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BART to step up enforcement of sleeping, lying in stations
by Bay City News BART is warning the Bay Area's homeless population that stricter enforcement started today to stop people from sleeping and lying down in BART station corridors. Saying that having...
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Pink Saturday Pride celebration may be cancelled next year due to violence
by Kate Conger The largest LGBT Pride celebration in the nation may lose its integral Pink Saturday party after continued violence at the event. Pink Saturday, an annual street celebration in the...
View ArticleMan, 26, dies when sand tunnel collapses on Half Moon Bay beach
by Bay City News A 26-year-old man was killed Monday evening after a 10-foot-deep tunnel in the sand collapsed on him at Francis Beach in Half Moon Bay, burying him completely, Cal Fire officials...
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South San Francisco lays out plan to revitalize downtown
by Emilie Mutert South San Francisco city officials have unveiled a new plan to revitalize the downtown area with improvements to sidewalks and bike paths, the addition of new green spaces and...
View ArticleElderly woman injured in Bayview shooting
by Bay City NewsAn elderly woman inside a residence was injured by flying glass during a shooting on the streets of San Francisco's Bayview district this afternoon, a police spokeswoman said.At about...
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SF supervisors place sugary drink tax on November ballot
by Joshua SabatiniSan Francisco voters will decide in November whether to make history by approving the first soda tax in the nation after the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to place the levy on...
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Death of the taxi medallion: SF cab company ponders major change
by Jessica KwongDeSoto Cab Co. might not like the under-regulated and fast-emerging alternative-ride service industry, but company President Hansu Kim knows an opportunity when he sees one.If Uber,...
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Flywheel app launches advance taxi booking to airport
by Jessica KwongThe most widely used taxi hailing app in San Francisco launched a new feature this morning that Uber, Lyft, Sidecar and other competing services currently don't offer: advance booking...
View ArticleDriver saves sleeping man loaded into recycling truck
by Bay City News A Recology truck driver was able to think quickly this morning to save the life of a man who was accidentally loaded into his recycling truck in San Francisco's Sunset District,...
View ArticleTSA opens precheck enrollment center at international terminal
by Bay City News Travelers who want to move more quickly through airport security can now enroll in TSA Precheck at a new enrollment center at San Francisco International Airport, according to the...
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Apple security contractors protest working conditions in SF
by Kate Conger Security officers for Apple are protesting outside the company's flagship store in San Francisco today as part of a longterm dispute over labor conditions. The Service Employees...
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Man assaulted, robbed at gunpoint by three women in the Sunset
by Rob Nagle A man was assaulted and robbed at gunpoint by three women in the Sunset district early Wednesday morning, police said. The 27-year-old victim was exiting his vehicle at 22nd Avenue and...
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Woman loses purse in Bernal Heights robbery, but not without a fight
by Rob Nagle This woman wasn’t about to give up her purse up without a fight. In a robbery reported in Bernal Heights early Wednesday morning, the 25-year-old victim was approached by a woman in her...
View ArticleOne injured after overhead Muni wire falls near Third and Mission
by Bay City News One person suffered minor injuries this morning when part of an overhead wire on a San Francisco Municipal Railway line fell, Muni and fire officials said. At 11:43 a.m., part of the...
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Twitter admits to diversity problem in workforce
by The Associated Press Twitter acknowledged that it has been hiring too many white and Asian men to fill high-paying technology jobs, just like several other major companies in Silicon Valley. The...
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Another man killed Tuesday in SoMa blocks away from other homicide
by Rob Nagle Two homicides happened Tuesday blocks away from each other in South of Market, marking the 22nd and 23rd homicides this year in San Francisco, police said Wednesday. By Wednesday...
View ArticleSkateboarder who collapsed while riding in SOMA identified
by Bay City News A skateboarder who died after collapsing in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood Tuesday morning was the founder of an Oakland-based design company. George Schnakenberg III,...
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Bruce Lilienthal, well-known small business advocate and CCSF professor, dies...
by Laura DudnickSan Francisco's small-business world has lost a longtime leader.Bruce W. Lilienthal, known as "the voice of small businesses" in The City since the 1980s and who most recently taught...
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SF crime stats: violent crime drops, property crime rises; the northeast...
by Jonah Owen LambSan Francisco continues to see violent crime drop -- even in light of a spate of recent homicides -- but property crime continues to be a problem, according to Police Department data...
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$15.13M settlement proposed for family of mother fatally run over by Rec and...
by Joshua SabatiniSan Francisco may be required to pay $15.13 million to the family of the mother who was fatally run over by a municipal pickup truck at Holly Park last year. A Recreation and Park...
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