SF News Oakland Auto Glass Repair Shops Say Business Slow Due to Fewer Car Break-Ins A decrease in Oakland smash-and-grabs and vandalism has led to a downturn in business for local auto glass repair shops, which report that cracked windshields from road debris are now a more reliable source of revenue.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: I-80 Closed In Placer County Due to Pigs An overturned big rig carrying live pigs caused a major disruption on westbound I-80 in Placer County; two hikers went off trail near the Golden Gate and needed rescue; and Levi's has turned their covered-up stadium logo into a viral campaign.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Jail Oversight Official to Be Investigated For Misconduct An SF supervisor is urging the inspector general to investigate William Palmer, the president of the SF Sheriff's Dept Oversight Board; an Oakland woman allegedly set a car on fire and swung a stick at police; and prices for World Cup tickets at Levi's are skyrocketing.
Arts & Entertainment Verdi Building Demolition In North Beach Reveals Long-Hidden ‘Ghost Sign’ From Over 100 Years Ago SF’s map of “ghost signs” recently gained a new addition following the partial demolition of the Verdi building in North Beach, which revealed a large, hand-painted ad for “Carnation Mush” dating back to at least 1914.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 32-Year-Old Restaurant Group Behind Left Bank and LB Steak Closing All Its Locations, Laying Off 300 We now have some dismal news from the local restaurant world, as a well established and seemingly successful restaurant group is ceasing operations and citing the "challenging operating environment" around the Bay.
SF Politics Trump's War on ABC Comes For Local Affiliate KGO/ABC 7 ABC 7 has put out a call to viewers to make their voices heard to the FCC as the Trump administration continues its unconstitutional and baldly fascist war on ABC, all because Whoopi Goldberg and Jimmy Kimmel have been mean to him.
SF News Delays at SFO Skyrocket Following Runway Closure and New FAA Restrictions The average delay for flights at SFO quadrupled — from 5 minutes in 2025 to 20 minutes currently — after the FAA prohibited parallel landings in April, right as the airport began a repaving project that runs until early October.
Arts & Entertainment Illuminate Installs 49 Vertical Lasers In Civic Center, Rainbow Up Market Street Arrives Friday A new laser installation was turned on Sunday in Civic Center, with a 7x7 grid of 49 vertical laser beams aimed at the sky just in front of City Hall, which will remain there through the July 4th holiday weekend.
SF News Juvenile Coyote Gets Trapped In SF Backyard, Curls Up Under Stairway, Gets Rescued A juvenile female coyote got herself stuck in a San Francisco backyard last week and apparently "shut down" after not being able to manage an escape, all while the homeowner was away on vacation.
SF News Driver Suspected of Inhaling Nitrous Oxide While Operating Vehicle Arrested In East Bay Albany police arrested a driver whom they allegedly saw inhaling nitrous oxide in a car idling in the middle of the street, where officers also found 85 large canisters, as California advances a ban on retail sales of oversized canisters.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART to Run Post-Midnight Trains For Tonight's World Cup Match BART is providing after-midnight service at select stations for Monday's World Cup match in Santa Clara; a statue of a Vietnamese soldier was vandalized in San Jose; and 'Toy Story 5' officially had the biggest box office opening of the year.
SF News 49ers Fan, Former Pro Skateboarder Veronica Lopez Among Two Dead In Pomona Double Homicide California Highway Patrol officers engaged in a 90-minute chase to apprehend a suspect they allege shot two people to death at a Pomona apartment complex on Thursday afternoon. The victims included 24-year-old former professional skateboarder and devoted San Francisco 49ers fan Veronica Lopez.
SF News Authorities Say Hayward Kidnapping Attempt Possibly Linked to 'Justin Bieber Lookalike' The victim of an attempted kidnapping on Friday afternoon in Hayward told authorities that the man responsible shares a striking resemblance to a certain pop star. Hayward police are now searching for a Justin Bieber lookalike in connection with the crime.
SF News Sunday Links: Woman Found Dead in Remote Humboldt Well Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office identifies woman who was killed by train in February, figure skating gold medalist and Oakland hero Alysa Liu hits Ballhalla, and a big-rig crash on the 210 kills one and injures 32 in Los Angeles.
SF News Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Among Two Dead After Plane Crash In France Global gaming company Ubisoft, maker of 'Assassin’s Creed,' is mourning the loss of co-founder Claude Guillemot after authorities confirmed that he and flight instructor Marc Guillet were both killed in a plane crash on Friday in western France. An investigation into the crash is now underway.
SF Politics Dublin Democrat Melissa Hernandez Advances In California Special Election to Replace Rep. Swalwell Former Dublin mayor Melissa Hernandez has officially advanced to face state Senator Aisha Wahab in a special election to fill the state congress seat vacated by Eric Swalwell, who resigned in April following allegations of sexual assault. A final vote to decide the outcome is set for Aug. 18.
SF News Saturday Links: U.S. Men's Team Will Play in Santa Clara for World Cup Knockout Round A 75-year-old woman with Alzheimer's is found safe in SF a day after being reported missing, Iran is once again closing the Strait of Hormuz, and the U.S. men's squad earns a date in Santa Clara as top team in World Cup's Group D.
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.
