Business & Tech Meta Ordered to Pay $567M, Implement Safeguards as Part of New Mexico Child Mental Health Trial In the second phase of a pivotal trial in New Mexico, a judge ordered Meta to pay an additional $567 million, most of which will go toward mental health services for youth, and the company must incorporate numerous new safeguards.
SF News Woman Struck In East Oakland Crosswalk By 7-Year-Old Driving Car With 4-Year-Old Brother A young boy who took the keys to his parents' car reportedly struck a woman in a crosswalk in East Oakland who suffered life-threatening injuries, and he and his four-year-old brother, who was a passenger in the car, were also injured.
SF News North Bay Residents Demand FAA Keep Quieter Flight Path Used During Bohemian Grove Gathering West Sonoma County residents, who’ve been flooding the FAA with complaints over a change in 2024 that led to a large influx of planes flying over their homes, are outraged the FAA temporarily reverted to the old flight path for elite Bohemian Grove visitors last month.
SF News The East Bay’s Tri-Valley Cities Consider Privately Owned Event Center Backed by Public Funds Cities in the East Bay’s affluent Tri-Valley region are considering an unusual proposal by a local tourism group that wants to build a privately-owned $365 million event center in Dublin, which would partially rely on taxpayer funding.
SF News SF Firefighters Rescue 18 People Trapped In Alamo Square Apartment Blaze Multiple occupants of a three-story apartment building at Fillmore and Fulton streets were rescued through windows on the second and third floors during a two-alarm fire early Thursday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Implements Permanent Farm to School Breakfast and Lunch Program Some Twin Peaks residents have been withholding their rent from a nightmare landlord for 32 months; activist Erin Brockovich highlighted Gilroy residents’ fight against a new Amazon data center; and California’s Farm to School program is now permanent
SF News SF Has Seen 100 Severe Injury Traffic Crashes So Far In 2026 Compared to 96 In All of 2025 A new report from SFMTA shows that serious collisions rose 8% during the first half of 2026, putting the city further behind its longstanding Vision Zero goal.
SF Politics Bay Bridge’s Yerba Buena Tunnel Might Get Named In Honor of Emperor Norton State Senator Scott Wiener proposed naming the Bay Bridge’s Yerba Buena Tunnel after local folk icon, the late Emperor Norton, who first conceived of the idea of connecting SF and Oakland more than half a century before the bridge came to be.
SF News Former Nordstrom Rack to Be Converted Into Apartments, New Housing to Be Built In Dogpatch Two major housing projects are moving forward in SF, including the conversion of the former Market Street Nordstrom Rack into 136 units and JPMorgan-backed plans to build 342 units at the former Potrero Power Station.
SF News Judge Says Federal Law Protects Navy Contractor In Botched Hunters Point Shipyard Cleanup A federal judge ruled that Navy contractor Tetra Tech EC doesn't have to pay damages to Hunters Point homeowners, despite the shipyard cleanup remaining unfinished and two former managers going to prison for falsifying cleanup records.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor, Unions Push to Remove ‘Affordable Housing’ From Ballot Measure Police officers across the US have used Flock Safety data to stalk romantic partners; a proposed data center at Cow Palace is no longer being considered; and Lurie and some union allies tried to change the wording on an affordable housing measure.
SF News In-N-Out Employee Killed In Idaho Mass Shooting Identified as Central Valley Woman A manager from Stockton was training employees at a new In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, when she was killed, along with two others, by a gunman who opened fire in the restaurant, and seven others were wounded.
SF News SFMTA Announces Service Improvements on Several Muni Lines Beginning August 29 Several Muni lines will see increased frequency during peak periods at the end of the month, along with a few routes seeing shorter wait times, longer buses, and stop changes.
SF News Dozens of Unpermitted Mission District Vendors Cited, Nearly 400 Issued Warnings Under New Law City officials, vendors, and businesses in SF's Mission District are reporting cleaner sidewalks and fewer unpermitted sellers offering suspected stolen merchandise since the implementation of a new state bill in June.
SF News SFPD Attributes Largest Group of Officer Transfers In Years to Its ‘Aggressive’ Recruiting Efforts The SFPD's controversial billboard recruiting campaign stunt last fall appears to have paid off, as the department says it welcomed 12 lateral transfers this year — its largest class in a decade and among the highest paid in the nation.
SF News San Jose Man Dies From Head Injury Sustained During Warped Tour Show In Long Beach A San Jose man’s family is searching for more information about the last few hours of his life while attending the Vans Warped Tour in Southern California on July 26 where he suffered a traumatic brain injury and died four days later.
SF News Oakland Dog Rescue Sues Humboldt Animal Sanctuary Accused of Cruelty, Fraud Amid an ongoing investigation into a Humboldt County “no-kill” animal shelter suspected of killing hundreds of healthy, adoptable dogs in its care, Oakland’s Rocket Dog Rescue filed a lawsuit alleging three of its dogs were killed there.
SF Politics California, European Union Enact Laws Requiring Embedded Data on AI-Generated Images State Senator Josh Becker of Menlo Park worked with EU lawmakers to develop legislation requiring embedded data on AI-generated images and audio that can be verified and tracked, and the first phase took effect in both places Saturday.
SF News Bystanders Save Unconscious Teen Found In Water at San Mateo County Beach Quick-thinking bystanders are being credited with saving an 18-year-old’s life at San Gregorio State Beach in San Mateo County after they took immediate action by calling 911 and resuscitating the teen using CPR.
Business & Tech FTC, California Sue SF-Based Hims & Hers For False Advertising, Sharing Private Health Data SF-based telehealth company Hims & Hers is being sued by the FTC and the states of California and Utah over alleged predatory business practices, including sharing private health data with advertisers and misleading customers over charges and services.
SF Politics Connie Chan Gains Momentum, Trails Closely Behind Scott Wiener In Race For Congress New polls suggest Connie Chan is now only behind by a few points in the race for Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat despite Scott Wiener's sizable fundraising advantage.
Business & Tech SF AI Founder Says He ‘Messed Up’ After Persuading Job Seekers to Get Tattoo of Company Logo A local tech CEO who offered “instant interviews” to anyone who got a permanent tattoo of the company logo was quickly met with backlash, leading the founder to acknowledge that the seven people who took him up on it would’ve gotten interviews either way.
SF News East Bay Man Charged With Shooting Ex-Girlfriend In Berkeley, Mother Arrested as Accessory A 19-year-old man from Hayward with an alleged history of domestic violence was charged with attempted murder in connection to the shooting of a young Berkeley woman in the face, and his mother was arrested for allegedly helping him escape.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Anthropic Says Three of Its AI Models Hacked Into External Businesses SFO is getting private sleep lounges in the fall of 2027; SF City Attorney David Chiu is suing two hotel booking sites alleging they gouge customers; and some of Anthropic’s AI models hacked into the systems of three businesses.
SF News Ghirardelli’s SF Flagship Store Closes as Union Workers Begin Three-Day Strike Ghirardelli Chocolate closed the doors of its flagship location in SF’s Fisherman's Wharf Thursday after union workers walked off the job to launch a three-day strike over an ongoing contract dispute.
