SF News Saturday Links: Trump Signs Executive Order to Pay TSA Officers As Shutdown Resumes Former SF Supervisor Jane Kim filed a police report against her fellow state insurance commissioner candidate; a Silicon Valley startup was instrumental in helping prepare for NASA's moon launch; and Trump orders DHS to pay TSA officers.
SF News SF's Most Progressive Supervisor Jackie Fielder to Resign Amid Health Concerns After two weeks of absence at City Hall and recent staff changes, including an aide leaving for personal reasons, District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder announced from a hospital bed Friday that she planned to resign due to an undisclosed health crisis.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alysa Liu Presents Taylor Swift With Music Award Tiger Woods has been arrested for DUI; there are dozens of “No Kings” protests happening across the Bay Area Saturday; and Alysa Liu presented Taylor Swift with a music award after being introduced by Swift prior to the Winter Olympics.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Izakaya In Union Square A new izakaya lands near Union Square, the Castro gets a new Northern Thai restaurant, and the Chronicle's Cesar Hernandez gives his review of RT Bistro, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Police Search for Missing Oakland Woman, Coffee Shop Owner With Medical Condition Amy Hillyard, who’s the owner of Farley’s coffee shop in SF and Oakland, went missing in Oakland’s Cleveland Heights neighborhood Wednesday, and she’s considered at-risk due to a medical condition.
Arts & Entertainment A Who's-Who of Queer and Camp Culture Stars In New Disaster-Spoof Flick 'Stop! That! Train!' A roster of Rupaul's Drag Race alums, along with Ru herself, and a bevy of queer comedians, camp icons, and others star in the 70s-style disaster-movie send-up 'Stop! That! Train!', due out this summer.
SF News Civil Grand Jury Report Raises Questions About Yolo County Officials' Handling of Fireworks Facility A damning new civil grand jury report points the finger at Yolo County officials who, the report says, knew about the illegal fireworks storage facility in Esparto for years but failed to enforce safety codes, leading to last July's deadly explosion.
SF News San Jose Leaders to Honor All Farmworkers In Renaming of Cesar Chavez Sites Officials are cataloging the numerous tributes to Cesar Chavez throughout San Jose following recent allegations that Chavez sexually assaulted Dolores Huerta and at least two others, and there will be public hearings on renaming them.
SF News One Person Killed, Another Seriously Injured By Driver Who Crashed Into Building In SF’s Chinatown A 76-year-old driver allegedly jumped the curb while parking and smashed into a building in SF’s Chinatown Friday, striking two people, one of whom may have been a construction worker. One person died at the hospital, and the other is in serious condition.
SF Politics Trump Yet Again Brings Up San Francisco, Possibly Because of Bill O'Reilly Prime Time Special We all know that Trump is highly influenced by television, and a fairly out-of-date prime time special by Bill O'Reilly on NewsNation Thursday titled "The Decline and Fall of San Francisco" is likely the reason Trump complained about the city again during a cabinet meeting.
SF News Teen’s E-Moto Bike Crash, Repeated Prior Citations Land Parents Child Abuse Charges A Benicia couple was charged with child abuse after their teen suffered severe injuries in an e-moto crash in Walnut Creek last fall. The Contra Costa County district attorney alleges they allowed him to drive in an unsafe manner for three years.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Man Arrested For Sunset Shooting Was Biden Staffer Two SF supervisors propose law to make SFPD ID federal agents; the 25-year-old man arrested for involuntary manslaughter in a Sunset shooting was a Biden staffer; and David Sacks is stepping down as Trump's "crypto czar."
SF News Day Around the Bay: United Flight Out of SFO Had Near Miss With Helicopter Antoine Watson, who killed 84-year-old "Grandpa Vicha" five years ago, was sentenced to time served for involuntary manslaughter; a United flight out of SFO had a near miss with a Black Hawk helicopter in Santa Ana; and Saturday's No Kings march will head up Market Street at noon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Bay Area Restaurants Added to 2026 Michelin Guide The Michelin Guide has just revealed its midyear additions, giving some hints about which new Bay Area restaurants are already on the radars of inspectors and up for potential star ratings.
SF News Suspect and Victim Identified In Sunset District Shooting, Which May Not Have Been Intentional Authorities released the names of the suspect and victim — who both attended SFSU at the same time — in Tuesday’s fatal shooting in SF’s Sunset District, and authorities are investigating whether or not the gun was intentionally discharged.
SF News Sacramento Bee's AI-Generated Earthquake and Wildfire News Needs Some Work The Sacramento Bee, like many publications across the country, has been experimenting with AI-generated content for its website, particularly in the realm of real-time wildfire and earthquake updates. But it seems like they may need more human eyes on this stuff.
SF News Napa Authorities Arrest Man Accused of Making AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Materials A 46-year-old American Canyon man was arrested on charges of possessing and manufacturing child pornography, which authorities believe was AI-generated, after the sheriff's office received a tip from the Internet Crimes Against Children task force.
Bay Area Sports ICYMI: The Giants' Opening Day Game Featured Star Spangled Banner Smoke Show Possibly thanks to the involvement of Netflix, the MLB Opening Day game at Oracle Park Wednesday night featured a drone pyrotechnic show during the national anthem, with the American flag — ironically? — going up in smoke.
SF News Muni Still Has Fare-Evasion Problem as Ridership Rebounds; Fare Revenue at 34% What It Was In 2015 As we've heard multiple times in recent years, Muni has a major fare-evasion problem even though ridership has rebounded somewhat since the pandemic. But the actual numbers are pretty startling.
SF News Downtown SF’s Safety Ambassador Program to Be Expanded With $5 Million Grant The SF Downtown Development Corporation awarded two safety ambassador programs — stationed in Union Square, Yerba Buena, and at downtown BART stations — a $5 million grant to stay afloat for the next year, as city funding for the programs will expire April 1.
SF News High-Speed Chase Through Santa Rosa Ends In Rollover Crash Into Vineyard The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office had their helicopter out for a vehicle pursuit Wednesday which may have escalated because they pulled the helicopter out, and thankfully no one appears to have been seriously hurt.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 'Grandpa Vicha' Killer to Be Sentenced Antoine Watson is expected to be sentenced today for the Jan. 2021 killing of 'Grandpa Vicha' Ratanapakdee; H Mart is opening its big new Dublin location; and the International Olympic Committee is officially barring trans female athletes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Big Movie Shoot Coming to Telegraph Hill That controversial Lowell High math teacher has been forced to resign; a big-budget movie shoot is happening Thursday near Telegraph Hill; and Stephen Colbert is going to be writing a 'Lord of the Rings' movie.
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 center, Art + Water, this fall at Pier 29, aimed at keeping artists in SF. The space will also include galleries and a sprawling cafe with an Old World, art salon aesthetic, 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.
