SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Another Clipper Glitch Lets BART Riders Ride Free A pedestrian killed last week in SoMa has been identified as a postal worker; a Clipper glitch let people ride BART for free on Monday; and there are several unnamed finalists for Oakland police chief, but they won't be revealed to the public.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Zoo Makes Guests Shelter-In-Place Following Threat A wildfire near the Yolo-Solano county border has grown to 360 acres; Prop D has officially been declared a failure; and the SF Zoo had a shelter-in-place situation Monday after a "swatting" incident or similar sort of phoned-in threat.
Business & Tech Meta Says Israeli Spyware Firm Targeted WhatsApp Users in Spear-Phishing Campaign Following reports that the Pentagon had raised its counterintelligence threat assessment for Israel to “critical,” Meta said an Israeli spyware firm was caught targeting a small group of WhatsApp users in a spear-phishing campaign.
Business & Tech OpenAI Has Filed For an IPO, Company Says Timing Remains Up In the Air Following rumors about a pending IPO filing, and following the announcement of an IPO filing by competitor Anthropic, OpenAI has confirmed that it has made its confidential pre-IPO filing with the SEC.
Arts & Entertainment New SF Symphony Music Director Elim Chan Given Effusive Welcome at First Concert Since Being Hired Though she won't officially start her tenure as SF Symphony Music Director until next year, Elim Chan conducted her first two concerts at Davies Symphony Hall over the weekend in her capacity as Music Director Designate.
SF News OSHA Fines SF General For Seven Violations Following Fatal Stabbing of Social Worker SF General Hospital received its steepest fine on record from Cal/OSHA, which found the hospital did not take the proper measures to prevent violent workplace incidents prior to the fatal stabbing of a social worker in December.
SF News Two Dead, One Oakland Police Officer Injured In High-Speed Crash In East Oakland A stolen SUV that was speeding and driving recklessly on the streets of East Oakland Monday reportedly crashed into an Oakland Police Department SUV, killing two passengers in the stolen vehicle and injuring an Oakland officer.
Business & Tech Apple Debuts Siri Chatbot, Other AI Features Powered by Google Partnership At his final World Wide Developers Conference as Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook unveiled a slate of new AI features Monday, including a standalone Siri chatbot app, based on models Apple created in collaboration with Google.
SF News Shooting at Kaiser Medical Offices In San Jose Leaves Two Injured A man and a woman were reportedly shot and critically injured Monday morning in what police are calling an isolated incident at a Kaiser medical office building in San Jose.
SF Politics Willie Brown Says Kamala Should Have Run For Governor; Other Dems Not Thrilled About Her Possible 2028 Run Former Vice President Kamala Harris could have a serious uphill climb, even within her own party and among Democratic donors, should she decide to run for president once again in 2028.
SF News Congress to Grill SFUSD’s Maria Su, Two Others on Parental Rights ‘Abuses’ In Schools All eyes will be on SFUSD Superintendent Maria Su and two other school figures from Chicago and Virginia who are set to speak before a GOP-led committee in DC this week on “inappropriate content” and “legal abuses” in public schools.
SF News Parts of North Bay Could See Power Shutoffs Wednesday as Hot and Windy Conditions Arrive We're having an early kickoff to fire season this year and/or there is no distinct fire "season" anymore, with an offshore wind event expected to raise wildfire risks across Northern California this week.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 17-Year-Old Killed In SF Crash Had Just Graduated The 17-year-old boy killed in a May 30 freeway crash in SF has been identified; a 7.8M earthquake in the Philippines created no tsunami danger for the US coast; and thieves stole a bunch of rare Pokemon cards from a Brentwood store.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Valkyries Bolster Frontcourt, Ink Stanford Center Nadia Fingall The Golden State Valkyries welcomed a face familiar to Bay Area college sports fans by signing former Stanford center Nadia Fingall to a rest-of-season contract on Sunday. The team also waived forward Ndjakalenga Mwenentanda in a corresponding move.
SF News Cancer Death of Retired SF Firefighter Reignites Calls to Reform Blue Shield Coverage The death of San Francisco firefighter Ken Jones has renewed calls to reform Blue Shield, the city's designated insurance provider. The late firefighter’s battle to treat his stage 4 lung cancer first gained attention in January, with advocates now blaming delays in care for his premature passing.
SF News Sunday Links: East Bay Rattled Sunday AM By Preliminary Magnitude 3.6 Earthquake East Bay jolted by a preliminary magnitude 3.6 earthquake on Sunday morning; teenager injured in I-580 shooting; and SF tasting menu restaurant Anomaly SF slated to close.
SF News Truck Crashes Into Oakland Apartment, Leaving Infant Boy in Critical Condition A one-year-old boy was hospitalized in critical condition after a truck smashed into the side of his family's Oakland apartment building earlier today.
SF News San Jose Mother and Daughter Both Receive Prison Sentences Tied to 2023 Daycare Drownings A mother-daughter daycare team convicted of three felony child endangerment charges stemming from a 2023 double drowning at the pair's Happy Happy Daycare facility in San Jose were sentenced to sizable prison stints on Friday.
SF News Saturday Links: Democrat Xavier Becerra Advances to General Election for California Governor Democrat Xavier Becerra has officially qualified to run for governor in California's general election this fall; Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks was spotted shopping for analog treasures at Berkeley Typewriter; and the former home of Cal Shakes in Orinda reopens as music venue Siesta Valley Bowl.
SF News 73-Year-Old East Bay Man Sues Alameda County Over Wrongful Conviction, Decades on Death Row A 73-year-old Black man is suing Alameda County and its District Attorney's Office for what he argues was an unconstitutional jury selection process that helped to ensure his conviction 35 years ago.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stern Grove Announces Free Concert Series at SFO Stern Grove is going to be doing free concerts at SFO this summer, by Gate B4; Anthropic is in support of taking an industry-wide "pause" to ensure AI safety; and CA is part of a coalition of states suing over the Warner Brothers-Paramount deal.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A New Bar and Restaurant Arrives Near the Ballpark Bar Malone's has softly opened in the former District space on Townsend Street, Goop Kitchen is opening a second location in SoMa, and there may be some movement, finally, over at Anchor Brewing, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Trump Sends $75 Million to Fund New Coal Export Terminal In Oakland After Years of Delays In a push to boost the export of coal to other countries, Trump invoked a wartime order to fund the development of 13 plants across the US, including Oakland, which is expected to be one of the largest facilities on the West Coast.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nopa, the Restaurant Anchor of a Neighborhood, Celebrates 20 Years Nopa, the bustling restaurant at the corner of Divisadero and Hayes in the Western Addition sub-neighborhood that came to be known as NoPa two decades ago, is celebrating 20 years in business this week, and they had a big bash to mark the occasion on Thursday night.
SF News Court Allows Kars 4 Kids to Keep Ads on Air In California While It Appeals Ban Just when Californians thought the airwaves would be free of those mind-numbing Kars 4 Kids jingles, a court ruled that the company can continue running its ads during the appeals process.
