SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Day Around the Bay: Buena Vista Bartender Celebrates 50 Years of Pouring Irish Coffees Bystanders helped detain the teen suspect accused of plowing into a crowd of people in Oakland; the Sandy Fire is growing in Ventura County; and Joseph Shaw, a bartender at Buena Vista, just celebrated 50 years working at the bar.
Business & Tech Google Maps Reverts Back to Satellite Images of LA Before Wildfires Ahead of Election Residents in LA reported that Google Maps was displaying satellite images of the Altadena and Pacific Palisades neighborhoods prior to the devastating 2025 wildfires, leading some to believe it was motivated by the upcoming mayoral election.
SF Politics ...And Pelosi Finally Comes Out and Endorses Connie Chan to Succeed Her She waited a good long minute, but House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has clearly decided her chosen candidate needs a boost in the primary, and she has now offered an official endorsement.
SF News Top Oakland Official Resigns Over Inappropriate Texts About Female Staff Members Oakland’s city administrator resigned Friday after text messages between him and a top lieutenant were made public discussing female employees and colleagues in degrading ways.
SF News Exclusive: Man In SUV With Pro-Charlie Kirk Message Allegedly Tags Gay-Owned Castro Florist With Hateful Graffiti Over the weekend, a suspect tagged a building housing a Castro-area floral design shop with hateful graffiti and assaulted a neighbor, and the shop owners are hoping San Francisco police will bring the suspect to justice soon.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Bay to Breakers 2026, Wind and All Sunday's 113th annual Bay to Breakers foot race across the city of San Francisco brought out around 30,000 participants — a significant jump from the 20,000 or so who participated last year — and the sunny but windy Sunday made for some good times along the route.
SF Politics Jackie Fielder Hires Aide Who Previously Worked For Supervisors Campos, Ronen Jackie Fielder’s newest legislative aide, Sheila Chung Hagen, has worked for two other District 9 supervisors, including David Campos, who credited Hagen as instrumental in helping pass a significant amendment to the city’s sanctuary laws.
Business & Tech Federal Jury and Judge Side With OpenAI, Dismissing Elon Musk's Case About Company's Nonprofit Mission A decision came down quickly in the federal court battle between OpenAI co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman, with the jury issuing a verdict Monday siding with Altman and OpenAI.
SF News Marina Residents Demand Safety Improvements After Driver Strikes Nanny, Child Near Park A nanny and toddler were hit by a driver last month in a part of the Marina District that falls within SF’s High-Injury Network, and while the city is adding modest improvements, residents are demanding more drastic measures.
SF News Falling Trees and Car Crashes Lead to Five Deaths, Four Injuries In Sonoma County Windy conditions in Sonoma County and elsewhere in the Bay Area led to many reports of downed trees, and one fallen tree took the life of a Santa Rosa man.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Around 13,500 Still Without Power After PSPS Around 13,500 Bay Area PG&E customers are without power due to the first public-safety shutoff of the season; two people were killed in a shooting in Suisun City Sunday; and Santa Cruz is trying to explain a significant drop in its population.
SF News Speeding Juvenile Driver Arrested After East Oakland Crash That Killed Three Pedestrians A grisly crash Saturday night in East Oakland took the lives of three pedestrians and left three others hospitalized with injuries, and a juvenile driver was arrested in connection with the crash.
SF News Person Killed In Apparent Homicide In SF's Sunset District A fatal shooting occurred early Sunday in San Francisco's Sunset District, but few details are available so far.
SF News Sunday Links: Last Night For Those Lasers Shooting Out of the Transamerica Pyramid A small vegetation fire breaks out amid a Red Flag Warning in Sonoma County; a new Swatch collection drew a massive crowd to the San Jose Swatch store; and Illuminate's latest laser cannon display downtown ends tonight.
SF News 8-Year-Old Girl on Life Support After Reports of Neglect, 'Squalor' In San Jose Home An eight-year-old girl was found unresponsive in a San Jose home that was investigated previously for child neglect and squalid conditions. Sources said a girl and another child in the home were malnourished and got most of their meals at school.
SF News Saturday Links: Santa Clara County Officials, State AG Rob Bonta Fight Plans For Gilroy Detention Center Trump called a New York Times reporter “treasonous” for questioning the success of his campaign against Iran; Lowell High will only have seven Black students next year; and Santa Clara officials are fighting a detention center that’s being built in Gilroy.
SF Politics Feds Reportedly Make 'Inquiries' Over London Breed's Appointment of Supervisor Stephen Sherrill The FBI has reportedly been making inquiries about an alleged quid pro quo situation involving London Breed, Michael Bloomberg, and SF Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, and it sounds like Breed's former aide and confidante Conor Johnston may be coming back to haunt her.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E May Cut Power to Parts of North Bay Due to Winds An elderly driver plowed into a Safeway store in Sunnyvale; the man accused in the deadly Oakland bar shooting in March now faces a federal charge; and PG&E is likely to have its first Public Safety Power Shutoff in the North Bay this weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Winner Bids $9M For Lunch With Steph Curry and Warren Buffett For Glide Fundraiser Steph and Ayesha Curry joined forces with Warren Buffett to raise funds for SF’s Glide Foundation, as well as Ayesha’s Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation, with the winning bid earning an impressive $9 million for lunch with the trio.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A New Drinks and Dinner Spot In the Castro Parasol begins dinner service in the Castro, Saltwater Bakehop opens its first brick-and-mortar in SoMa, and The DeLuxe prepares for an opening in the Upper Haight very soon, all in This Week in Food.
SF News DA Says Allowing Violent Offenders Into SF Drug Court Has Destroyed the Program Officials discussed the future of San Francisco’s Drug Court Thursday, as its case loads have ballooned while staffing has remained low, and DA Jenkins says the court’s decision to allow violent offenders was “destructive to the program.”
SF Politics At Final Governor's Race Debate Before Primary, Becerra Gets Attacked, Porter Still Trying to Break Through On Thursday night at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco, seven of the candidates for California governor debated one last time before the June 2 primary, each trying to change their standing in the polls and become one of the top two vote-getters.
SF News Kars4Kids, Found to Be Front for New Jersey Jewish Organization That Does Little for Needy Kids, Now Banned in CA The decades-long scourge of that all-too-earwormy "1-877-KARS4KIDS" jingle is thankfully over, or almost over, for Californians at least, as a court has ruled the ads must stop running due to false advertising.
SF News SF Elites Lynne Benioff, Trevor Traina Appointed to Trump’s New Presidio Trust Board Among the new upper crust Trump allies replacing the previous members of the Presidio Trust’s Board are Trevor Traina, tech entrepreneur and son of SF socialite Dede Wilsey, and Lynne Benioff, who previously served on the board for a decade.
SF News Bizarre Details Emerge In Santa Clara Murder-Suicide, Which Involved Estranged Brothers The scant details about a fatal shooting and a second body subsequently found inside a burning home in Santa Clara last week told none of the story, which actually involves a man secretly renting a home next door to his estranged brother before allegedly killing him.
