SF News Day Around the Bay: Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse Happening Thursday The CA Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by former Alameda Co. deputy Devin Williams over his 2024 double-murder conviction; a "blood moon" lunar eclipse is happening Thursday; and devastating flooding tore through parts of Nepal after a possible glacier collapse.
SF News Driver Exchanges Blows With SFMTA Officer Over Parking Ticket A video shared on social media shows an SFMTA officer involved in a physical altercation with an irate driver who had just received a parking ticket on Treasure Island, and she had to be pulled away several times by other officers.
SF News Former Navy Contractor to Pay $97 Million Settlement Over Hunters Point Shipyard Cleanup Former Navy contractor Tetra Tech agreed to pay $97 million to resolve federal claims over its botched cleanup of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, including $57 million to the DOJ and $40 million tied to Superfund cleanup costs, with almost none going directly to residents.
SF News New Big Sur Wildfire, the Plaskett Fire, Breaks Out South of Timber Fire A new, 100-acre wildfire began Wednesday morning near the Big Sur coast, about 27 miles south of the southernmost section of the still burning Timber Fire.
SF News Solano County Supervisors Deal Blow to California Forever's Shipyard Proposal The Solano County Board of Supervisors has dealt a blow, albeit possibly a temporary one, to the group known as California Forever and its fast-tracked legislation that would pave the way for a new shipbuilding facility on the Delta.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sapporo Plans 200 Stone Brewing Layoffs After Selling Brand to Firestone Walker After selling Stone Brewing Co. in April, Sapporo is preparing to cut more than 200 employees, with the first 58 workers expected to be laid off in October as the company permanently closes Stone’s longtime Escondido headquarters.
SF News Hawk Fire Now 87% Contained, Thousands of Evacuees Return Home The crisis has passed and the Hawk Fire, which destroyed almost 50 homes and had been threatening the entire city of Reno over the weekend, is now almost fully contained.
SF News Suspect In Oakland Stabbing Spree Was Homeless, Police Say; Victim Often Fed Homeless In Park Oakland police have so far declined to publicly identify the individual suspected of stabbing five people, one fatally, on Monday evening in East Oakland, but police say he is homeless and one or more of his victims was as well.
Business & Tech Meta Agrees to $17 Billion Settlement In Social Media Addiction Lawsuit From 47 States Meta agreed to pay $17 billion to settle a case alleging it designed its platforms to be addictive and harmful to children, ending a federal trial in Oakland that could have cost the company up to $1.4 trillion and put Mark Zuckerberg on the stand.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Car Flips In Portola District San Jose police fatally shot an armed robbery suspect who allegedly shot an officer Tuesday; a car flipped over and crashed into parked cars in SF's Portola District; and Supervisor Connie Chan pushes back on her critics.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 95-Foot Illuminated Installation Launches on Market Street A California man was arrested at the US Capitol after a guillotine was spotted in his truck; an SF man faces up to 40 years in prison after defrauding investors of nearly $1 million in a crypto trading scheme; and a 95-foot installation has been launched on Market Street as part of a new series.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Chocolatier to Open Culinary Institute In SF’s Dogpatch Iranian chef and master chocolatier Shekoh Moossavi, whose culinary career spans more than 30 years, is opening a culinary institute at her Dogpatch studio, with virtual and in-person classes beginning next month.
Arts & Entertainment First of What Are Likely to Be Many Drag Tributes to Dolly Set for Friday In the Castro A drag show tribute and celebration of life for the great Dolly Parton has already been scheduled for Friday, and San Francisco is likely to see more events, drag and otherwise, in the coming days.
Business & Tech Anthropic Tells Staff to Work From Home Due to Potential Security Workers’ Strike Security company Allied Universal warned Anthropic that its workers might go on strike, prompting the AI company to order its staff to work from home, but the security guards’ union said it knew nothing about the strike.
Business & Tech United Airlines Announces Major Route Expansion, Adding New SFO-to-Okinawa Nonstop United Airlines on Tuesday announced what they said is the airline's biggest expansion in the company's history, adding 10 new nonstop routes — most of them out of their Newark hub, but one is being added at SFO.
SF Politics SoCal Sheriff Chad Bianco Faces California Supreme Court Over Seizure of 650,000 Ballots Two lawsuits before the California Supreme Court challenge Sheriff Chad Bianco’s seizure of 1,000 boxes of November 2025 ballots, which include a measure redrawing congressional districts that passed in his county by about 80,000 votes.
Arts & Entertainment Ugh, No. Dolly Parton Has Died at Age 80 The fearful rumors about Dolly Parton's health in the last year have, apparently, been well founded, and the American music legend and pop culture icon has passed.
Bay Area Sports Details Emerge From Jed York's Prostitution Arrest Since Monday, more details have arrived about the prostitution sting that 49ers owner Jed York allegedly, unwittingly got himself caught up in Ohio — and we've also learned that York had filed for divorce back in May.
SF News Stabbing Spree In Oakland Leaves One Dead, Four Wounded; Suspect Arrested Oakland police arrested a stabbing suspect Monday night after an alleged spree of stabbings in four separate locations, and following a foot pursuit.
SF News SF’s Bayshore Freeway to Close For Four Weekends of Repaving, Starting Labor Day Weekend All northbound lanes on Highway 101 between Cesar Chavez and 10th Street will be closed for repaving two weekends in September, including Labor Day weekend, and the southbound lanes will be closed for two weekends in October.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: CHP Warns of Meth Disguised As Children's Vitamins The town in Ohio where Jed York was arrested is a hot spot for prostitution stings; CHP warns of meth pills that are disguised as children's vitamins; and Trump floats renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America."
SF News Day Around the Bay: 32 Homes Destroyed In Hawk Fire So Far Officials confirmed that 32 homes have been destroyed near Reno in the Hawk Fire; the SF DA filed charges against the Navigation Center workers who allegedly harbored a police shooter; and a sailor from the USS Lincoln just heard his dad was detained by ICE.
SF News Another Muni Operator Appears to Fall Asleep at Controls, Crashes Into Empty Train A Muni driver operating an empty L train was filmed crashing into another empty train after he appeared to fall asleep at the controls, which Muni determined was caused by driver fatigue.
SF Politics Supreme Court Hands Trump Temporary Win on Mail Ballots, More Legal Action to Come California and a group of other states have lost one skirmish with the Trump administration on the Supreme Court's shadow docket regarding ballots by mail, with the court essentially saying the states can't sue because they haven't been harmed yet.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink ‘Freedom Coffee’ Tied to Conservative Tech Entrepreneur to Open on Polk Street A lease has been signed for a "freedom"-themed cafe on Polk Street near Jackson, and the company’s CEO is an employee of tech entrepreneur and Trump supporter Eoghan McCabe, who also founded a local social club called the Freedom Club in 2024.
