SF Politics California, European Union Enact Laws Requiring Embedded Data on AI-Generated Images State Senator Josh Becker of Menlo Park worked with EU lawmakers to develop legislation requiring embedded data on AI-generated images and audio that can be verified and tracked, and the first phase took effect in both places Saturday.
SF News Residents In One Vallejo Neighborhood Fed Up With Regular, Dangerous Sideshows In One Intersection A sideshow early Sunday morning in east Vallejo was far from an isolated incident, and residents of the area say they're fed up and afraid someone will be seriously hurt.
SF News Another Planet Entertainment In Ongoing Legal Dispute With Castro Theatre Contractor For Alleged Faulty Work, Over-Billing Another Planet Entertainment (APE) has now filed multiple lawsuits against the contractor who worked on the Castro Theatre renovation, the latest accusing the contractor of falsely advertising its work on the project.
SF News Bystanders Save Unconscious Teen Found In Water at San Mateo County Beach Quick-thinking bystanders are being credited with saving an 18-year-old’s life at San Gregorio State Beach in San Mateo County after they took immediate action by calling 911 and resuscitating the teen using CPR.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Feliz Fire Under Control, Evacuation Orders Lifted The Feliz Fire in Mendocino County has reached 30% containment; two homes were lost in last week's Woodside Fire in Sonoma County; and residents of San Jose have until tonight to submit new names for Plaza de Cesar Chavez.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Roots Will Continue Season at Coliseum Under 'Pay or Don't Play' Deal The Oakland Roots soccer club will pay a six-figure sum upfront before every remaining game at Oakland Coliseum, per a new agreement with the venue's board of directors. If the club fails to pay, they will lose access to their current home pitch.
Arts & Entertainment Charli xcx Look-A-Like Contest Brings 'Brat' Summer Fashion, Bratwurst to Downtown San Francisco A week ahead of Charli xcx's headlining performance at San Francisco's Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, several hundred of her most fashionable fans gathered downtown to determine the British pop singer's most striking doppelgänger.
SF News Sunday Links: San Francisco's Train Names New Album After Local Haight Street Pub A mass shooting at an Idaho In-N-Out Burger leaves three dead and five others injured; "Sopranos" actor Vincent Pastore dies at 80; and the Dodgers do it again by trading for ace pitcher Tarik Skubal.
SF News Beloved San Francisco Skate Spot 'China Banks' Set For Demolition This Weekend Skateboarders are in mourning as a hallowed skate spot in San Francisco's Chinatown succumbs to demolition this weekend. "China Banks" — better known as the Portsmouth Square pedestrian bridge — has long served as a proving ground for serious skateboarders thanks to its steep banks and brickwork.
Bay Area Sports Outfielder Harrison Bader's Payments Suspended By San Francisco Giants Following Scooter Crash The San Francisco Giants are suspending payments to outfielder Harrison Bader following his involvement in a late-night scooter crash in Cow Hollow last weekend. Bader has been out of action since late May with plantar fasciitis in his left foot.
SF News Saturday Links: Line to Try Long-Awaited SF Jollibee's Forms Night Before Opening The 49ers are parting ways with veteran executive Paraag Marathe; SFPD uses a drone to locate a suspect in a stabbing; and a donut duel kicks off in Santa Clara.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers Sign Familiar Face, Bring Fan Favorite Wide Receiver Deebo Samuel Back Home One dead, another wounded in daytime shooting at Oakland adult school; WNBA star Brittney Griner files for divorce; and authorities release two ransom notes in Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case.
Business & Tech FTC, California Sue SF-Based Hims & Hers For False Advertising, Sharing Private Health Data SF-based telehealth company Hims & Hers is being sued by the FTC and the states of California and Utah over alleged predatory business practices, including sharing private health data with advertisers and misleading customers over charges and services.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Burdell Chef to Open Bar and Grill In Rockridge Burdell chef Geoff Davis is expanding to Rockridge and taking over the soon-to-close Wood Tavern, Jollibee draws a line near Powell BART, and Tartine's Chad Robertson is doing big things in Brooklyn, all in This Week In Food.
SF Politics Connie Chan Gains Momentum, Trails Closely Behind Scott Wiener In Race For Congress New polls suggest Connie Chan is now only behind by a few points in the race for Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat despite Scott Wiener's sizable fundraising advantage.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Bakery Coming to SF's Financial District In a sure sign of downtown San Francisco's upswing, much-beloved Tartine Bakery is planning to open a large outpost in the Financial District, in a former CVS.
SF Politics Ninth Circuit Weighs In on Trump's Immigrant Detention Policy, Says It Goes Against Longstanding Precedent As other appeals courts have also done over the last year as President Trump's goons go about trying to rid the country of immigrants of all kinds, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a new ruling striking down the administration's policy of detaining immigrants within the country.
Business & Tech SF AI Founder Says He ‘Messed Up’ After Persuading Job Seekers to Get Tattoo of Company Logo A local tech CEO who offered “instant interviews” to anyone who got a permanent tattoo of the company logo was quickly met with backlash, leading the founder to acknowledge that the seven people who took him up on it would’ve gotten interviews either way.
SF News Visitacion Valley House Fire Displaces Six; Vault Fire In Upper Haight Prompts Shelter-In-Place Order A fire in one of PG&E's underground electrical vaults led to some early morning emergency activity and a shelter-in-place order in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, and a one-alarm house fire in Visitacion Valley has displaced six.
SF News East Bay Man Charged With Shooting Ex-Girlfriend In Berkeley, Mother Arrested as Accessory A 19-year-old man from Hayward with an alleged history of domestic violence was charged with attempted murder in connection to the shooting of a young Berkeley woman in the face, and his mother was arrested for allegedly helping him escape.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Weekend Wind Event Could Bring Rough Seas, Fire Weather The Woodside Fire in Sonoma County is now 20% contained but almost doubled in size overnight; global tech layoffs have already surpassed all of 2025 in 7 months; and a powerful marine event will bring rough seas Saturday night into Sunday, along with potential high winds in the hills.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Anthropic Says Three of Its AI Models Hacked Into External Businesses SFO is getting private sleep lounges in the fall of 2027; SF City Attorney David Chiu is suing two hotel booking sites alleging they gouge customers; and some of Anthropic’s AI models hacked into the systems of three businesses.
SF News Ghirardelli’s SF Flagship Store Closes as Union Workers Begin Three-Day Strike Ghirardelli Chocolate closed the doors of its flagship location in SF’s Fisherman's Wharf Thursday after union workers walked off the job to launch a three-day strike over an ongoing contract dispute.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Set Times Revealed, With the Usual Conflicts Galore Music festivals on the scale of Outside Lands are not designed for people with broad or varied tastes, and once again, the set-time schedule reveals a variety of moments when fans will have to make difficult choices, and likely miss an act or two who they'd otherwise like to see.
SF News [Update] Woodside Fire Grows to 75 Acres In Western Sonoma County, Smoke Spreading East A wind-driven wildfire that began Thursday is burning into an area of heavy timber along the Sonoma County coast near Highway 1, north of Jenner and Fort Ross.
