Preston Calls for Hearing Into Supportive Housing Evictions Involving Formerly Homeless People

The San Francisco Bay Area still has one of the lowest COVID death rates of anywhere in the country, however, as you've surely heard, our population numbers dropped during the pandemic for other reasons, and those numbers have just been revised downward for last year. Three years into the pandemic,...

The Bay Area saw a major cold snap overnight with frost and hard-freeze warnings in various locales. And in Oakland, CHP officers found a homeless woman dead this morning in her tent, possibly because of the cold. Officers were alerted to the blue tent and a person inside at 6:38...

Hundreds (thousands?) of people protested in Downtown Oakland Sunday evening over the police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis. The protest was organized by the Anti-Police-Terror Project, and speakers at the preceding rally included Oscar Grant’s uncle Cephus "Bobby" Johnson. [KRON4/KTVU]. It was three years ago today that the...

An Arctic air mass is making things very chilly for the entire country right now, not just the Bay Area. And it won't be lifting off of California for another day or two, so you can expect tonight and tomorrow night to be frigid, with possible temps in the 30s even in certain microclimates in San Francisco, including Twin Peaks, West Portal, Noe Valley, and Bernal Heights. [Chronicle]

A new employee at SoMa's Pizza Squared who denied service to SFPD officers over the weekend, allegedly telling them they were not welcome at the restaurant, has been fired. The restaurant said the employee, a trainee shift manager on their third day of work, was reprimanded and let go following uproar from the SF Police Officers Association. [KRON4]

The permitting dustup over unsanctioned beds and bedrooms at Twitter’s SF headquarters just might end peacefully, as the SF Department of Building Inspection is giving them a path to keep the beds, though the larger problem remains that Twitter is simply not paying rent. One of the stupider subplots...

The long saga of SF's sinking and leaning Millennium Tower may soon come to a happy end, with the building still mostly upright and residents able to feel more secure. Part of the planned fix for the Millennium Tower's well known tilt-and-sink problem, involving six support piles that extend from the building's foundation down to bedrock on the Mission Street side of the tower, is now complete. And as NBC Bay Area reports, via an update to tower residents from lead engineer Ron Hamburger, this should significantly stop, or maybe fully stop, the sinking that had been accelerated by the initial retrofit process with the piles.

A San Pablo woman has been charged with felony elder abuse after a resident at the Atria Senior Living facility in Walnut Creek died from drinking cleaning fluid — in a death that the facility allegedly first attempted to blame on Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. We brought you the...

Longtime Mission District punk-rock-sports-biker-dive bar Kilowatt has reopened under its new ownership team of ex-Bottom of the Hill and Thee Parkside bartenders, and here are some first-look pics at the new Kilowatt that will soon be a live music venue again. The no-frills, 28-year-old Mission District dive Kilowatt closed this...

One man was killed by gunfire in SF's Potrero Hill neighborhood on Saturday night, in the same Potrero Annex complex where a fire claimed one life last week — and a barrage of bullets was later found having hit homes and vehicles. Some sort of shootout appears to have...

After a Tesla sedan went over the cliff near Pacifica along the Pacific Coast Highway on January 2nd with a Pasadena family inside, the entire family survived and was hospitalized with serious injuries. Now, the father who was driving, Dharmesh A. Patel, 41, has been released from the hospital and...

The 18-year-old kid whose January 6 disappearance we reported on previously, Maxwell Maltzman, has been found dead. The SFPD announced Tuesday that Maltzman's body was found "in the Bayview District" on January 23, and they aren't providing any further information. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is still investigating the cause of death, and police are still looking into the case.

Out in San Joaquin County, it seems a few drivers don't like to abide by road closures that inconvenience them, and this has resulted in three vehicles in two weeks getting fully lodged in a sinkhole that's about 12 to 15 feet wide. "It happened again. We can’t make this...

The soaring, anthemic musical numbers and hyper-contemporary book of Dear Evan Hansen still feel relevant and powerful in the latest touring production to arrive in SF. But it's starting to show a little wear, seven years out from its initial run. It's unsettling to realize that Dear Evan Hansen —...