SF News Day Around the Bay: Crews Begin Disassembling Vaillancourt Fountain The State Department will be providing citizens the option to put Trump’s face on their passports; a suspect was arrested in the 34-year-old unsolved murder of a woman found in the Sierra Foothills; and the controversial Vaillancourt Fountain is being taken down.
SF News SF Resident Contracts New Strain of ‘Mpox,’ But Risk Still Low Health officials recently alerted the public to the first case of mpox Clade I in San Francisco, a newer strain of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, which showed up in a resident linked to an international traveler.
Arts & Entertainment Extra-Large Sea Lion Who's Been Hanging Out By Pier 39 Makes National News The Stellar sea lion, nicknamed Chonkers, who has been hanging around the sea lion docks by Pier 39 for the last month, continues to capture both regional and national attention.
Arts & Entertainment Lurie Appoints SF’s First Arts Director, Forges Arts Partnerships In Shanghai Mayor Daniel Lurie appointed the city’s first arts and culture director Monday, an announcement that followed his recent trip to Asia, where he finalized partnerships with arts organizations Shanghai.
Business & Tech Mill Valley Homeowner Offers 13-Acre Estate In Exchange For Anthropic Stock A Mill Valley property owner and investment banker hoping to get into the AI market recently took to LinkedIn with the hopes of handing over his sprawling estate to an interested Anthropic shareholder in exchange for stock in the company.
SF Politics Federal Appeals Court Rebukes Trump Administration's Practice of Detaining Immigrants Without a Hearing The Trump administration was dealt another blow in federal court Tuesday with regard to its practice of rounding up and detaining undocumented immigrants who have, in some cases, lived and worked in the US for years.
SF News Yes, We're Really Going to Be Calling It 'Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport' It seems as though San Francisco city officials have given in, and while the name is different from what was originally proposed, Oakland Airport is now legally able to put "San Francisco Bay" in its name.
SF News Thousands of Those Jelly-Like 'By-the-Wind Sailors' Just Washed Up on Baker and Ocean Beach 'Tis the season once more for Velella velella, also known as "by-the-wind sailors," which tend to wash up onshore en masse on NorCal beaches in the spring and sometimes summer.
SF News Oakland Police Fatally Shoot Man Who They Say Pointed Gun at Officers and Children Police in Oakland fatally shot a man Monday afternoon in the Webster neighborhood of East Oakland, after he was reportedly pointing a gun at random people and children.
SF Politics Republican-Backed California Voter ID Measure Makes It On November Ballot A proposed measure backed by two Southern California Republicans would require voters to use identification at the polls and by mail, and local election officials would be expected to regularly verify voter rolls.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Piano on JFK Drive Vandalized The piano in front of the Conservatory of Flowers has been destroyed by a vandal; the Academy of Sciences is laying off 53 people; and the Supreme Court declined to hear a case about parental rights and a child's social transition at school.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sunset Dunes Celebrates One Year of No Cars The Academy of Art has just sold St. Brigid Church on Van Ness; there was quite a scene outside the Oakland courthouse where the Musk v. Altman trial is happening; and the California man who allegedly tried to shoot Trump on Saturday was formally charged.
SF News Arrest Made In 35-Year-Old Cold Case Rape and Murder In Placer County There has been an arrest in the 1991 murder of Cindy Wanner in Placer County, and the culprit according to the sheriff's office, is a known sex offender who had only been out of prison 10 months when Wanner was kidnapped and killed.
SF News UPS Plane at Oakland Airport Spills 250+ Gallons of Jet Fuel, Some of Which Ended Up In a Storm Drain A jet fuel spill at Oakland Airport Monday resulted in possibly hundreds of gallons of fuel flowing into a storm drain that leads out to San Francisco Bay, but officials say the spill was contained.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rose Pizzeria, Born In Berkeley, Opens Its San Francisco Location In the Richmond The much acclaimed Rose Pizzeria, a favorite of both the SF Chronicle and the New York Times as well as SFist, has just debuted its much anticipated second location in SF's Richmond District. Let the jockeying for reservations begin!
SF Politics ‘Billionaire Tax’ Qualifies For November Ballot, and One Local Billionaire Says He Supports It Proponents of the controversial “billionaire tax” measure have collected almost double the required signatures to qualify it for the November ballot. While there are many Bay Area billionaires who oppose the tax, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he’s “perfectly fine with it.”
SF News SF House That Was Site of Triple Murder-Suicide Sells for $700K Over Asking Yes, there was a bidding war for the Westwood Highlands home that was the site of a tragic murder-suicide six months ago — ghosts be damned, this is real estate.
Business & Tech Jury Selection Begins In Trial Pitting Elon Musk Against OpenAI What had sounded two years ago like a spat between billionaires over a business they both co-founded has now reached an actual courtroom and jury trial, with jury selection beginning Monday in the civil suit that Elon Musk brought against OpenAI.
Bay Area Sports Firm Owned By Jared Kushner’s Brother to Buy Minority Stake In SF Giants A third private equity firm is set to own a small portion of the SF Giants, as Joshua Kushner, brother of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, announced that his firm Thrive Eternal has agreed to purchase a minority, non-controlling stake in the team.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Backcountry Skier Dies Despite Large Rescue Effort 19th Avenue reopened several hours ahead of schedule Monday morning; around 6,000 households in the Marina lost power Sunday night; and a well known skier and Mammoth Mountain employee died while on a backcountry ski trip.
SF News Ex-IDF Soldier Visiting Stanford With Miss Israel Accused of Putting Student In Chokehold Stanford authorities are investigating an incident in which an ex-IDF soldier, who was visiting the campus last week with Miss Israel, is accused of tackling and restraining a student who took a paper sign from the booth.
SF News Sunday Links: Two Earthquakes Strike Off Coast Near San Francisco Zoo BART’s Red line and a portion of its Green line are out of service through Sunday; the pledge to have a single, Democratic caretaker candidate run to fill Swalwell’s seat fell through; and two earthquakes struck off the coast near the SF Zoo.
SF News SF Officials Warn of Counterfeit Opioids Stronger Than Fentanyl Following First Overdose The Department of Public Health issued a warning about two highly potent synthetic opioids that recently hit the streets of San Francisco, which were detected in the blood of a recent overdose victim earlier this month.
SF News Police Bodycam Footage Shows Antioch Officer Trapped With Suspect In Moving SUV Newly released bodycam and surveillance footage shows a tense incident from February when an Antioch police officer became trapped in a moving car with a robbery suspect.
SF News Central Valley Wine Mogul, Trophy Hunter Killed In Elephant Stampede In Africa Prominent Central Valley millionaire and big-game hunter Ernie Dosio was on a safari in Central Africa’s Gabon when his group was charged by a herd of elephants, which fatally trampled Dozio.
