SF News Day Around the Bay: Flight Had to Abort Landing at SFO Due to Other Plane on Runway A United flight had to abort a landing Monday night at SFO; a new state bill seeks to protect whales in SF Bay; and Kash Patel had the FBI investigate a NYT reporter because of a story about his girlfriend.
SF Politics Becerra, Steyer Tie For Democratic Lead In Governor’s Race Following Endorsements Xavier Becerra’s popularity shot up following endorsements from 15 state assembly members, and he and Steyer, who was endorsed by Betty Yee Tuesday, are now tied for the Democratic lead in the governor’s race.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Queen Katya Smirnoff-Skyy Launches New Career as Realtor, In Full Drag Well known local drag queen and self-styled chanteuse Katya Smirnoff-Skyy is now moonlighting — or, daylighting? — as a San Francisco realtor, and she's using her drag persona to sell property on social media.
SF News Proposed SFMTA Budget Includes Slightly Raised Muni Fares and Parking Fines SFMTA’s proposed budget would slightly increase single-ride Muni fares and some parking fines while significantly increasing cable car fares. As a compromise, fines for uncurbed wheels would go down, and the fare for two single Muni rides would cover a full day of rides.
SF Politics That California Ban on Masked ICE Agents Just Got Struck Down A three-judge panel at the Ninth Circuit just made permanent an injunction that blocks the enforcement of California's law banning masks on federal agents — basically because a state can't tell a federal agency what to do.
Arts & Entertainment Disassembly of Vaillancourt Fountain to Begin Next Week, With Full Removal In May Fans of the not-widely-loved Vaillancourt Fountain have just a few days left to pay their respects to the Brutalist landmark at Embarcadero Plaza, with the process to remove it set to start Monday.
SF Politics Former CA Congressman Devin Nunes Fired From Trump Media We haven't heard much from blowhard former Republican Congressman Devin Nunes the past few years, and that's because he's been busy losing over a billion dollars over at Trump Media & Technology Group.
SF Politics Four Democrats Rally Behind Caretaker Candidate to Fill Swalwell’s Seat Until End of Term A group of Democrats pledged to drop out of the special election to fill Eric Swalwell’s seat in favor of a caretaker candidate — retired state Senator Bob Wieckowski, with the goal of avoiding a runoff election that would cause Swalwell’s replacement to miss important votes.
SF News Rockridge Trader Joe's Could Be Redeveloped as Senior Living Towers The same developer that is looking to redevelop four Safeway properties in San Francisco is proposing a massive new senior living development on the site of the Rockridge Trader Joe's in Oakland.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Gubernatorial Candidates to Face Off In New Debate Six leading candidates for governor will face off in a debate tonight; a tornado touched down near Clovis on Tuesday; and San Mateo has banned the sale of kratom.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two People Found Dead Inside Car at Berkeley’s Aquatic Park Texas lawmakers can now legally require public schools to display the Ten Commandments; Alcatraz is closed to tours for a week while the dock gets repaired; and a man and a woman were found dead of potential overdoses inside a car in West Berkeley.
SF News Fugitive Suspect Arrested, Extradited In East Palo Alto Double Homicide From 2018 Nearly eight years after two men were fatally shot during a late-night altercation at a private Halloween party in East Palo Alto, the suspect, who reportedly fled to Mexico after the shooting, has returned to face justice.
SF News Water Line Rupture Leads to Flooding Inside Yerba Buena Tunnel on Bay Bridge A burst water main caused flooding Tuesday afternoon on a portion of the eastbound Bay Bridge lanes inside the Yerba Buena Tunnel, leading to the brief closure of two traffic lanes.
SF News Health Officials Warn of ‘Hyper-Mutated’ COVID Strain That First Appeared In US Last June While the numbers and health risks are low, the new “Cicada” strain has been slowly — but heavily — mutating since it arrived at SFO last summer. Officials say it may be capable of evading immunity, and they warn that COVID typically spreads more rapidly in the summer months.
SF News AI Store Manager Paying Female Employees Less, Can't Stop Ordering Candles That AI-run retail store experiment in Cow Hollow may or may not be going well, depending on who you ask. But it's gotten plenty of media attention, and perhaps that is mostly what the company behind it was after.
SF News Monday Night Stabbing Leaves One Man Critically Injured Near Sixth Street A man was stabbed Monday night on an alley off Sixth Street in SF's SoMa, and his injuries were said to be life-threatening.
SF News Kaiser Has Plans For Big New Hospital at Geary and Divis Kaiser Permanente is preparing to submit plans to the city for the company's first new hospital in San Francisco in over 70 years, and it would replace its existing hospital at Geary and Divisadero.
SF News Crash Involving Muni Bus and Car Sends Four to Hospital Four people, including the driver of a car, were injured Monday afternoon when a Muni bus collided with a car in the Mission District.
SF News Daly City Police Officer Crashes Into Two People on E-Bike In Visitacion Valley Two e-bike riders in SF’s Visitacion Valley were struck and seriously injured Monday when a Daly City police officer crashed into them in a patrol car.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Napa Residents' Property Tax Checks Being Stolen, Washed A FiDi tower once worth $320M just went up for auction and no one bid on it; a fiery Tesla crash caused a backup on 280 Tuesday morning; and Napa residents' property tax checks are being stolen out of the mail in a check-washing scheme.
SF News Day Around the Bay: NorCal Man Shot By ICE to Remain In Custody BART is running a limited number of trains through the Transbay Tube next Sunday; the CA man shot by ICE in the Central Valley has been ordered to remain in custody; and Trump's labor secretary is stepping down amid scandal.
SF News Vigil to Be Held Monday for Pedestrian Killed In SoMa Hit-and-Run A vigil is being held Monday for Dannielle Spillman, the 74-year-old pedestrian who was fatally struck in SoMa by a driver who appeared to intentionally run her over. Leading up to her death, she told friends that SF felt less safe as a trans woman now than in the '90s.
SF News Body Found Near SF On-Ramp Shortly After Weekend Construction on I-80 A deceased person was found near a SoMa freeway onramp Sunday night, not long after Caltrans construction crews completed their work on a section of eastbound I-80, which had caused some weekend congestion in the area.
Business & Tech Apple Names New CEO, John Ternus, With Tim Cook Set to Step Down This Summer Apple Inc. will get a new CEO later this year, following the long-expected retirement of Tim Cook, who took over from the late Steve Jobs in 2011. His name is John Ternus, and he is currently Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering.
SF News Boat Crash Injures Six During High School Fishing Competition In San Joaquin Delta Six people, including teens and adults, were injured while taking part in a bass fishing tournament in Contra Costa County when two boats collided — with one reportedly landing on top of the other.
