials forced to re-route final stage amidst raging wildfires.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rapper Mistah FAB Arrested For Allegedly Setting Off Illegal Fireworks A Butte County jury finds man guilty for starting 2024's devastating Park Fire; Oakland rapper Mistah FAB gets arrested for illegal firework display; and Destiny's Child is expected to release group's first new music since 2004.
Arts & Entertainment Santa Clara Mall to Host Ed Sheeran Lookalike Contest Ahead of Levi's Stadium Show Calling all pasty gingers around the Bay! The winner of Valley Fair Mall’s Ed Sheeran lookalike contest in Santa Clara Saturday will receive two floor tickets to Sheeran’s show that evening at Levi’s Stadium, plus other big prizes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Potential Modern Thai Hotspot Opens In SoMa Thailand's equivalent of Tom Colicchio is opening a new restaurant in SoMa tonight, a new Indian-inflected pop-up from a former Californios and Quince chef comes to the Mission, and Wood Tavern announces its closure in Rockridge, all in This Week in Food.
SF Politics Tens of Thousands of June Mail-In Ballots Tossed, Many Due to USPS’s New Postmark Policy More than a third of the 148,000 rejected mail-in ballots from California’s June primary were discarded because they were postmarked late, which experts largely attribute to a recent change in the US Postal Service’s postmarking policy.
SF News Former ABC 7 Correspondent Cecilia Vega Says Before Her Firing From '60 Minutes,' She Was Asked to Report Lies In her first public comments since being fired from 60 Minutes, Cecilia Vega says that the new management at CBS News under Bari Weiss engaged in some very shady pressure campaigns to slant the news toward Trump-world talking points.
SF Politics Landlord Sues California, Argues Section 8 Rules Violate Property Owners' Civil Rights A Sacramento landlord is suing California, arguing that requirements tied to accepting Section 8 tenants violate property owners’ Fourth Amendment rights, an argument that recently upended New York’s voucher anti-discrimination law.
Arts & Entertainment Flamingos Thriving at SF Zoo After Hatching of First Four Chicks In Nine Years The flamboyance of Chilean flamingos at the San Francisco Zoo had their first successful breeding season in a decade, and the zoo is happily sharing the story of this success.
SF News Woman From Ukraine Forcibly Detained at SFO In Viral Video; Feds Say She Overstayed Her Visa A 38-year-old photographer and cafe worker who's been living in San Francisco for over a decade was detained by ICE agents at SFO as she was returning from a trip to Portland Wednesday, in a video that has since gone viral.
SF News FBI Arrests 25 Human Trafficking Suspects, Rescues 53 Survivors In Bay Area During World Cup Eleven children were among the 53 human trafficking survivors rescued during FBI enforcement operations throughout the Bay Area during the World Cup, and 25 suspects were arrested.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Livermore Business Robbed During Little Fire Evacuation A Livermore business was robbed during the Little Fire evacuation on Tuesday; a movie shoot in downtown Santa Rosa included actors dressed as ICE agents; and RH has scrapped plans for a big new store and restaurant in Walnut Creek.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pixar Layoffs Were Delivered Via ‘Elastigirl’ Letterhead At-large Oakland City Council member Rowena Brown says she was assaulted and robbed by an acquaintance; a Ukrainian woman was detained by ICE at SFO; and Pixar delivered its layoff notices on letterhead featuring Mrs. Incredible.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Hold Hearing on Kaiser’s Push to Expand AI Use, Lay Off Mental Health Staff Behavioral health clinicians from Kaiser met with the SF Board of Supervisors Tuesday to discuss language in the company’s contract demands that would allow them to expand AI use for mental health care while laying off more employees.
SF News Cause of Death Revealed In Case of 37-Year-Old Woman on Big Sur Camping Trip; Foul Play Not a Factor Back in April we heard several disturbing details about a woman who was found dead in a river in the Ventana Wilderness area of Los Padres National Forest, near Big Sur. But now her official cause of death has been determined, and foul play was ruled out.
SF News Parents of Teen Victims Divided About Whether Marin County Girl Should Face Trial Over Deadly Crash The four sets of parents and guardians of the four teen girls who were killed in an April 2025 crash in Marin County are divided in how they believe the now 17-year-old driver in the case should be held accountable.
SF News Raccoon Chews Through SF Renters’ Wall as Landlord Takes Weeks to Resolve Infestation Two SF renters were forced to endure nightly chewing and scratching noises inside their wall by a mother raccoon who had crawled in through the exterior of the building and given birth inside, and it took two months for the landlord to resolve it.
SF Politics Yes, San Franciscans Will Be Voting on the Closure of the Great Highway One More Time In November Sunset District opponents of the closure of the Great Highway are trying again, and a new ballot measure aimed at reopening the road has now officially qualified for the November ballot.
SF News SF District Attorney Announces Charges Against 18 ‘Stud Alley’ Block Party Attendees Eighteen of the 20 people who were arrested during an annual, unauthorized block party during Pride weekend were set to appear in court on misdemeanor charges Thursday.
SF News Two Men Sentenced to Life For Revenge Killing of San Mateo Father In Front of Toddler Son Two men who were convicted in the October 2020 gang-related murder of a 30-year-old San Mateo man in his driveway, in front of his two-year-old son, have been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
SF News Authorities Investigate Fatal Shooting of Elderly Man at North Oakland Bus Stop A 74-year-old man was fatally shot at a bus stop on Martin Luther King Jr Way in North Oakland Wednesday morning, and investigators are seeking more information from the public about the incident.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Streets to Close for SF Marathon This Weekend Prepare for street closures Saturday night and Sunday morning for the SF Marathon; two San Jose police officers have been cleared in the fatal shooting of a man who'd just killed his son; and local HIV organizations have been blindsided by federal funding cuts.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Orcas Seen Hunting In Monterey Bay Nine striking workers were arrested Tuesday outside the C&H Sugar plant in Crockett; some glass fell from a 17th story window in downtown SF; and orcas were captured on video hunting dolphins in Monterey Bay.
SF Politics SF Civil Grand Jury Tells City to Fix Outdoor Warning System or Replace AlertSF A new report from the San Francisco Civil Grand Jury is urging Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors to adopt a better emergency warning system, as AlertSF has been deemed inadequate, and that old outdoor siren is too expensive to fix.
Business & Tech OpenAI Says Its Technology Acted on Its Own When It Hacked Another AI Company A pair of OpenAI models breached the systems of New York City-based AI repository Hugging Face after OpenAI relaxed its safeguards during an internal cybersecurity evaluation.
