Arts & Entertainment

Dave Eggers to Open 100,000 Square Foot Art and Community Space at Pier 29 This Fall

Renowned Bay Area writer Dave Eggers is opening a huge new art and education space, Art + Water, this fall at Pier 29 — aimed at keeping artists in SF. The space will include galleries and a sprawling cafe with an 18th- and 19th-century feel, meant to spark revolutionary ideas.

Business & Tech

Bay Area Company Sends First Humanoid Robot to the White House, Walking Side By Side With Melania

Ugh. Melania Trump thinks more robots should be teaching children, which dovetails nicely with the administration gutting the Department of Education.

Business & Tech

Meta and Google Found Liable In Landmark Social Media Addiction Case; Meta Also Found Liable In Child Exploitation Case

It's a bad week in the courts for Meta, and also for Google and YouTube, after juries in two states came back with verdicts against the companies in high-profile cases about the dangers of social media.

SF News

Stonestown Galleria Evacuated Over Possibly Armed Person, SFPD Says Stay Clear of the Area

Stonestown Galleria was evacuated Wednesday afternoon due to police activity and a threat that hasn't yet been disclosed — possibly an armed individual — and the SFPD was asking the public to avoid the area.

SF News

SFPD Negotiates With Assault Suspect Barricaded Inside Cadillac Hotel In the Tenderloin

A person suspected of an earlier assault barricaded themselves inside a unit at the Cadillac Hotel in SF’s Tenderloin District Tuesday, and the SFPD eventually took them into custody with the help of crisis negotiators.

SF News

TSA Tipped Off ICE About Woman Forcibly Detained at SFO

We now have a fuller picture of what went down at Gate E2 at SFO's Terminal 3 on Sunday night, how ICE agents ended up there, and what happened with the woman afterwards.

SF News

San Francisco Sees Two Homicides In One Night, In Ingleside and Sunset Districts

Tuesday was a particularly violent night in San Francisco, in what has become a relatively violent start to 2026, particularly compared to the year prior.

SF News

Person Dies In One-Alarm House Fire In San Francisco’s Portola District

One person was found dead in a single-alarm fire at a residence in SF’s Portola District Tuesday evening, which investigators believe began in the home’s kitchen or living room, causing substantial damage to the interior of the building.

SF News

Humpday Headlines: Judge Fines SF Public Defender For Turning Down Cases

A judge has now fined SF Public Defender Mano Raju for refusing to take some new cases; the canceled gubernatorial candidate debate could impact the race; and the SF school board has voted to extend the school year by one week.

SF News

Day Around the Bay: Bill Cosby to Pay $59 Million In 1972 Sexual Assault of Sausalito Waitress

A San Jose daycare owner was convicted in the 2023 drowning of two toddlers; OpenAI pledged $1 billion in grant funding utilizing AI to advance life sciences, community programs, and other fields; and Bill Cosy was ordered to pay $59.25 million in damages to a former Sausalito waitress.

SF News

Police Pull Over Oakland Woman After Thieves Put License Plates Tied to Crime on Her Car

An Oakland woman discovered that her license plates had been swapped with stolen plates that were linked to a serious crime — after she was pulled over by Hayward police who were tipped off by a Flock license plate reader.

Business & Tech

Developer Bets on 'Office Resort' at Revamped Building Near Embarcadero

A building that's undergoing a significant renovation at 88 Spear Street, including a rooftop bar and restaurant, aims to be a new model for selling employees on going happily back to the office.

SF News

Man Killed By 38-Geary Bus Near SF's Union Square After Apparent Fall Into Street

A male pedestrian was struck and killed by a Muni bus early Tuesday morning near Union Square, after he reportedly fell from the sidewalk into the path of the bus.

SF News

Florida Woman Convicted In Case of Botched Butt Injections That Killed Kim Kardashian Lookalike Model

A Florida-based cosmetologist who came to the Bay Area to administer silicone butt injections to a 34-year-old OnlyFans model in 2023 has been convicted in San Mateo County of involuntary manslaughter.

SF News

Families of 2024 West Portal Crash Victims Move Forward With Civil Suits Against Mary Lau

Elderly driver Mary Lau will have to explain what happened in the 2024 West Portal crash that killed a family of four in two civil lawsuits filed by relatives of the family last year, and jurors will determine monetary damages, following Lau’s sentence in criminal court last Friday.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

French Laundry Hit With Class-Action Labor Suit Alleging Break and Wage Violations

A former dishwasher at the French Laundry in Yountville has filed a lawsuit on behalf of 50 other employees alleging that the restaurant routinely violates state law around mandatory break times and resting facilities, and that it also failed to pay the minimum wage or overtime.

SF News

Another Technical Glitch Caused False Earthquake Alerts to Go Out In Northern California

For the second time in four months, a false-alarm alert about an earthquake was triggered in Northern California, and this was actually multiple alerts, but this time there thankfully were no loud alarms on cellphones rattling Bay Area residents awake.

SF News

SFPD May Have Violated Sanctuary Laws By Helping ICE at SFO, Bystander Files Lawsuit

A witness at SFO Sunday filed a complaint that SFPD officers violated sanctuary laws by shielding ICE agents in plainclothes from bystanders who were asking them to identify themselves, as the ICE agents attempted to restrain a woman being deported with her young daughter.

SF News

Tuesday Morning Topline: Voters Largely Disinterested In Governor's Race

California voters are showing a "historically high lack of awareness" of the governor's race; a planned debate between the candidates tonight was canceled; and Foster City continues to be under a ransomware attack.

SF News

Insanity Plea Entered Days Before Trial Was Set to Start In Murder of SF Tech Worker Kimberly Wong

Two and a half years after the death of 27-year-old product designer Kimberly Wong in her Presidio Heights apartment, her boyfriend Scott Fisher was set to go on trial this week for her murder. But on Monday, he changed his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.

SF News

Day Around the Bay: Suspect at Large After Civic Center Stabbing

A person was stabbed in the Civic Center area Monday; the immigration court in SF just removed some 500 people "in absentia"; and Markwayne Mullin has been confirmed as the new DHS secretary.

SF News

Report: More Than 150,000 US COVID Deaths Were Unreported In 2020 and 2021

A new study found that about 16% of people who died from COVID-19 in the first two years of the pandemic weren’t counted in the official US tally, totalling about 155,000. This is on top of the 840,000 officially reported deaths, as many of these died outside of hospitals.

SF News

Will There Be Bidding War for Westwood Highlands Home That Was Site of Murder-Suicide?

The home on Monterey Boulevard in SF's Westwood Highlands where investigators believe a mother killed her husband and two daughters before taking her own life last October is now up for sale.

Bay Area Sports

SF Giants to Open MLB’s 2026 Season Against New York Yankees at Oracle Park Wednesday

The SF Giants will face off with the New York Yankees on Opening Day Wednesday, and fans who aren’t attending the game at Oracle Park will need to subscribe to Netflix to watch, plus a slew of other streaming channels throughout the season.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Photo of Raw Meat and Mayonnaise Left Out In Sun Goes Viral, and Mission Restaurant Hamburger Project Responds

Maybe it's indicative of larger troubles and maybe it's just a sign of a simple mistake or miscommunication that, unluckily, was caught on camera and went viral. But Hamburger Project in the Mission couldn't catch a break this past weekend.