SF News Video: Large Ficus Tree Falls Near the Foot of Potrero Avenue A large ficus tree came down during Tuesday's storm near the intersection of Potrero Avenue and Alameda Street, near the 101 freeway overpass.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Pride Dissolves Its Board And Goes Kaput, New Oakland Pride Will Be Mid-August The Oakland Pride Parade and party just declared itself finished, but a new leadership organization immediately sprang up in its place, and the long and the short of it is that Oakland Pride will now be Sunday, August 16.
SF News 'Coldest Case Ever' Ends In Conviction For Sonoma County Rape and Murder of 13-Year-Old Familial DNA was used to solve a case that had gone cold for over 40 years in Sonoma County, the case of the 1982 murder of 13-year-old Sarah Geer in Cloverdale.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: I-80 Closed Again In Sierra I-80 was closed in both directions Tuesday morning due to heavy snow conditions; snow is also expected today on peaks around the Bay Area; and the Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at age 84.
SF News President's Day Around the Bay: Dog Mauling Convict Denied Parole Once More Marjorie Knoller, who was convicted in the notorious dog-mauling murder of Diane Whipple, has been denied parole again; a Hayward man is charged with a BART parking lot rape; and vaccine makers are pulling back on studies, because of RFK Jr.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Marry Lisa’ Billboard Woman Still Very Much In Hunt for Husband, Being Pretty Choosy About It 42-year-old Lisa Catalano has been at it for six months now with the “Marry Lisa" billboards up and down Silicon Valley's US-101, and she’s still paying for them while looking for a husband, but her viral fame is a mixed bag.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Pair of Giant Horse Statues Ring In the Lunar New Year ‘Year of the Horse’ In SF Meet all the horse statues just installed around San Francisco to celebrate the Lunar New Year’s Year of the Horse, as these intricately designed horse monuments now adorn SF parks, markets, and public spaces.
SF News Storm Impacting Bay Area Roads; Chain Controls In Effect on I-80 In Tahoe Area In snowy Tahoe, I-80 was temporarily closed in both directions Monday morning due to multiple spinouts, and rainy conditions around the Bay are leading to ponding and road closures as well.
SF News Body of Missing UC Berkeley Graduate Student Found In Lake Anza The body of a 22-year-old UC Berkeley graduate student who had reportedly been struggling with mental health issues was found by a dive team Saturday in Lake Anza, a reservoir in Tilden Regional Park.
SF News Here We Go Again: Vaillancourt Fountain Fans Sue SF In Yet Another Last-Gasp Attempt to Save Fountain Just when you thought that SF was absolutely, positively getting rid of that 710-ton some-would-say-eyesore known as Vaillancourt Fountain, a group of preservationists is suing the city to keep the damn thing there.
Business & Tech Anthropic's Pentagon Contract In Jeopardy Over Questions About AI Spying San Francisco-based AI company Anthropic, which launched as an ostensibly more ethically driven AI enterprise than competitors like OpenAI, appears to be hitting an impasse in its contract negotiations with the Pentagon.
SF News Driver In West Portal Crash That Killed Family of Four Pleads No Contest, Judge Sounds Lenient The elderly woman accused of killing a family of four with her vehicle two years ago in West Portal changed her plea Friday from not guilty to no contest, and the judge indicated that she was unlikely to get jail time.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Long Delays at SFO Due to Wind Inbound flights were delayed an average of four hours at SFO last night; the remains of a missing Santa Cruz woman have been ID'd; and a Palo Alto restaurant hosted Bad Bunny's private Super Bowl afterparty.
SF News Oakland Nonprofit Debuts Mobile Clinic for Exploited Youth, Hosts Town Hall With Local Leaders Dream Youth Clinic in Oakland launched a mobile clinic offering free reproductive health services to teens and young women who've experienced sex trafficking, and it also recently hosted a first-ever town hall providing a forum for girls to speak directly to local leaders.
SF News Surf Legend from Prominent Santa Cruz Surfing and Farming Family Killed in Costa Rica Home Kurt Van Dyke, a well-known surfer from a prominent Santa Cruz family of surfers who also own Van Dyke Farms in Gilroy, was killed by armed intruders Saturday in his home on Costa Rica's Caribbean Coast where he was a longtime hostel owner.
SF News Sunday Links: Local Investor Under Investigation for Allegedly Trafficking at Least Ten Women The Bay Area is getting hit with several days of solid rain; Assemblymember Diane Papan is working to close a loophole that allows e-bikes to operate at excessive speeds; and a social-climing local entrepreneur has been dubbed “the Epstein of the West.”
SF News Ghirardelli Workers Hold One-Day Strike on Valentine’s Day at SF’s Fisherman’s Wharf Ghirardelli workers took part in a one-day strike at the company’s flagship location at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf Saturday demanding a new contract that includes wage increases and preserving their union-run health plan, for which they’ve been bargaining for months.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: 124-Year-Old Light Bulb, UC Davis’ Cheeto the Cat, and ‘Trash Falcons’ Art Exhibit This week: Hip-hop at Yoshi’s, coastal trails, national park sweethearts, and a Muni beer crawl. Plus, turning Lake Merritt trash into art, repairing bikes for kids, a light bulb that never goes out, and the big cat on campus.
Arts & Entertainment Sam Smith Channels Chaka Khan, George Michael, and Bonnie Raitt In Castro Residency The great Sam Smith seemed wistful, grateful, and dare we say happy during their almost 90-minute set Friday night, and you can hear them paying tribute to generations of R&B and soul singers in multiple numbers.
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco Tech Company Launches $8,000 Laundry-Folding Robot Asian American communities are celebrating the Lunar New Year across the Bay Area; an SUV driver wearing a boot cast crashed into a Santa Rosa store; and a new $8,000 laundry-folding robot will fold most clothing and small linens.
SF News Day Around the Bay: MC Hammer Jumps Aboard Honorary Black History Month Cable Car Amazon ended its deal with Ring after that creepy Super Bowl commercial; the Vallaincourt Fountain preservationists have filed a lawsuit pausing demolition; and MC Hammer made an appearance on a Black History Month cable car.
SF News Newsom and California Sue Trump Administration Again, This Time Over Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trump’s EPA is running roughshod over all California’s environmental protections, so the state is suing to keep as many of them as intact as possible, the latest being our rollback of how much greenhouse gases can be emitted into the environment.
Arts & Entertainment The Internet Can’t Get Enough of the Bushes from Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Bad Bunny took the world by storm during his Super Bowl Halftime Show, and so did the 400 mostly local performers in the now-famous “grass bunny” costumes who are sharing their experiences all over the internet, with one performer listing the prized costume on eBay for $5,000.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Diner Food on Polk A new diner debuts on Polk, Cenaduria Elvira makes a splash in Oakland's Jack London Square, and the Chronicle reviews Dingles Public House, all in This Week in Food.
SF News [Updated] Seven Injured After Car Crashes Into Oliver's Supermarket In Santa Rosa A car went through the front windows of gourmet supermarket Oliver's in Santa Rosa Friday morning, leaving seven people injured and significant damage to the store.
