SF News Day Around the Bay: DOJ Opens Investigation Into MLB Over Pride-Night Cap Fiasco New lawsuit alleges ex-employee of Fremont speech and therapy center of sexually assaulting two-year-old boy, the U.S. is on to the knockout round in the World Cup with a big win over Australia, and DOJ opens new investigation into MLB over SF Giants Pride night protest.
SF News Tennis Group Accused of Hogging Inner Richmond Courts Prompts New System on Weekends Following dozens of complaints that a private tennis group was dominating access to the Rossi Park tennis courts by exploiting the first-come, first-served system, SF Rec and Park has rolled out weekend morning reservations for all the park’s courts.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Bye to Bar Brucato Bar Brucato calls it quits — though the distillery lives on — Causwells opens a next door Martini Room, and Millennium reopens a month after closing in Rockridge, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Court Overturns Murder Conviction In 2019 BART Stabbing, Citing Incomplete Jury Instructions A man convicted of second-degree murder in a fatal BART stabbing over a stolen shoe will either face a retrial or receive a reduced conviction of voluntary manslaughter after an appeals judge found the jury had not been properly instructed on how to evaluate his self-defense claim.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: The Era of $2,000 Tenderloin Studios Here we are, in 2026, over a decade after the launch of Apartment Sadness as a column on SFist. And while some things have changed, not a lot has changed except that everything costs more than it did 10 years ago.
SF News SFPD Raids Mission District Property, Possibly In Search of Illegal Gambling Machines A large law enforcement presence, including two tactical vehicles, descended on a Mission District alley Thursday evening as part of a raid that neighbors say was likely targeting illegal gambling machines.
SF News SFPD Officer Shot In Bayview After Chase Released From Hospital, Says 'I Was Doing My Job That Night' Brittany Taylor, the SFPD officer who was shot and critically wounded by a robbery suspect on the night of May 31 following a chase into the Bayview neighborhood, has been released from the hospital.
SF News 39-Year-Old Oakland Man Charged With Hate Crimes and Assault After Castro Vandalism Incident An Oakland man with a pro-Charlie Kirk message emblazoned on his vehicle was arrested and has now been charged with multiple felonies, including assault with a deadly weapon.
SF News Mother and Daughter Rescued at Baker Beach After Sneaker Wave Pulls Them Offshore Bystanders and first responders rescued a woman and her preteen daughter after a sneaker wave swept them offshore at Baker Beach Thursday, as the NWS warns of sneaker waves and dangerous rip currents along the coast through Sunday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Area Transit Getting Crowded Again Public transit in the Bay is getting close to pre-pandemic levels of ridership (but not BART); Oakland police are seeking help finding a missing teen; and Christian Pulisic is out for today's Australia match due to injury.
SF News Day Around the Bay: RIP, Jeannette Etheredge, Grand Dame of North Beach Jeannette Etheredge, the longtime impresario of Tosca, has died at age 85; the backers of the billionaire tax tell Newsom they're willing to negotiate to pull the measure; and former President Barack Obama spoke at the dedication of his new presidential center/library in Chicago today.
SF News Mission HOA Still Fighting Nuns’ Soup Kitchen Ten Years After High-Profile Battle The long-planned launch of a soup kitchen at 15th and Mission in San Francisco last spring that's run by French nuns — and funded by Tony Robbins — quickly ramped up a years-long dispute with the building’s homeowners association.
Arts & Entertainment Daughter of Film Director William Wyler and Prominent SF Philanthropist Found Dead With Husband In Running Car There was a strange news item this week involving a well known San Francisco philanthropist couple, Judith and Wylie Sheldon, who were both found dead of unknown causes in a still-running SUV along a Northern California freeway.
Bay Area Sports Mayor Daniel Lurie, Supervisor Matt Dorsey Add to Chorus of Condemnation for Giants Pride Night Controversy The SF Giants continue to face a public relations fiasco in their hometown and across the nation, even as prominent Republicans have chosen to dig in on the side of the self-described Christian pitchers who decided to score points with MAGA World on Pride Night.
SF News Two Injured In Stabbing on SF's Nob Hill, Including Person Believed to Be Security Guard Two people were injured during a stabbing on Sutter Street in SF’s Nob Hill neighborhood Thursday, including one person believed to be a security guard, with one victim suffering a traumatic injury.
SF Politics Billionaire Tax Petition Signatures Confirmed, and Coalition Forms to Battle Against the Ballot Measure The billionaire tax, aka the California Billionaire Tax Act, has officially garnered enough signatures to head to the November ballot, and you can rest assured the billionaire class is most unhappy about it — and so is Newsom.
SF News Wrongful Death Lawsuit Claims Outer Sunset Landlord Killed Tenant to Boost Property Sale Outer Sunset landlord Philippe Chagniot is accused in a new lawsuit of killing his tenant Eric Bigone to boost the sale of the property, and Chagniot’s wife allegedly asked Bigone’s son the day after his father’s death when he would be vacating the unit.
Arts & Entertainment Oasis to Reopen July 17, Now as Owner of Its Building Oasis Arts, thanks to a last-minute foundation grant late last year, is now the proud owner of the Oasis club building, and after a light remodel and some internal restructuring the last six months, the venue reopens in July.
SF News Suspect Flees Sheriff’s Deputies Down 101 and Across Golden Gate Bridge In Bullet-Riddled Car When sheriff’s deputies pulled over a driver in a bullet-riddled car speeding down Highway 101 in Marin, he claimed he’d been in a road rage incident near Novato and refused to get out of the car — then he fled across the Golden Gate Bridge.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: In-N-Out Pops Up In South America The 17-year-old accused in the March 16 crash in East Oakland that killed three people has been released; T&T Supermarket has opened in San Jose; and In-N-Out just did a pop-up in South America.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Golden Gate Bridge Tolls to Increase By 50 Cents July 1 California State Parks made its “Historian Passport” featuring 30+ parks available for free for a limited time; Apple prices are due to increase soon; and Golden Gate Bridge tolls are going up by 50 cents starting next month.
SF News Annual Parcel Tax Measure to Fund Muni Makes It Onto November Ballot San Francisco voters will decide in November whether to approve a new parcel tax on property owners aimed at helping close Muni's budget deficit and avoid service cuts.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bay Area Rap Star LaRussell Brings His Music Troupe to 'America's Got Talent' Vallejo-born rapper LaRussell brought the Oakland Collab Choir with him to perform on the "Auditions" episode of America's Got Talent Tuesday night.
SF Politics ‘Dumb Law’ Contest Winners Prompt SF Supes to Amend Residential Ceiling Height Rule After a two-decade push from an SF homeowner — one of the winners of Supervisor Wong’s “Dumb Law” contest — the city is moving to align its ceiling height requirement with state standards, paving the way for residents to legalize rental units in their homes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Club DeLuxe Reopens Thursday as The DeLuxe, With Live Music Every Night The Upper Haight's Club DeLuxe will be reborn Thursday night under the name The DeLuxe, and under the new ownership of Mr. Tipple’s Jazz Club owner Jay Bordeleau and former Club Deluxe bartender and musician Christian Beaulieu.
